Published 2000
“…Cnemaspis otai
n.sp. occurs in the southern Eastern Ghats at
Vellore. It is a small member of the genus (snout-vent length
to 29.7 mm) diagnosable by the combination of characters: paired postmentals in broad contact; nostril not
in contact with supralabial I; midventrals 18; dorsal tubercles isolated and scattered; no spine-like tuber
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cles on flanks; ventrals smooth; four preanal and three femoral pores; tail with enlarged flattened scales
forming whorls, supralabials to angle of jaws 7; narrow distal lamellae under digit IV of pes 13 – 15; dor
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sum grayish-brown, with three pairs of partially fused, black paravertebral spots.
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