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Mourning Gecko
Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril and Bibron, 1836)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native from southern Asia through much of the Pacific. It was introduced via the pet trade in 2005 and is established in St. Lucie, St. Lucie County, Florida (Meshaka et al., 2004, The Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. Krieger, Melbourne, Florida; Krysko et al., 2011, Zootaxa 3028: 1–64; Krysko, 2019, Lepidodactylus lugubris. Pages 335–336 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida), and throughout Hawai'i (Oliver and Shaw, 1953, Zoologica 38: 65– 95; Hunsaker and Breese, 1967, Pacific Science 21: 423–428; McKeown, 1978, Hawaiian reptiles and amphibians. Oriental Publishing Company, Honolulu, Hawai'i. 80pp). McKeown (1996, A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Incorporated, Los Osos, California) questioned if L. lugubris was present in Hawai’i before the arrival of Europeans. This taxon is a unisexual complex of diploid and triploid populations of apparently independent origins (Moritz et al., 1993, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 48: 113–133; Volobouev, 1994, Biogeographica 70: 14).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
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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.
1953 Oliver, James A. and Charles Shaw. The amphibians and reptiles of the Hawaiian Islands. Zoologica 38():65- 95
1967 Hunsaker, Don, II, and Paul Breese. Herpetofauna of the Hawaiian Islands. Pacific Science 21(July):423-428
1978 McKeown, Sean. Hawaiian reptiles and amphibians. Oriental Publishing Company, Honolulu, Hawai'i. 80pp.
1996 McKeown, Sean. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California. pp.
2004 Meshaka, Walter E. Jr., B. P. Butterfield, and H. T. Smith. The Exotic Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. Krieger, Melbourne, Florida. pp.
2011 Krysko, Kenneth L., Joseph P. Burgess, Michael R. Rochford, Christopher R. Gillette, Daniel Cueva, Kevin M. Enge, Louis A. Somma, Jennifer L. Stabile, Dustin C. Smith, Joseph A. Wasilewski, Guy N. Kieckhefer III, Michael C. Granatosky & Stuart V. Nielsen. Verified non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles in Florida from 1863 through 2010: Outlining the invasion process and identifying invasion pathways and stages. Zootaxa 3028(1):1-64

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