Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)

Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton’s Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, Zootaxa 5028 (1), pp. 1-80 : 19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5495323

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scientific name

Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)
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Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)

Material (six specimens): One juvenile specimen (MHNCUP/REP 209), collected from Hocco, Cazengo [-9.35422º, 14.89471º, 573 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Norte Province, date unknown; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 210), collected from Cabiri [-8.92125º, 13.66654º, 31 m a.s.l.] Bengo Province, in 1903 ; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 211), collected from Lué (undetermined locality) in 1903 ; two adult specimens (MHNCUP/REP 212–213; Fig. S30 View FIGURE S ), collected from Catete [-9.11667º, 13.70000º, 21 m a.s.l.] Bengo Province, in 1903 ; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/ REP 216, formerly UP-MHNFCP-094991), collected from Rio Luinha [-9.26667º, 14.53333º, 237 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Norte Province, in 1904 .

Comments: Hemidactylus mabouia is commonly found in northern Angola and along the coastline of the country ( Marques et al. 2018; Ceríaco et al. 2020a). This species is frequently associated with urban habitats and it is one of the most widespread Hemidactylus species (and geckos in general), with a broad distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, especially south of the Sahel ( Ceríaco et al. 2020a). Ferreira (1904) cited female specimens from “Cabiri”, “Serra de Stombe” and “Catete” and an additional adult from “Cambondo” ( Ferreira 1906). Extant in MHNC-UP exist specimens from both “Cabiri” (MHNCUP/REP 210) and “Catete” (MHNCUP/REP 212–213). Agarwal et al. (2021) recently revised H. mabouia and found it to comprise as many as 20 putative species-level lineages. Ceríaco et al. (2020a) found the Angolan specimens to be conspecific with the nominotypical form.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Reptilia

Order

Squamata

Family

Gekkonidae

Genus

Hemidactylus

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