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Common House Gecko
Hemidactylus frenatus Duméril and Bibron, 1836

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to southeastern Asia from Pakistan east to Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Guinea. It is established in Florida (Meshaka et al., 1994, Herpetological Review 25: 127–128; Krysko, 2019, Hemidactylus frenatus. Pages 326–327 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida), Hawai'i (Hunsaker and Breese, 1967, Pacific Science 21: 423–428), and Texas (McAllister et al., 1990, Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington 57: 1–4).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.06.10.24.30)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

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

Pertinent LIterature:
1836 Dumeril, A. M. Constant and Gabriel Bibron. Erpetologie Generale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete Des Reptiles. Tome Troisieme. [General Herpetology or Complete Natural History of Reptiles. Volume Three.] Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, France. 517pp.
1967 Hunsaker, Don, II, and Paul Breese. Herpetofauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 21(July):423-428

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