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A new species of large-bodied, tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India

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Giri, Varad B., Bauer, Aaron M., Mohapatra, Pratyush P., Srinivasulu, Chelmala, Agarwal, Ishan (2017): A new species of large-bodied, tuberculate Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4347 (2): 331-345, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.8

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