PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Narayanan, Surya AU - NA, Aravind TI - A new species of rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Biligirirangan Hills of Southern India DP - 09/09/2022 TA - Vertebrate Zoology VI - 72 4100 - https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e89324 SO - VZ09/09/2022; AB - We describe a new species of small-sized (SVL 24.6–28.8 mm) rupicolous Cnemaspis from the Biligirirangan Hills (BR Hills), Karnataka based on morphology and molecular (mitochondrial 16S and ND2) data. The new species is nested within the monticola, mysoriensis and gracilis clades, where it is basal to monticola and gracilis clades in the Maximum Likelihood analysis and is basal to the monticola clade in the Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. IS -