Patinghe Indian Gecko (Geckoella jeyporensis) is a species of gecko

Gecko

Geckos are lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 cm to 60 cm....

 found in India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

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Description

Head rather large, oviform; snout longer than the diameter of the orbit or the distance between the eye and the ear-opening; forehead and loreal region slightly concave; ear-opening an oblique slit, three fifths the diameter of the eye. Body depressed, rather short. Limbs moderate; digits rather short, cylindrical in their basal, compressed in their distal portion, with enlarged plates beneath. Head covered with large subequal flat granules; rostral quadrangular, twice as broad as deep, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral, the first labial, and three nasals; 10 upper and 7 lower labials; mental triangular; a pair of large chin-shields forming a suture behind the point of the mental, surrounded by much smaller chin-shields. Body covered above with uniform juxtaposed large squarish or hexagonal flat scales arranged regularly like the bricks of a wall. Abdominal scales smooth, round, imbricate, not half the size of the dorsals. No enlarged preanal or femoral scales or pores. Tail cylindrical, tapering, slightly swollen, covered with uniform, rather large smooth scales, which are imbricate beneath. Light yellowish brown above, with large reddish-brown, black-edged spots arranged in pairs; two transverse spots on the nape, the posterior crescent-shaped; head with small darker spots and a streak from the eye to the ear; lips and side of throat with small brown dots and marblings; lower surfaces brownish white.

Snout to vent length: 5 cm (2 in).

Patinghe Hill, Jeypore, near Yizagapatam, 4200 feet; in woods.