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Publications (49)      

1. Agarwal, Ishan, Aaron M. Bauer & Akshay Khandekar. 2020 A new species of South Asian Cnemaspis (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Eastern Ghats, India Zootaxa 4802(3): 449–462.
2. Agarwal, Ishan, Aaron M. Bauer, Pal Saunak, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan & Akshay Khandekar. 2020 Two more new Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, India Zootaxa 4729(2): 249–265.
3. Agarwal, Ishan, Aaron M. Bauer, Varad B. Giri & Akshay Khandekar. 2019 An expanded ND2 phylogeny of the brookii and prashadi groups with the description of three new Indian Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) Zootaxa 4619(3): 431–458.
4. Agarwal, Ishan, Akshay Khandekar & Aaron M. Bauer. 2018 A new bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from the Western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, India Zootaxa 4446(4): 442–454.
5. Agarwal, Ishan, Akshay Khandekar, Uma Ramakrishnan, Raju Vyas & Varad B. Giri. 2018 Two new species of the Ophisops microlepis (Squamata, Lacertidae) complex from north-western India with a key to Indian Ophisops Journal of Natural History 52: 819-847.
6. Agarwal, Ishan, P. K. Umesh, Sandeep Das, Aaron M. Bauer & Akshay Khandekar. 2023 A new spotted species of the Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) (Reptilia, Squamata) complex from coastal Kerala, southwestern India Journal of Herpetology 57: 75–86.
7. Agarwal, Ishan, T. Thackeray, Pal Saunak & Akshay Khandekar. 2020 Granite boulders act as deep-time climate refugia: a Miocene divergent clade of rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mysore Plateau, India, with descriptions of three new species Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 58(4): 1234–1261.
8. Agarwal, Ishan, Tejas Thackeray & Akshay Khandekar. 2020 Geckos in the granite: two new geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from rocky, scrub habitats in Rishi Valley, Andhra Pradesh, India Zootaxa 4838(4): 451–474.
9. Agarwal, Ishan, Tejas Thackeray & Akshay Khandekar. 2021 A new medium-sized rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the C. bangara clade from granite boulder habitats in Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu, India Zootaxa 4969(2): 351–366.
10. Agarwal, Ishan, Tejas Thackeray & Akshay Khandekar. 2022 A multitude of spots! Five new microendemic species of the Cnemaspis gracilis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from massifs in the Shevaroy landscape, Tamil Nadu, India Vertebrate Zoology 72: 1137-1186.
11. Agarwal, Ishan, Tejas Thackeray & Akshay Khandekar. 2023 wo new spotted species of the Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) complex from the south-eastern coast of India (Reptilia: Squamata) Vertebrate Zoology 73: 475-498.
12. Agarwal, Ishan, Tejas Thackeray & Akshay Khandekar. 2024 A non-adaptive radiation of viviparous skinks from the seasonal tropics of India: Systematics of Subdoluseps (Squamata: Scincidae), with description of a new genus and five cryptic new species Vertebrate Zoology 74: 23-83.
13. Agarwal, Ishan, Tejas Thackeray & Akshay Khandekar. 2024 Two new species of South Asian Cnemaspis (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the southern tip of the Western Ghats, India Journal of Natural History 58(41-44): 1803-1843.
14. Bhattarai, Santosh, Bivek Gautam, Bishal P. Neupane, Akshay Khandekar, Tejas Thackeray, Ishan Agarwal, Frank Tillack, Ashley R. Olson, Fiona Hogan & Wendy Wright. 2025 A review of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of Nepal with descriptions of three new species Zootaxa 5594(3): 401-451.
15. Bhosale, Amrut R., Tejas Thackeray, Omkar Yadav & Akshay Khandekar. 2025 A new micro-snail species of the genus Dicharax Kobelt & Möllendorff, 1900 (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae: Alycaeinae), from sacred groves in the northern Western Ghats, India Journal of Conchology 45(3): 488-497.
16. Bhosale, Amrut R., Tejas Thackeray, Omkar Yadav, Akshay Khandekar, Tom S. White & Dinarzarde C. Raheem. 2025 A new species of cyclophorid land snail (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) from the coastal regions of Maharashtra, India Molluscan Research 45(2): 157-169.
17. Chaitanya, R., Ishan Agarwal, Aparna Lajmi & Akshay Khandekar. 2019 A novel member of the Hemidactylus brookii complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India Zootaxa 4646(2): 236–250.
18. Deepak, V., Akshay Khandekar, R. Chaitanya & Praveen Karanth. 2018 Descriptions of two new endemic and cryptic species of Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from peninsular India Zootaxa 4434(2): 327–365.
19. Deepak, V., Akshay Khandekar, Sandeep Varma & R. Chaitanya. 2016 Description of a new species of Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from southern India Zootaxa 4139(2): 167–182.
20. Deepak, V., Akshay Khandekar, Sandeep Varma & R. Chaitanya. 2016 Description of a new species of Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from southern India Zootaxa 4139 ((2): 167–182 .
21. Khandekar, Akshay, Dikansh Parmar, Nitin Sawant & Ishan Agarwal. 2021 A new species of the genus Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Goa, India Zootaxa 5027(1): 254-268.
22. Khandekar, Akshay, Dikansh Parmar, Nitin Sawant & Ishan Agarwal. 2021 A new species of the genus Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Goa, India Zootaxa 5027(2): 254–268.
