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| Hemiphyllodactylus typus | |
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| Hemiphyllodactylus typus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Hemiphyllodactylus |
| Species: | H. typus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hemiphyllodactylus typus Bleeker, 1860 | |
Hemiphyllodactylus typus, also known as the Indopacific tree gecko, Indopacific slender gecko, or common dwarf gecko, is a species of gecko found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia, and some islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.[1]
Distribution
[edit]India (Shevaroy Hills, Anaimalai, Nilgiri Hills), Nicobar Islands, Sri Lanka, Indochina, Vietnam, Chapa/Tongking, Thailand, W Malaysia, Singapore, Oceania, Burma, Philippines (Panay), Indonesia (Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Bali, Sumbawa, Komodo), China, Taiwan, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Tonga, Marquesas Islands, Society Islands, Pitcairn Islands, Solomon Islands, Fiji Islands (Vanua Levu, Viti Levu), Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues (fide F. Glaw, pers. comm.) Introduced to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), Introduced to Iriomotejima Island, Introduced into the USA (Hawaii)
Type locality: "Agam" [West-Sumatra] [Kluge 1968] and "Goenong Parong (Java)" [= Gunung Parang, West-Java] (Wermuth 1965)
References
[edit]- ^ Hemiphyllodactylus typus at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 7 August 2020.
- Bauer, A.M. & Das, I. 1999 The systematic status of the endemic south Indian gecko Hemidactylus aurantiacus (Beddome 1870). J. South Asian Nat. Hist. 4 (2): 213-218
- Beddome, R.H. 1870 Descriptions of some new lizards from the Madras Presidency. Madras Monthly J. Med. Sci. 1: 30-35
- Boulenger, G.A. 1887 Note on some reptiles from Sumatra described by BLEEKER in 1860. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) 20: 152
- Pauwels, O.S.G., and Bauer, A.M. 2001 Hemiphyllodactylus typus, distribution. Herpetol. Rev. 32:119.
- Schröder, E. & Röll, B. 2004 Hemiphyllodactylus typus BLEEKER. Sauria Supplement 26 (3): 617-622
Further reading
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- Zug, George. Speciation and Dispersal in a Low Diversity Taxon: The Slender Geckos Hemiphyllodactylus (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 631. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2010.
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