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Wood Slave or Tropical House Gecko

Hemidactylus mabouia

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Description:

Small gecko

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bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago
Wood Slave or Tropical House Gecko
Hemidactylus mabouia http://www.californiaherps.com/noncal/misc/misclizards/images/hmabouiaanhenp3122.jpg


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KelseyEvans-Layng
KelseyEvans-Layng 10 years ago

Agreed, thanks for such an in depth identification :)

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bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Geckonidae, Hemidactylus mabouia, also called African House Gecko. If you readvthe common name Wood Slave, that was actually the way it was introduced from Africa, with slave boats, quite a bad naming!
http://www.californiaherps.com/noncal/mi...
http://www.ribbitphotography.com/galleri...

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KelseyEvans-Layng

United States Virgin Islands, United States Virgin Islands

Spotted on Jun 7, 2013
Submitted on Jun 7, 2013

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