TY - JOUR T1 - A new species of large-bodied Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of India JF - Vertebrate Zoology JO - VZ M3 - 10.3897/vz.72.e76046 VL - 72 AU - Das, Sandeep AU - Pal, Saunak AU - Siddharth, Sasidharan AU - Palot, Muhamed Jafer AU - Deepak, Veerappan AU - Narayanan, Surya Y1 - 04/02/2022 UR - https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e76046 N2 - Abstract A new large (94–107mm SVL) species of gecko of the genus Hemidactylus is described from the drier parts of the Western Ghats of India. The new species is closely related to H. graniticolus, from which it can be distinguished based on dorsal pholidosis at mid-body, the structure of tubercles on the dorsum, dorsal pholidosis on the tail. The new species is also 6.6–7.2% divergent from H. graniticolus in the ND2 mitochondrial gene. PB - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung SP - 81-94 SN - 1864-5755 SN - 2625-8498 IS - ER -