Hemidactylus mabouia

Ribeiro-Júnior, Marco A., 2015, Catalogue of distribution of lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Brazilian Amazonia. II. Gekkonidae, Phyllodactylidae, Sphaerodactylidae, Zootaxa 3981 (1), pp. 1-55 : 3

Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnés, 1818)

Type-locality. Antilles, restricted to St. Vincent Island, Lesser Antilles, by Stejneger (1904).

Pertinent taxonomic references. Moreau de Jonnés (1818), Wied-Neuwied (1822), Raddi (1823), Wied (1825), Spix (1825), Fitzinger (1826, 1843), Cuvier (1829), Gray (1842), Peters (1854), Grandidier (1867), Cope (1868), Boettger (1879), Boulenger (1885, 1909), Bocage (1893), Stejneger (1904), Barbour & Loveridge (1928), Hewitt (1932), Loveridge (1936, 1947), Cunha (1961), Vanzolini (1968, 1978b), Kluge (1969), Hoogmoed (1973), Broadley (1977), Broadley & Howell (1991), Ávila-Pires (1995), Vences et al. (2004), Jesus et al. (2005), Carranza & Arnold (2006), Arnold et al. (2008), Gamble et al. (2011b).

Distribution and habitat. Considered a recent introduction to South America, Hemidactylus mabouia occurs in all countries of the continent (see references above), and in all Brazilian states, including the Amazonian region ( Fig. 1 ). It is scansorial and nocturnal, and it inhabits perianthropic areas (non-forested areas—Kluge 1969; Crump 1971; Ávila-Pires 1995; Macedo et al. 2008). Kluge (1969) suggested the presence of H. mabouia in natural environments in Peru and Ecuador, and Nascimento (1998) observed its presence in the open vegetation (lavrado) areas of the state of Roraima, Brazil, partitioning niche with Tropidurus hispidus and Gymnophthalmus leucomystax , inside (holes) of termite nests. There are no records of the species inside forests. Rocha et al. (2011) made a review of records in natural habitats in other Brazilian biomes.

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FIGURE 1. Distribution of examined material of Hemidactylus mabouia.