Species Gehyra mutilata (Wiegmann, 1835)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Hemidactylus (Peropus) mutilatus Wiegmann, A.F.A. 1835. Amphibien. pp. 185-238 in Meyen, F.J.F. Beiträge zur Zoologie, Gesammelt auf einer Reise um die Erde. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 17: 185-268 [238].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ?, Manila, Philippines.
• Hemidactylus peronii Duméril, A.M.C. & Bibron, G. 1836. Erpétologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complète des Reptiles. Paris : Roret Vol. 3 iv 517 pp. [352, pl. 30 fig. 1].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MNHP 6557, Mauritius (as Île de France); MNHP 6582.

  Secondary source:

   Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India; including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. London : Taylor & Francis xiv 440 pp.
• Hemidactylus platurus Bleeker, P. 1858. Der heer Bleeker doet verslag van de verzameling visschen van Amboina, der Vereeniging aangeboden door het lid den heer Schröder. Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië 4 16: 28-31 [31].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Java, Indonesia.

  Type locality references:

  Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India; including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. London : Taylor & Francis xiv 440 pp.
• Dactyloperus insulensis Girard, C. 1857. Descriptions of some new reptiles, collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, under the command of Capt. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. Fourth Part. Including the species of saurians exotic to North America. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 9(1857): 195-199 [1858 on title page] [197].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Hawaiian Ils (as Sandwich Ils), USA.

  Secondary source:

   Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India; including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. London : Taylor & Francis xiv 440 pp.
• Gecko pardus Tytler, R.C. 1865. Observations on a few species of geckos alive in the possession of the author. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle du Belgique 33: 535-548 [547].

  Type data:

   Holotype whereabouts unknown, Moulmein, Burma.

  Type locality references:

  Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India; including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. London : Taylor & Francis xiv 440 pp.
• Gecko harrieti Tytler, R.C. 1865. Observations on a few species of geckos alive in the possession of the author. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle du Belgique 33: 535-548 [548].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) whereabouts unknown, Port Blair and Umgebung, Andaman Ils.

  Secondary source:

   Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India; including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. London : Taylor & Francis xiv 440 pp.
• Peropus packardii Cope, E.D. 1869. Observations on reptiles of the Old World. Article II. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 1868: 316-323 [319].

  Type data:

   
  Syntype(s) MCZ 5470, Penang, Malaysia; whereabouts unknown (whereabouts of remaining syntypes unknown).

  Secondary source:

   Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India; including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. II. Sauria. London : Taylor & Francis xiv 440 pp.
• Hemidactylus navarri Dugès, A. 1883. Spasmocnemis, Chalinocnemis. La Naturaleza, Mexico 6: 309-312 [309, 311, pl. 7].

  Type data:

   Holotype MDUG, San Blas, Mayarit, Mexico.

  Type locality references:

  Smith, H.M. & Necker, W.L. 1943. Alfredo Dugès' types of Mexican reptiles and amphibians. Anales de la Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biologicas, Mexico 3: 179-219; Smith, H.M. & Taylor, E.H. 1950. An annotated checklist and key to the reptiles of Mexico exclusive of the snakes. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 199: i-iv 1-253.
• Gehyra beebei Annandale, N. 1913. Some new and interesting Batrachia and lizards from India, Ceylon and Borneo. Records of the Indian Museum 9: 301-307 [306, pl. 15 fig. 2].

  Type data:

   Holotype IM 17402, Kapit, Sarawak, Borneo.
• Gehyra insulanus Underwood, G. 1954. On the classificaiton and evolution of geckos. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 124: 469-492 [478] [errore for Dactyloperus insulensis Girard, 1858].

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Wermuth, H. 1965. Liste der rezenten Amphibien und Reptilien Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae, Xantusiidae. Das Tierreich 80(1–22): 1-246 [35]

Generic Combinations

• Gehyra mutilata (Wiegmann, 1835). —
  Cogger, H.G., in Cogger, H.G., Cameron, E.E. & Cogger, H.M. 1983. Amphibia and Reptilia. 313 pp. in Walton, D.W. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service Vol. 1 vi + 313 pp.

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, previously common on Cocos (Keeling) Islands but now uncommon or absent; ranges from Africa through Asia and the Pacific to the Americas.

Other Regions

Christmas Island terrestrial & freshwater

Ecological Descriptors

Arboreal, closed forest, nocturnal, oviparous, peridomestic.

Extra Ecological Information

Secondary growth following phosphate mining (Christmas Is.).

General References

Cogger, H.G. 2014. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Collingwood : CSIRO publishing 7th edition, pp. xxx+1033. [362]

Common Name References

CAVS 2006. Census of Australian Vertebrate Species. Australian Biological Resources Study. (Skin-shedding Dtella)

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