Lepidodactylus lugubris

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The Mourning Gecko or Common Smooth-Scaled Gecko Lepidodactylus lugubris is a species of gecko. Distribution: Taiwan, China, Sri Lanka, India (incl. and Andaman Islands) Myanmar (= Burma), West Malaysia (Pulau Pinang, Pulau Tioman), Vietnam (Ku Lao Pan Jong Island; BOBROV, pers. comm.), Japan (Ryukyu, 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

External links

[EMBL reptile database]
http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Lepidodactylus_lugubris.JPG
http://www.uroplatus.com/photopage/images/Lepidodactylus%20lugubris%2004.jpg

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, Ryukyu Archipelago Japanese Journal of Herpetology 17 (4): 152-155

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