Hemidactylus bowringii
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Description
Hemidactylus bowringii (Gray, 1845) — Erroneous.
Bowring’s Gecko
Singapore records.
Hemidactylus bowringi —N. Koh, 1986: 1–2.
Remarks. Hemidactylus bowringii was erroneously reported from a newspaper article on Singapore’s lizards that stated it is among the most common lizards in Singapore (Koh 1986). Hemidactylus bowringii is a species complex that ranges from Nepal, northern India, and Bangladesh east through northern Myanmar and Vietnam to southern China, Taiwan, and the Ryukyu Islands (McMahan & Zug 2007). No other reports of H. bowringii from Singapore exist. It is possible that there was some confusion of specimens of H. frenatus with regenerated tails that lacked spines.
LKCNHM & NHMUK Museum specimens. No specimens.
Additional Singapore museum specimens. No specimens.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Gray
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Hemidactylus
- Species
- bowringii
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hemidactylus bowringii (Gray, 1845) sec. Figueroa, Low & Lim, 2023
References
- Gray, J. E. (1845) Catalogue of the Specimens of Lizards in the Collection of the British Museum. Trustees [of the British Museum], London, xxviii + 289 pp.
- Koh, N. (1986) Leaping lizards! Know your house guests. The cicak is really ' a nice guy'. From gecko to commodore dragon. The Straits Times, 17 February 1986, Section 2, 1 - 2.
- McMahan, C. D. & Zug, G. R. (2007) Burmese Hemidactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae): geographic variation in the morphology of Hemidactylus bowringii in Myanmar and Yunnan. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 58 (24), 485 - 509.