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The house gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus, is 
rapidly increasing in numbers and is appar- 
ently being introduced into the other islands 
from Oahu. The most important means of intro- 
duction appears to be by the movement of boat 
cargoes from one harbor to another. 
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