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Indo-Pacific Tree Gecko
Hemiphyllodactylus typus Bleeker, 1860

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to southeastern Asia and the Pacific. It was introduced in California (Shaw, 1946, Herpetologica 3: 125–126) and is established in Hawai'i (Stejneger, 1899, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 21: 783–813; McKeown, 1996, A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Incorporated, Los Osos, California; Kraus, 2009, Alien Reptiles and Amphibians: A Scientific Compendium and Analysis. SpringerVerlag, Heidelberg, Germany).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.06.10.14.43)
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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:
1860 Bleeker, Pieter. Reptilien van Agam. [Reptiles of Agam] Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indie, Batavia. [Physics Journal for Dutch Indies, Batavia.] 20():325-329
1899 Stejneger, Leonard. The land reptiles of Hawaiian Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 21(1174):783-813
1979 Jones, Richard E. Hawaiian lizards--their past, present and future. Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society 15(2):37-45
1996 McKeown, Sean. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California. pp.

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