23. Khandekar, Akshay, Nikhil Gaitonde & Ishan Agarwal. 2019 Two new Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Shevaroy massif, Tamil Nadu, India, with a preliminary ND2 phylogeny of Indian Cnemaspis Zootaxa 4609(1): 68–100.
24. Khandekar, Akshay, S. M. Gaikwad, Tejas Thackeray, Satpal Gangalmale & Ishan Agarwal. 2024 A preliminary taxonomic revision of the girii clade of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of four new species from southern Maharashtra, India Zootaxa 5429(1): 1-114.
25. Khandekar, Akshay, Sunil M. Gaikwad, Saunak P. Pal, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2023 An expanded description of Cnemaspis gracilis (Beddome 1870) (Squamata: Gekkonidae) based on recent material Zootaxa 5301(5): 540-560.
Khandekar, Akshay, T. Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2019 Two more new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India Zootaxa 4656(1): 43–70.
Khandekar, Akshay, T. Thackeray, Saunak Pal & Ishan Agarwal. 2020 A new large-bodied, rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) allied to Cnemaspis heteropholis Bauer, 2002 from the Central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India Zootaxa 4801(1): 57–84.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2020 A new cryptic Cnemaspis Strauch (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from an isolated granite hill on the Mysore Plateau, Karnataka, India Zootaxa 4845(4): 509–528.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2021 A cryptic new species of rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) allied to H. aaronbaueri Giri, 2008 from the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India Zootaxa 5020(3): 434-456.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2021 A new small-bodied, polymorphic Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) allied to C. monticola Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita & Pethiyagoda, 2007 from the Central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India Zootaxa 4950(3): 501–527.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2021 A novel small-bodied rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India, with comments on the status of C. indraneildasii, Bauer 2000 Zootaxa 4969(2): 331–350.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2022 Three more novel species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India Vertebrate Zoology 72: 385-422.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2022 Three new cryptic species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Karnataka, southern India Vertebrate Zoology 72: 115-142.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2024 Five new species of the Cnemaspis beddomei clade (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from high elevation, evergreen forests of the Southern Western Ghats, India Zootaxa 5469(1): 001-070.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2024 Two new nocturnal species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the wynadensis clade from the southern Western Ghats, India Zootaxa 5443(3): 353-386.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray & Ishan Agarwal. 2024 Two new species of the Cnemaspis galaxia complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the eastern slopes of the southern Western Ghats ZooKeys 1196: 209-242.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray, Ayuthavel Kalaimani & Ishan Agarwal. 2023 Two new species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Gingee Hills, Tamil Nadu, India Vertebrate Zoology 73: 887–913.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray, Ishan Agarwal, Satpal Gangalmale, Saurabh Kininge & Sunil M. Gaikwad. 2024 Two new species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the far northern peaks of the Western Ghats, India Zootaxa 5463(4): 451-478.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray, Pawar Swapnil & Ishan Agarwal. 2020 A new medium-bodied rupicolous Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sirumalai massif, Tamil Nadu, India Zootaxa 4852(1): 83–100.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray, Rameshwaran Mariappan, Satpal Gangalmale, Vivek Waghe, Swapnil Pawar & Ishan Agarwal. 2023 A remarkable new species of gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus) from scrublands at the southern tip of India Vertebrate Zoology 73: 433-450.
Khandekar, Akshay, Tejas Thackeray, Swapnil Pawar, Satpal Gangalmale & Vivek Waghe. 2022 A new species of Chiromachetes Pocock, 1899 (Scorpiones: Hormuridae) from southern Western Ghats, India Euscorpius 354: 1-13.
Khandekar, Akshay. 2019 A new species of rock-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, southern India Zootaxa 4571(3): 383–397.
Khandekar, Akshay. 2019 A new species of rock-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, southern India Zootaxa 4571(3): 383–397.
Mohapatra, Pratyush P., Akshay Khandekar, Sushil K. Dutta, Cuckoo Mahapatra & Ishan Agarwal. 2020 A novel, diminutive Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a sacred grove in Odisha, eastern India Zootaxa 4852(4): 485–499.
Mohapatra, Pratyush P., Ishan Agarwal, Rakesh K. Mohalik, Dutta S. Kumar & Akshay Khandekar. 2023 Hemidactylus paucifasciatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae), a new species of large-bodied, tuberculate gecko from Northern Odisha, India Zootaxa 5301(3): 365-382.
Patel, Harshil, Tejas Thackeray, Chintan Sheth, Akshay Khandekar & Ishan Agarwal. 2024 A new small-sized Calotes Cuvier (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae) from the Subansiri river basin, Arunachal Pradesh, India Zootaxa 5523(2): 151-170.
Waghe, Vivek, Satpal Gangalmale & Akshay Khandekar. 2022 First record of the genus Compsobuthus Vachon, 1949 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Maharashtra, India with description of a new species Euscorpius 346: 1-13.
Yadav, Omkar, Amrut R. Bhosale, Koli Yogesh, Kadam Gurunath, Gopalan Sujith, Akshay Khandekar & K. P. Dinesh. 2024 A new species of pond frog Phrynoderma (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the coastal plains of Maharashtra, India Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 17: 601-610.
Yadav, Omkar, Amrut R. Bhosale, Priyanka Patil, Akshay Khandekar & K. P. Dinesh. 2025 Discovery and description of a deeply divergent frog lineage of the genus Minervarya Dubois, Ohler & Biju, 2001 (Anura: Dicroglossidae) from the basaltic plateau of the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India Zootaxa 5594(1): 136-154.
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