A checklist of herpetofauna of Telangana state, India

Abstract

A checklist of herpetofauna of Telangana, India including accepted English name, scientific name along with authority, Telugu and vernacular name, IUCN, Indian Wildlife Protection Act and CITES status, and endemicity is presented in this paper. The herpetofauna diversity of Telangana is represented by 98 species including 16 species of amphibians belonging to four families, one species of crocodile, six species of testudines, 35 species of saurians and 40 species of snakes. Three species—Hemidactylus flavicaudus, H. xericolus, and H. aemulus—are endemic to Telangana.

First occurrence of Kanger Valley Rock Gecko, Hemidactylus kangerensis Mirza, Bhosale, and Patil 2017, from Odisha, India

“…The gecko was a subadult female (SVL = 64.86 mm) with morphometric characters that corresponded closely with those of the type series of Mirza et al (2017) (Table 1). This species had been recorded previously from Kanger Valley National Park (18.84117 N, 81.99731 E), Jagdalpur (19.06592 N, 82.02633 E) and Sukma (18.39081 N, 81.65392 E) in Chhattisgarh (Mirza et al 2017) and from Khamman (17.29036 N, 80.26236 E) in Telangana (Mirza et al 2017;Srinivasulu and Kumar 2022) (Fig. 2).…”