Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)

Pauwels, Olivier S. G., Morelle, Stephan, Albert, Jean-Louis, Carlino, Piero, Rahola, Nil & Trape, Jean-François, 2019, New reptile records from Lékédi Park and Haut-Ogooué Province, southeastern Gabon, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e 174) 13 (1), pp. 143-161 : 146

Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)

This anthropophilic gecko was regularly observed by SM on the buildings of Lékédi Park. We examined the photograph of a hatchling and its egg taken by A. Willaume on 3 March 2016 at 17h 41 in a house in Bakoumba. The hatching date of this gecko falls within the hatching peri- od (December to April) known for the species in Gabon. On 28 March 2016 SM photographed an adult individual on a tree in Léconi Park (Parc de la Léconi), Plateaux Dept. ( Fig. 8 ). We examined the photograph of an adult individual taken in July 2017 (exact date unknown) by N. Longin inside a house in Moanda in Lébombi-Léyou Dept. New Dept. records and new records for Léconi and Lékédi parks (not listed from these Depts. by Pauwels and Vande weghe 2008; Pauwels et al. 2016b, 2017b; Pauwels 2017). Olivier S.G. Pauwels (~ OSGP) examined three adult individuals (RMCA 28230–28232, not individually numbered) collected on 20–22 November 1964 in ‘‘Franceville, Riv. [=River] Passa.’’ One has a snout-vent length of 62 mm, a tail length of 59 mm (last 39 mm regenerated), 35 femoro-precloacal pores, and 16 dorsal tubercle rows at midbody. Another has a snout-vent length of 58 mm, a tail length of 54 mm (only first 8 mm original), 32 femoro-precloacal pores, and 16 dorsal tubercle rows at midbody. The last one has a snout-vent length of 57 mm, a tail length of> 30 mm (tail original, but tip missing, healed), 35 femoro-precloacal pores, and 15 dorsal tubercle rows at midbody. The species was already known from Franceville ( Pauwels and Vande weghe 2008).

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Fig. 8. Adult Hemidactylus mabouia in Léconi Park, Haut- Ogooué Prov., southeastern Gabon. Photograph by S. Morelle.