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PHYLLODACTYLUS TUBERCULOSUS Wiegmann 3» 



Phyllodactylus Uiberculosus Wiegmann, Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. 



Leop.-Carol., vol. 17, pt. 1, 1835, p. 241, pi. 18, fig. 2. 

 t Phyllodactylus Xanti Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1863, p. 103 



(Cape San Lucas, Baja California). 



Type. — ? Zool. Miis. Berlin; collector unknown. 

 Type locality. — "Californien." 



Range. — ? Extreme southern part of California, south through Baja 

 California. 



Genus THECADACTYLUS Gray 



Thecadactylus Gray, Ann. Philos., ser. 2, vol. 10, 1825, p. 198. 



Genotype. — Gecko rapicauda Houttuyn. 



Range. — Southern Mexico to northern South America (Peru); 

 Antilles; islands north of Australia in Torres Strait. 

 Species. — Two. 



THECADACTYLUS RAPICAUDUS (Houttuyn) 



Gekko rapicauda Houttuyn, Verh. Genootsch. wet. Vlissing., vol. 9, 1782, p' 



323, pi. 3, fig. 1. 

 Thecadactylus rapicauda, Gray, Catalogue of the lizards in the collection of the 



British Museum, 1845, p. 146. — Boulenger, Catalogue of the lizards in the 



British Museum, vol. 1, 1885, pp. 111-112, 



TyjJe . — Unknown . 



Type locality. — American Islands, here restricted to Chichen Itzd, 

 Yucatan. 



Range. — Southward from Yucatan through Central America to 

 northwestern South America; Lesser Antilles. Reported from 

 Yucatan: Chichen Itzd; Puz Cave, Oxkutzcab; Chalcxix Cave, Tekax. 

 The Guadalajara reference of Cope (U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull. 32, 1887, 

 p. 28) is very doubtfid. 



Genus HEMIDACTYLUS Oken 



Hemidactylus Oken, Isis, 1817, p. 1183 (based on Cuvier's Hemidactyle, R6gne 



animal, vol. 2, 1817, p. 47). 

 Tachybates Fitzinger, Systema reptihum, 1843, p. 105 (type, "Hemidactylus 



mabuya Cuvier"). 

 Pnoepus Fitzinger, Systema reptilium, 1843, p. 105 (type, " Heviidactylus javanicus 



Cuvier"). 



M We have here followed the idea that Baja California or California is the type locality. However, since 

 there are two forms (one undescribed) in Baja California, one with a spiny tail, the other without spines 

 on the tail, it is not certain to which the name must apply, inasmuch as the type has a reproduced tail. 

 Direct comparison of the two species with the type of tubercutosus will be necessary to determine the proper 

 application of the name on the basis of characters not now discernible from the description or figure. 



There are many reports of this form in the literature, and it is impossible to determine to what species 

 many of them refer. Although for that reason many localities are thus not here cited, we have included 

 every state from which "tuherculosus" has been recorded in the records for at least one species, basing our 

 allocation either upon actual examination of specimens or a reasonably accurate geographic indication. 

 There is one exception: Izucar de Matamoros, Puebla. 



