Guwahati, April 16 -- A team of Indian researchers from Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Mizoram has described a new species of bent-toed gecko, Cyrtodactylus jayadityai sp nov, from the lowland forests of North Tripura, marking a significant addition to India's rich reptilian diversity.

According to a press release, the study was published in the European Journal of Taxonomy on April 14.

The discovery was made through an integrative approach combining morphological, statistical, and molecular analyses, which confirmed the species as distinct from its closest relative, Cyrtodactylus tripuraensis, with a genetic divergence of 4.7-5.2% in the mitochondrial ND2 gene.

With this addition, the number of Cyrtodactylus species in Northeast India...