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repulía: SAURIA: GEKKONIDAE * * tAt THECADACTYLUS 



THECADACTYLUS Oken 



1820 Thecadactylus Goldfuss, Handbuch der Zoologie, 2: 157» Type-species: Gecko laevis 



Daud i n. 

 I83O Thecodactylus Wagler (emendation of Thecadactylus Goldfuss), Nat. Syst. Amphib.: 142. 



Distribution: Mexico; Central and Soutli America, West Indies. 



Content: One species. 



THECADACTYLUS RAPICAUDUS (Houttuyn) 



1782 Gekko Rapicauda Houttuyn, Verb. Zeeuw. Genootsch. Wet. Vlissingen, 5= 3^3» Pl'> ■^'9' !• Type- 

 locality: West Indies; restricted to Chichen Itza, Yucatán, Mexico, by Smith and Taylor, Bull. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus.., 159, 1950, 49. 



1793 Stell i o perf ol iatus Schneider (substitute name for Gekko rap icauda Houttuyn), Amphibiorum 

 Physiologiae, 2: 26. 



1802 Gecko laevis Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., 4: 112. Type-locality: South America. 



1802 Gecko sur i namens is Daudin, Hist. Nat. Rept., 4: 126. Type-locality: Surinam. 



I836 Platydactylus Theconyx Dumeril and Bibron (substitute name for Gekko rap icauda Houttuyn I782), 

 Erp. Gin., 3: 3O6, pi. 33, figs. 2-2a. 



184 5 Thecadactylus rap icaudus — Gray, Cat. Liz. Brit. Mus.: 146. 

 ?18'56 Pachydactylus tristis Hallowell. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc i . Phila., 1854: 98. Type-locality: Liberia, 

 west coast of Africa. 



Distribution: Lesser Antilles, Mexico, Central America, northwestern South America, to Guianas and 

 Trinidad. Known from lowlands on both sides of the Andes in Ecuador. 



