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REPTILIA: SAURlA: GEKKONIDAE * * * LEPIDODACTYLUS 



LEPIDODACTYLUS Fitzinger 



1843 Lep i dodactylus Fitzinger, Systema Reptilium: ')8. Type-species: Platydactylus Luqubr i s Oumlril 



and Bibron. 

 1845 Amydosaurus Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.: l62. Type-species: Platydactylus luqubr i s Dumlril and 



B i bron. 



Distribution: East Indies; South Asia; Philippines; Polynesia; Australia and New Zealand, acciden- 

 tally transported to Central and South America. 



Content: Twelve species, according to Kluge, Philippine Jour. Sci., 55> 15^6 (I568), 33^, only one 

 of which occurs within limits of this worl<. 



LEPIDODACTYLUS LUGUBRIS (Dumlril and Bibron) 



I836 Platydactylus Luqubr i s Dumlril and Bibron, Erp. Gin., 3= 3^4. Type-locality: OtaTti, which is 

 same as Tah i t i . 



1858 Peropus neqlectus Girard. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I857: I57. Type-locality: Rio de 



Jane i ro, Braz i 1. 



1859 Hem idactylus Me i ¡eri Sleeker, Natuurk. Tijds. Nederl. - I ndi?, ( 4) I6: i]. Type-locality: Bintang, 



Rhio Archipelago. 

 1864 Per i p i a cantor i s Günther, Reptiles of British India: 110. Type-locality: Penang. 

 I867 Gecko lab ial i s Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I867: 14. Type-locality: Mindanao, 



Ph i 1 i pp i nes. 

 I867 Gecko moestus Peters, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, I867: 13- Type-locality: Pelew Island. 

 1869 Peropus roseus Cope. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868: 315. Type-locality: Not given. 

 I869 Gymnodactylus Caudelot i Bavay, Mim. Soc. Linn. Normandie, 5' 13' Type-locality: New Caledonia. 

 I874 Per i p i a mysorens i s Meyer, Monats. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1874: I29. Type-locality: Mysore Island, 



Schouten Islands, near New Guinea. 

 I878 Per i p ia ornata MacLeay, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales, 2: '^8, Type-locality: Port Moresby, 



New Gu i nea . 

 I885 Lep i dodactylus luqubr i s — Boulenger, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus., 1: I65. 



1918 Lepidodactylus diverqens Taylor. Philippine Jour. Sci., (d) I3: 242, pi. 1, figs. I-3. Type- 

 locality: Great Govenen Island, Sulu Archipelago. 

 1925 Lep i dodactylus lombocens i s Mertens, Senckenberg iana, 11: 239, "fig. 1. Type-locality: Ekas, 



Lombok Island. 

 1964 Lep i dodactylus intermedius Darevsky, Zool. Anz., 173' 169> f'gs. 1-2. Type-locality: Komodo 



I sland. 



Distribution: Ceylon; Nicobars; Andamans; Burma, Malay Archipelago, I ndo-Austral ian Archipelago; 

 Oceania. Apparently introduced in Colombia.j Ecuador, and Panama; also recorded from Rio de 

 Jane i ro, Braz i 1. 



Comment: This synonymy follows Kluge, Philippine Jour. Sci., 96, I966 (1968), 338. 



