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    Species Accepted

    Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)

    African Wood Slave
    EukaryotaAnimalia...Hemidactylus
    IUCNLeast Concern

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Synonyms and combinations

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      Recorded as introduced in 13 countries or islands

      13 results
      Introduced inAccording toInvasiveOccurrences in GBIF
      AnguillaNo
      ArubaYes
      BarbadosNo
      Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and SabaYesUnknown
      Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and SabaNoUnknown
      BrazilNo
      ColombiaNo
      CubaYes
      CuraçaoYes
      EcuadorYes
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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      70 results
      African Wood Slave English
      Afrikaanse Huisgekko Dutch
      Afrikansk husgekko Danish
      Afro-American House Gecko English
      Afroamerican house gecko English
      Briba Portuguese
      Briba-da-Casa Portuguese
      Briba-de-Casa Portuguese
      Camaleão Portuguese
      Common Gecko English

      Treatments

      Source: Catalogue of Life
      5 results
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      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      416 results
      Moreau de Jonnes, A. (1818) Monographie du Mabouia des murailles, ou Gecko Mabouia des Antilles. Bulletin des Sciences, Societe Philomatique, Paris, 3 (5), 138 - 139. Published in
      Boettger. (1878). Jber. Offenbach, Ver. Naturk., 17/18: 1.
      Venter, Jan A.; Werner Conradie. (2015). A checklist of the reptiles and amphibians found in protected areas along the South African Wild Coast, with notes on conservation implications. Koedoe 57 (1): 1-25. Doi: 10.4102/Koedoe.V57i1.1247.
      Señaris, J. Celsa; María Matilde Aristeguieta Padrón, Haidy Rojas Gil y Fernando J. M. Rojas-Runjaic. (2018). Guía ilustrada de los anfibios y reptiles del valle de Caracas, Venezuela. Ediciones IVIC, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC). Caracas, Venezuela. 348 Pp.
      Pinho, C. J., Cardoso, L., Rocha, S., & Vasconcelos, R. (2023). Aliens on Boats? The Eastern and Western Expansion of the African House Gecko. Genes 2023, 14, 381.
      Lajmi, A., & Karanth, P. K. (2019). Eocene–Oligocene cooling and the diversification of Hemidactylus geckos in Peninsular India. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 106637 (2020).
      Rivas, G.; Señaris, J.C. & La Marca, E. (2001). Erstnachweis von Hemidactylus mabouia (Sauria: Gekkonidae) für die Insel Margarita (Estado Nueva Esparta), Venezuela, nebst Angaben zur geographischen Verbreitung. Herpetofauna 23 (134): 5-8.
      CONRADIE, W., ENGELBRECHT, H., HERREL, A., MEASEY, G.J., NIELSEN, S.V., V ANHOOYDONCK, B., & TOLLEY, K.A. (2011). Reptile survey of Venetia Limpopo Nature Reserve, Limpopo Province - South Africa. African Herp News (55): 6-12.
      Pereira-Cordeiro, Joel Maciel, & Bartolomeu Israel de Souza. (2022). RÉPTEIS EM ECÓTONO CAATINGA/MATA ATLÂNTICA E SUAS PERCEPÇÕES EM COMUNIDADES RURAIS. Maringá 14 (2): 55-73.
      Rodrigues-França, Frederico Gustavo, & Nathocley Mendes-Venâncio. (2010). Reptiles and amphibians of a poorly known region in southwest Amazonia. Biotemas, 23 (3): 71-84.

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