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HEMIDACTYLUS 



H EfjIDACTYLUS MABOUIA (Moreau de Jonnes) 



1818 Gecko Mabou ia Moreau de Jonnes, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, 1818: I38. Type-locality: Antilles; 



restricted by Smitli and Taylor, Univ. Kansas Sc i . Bull., 33, I95O, 364, to St. Vincent Island, 



Lesser Ant i lies. 



1824 Gekko incanescens Wied, Isis von Oken, 14 (l): 662. Type-locality: Brazil; Wied, Beitr. 



Naturgesch. Brasil., 1, 1825, IO3, said Rio de Janeiro, Cabo Frio, Campos de Goaytacases and 



Espirito Santo, Brazil. 



1824 Gekko armatu s Wied, Isis von Oken, 14 (l): 662. Type-locality: Brazil. 



1825 Gecko aculeatus Spix, Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras.: I6, pi. 18, fig. 3. Type-locality: Rio de 



Jane i ro, Braz i 1. 



1825 Gecko cruciqer Spix. Spec. Nov. Lacert. Bras.: 16, pi. 13, fig- 3- Type-locality: Bahia, Brazil. 



I829 Gl ecko j mabu ia Cuvier (substitute name for Gecko mabou ia Moreau de Jonnes, 1818), Regne Animal, 

 EH. 2, 2: 54. 



1843 Hemidactvlus ( Tachybates ) mabuya Fitzinger (substitute name for Gecko mabou ia Moreau de Jonnes, 

 1818), Systema Reptilium: IO5. 



I878 Hemidactylus frenatus var. calabar icus Boettger, Ber. Offenbacher Vere i n Naturk., I7/I8: 1. 

 Type-locality: Old Calabar, Guinea coast of West Africa (Nigeria). 



1893 Hemidactvlus benquellens i s Bocage, Jour. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat. Acad. Lisbon, (2) 10: II5. Type- 

 locality: Cahata, Benguela, Angola. 



Distribution: South Africa north to Liberia and Abyssinia; Madagascar and neighboring islands; 

 Veracruz, Mexico; Cuba, Hispaniola, Barbados and Martinique; Trinidad, Venezuela, Guyana, 

 Amazonian Brazil and offshore islands, Ecuador, Peru, and Colombia. 



HEMIDACTYLUS PERUVIANUS Wiegmann 



1835 Hemidactvlus peruvianos W i eqmann, Nova Acta Acad. Caes. Leop. -Carol. , 17: 240, Type-locality: 



Tacna, Peru. 

 1885 Hemidactvlus peruv i anus — Boulenqer. Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1: 141. 



Distribution: This species has never been found again, at the type-locality or elsewhere. 



HEMIDACTYLUS TURCICUS (Linnaeus) 



1758 Lacerta turcica Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, Ed. 10: 202. Type-locality: "Oriente"; Wermuth, Das 

 Tierreich, 80, I965, 86, said that K. P. Schmidt, Fieldiana, Zool., 34, 1953, 257, restricted 

 the type-locality to Asiatic Turkey, but Schmidt does not clearly intend his reference to 

 Turkey as a restriction, and we do not consider it to be such. 



I876 Hemidactylus turcicus — Boettger, Ber. Offenbacher Verein Naturk., I5/I6: 57- 



Distribution: Mediterranean region; Red Sea coast east to India and south to Kenya; southern Unitec 

 States; Tamaulipas to Yucatán peninsula; Antilles; Chile. 



Content: TT-ee subspecies, two of which ( macrophol is Boulenger and sp inal is Buchholz) are 

 extral imital. 



Hem idactylus ture i cus ture i cus (Linnaeus) 



1810 Gecus Cyanodactylus Raf inesque, Caratteri d¡ Alcuni Nuove Generi e Nuove Specie di 

 Animal! e Pianti Delia Sicilia: 9. Type-locality: Sicily. 



1826 Geko mer i d i onal i s Risso, Histoire Naturelle des Principales Productions de l'Europe 



Mlridionale, 3= S7. T.ype-local i ty : Province of Alpes Maritlmes, France; restricted to 

 Nice by Mertens and Wermuth, die Amphibien und Reptilien Europas, I96O, 79- 



1827 Hem i dactylus qranosus Heyden, Reptilien, in Ruppell, Atlas zu der Reise ¡m Nordlichen 



Africa: 17, pi. 5> fig- !• Type-locality: Egypt, Arabia, and Abyssinia; Mertens, 

 Senckenberg iana, 3, 1922, I69, lists one of the syntypes in Senckenberg Museum as from 

 "Arabia Petraea," and Wermuth, Das Tierreich, 80, I965, 87, regards this as a restric- 

 tion of type-locality to the Sinai Peninsula, but we do not regard this to be Merten's 

 intent. 



