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Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau De Jonnès, 1818)

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Moreau De Jonnès, A. Monographie du mabouja des murailles, on Gecko Mabouja des Antilles.
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Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
class
Squamata
family
Gekkonidae
genus
Hemidactylus
species
Hemidactylus mabouia

Name

Synonyms
Gecko aculeatus Spix, 1825
Gecko cruciger Spix, 1825
Gecko mabouia Moreau de Jonnès, 1818
Gecko mabuia Cuvier
Gekko incanescens Wied, 1824
Gekko mabouia Moreau De Jonnès, 1818
Hemidactylus benguellensis Bocage
Hemidactylus exaspis Cope, 1868
Hemidactylus gardineri Boulenger
Hemidactylus mandanus Loveridge
Hemidactylus mercatorius Gray
Hemidactylus platycephalus Peters
Hemidactylus tasmani Hewitt
Hemidactylus tuberculosus Fitzinger, 1826
Homonyms
Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau De Jonnès, 1818)
Common names
Afro-American House Gecko in English
Afro-American house gecko in language.
Afroamerican house gecko in language.
Afroamerican house gecko in English
Briba in Portuguese
Briba-da-Casa in Portuguese
Briba-de-Casa in Portuguese
Camaleão in Portuguese
Cosmopolitan House Gecko in English
Crocodilinho-de-Parede in Portuguese
Geco-casero tropical in Spanish
Geco-das-Casas in Portuguese
Hausgecko in German
House gecko in English
Jacaré-de-Parede in Portuguese
Labigó in Portuguese
Lagartixa in Portuguese
Lagartixa-Africana in Portuguese
Lagartixa-Doméstica in Portuguese
Lagartixa-Doméstica-Tropical in Portuguese
Lagartixa-das-Paredes in Portuguese
Lagartixa-de-Casa in Portuguese
Lagartixa-de-Cobreiro in Portuguese
Lagartixa-de-Parede in Portuguese
Moreau’s Tropical House Gecko in English
Osga in Portuguese
Sardão in Portuguese
Taruíra in Portuguese
Tropical house gecko in English
Tuqueque in Spanish
Víbora in Portuguese
Wood Slave in English
Wood slave gecko in English
common woodslave in language.
cosmopolitan house gecko in language.
geco-casero tropical in language.
hausgecko in language.
house gecko in language.
largarrabo in Spanish
salamanquesa in Spanish
tropical house gecko in language.
tuteca in Spanish
wood slave in language.
Common Tropical House Gecko in English
Cosmopolitan House Gecko in English
Huisgekko in Dutch
Pegapega in language.
African Wood Slave in English
Common Gecko in English
Common House Gecko in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2004: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada, draft (2004).
  2. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, and A. L. Gardner, 1987: Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada. Resource Publication, no. 166. 79.
  3. Flores-Villela, Oscar / McCoy, C. J., ed., 1993: Herpetofauna Mexicana: Lista anotada de las especies de anfibios y reptiles de México, cambios taxonómicos recientes, y nuevas especies. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication, no. 17. iv + 73.
  4. Gamble, T., A.M. Bauer, G.R. Colli, E. Greenbaum, T.R. Jackman, L.J. Vitt, and A.M. Simons, 2011: Coming to America: multiple origins of New World geckos. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, vol. 24, no. 2. 231-244.
  5. Krysko, Kenneth L., and Keidra J. Daniels, 2005: A Key to the Geckos (Sauria: Gekkonidae) of Florida. Caribbean Journal of Science, vol. 41, no. 1. 28-36.
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