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Genotype. — Oekko tuherculosus Daudin [= Hemidactylus mabouia 

 Moreau de Jonnes]. 



Range. — Widespread in Africa, southern Eurasia, tropical America, 

 Polynesia. 



Species. — About 60 known. Three are found in Mexico. 



KEY TO MEXICAN SPECIES OF HEMIDACTYLUS 



1. Preanal pores 4 to 10, forming a short angular series; no femoral pores; dorsal 



scales minute granules intermixed with large tubercles usually larger than 



interspaces between them; inner digits well developed turcicus (p. 50) 



Preanal and femoral pores forming a continuous series 2 



2. Small granules of the dorsal surface with only a few relatively small, convex 



tubercles, these usually on posterior part of body; pores 15-18 on each side, 



not separated mesially frenatus (p. 50) 



Small granules of the dorsal surface mixed with very numerous trihedral 

 tubercles, irregularly scattered; pores from 15 to 30 on each side. 



raabouia (p. 50) 



HEMIDACTYLUS MABOUIA (Moreau de Jonnfes) 



Gecko mabouia Moreau de Jonnes, Bull. Soc. Philom., 1818, p. 138. 

 Hemidactylus mabouia, Boulenger, Catalogue of the lizards of the British 

 Museum, vol. 1, 1885, pp. 122-123. — Loveridge, Copeia, 1941, p. 248. 



Type.— Mns. Hist. Nat. Paris. 



Type locality. — "Antilles," here restricted to St. Vincent, Lesser 

 Antilles. 



Range. — In Mexico known only from "Veracruz" (probably city). 

 Widespread in the West Indies, and the northern and eastern coast of 

 South America; Madagascar and Africa. The American localities are 

 probably due to relatively recent introductions from Africa, or the 

 West Indies. 



HEMIDACTYLUS FRENATUS Schlegel 



Hemidactylus frenatus Schlegel, in Dum6ril and Bibron, Erp^tologie generale 

 . . ., vol. 3, 1836, pp. 366-368.— Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 26, 

 1939, pp. 444. — Burt and Myers, Stanford Univ. Publ., biol. sci., vol. 8, 

 1942, pp. 285-286.— Smith, Anal. Inst. Biol., vol. 14, 1943, p. 342.— Edgren, 

 Nat. Hist. Misc., No. 55, 1950, p. 1. 



Type. — Leyden Mus. 



Type locality. — Java. 



Range. — Guerrero, in the region about Acapulco. Widespread in 

 southern Asia, Pacific Islands, etc. Reported from Guerrero: Aca- 

 pulco, Tierra Colorada. 



HEMIDACTYLUS TURCICUS TURCICUS (Linnaeus) 



Lacerta turcica Linnaeus, Systema naturae, ed. 10, 1758, p. 202, 

 Hemidactylus turcicus, Smith, Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull., vol. 22, 1935, pp. 132-133, 

 pi. 23, fig. 2. — Grant and Deuel, Herpetologica, vol. 2, 1944, pp. 130-135. 

 Hemidactylus turcicus turcicus, Loveridge, Copeia, 1941, p. 247. 



