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Tropical House Gecko
Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Africa (and perhaps parts of South America and the Caribbean, cf. Kluge, 1969, Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. 138: 1–78). It is established in California (Mahrdt et al., 2021, Herpetological Review 52: 84), Florida (Lawson et al., 1991, Herpetological Review 22: 11–12; Krysko, 2019, Hemidactylus mabouia. Pages 329–331 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida) and Texas (Fierro-Cabo and Renfro, 2014, BioInvasions Records 3: 309–312). The standardized English name changed from Wood Slave to reflect its contemporary usage.

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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:
1818 Moreau de Jonnès, Alexandre. Monographie du mabouja des murailles, on Gecko Mabouja des Antilles. [Monograph of the wall mabouja, a Gecko Mabouja of the Antilles.] Bulletin des Sciences par la Societe Philomatique [ Bulletin of Sciences by the Philomatic Society] 3(5):138-139
1969 Kluge, Arnold G. The evolution and geographical origin of the New World Hemidactylus mabouia-brookii complex (Gekkonidae, Sauria). Miscellaneous Publications, Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan (138):1-78
2014 Fierro-Cabo, Alejandro and August Renfro. First record of the tropical house gecko Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) in Texas. BioInvasions Records 3(4):309–312

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