Maximum likelihood tree of the bangara clade of South Asian Cnemaspis based on a partial fragment of ND2 with photographs of the species in life (not to scale) and sketches showing dorsal colour pattern of head and forebody (not to scale); note that C. salimalii sp. nov. and C. thackerayi have the same pattern. Bootstrap support and Posterior Probability (only values ≥ 65 % and 0.99 shown) depicted at nodes, outgroups not shown.

 
 
  Part of: Agarwal I, Thackeray T, Khandekar A (2022) A multitude of spots! Five new microendemic species of the Cnemaspis gracilis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from massifs in the Shevaroy landscape, Tamil Nadu, India. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 1137-1186. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e94799