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Tokay Gecko
Gekko gecko (Linnaeus, 1758)

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.

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First instance(s) of published English names:
Common Gecko (Gecko guttatus: Gray, John E. 1830. A synopsis of the species of the class reptilia. Pages 1-110 in The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization by the Baron Cuvier, member of teh Institute of France, with Additional Descriptions of all the Species Hitherto Named, and of many not before noticed. Ninth Volume. Whittaker, Treacher, and Company, London, England. pp.);

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1758 Linné, Carl von (=Linneaus). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [System of Nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species with characters, differences, synonyms, places.] 10th Edition, Volume 1, L. Salvius, Stockholm. iv + 826pp.
2017 Crother, Brian I. (editor) Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, with Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding. Eighth edition. Herpetological Circulars (43):1-102

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