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Gold Dust Day Gecko
Phelsuma laticauda (Boettger, 1880)

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Madagascar and Seychelles. It was introduced via the pet trade in Broward, Miami-Dade, and Pinellas counties, Florida, and is established on Stock Island, Monroe County (Bartlett and Bartlett, 2006, Guide and Reference to the Crocodilians, Turtles, and Lizards of Eastern and Central North America (North of Mexico). University Press of Florida, Gainesville; Krysko et al., 2011, Zootaxa 3028: 1–64; Krysko and Borgia, 2012, Reptiles & Amphibians 19: 217–218; Krysko, 2019, Phelsuma laticauda laticauda. Pages 338–339 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida) and throughout Hawai'i (McKeown, 1996, A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Incorporated, Los Osos, California).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2023.09.06.09.54.18)
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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:
1880 Boettger, Oskar. Diagnoses reptilium et batrachiorum novorum a Carolo Ebenau in insula Nossi-Bé Madagascariensi lectorum. [ Diagnoses of new reptiles and batrachians collected by Charles Ebenau on the island of Nossi-Bé in Madagascar.] Zoologischer Anzeiger [ Zoological Gazette] 3():279-283
1996 McKeown, Sean. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California. pp.
2006 Bartlett, Richard D. and Patricia P. Bartlett. Guide and Reference to the Crocodilians, Turtles, and Lizards of Eastern and Central North America (North of Mexico). University Press of Florida, Gainesville. 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
2012 Krysko, Kenneth L. and A. P. Borgia. The Gold Dust Day Gecko, Phelsuma laticauda (Boettger 1880) (Squamata: Gekkonidae), in the Florida Keys. Reptiles & Amphibians 19():217–218

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