Hemidactylus brookii

Brook's House Gecko
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Sauria
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Hemidactylus
Species:	H. brookii
Binomial name
Hemidactylus brookii Gray, 1845

• Brook's House Gecko Hemidactylus brookii is a species of gecko.

Distribution:

• • Senegal,Togo, Angola, Cape Verde, Tanzania, Gambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Sudan (Dagana + Goree Dondo/Cuanza River Atakpame).
  • India (Himalaya), Bhutan, Thailand (HR 33: 322), Maledives, Malaysian Peninsula, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (= Burma) (Tsagain), Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Indonesia (Borneo).
  • Mexico, Honduras, Haiti, Antilles, Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Port-Au-Prince, Trinidad, Colombia

• angulatus: Sudan, Uganda, south to Tanzania, west to Senegal. Zanzibar, Pemba Island.
  • Type locality: West coast of Africa = Gabon [angulatus]

• leightoni: Venezuela (Zulia), Colombia
  • Type locality: "Ada Foah (Guinea)" [= Ghana] [Hemidactylus guineensis PETERS 1868]

External links

• EMBL reptile database
• http://itgmv1.fzk.de/www/itg/uetz/herp/photos/Hemidactylus_brooki2.jpg

References

• Annandale, N. 1905 Notes on some Oriental geckos in the Indian Museum, Calcutta, with descriptions of new tons. Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. (7) 15:26-32
• Bauer,A.M. & Günther,R. 1991 An annotated type catalogue of the geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in the Zoological Museum , Berlin. Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin 67: 279-310
• Bauer, A.M., Pauwels, O.S.G., and Sumontha, M. 2002 Hemidactylus brookii brookii. distribution. Herpetological Review 33:322.
• Gleadow, F. 1887 Description of a new lizard from the Dangs. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 2:49-51
• Gray, J. E. 1845 Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp.
• Mitchell, J. C.;Zug, G. R. 1988 Ecological observations on the gecko Hemidactylus brookii in Nepal Amphibia-Reptilia 9: 405-413
• Powell, R. and S. A. Maxey. 1990 Hemidactylus brookii. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles No. 493