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Madagascan Day Gecko
Phelsuma grandis Gray, 1870

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Madagascar. It was introduced via the pet trade during the 1990s and is established in the Florida Keys, Monroe County, Florida (Bartlett and Bartlett, 1999, A Field Guide to Florida Reptiles and Amphibians. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas; Krysko et al., 2003, Florida Scientist 66: 222–225; Krysko, 2019, Phelsuma grandis. Pages 336–338 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida) and on O’ahu, Hawai'i (Kraus, 2002, Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 69: 48–52).

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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:
1870 Gray, John E. Note on a new night-lizard (Phelsuma grandis) from Madagascar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4(6):19
1996 McKeown, Sean. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California. pp.
1999 Bartlett, Richard D. and Patricia P. Bartlett. A Field Guide to Florida Reptiles and Amphibians. Gulf Publishing Company, Houston, Texas. 280pp.
2002 Kraus, Fred. New records of alien reptiles in Hawai'i. s. Records of the Hawaii Biological Survey for 2000, Part 2: Notes. Bishop Museum Occasional Paper 69():48-52
2003 Krysko, Kenneth L., A. Nichole Hooper, and Coleman M. Sheehy III. The Madagascar giant day gecko, Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis Gray 1870 (Sauria: Gekkonidae): a new established species in Florida. Florida Scientist 66():222-225

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