Hemidactylus berdmorei (Blyth, 1853)

Mulcahy, Daniel G., Lee, Justin L., Miller, Aryeh H., Chand, Mia, Thura, Myint Kyaw & Zug, George R., 2018, Filling the BINs of life: Report of an amphibian and reptile survey of the Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Region of Myanmar, with DNA barcode data, ZooKeys 757, pp. 85-152 : 85

Hemidactylus berdmorei (Blyth, 1853)

Comments.

No species of the Hemidactylus bowringii group were seen at any of the sites visited. Hemidactylus berdmorei is known only from a disintegrating holotype collected in 1853 in Mergui (= Myeik), hence vouchers of the Smooth Gecko from this area are essential for resolving the taxonomic status of this named taxon ( McMahan and Zug 2007). If it is an autochthonous species, this gecko is likely a valid species; however, because Mergui was an active seaport in the mid 19th century, it is possible that the specimen was a recent arrival from elsewhere in Asia and did not become established.

Red List status.

NE.