First record of Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril & Bibron, 1836) (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Hainan Island, China

By

Wang, Hao-Tian
Qi, Shuo
Qiu, Xian-Chun
Li, Pipeng

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2022-6-7

Original Publication

Herpetozoa

Volume

35

Pages

99--105

Subjects

Morphology , mourning gecko , ND2 , new record , non-native

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.35.e84045

 

Abstract

Lepidodactylus lugubris is known from tropical Asia, Oceania, and Latin America, but in China it was previously known only from Taiwan Island. In this paper, we report a new herpetofaunal record based on one specimen collected from Wanning, Hainan, China, which conforms to L. lugubris on both morphological and molecular data. Our finding brings the total species of the family Gekkonidae in Hainan to six.