Hemidactylus newtoni Ferreira, 1897

Sánchez-Vialas, Alberto, Calvo-Revuelta, Marta & Riva, Ignacio De La, 2022, Synopsis of the terrestrial Reptiles of Equatorial Guinea, Zootaxa 5202 (1), pp. 1-197 : 41

Hemidactylus newtoni Ferreira, 1897

Hemidactylus newtoni Ferreira, 1897: 251 . Type locality: “ Ilha de Anno Bom”, Annobon.

Distribution. Endemic to Annobon ( Ferreira 1897; Ceríaco et al. 2018) ( Map 9A ).

Comments. Specimens originally recorded in Annobon as H. mabouia by Bocage (1893:45) became the types of H. newtoni ( Ferreira 1897) . Hemidactylus newtoni is the sister taxon of a putative undescribed species from São Tomé ( Jesus et al. 2005a), which actually seem to be H. longicephalus ( Ceríaco et al. 2022) . Based on direct observations, Jesus et al. (2005a) indicated that the introduced H. mabouia is much more commonly found than H. newtoni , which could be ecologically displaced.

Specimens examined. No specimens of this taxon were found in the examined collections.

Figures

MAPS 9 A–C. Distribution maps for Equatorial Guinean records of (A) Hemidactylus newtoni; (B) Hemidactylus richardsonii (question mark represents an imprecise record); (C) Lygodactylus conraui.