Hemidactylus mabouia, Barbour & Loveridge, 1929

Lobon-Rovira, Javier, Conradie, Werner, Iglesias, David Buckley, Ernst, Raffael, Verissimo, Luis, Baptista, Ninda & Pinto, Pedro Vaz, 2021, Between sand, rocks and branches: an integrative taxonomic revision of Angolan Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820, with description of four new species, Vertebrate Zoology 71, pp. 465-501 : 465

Hemidactylus mabouia

Hemidactylus mabouia is the most genetically distant species from all the Angolan congeners (minimum ND2 uncorrected p-distance >26%, see Table 1 ). Furthermore, H. mabouia can be easily differentiated from all its Angolan congeners by the presence of enlarged medial subcaudals, being absent in all Angolan Hemidactylus ( Ceríaco et al. 2020a). Therefore, all records genetically or morphologically assigned to H. mabouia have been considered as unequivocal records, in absence of more accurate and recently studies within H. mabouia -group.

Consequently, this work provides 25 new records (Table S2, Fig. 17 ) for H. mabouia within Angolan territory. It is remarkable that this work provides the first records of H. mabouia in Bié Province, collected by Werner Conradie, Luke Verburgt and Alexander Rebelo between 2016 and 2018, and the eastern-most record within Angola territory from Lucapa, Lunda Norte Province, collected by William R. Branch and Werner Conradie in 2011 (Fig. 17 ). Moreover, this work demonstrates the large adaptability of H. mabouia , being present in at least 8 of the 13 AMBUs defined in this work (Fig. 17 ).

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Figure 17. Records of Hemidactylus mabouia in Angola. Dark blue circles represent records provided by Ceriaco et al. 2020 a; light blue circles depict new records provided by this work.