Confirming the presence of a fourth species of non-native house gecko of the genus Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) in Colombia

By

Vásquez-Restrepo, Juan D.
Lapwong, Yingyod

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018-8-10

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

14

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

665--669

Subjects

Hemidactylus frenatus , Hemidactylus garnotii , introduced species , range expansion

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/14.4.665

 

Abstract

The Indo-Pacific Gecko, Hemidactylus garnotii Duméril & Bibron, 1836, is a species of house gecko native to Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands. As with many of its congeners, this gecko species has been accidentally introduced to other parts of the world. In January 2018, several photographs of “H. frenatus” from Colombia posted in iNaturalist.org, were noticed to have some morphological features related to H. garnotii. This discrepancy led us to inspect museum specimens and to confirm the presence of H. garnotii for more than a decade in Colombia.