Current SSAR Comments:
Native to southeastern Asia. It was introduced via the pet trade during the 1960s and is established in Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida (King and Krakauer, 1966, Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 29: 144–154; Rochford and Krysko, 2019, Gekko gecko. Pages 324–326 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida) and on O’ahu, Hawai'i (McKeown, 1996, Diamond Head Publishing, Incorporated, Los Osos, California; Kraus, 2009, Alien Reptiles and Amphibians: A Scientific Compendium and Analysis. SpringerVerlag, Heidelberg, Germany). It has since been introduced in the Florida Keys, Monroe County, north to Leon County, Florida (Rochford and Krysko, 2019, op. cit.). Based on both genetic and morphological data, two distinct lineages (G. g. gecko and undescribed Form B) have been found throughout both Miami-Dade County and the Florida Keys (Fieldsend et al., 2023, bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.07.527561). It has apparently been eradicated on O’ahu, Hawai'i (Kraus and Krysko, 2017, Alien species. Pp. 92–102 in Crother (editor). Herpetological Circulars (43): 1–102.
Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.04.08.21.20.38)
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