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Cyrtodactylus deccanensis
Habitat
Forest
Range
Northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, possibly south Gujarat
Size
Head and body about 6.4cm; tail about 5.7cm
The Deccan ground gecko, also called Günther's Indian gecko or the banded ground gecko, is a gecko of the northern Western Ghats of India. It has been found from northern Maharashtra, with a habitat range possibly extending to southern Gujarat. The head is rather large and egg-shaped, the snout longer than the diameter of the eye socket, and the forehead and the area ahead of the eye are concave (Wikipedia, general species account).
The account gives a head-and-body length of 2.5 inches (about 6.4 cm) and a tail of 2.25 inches (about 5.7 cm). It is a nocturnal forest species that is rarely encountered. A related species, Cyrtodactylus albofasciatus, was previously treated as the same species but is now accepted as valid.