{"id":10886,"date":"2023-05-15T03:18:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=10886"},"modified":"2025-03-29T23:16:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T17:46:48","slug":"what-is-hemidactylus-quartziticolus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-hemidactylus-quartziticolus\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Hemidactylus quartziticolus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Hemidactylus quartziticolus:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>common name<\/strong> suggested by the authors for the new gecko <strong>is Quartzite brookish gecko or Thoothukudi brookish gecko.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>53rd species of Hemidactylus found in India<\/strong> and the <strong>seventh<\/strong> that is endemic <strong>to Tamil Nadu.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It has been named<\/strong> Hemidactylus quartziticolus <strong>because<\/strong> <strong>it was found over the quartz rocks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>It is unique<\/strong> in various aspects, including <strong>dorsal scalation<\/strong>, the <strong>number and arrangement of precloacal-femoral pore<\/strong>s, the <strong>number of dorsal tubercle rows<\/strong> at midbody, the <strong>number of lamellae<\/strong> under digit I and IV of manus and pes.<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>has the most densely packed tubercles among Indian Hemidactylus<\/strong>, almost resembling the most tuberculate Indian Cyrtopodian.<\/li>\n<li>Three morphological characteristics of Hemidactylus quartziticolus that make it distinct are its <strong>enlarged tubercles<\/strong>, <strong>continuous series of 34-38 precloacal-female pore<\/strong>s and the <strong>few lamellae (four) under digit I of manus and pes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a Gecko?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Geckos are <strong>small, nocturnal lizards<\/strong> <strong>found in all the warm parts<\/strong> of the world.<\/li>\n<li>There are approximately 1<strong>,500 gecko species<\/strong>, and they vary in size.<\/li>\n<li>Geckos are <strong>found on every continent except Antarctica<\/strong> and live in almost every habitat, including rainforests, deserts and mountains.<\/li>\n<li>They also <strong>possess a short, stout body, a large head, and typically well-developed limbs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Gecko?<\/h3>\n<p>Geckos are small, nocturnal lizards found in all the warm parts of the world.There are approximately 1,500 gecko species, and they vary in size. Geckos are found on every continent except Antarctica and live in almost every habitat, including rainforests, deserts and mountains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/tamil-nadu\/2023\/may\/15\/brookiish-gecko-species-discovered-in-thoothukudi-2575234.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brookish\u2019 gecko species discovered in Thoothukudi<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemidactylus quartziticolus is the 53rd species of Hemidactylus found in India and the seventh that is endemic to Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}