Hemidactylus brooki parvimaculatus Deraniyagala, 1953

Mahony, Stephen, 2011, Taxonomic revision of Hemidactylus brookii Gray: a re-examination of the type series and some Asian synonyms, and a discussion of the obscure species Hemidactylus subtriedrus Jerdon (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), Zootaxa 3042, pp. 37-67 : 45

Hemidactylus brooki parvimaculatus Deraniyagala, 1953

Hemidactylus brooki [sic] parvimaculatus was described based on a male type specimen (RG. 15) collected from “Colombo [ Ceylon]” (= Sri Lanka), deposited at the Colombo National Museum (NMSL). It is not clear from the brief description the basis for which this population was considered a subspecies of H. brookii as all of the characters stated fell within the then accepted morphological variation of H. brookii from elsewhere in its range. Amarasinghe et al. (2009) provide a figure of the holotype. Wickramsinghe & Somaweera (2005) provide a photograph of a live individual and referred all populations of H. brookii from Sri Lanka to this subspecies. In this study, no specimens of the H. brookii complex from Sri Lanka were examined. In recent molecular phylogenetic and morphological analysis of Asian Hemidactylus , this subspecies was found to be distinct from other populations of H. “ brookii ”, and thus elevated to specific status ( Bauer et al. 2010a, 2010b; Rösler & Glaw 2010). The statistical analysis of Rösler & Glaw (2010) found that the significant characters for differentiating their samples of H. parvimaculatus from Nepal H. “ brookii ” were number of lamellae on digit IV of pes and precloacal-femoral pores. Based on the redescription of H. brookii s.s. provided here, these characters completely overlap, but the two species differ slightly in other characters (see “Comparisons” section below).