The genus Hemidactylus is one of the most species-rich and widely distributed of all reptile
genera, being found in thetropical and subtropical regions of the world and hundreds of …

Rocky plateaus in the northern Western Ghats and Konkan region are specialized habitats
belonging to the general habitat category of Rock Outcrops. Their distribution and …

Hemidactylus geckos are a species-rich component of many tropical lizard assemblages.
We sampled deeply among tropical Asian, and especially South Asian, taxa and used a …

Over the past two decades many checklists of reptiles of India and adjacent countries have
been published. These publications have furthered the growth of knowledge on systematics …

Molecular data are increasingly being used to resolve cryptic species complexes; however,
subsequent formal species description and taxonomic revisions often remain incomplete …

The subgenus Geckoella, the only ground-dwelling radiation within Cyrtodactylus, closely
overlaps in distribution with brookii group Hemidactylus in peninsular India and Sri Lanka …

Represented by approximately 85 species, Hemidactylus is one of the most diverse and
widely distributed genera of reptiles in the world. In the Indian subcontinent, this genus is …

The monotypic genus Dravidogecko, represented by its type-species D. anamallensis, is
singular amongst peninsular Indian gekkonid lineages in its endemism to the Western …

We present an expanded ND2 phylogeny of the brookii and prashadi groups of Indian
Hemidactylus. While relationships within the clades are not well resolved, we recover many …

Abstract The Eocene–Oligocene cooling marks a global shift towards a cooler and drier
climate, concurrent with significant turnover in biota globally. In Peninsular India …