Hemidactylus prashadi, also known commonly as the Bombay leaf-toed gecko or Prashad's gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is endemic to the Western Ghats of India.
Etymology The specific name, prashadi, is in honor of Indian zoologist Baini Prashad (1894–1969).Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Hemidactylus prashadi, p. 211).
Geographic range H. prashadi is found in India (former Bombay Presidency).
Type locality: "neighbourhood of Jog, N. Kanara district, Bombay Presidency".Smith MA (1935). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II.—Sauria. London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xiii + 440 pp. + Plate I + 2 maps. (Hemidactylus prashadi, new species, pp. 92-93).
Habitat The natural habitat of H. prashadi is forest at altitudes of .
Description H. prashadi may attain a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of , with a tail length of .
Reproduction H. prashadi is oviparous.. www.reptile-database.org.
References
Further reading Bansal R, Karanth KP (2010). "Molecular phylogeny of Hemidactylus geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the Indian subcontinent reveals a unique Indian radiation and an Indian origin of Asian house geckos". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (1): 459–465. Bauer AM, Jackman TR, Greenbaum E, Giri VB, De Silva A (2010). "South Asia supports a major endemic radiation of Hemidactylus geckos". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (1): 343–352. Grossman W (2014). "Hemidactylus prashadi Smith, 1935 – Prashads Halbfinger Gecko im Terrarium ". Sauria 36 (2): 43–54. (in German). Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannte Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Hemidactylus prashadi, p. 87). (in German).