Lepidodactylus lugubris

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Mourning Gecko

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Suborder: Sauria
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Lepidodactylus
Species: L. lugubris
Binomial name
Lepidodactylus lugubris
(Duméril & Bibron, 1836)

The Mourning Gecko or Common Smooth-Scaled Gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris is a species of gecko.

[edit] Distribution

Taiwan, China, Sri Lanka, India (incl. Andaman Islands), Myanmar, West Malaysia (Pulau Pinang, Pulau Tioman), Vietnam (Ku Lao Pan Jong Island; BOBROV, pers. comm.), Japan (Ryūkyū, Bonin), Indonesia (Borneo, Lombok, Sulawesi, Halmahera, Ambon, Kei Islands), Philippine Islands (incl. Panay), New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands [McCoy 2000], most islands of the Pacific, Fiji Islands, Rotuma, New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Australia (islands of Cocos [Keeling] atoll, Queensland); Maldive Islands (HR 30: 52) Western Samoa, Guam, Society Islands, Mascarenes (Rodrigues; fide F. Glaw, pers. comm.)

Introduced into W Mexico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama Introduced into Ecuador (Galapagos), Colombia, Chile Introduced into the USA (Hawaii), Seychelles

[edit] References

  • Boissinot, Stéphane;Ineich, Ivan;Thaler, Louis;Guillaume, Claude-P. 1997 Hybrid origin and clonal diversity in the parthenogenetic gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris in French Polynesia Journal of Herpetology 31 (2): 295-298
  • Chazeau, J. and A.M. Bauer 1991 Lepidodactylus lugubris [distribution in New Caledonia]. Herpetol. Rev. 22:103
  • Cuéllar, O.;Kluge, A. G. 1972 Natural parthenogenesis in the gekkonid lizard Lepidodactylus lugubris Journal of Genetics 61 (1): 14-26
  • Cuellar, O. 1984 Histocompatibility in Hawaiian and Polynesian populations of the parthenogenetic gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris Evolution 38 (1): 176-185
  • Hanley, Kathryn A.;Bolger, Douglas T.;Case, Ted 1994 Comparative ecology of sexual and asexual gecko species (Lepidodactylus) in French Polynesia Evolutionary Ecology 8: 435-454
  • Henderson, R. W., VILLA, J., & DIXON, J. R. 1976 Lepidodactylus lugubris (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). A recent addition to the herpetofauna of Nicaragua. Herpetol. Rev. 7:173.
  • Jarecki, L. & Lazell, J.D. 1987 Zur Grösse und Dichte einer Population von Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril & Bibron 1836) in Aiea, Hawaii (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Salamandra 23 (2/3): 176-178
  • Kikukawa, Akira 1999 Geographic distribution. Lepidodactylus lugubris Herpetological Review 30 (1): 52
  • Mau, K.-G. 1978 Nachweis natürlicher Parthenogenese bei Lepidodactylus lugubris durch Gefangenschaftsnachzucht (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Salamandra 14 (2): 90-97
  • Pasteur, G.;Agnese, J.-F.;Blanc, C. P.;Pastuer, N. 1987 Polyclony and low relative heterozygosity in a widespread unisexual vertebrate, Lepidodactylus lugubris (Sauria) Genetica 75: 71-79
  • Röll, B. 2002 Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril & Bibron). Sauria (Suppl.) 24 (3): 545-550
  • Rösler, Herbert 1992 Beobachtungen an drei Männchen des parthenogenetischen Geckos Lepidodactylus lugubris (Duméril & Bibron 1836). Sauria 14 (3): 25-26
  • Sengoku, Showichi 1998 Geographic Distribution. Lepidodactylus lugubris Herpetological Review 29 (2): 110
  • Turner, Grant;Green, Darren 1996 Notes on the mourning gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris in the Daintree region Herpetofauna (Sydney) 26 (1): 5-7
  • Villa, Jaime D. 1993 Lepidodactylus lugubris (mourning gecko). Nicaragua: Zelaya Herpetological Review 24 (3): 109
  • Yamashiro, Saiko;Ota, Hidetoshi 1998 Discovery of a male phenotype of the Parthenogenetic gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris, on Ishigakijima Island of the Yaeyama Group, Ryūkyū Archipelago Japanese Journal of Herpetology 17 (4): 152-155

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