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Slender Gecko in Goa
September 14 , 2021
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- A tiny slender gecko, Hemiphyllodactylus goaensis, has been described by researchers as a new species from Goa and the northern Western Ghat region.
- It was published in Zootaxa “A new species of the genus Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860,” a zoological journal.
- The Goan slender gecko is one of the smallest of the species in India.
- It is hardly 32mm in size that can sit on the human thumb.
- Hemiphyllodactylus goaensis is only the eight Indian species of the genus and 44th globally.
- This is also the first species of animal described from Goa University.
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