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HEMIDACTYLUS 



HEMIDACTYLUS BROOK I I Gray 



184S Heitiidactylus Brook i i Gray. Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.: I53. Type-locality: Borneo and Australia; 

 Wermuth, Das Tierreich, 5O, I565, ]l, indicated that Malcolm Smith, Fauna of British India, 

 Sauria, 1935» 85, restricted the type-locality to Borneo, but Smith gives no indication of such 

 intent, and we do not consider Smith's statement to be a valid restriction. 



1511 Hemidactylus leiqhtoni Boulenqer. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (s) f: I5. Type-locality: Honda, Rio 

 Magdalena, Colombia, 300-400 ft. 



1936 Hemidactylus neotrop ical is Shreve^ Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 8: 27O. Type-locality: 

 Curumani, northeast of Salva, Departamento Magdalena, Colombia; corrected by Shreve, 

 Herpetologica, 1, 1938, 124, to Puerto Wilches, Departamento Santander, Colombia. 



Distribution: Africa, India, I ndo-Austral ¡an Archipelago, northern South America and Antilledn 

 Islands. 



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Content: Five subspecies, four of which ( brook i i Gray, anqulatus Hallowell, parv imaculatus "^ ,¿-j vO'*"' 



Deraniyagala and subtr iedro ides Annandale) are extral ¡m i tal. ^ Hem idactylus le i qhton i Boulenger, -^ ' jAV>.0 



from Colombia, was recently synonymized with brook i i by Kluge, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., I35, ^'' ^ ^^. 



1967, 49, but he did not indicate the subspecies to which it was assigned. ^ Mechler, Rev. Suisse ^^^ ' | 



Zool., 75> 1968, did not accept Kluge's synonymy of leiqhton i and neotrop ical is with brook i i . but Cii-'O*^^ , 

 he did use ha i t ianus for the Colombian form. 



Hem i dactylus brook i i ha i t ianus Meerwarth 



1901 Hem idactylus brook i i ha i t ianus Meerwarth, Mitt. Naturwiss. Mus. Hamburg, 18: I7. Type- 

 locality: Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 



Distribution: Caribbean coast of Colombia; Haiti, Cuba; Puerto Rico; Trinidad. 



Comment: See remarks under Hem i dactylus brook i i . 



HEMIDACTYLUS FRENATUS Dumlril and Bibron 



836 Hemidactylus frenatus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gin., J: J66. Type-locality: Many localities 



given by Dumeril and Bibron; restricted to Java by Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 98, 19*7, 



127. 

 843 Hem idactylus [ Pnoepus J javan icus Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium: 106. Type-locality: Asia; Indiaj 



Bengal; Ceylon; Java; Timor; Amboina; and Marianna Islands; restricted to Java by Loveridge, 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 98, I947, I27. 

 843 Hemidactylus [ Pnoepus J Bo ieri Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium: 106. Type-locality: Cape of Good 



Hope, Madagascar and Mauritius Island. 

 845 HemTdactvlus vittatus Gray. Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.: I55. Type-locality: Borneo. 

 853 Hemidactylus punct&tus Jerdon. Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 22: 467. Type-locality: Tellicherry, 



Malabar. 

 861 Hemidactylus inornatus Hallowell. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860; 492. Type-locality: Loo 



Choo, Ryukyu Islands. 

 861 Hemidactylus pumilus Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860: 502. Type-locality: Hong 



Kong. 

 865 Gecko caracal Tytler, Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 33= 5*7- Type-locality: Rangoon, Burma; 



restricted, apparently unnecessarily, to Rangoon, Burma, by Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



98, 1947, 127. 



865 Gecko chaus Tytler, Jour. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, 33: 547. Type-locality: Moulmein and Rangoon, 

 Burma; restricted to Rangoon, Burma, by Loveridge, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 98, I947, 128. 



869 Hemidactylus lonqiceps Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868: 320. Type-locality: Manila, 

 Ph i 1 i pp i nes. 



869 Hemidactylus hexaspis Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868: 32O. Type-locality: Madagascar. 



878 Peripia papuensis Macleay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 2: 97. Type-locality: "Katow", = 

 Katau, near Binaturi River, New Guinea. 



879 Hemidactylus tristis Sauvaqe. Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7) 3: 49. Type-locality: New Guinea. 

 915 Hemidactylus fraqilis Calabresi. Monit. Zool. Ital., 26: 236, fig. la-b. Type-locality: Bur 



Meldac, Italian Somallland. 



Distribution; Widespread through much of Africa, Asia, Australia and Polynesia; Mexico and 

 Guatemala. 



