Hemidactylus mabouia

Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) Material (six specimens): One juvenile specimen (MHNCUP/REP 209), collected from Hocco, Cazengo [-9.35422º, 14.89471º, 573 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Norte Province, date unknown; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 210), collected from Cabiri [-8.92125º, 13.66654º, 31 m a.s.l.] Bengo Province, in 1903; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/REP 211), collected from Lué (undetermined locality) in 1903; two adult specimens (MHNCUP/REP 212–213; Fig. S30), collected from Catete [-9.11667º, 13.70000º, 21 m a.s.l.] Bengo Province, in 1903; one adult specimen (MHNCUP/ REP 216, formerly UP-MHNFCP-094991), collected from Rio Luinha [-9.26667º, 14.53333º, 237 m a.s.l.] Kwanza Norte Province, in 1904. Comments: Hemidactylus mabouia is commonly found in northern Angola and along the coastline of the country (Marques et al. 2018; Ceríaco et al. 2020a). This species is frequently associated with urban habitats and it is one of the most widespread Hemidactylus species (and geckos in general), with a broad distribution in sub-Saharan Africa, especially south of the Sahel (Ceríaco et al. 2020a). Ferreira (1904) cited female specimens from “Cabiri”, “Serra de Stombe” and “Catete” and an additional adult from “Cambondo” (Ferreira 1906). Extant in MHNC-UP exist specimens from both “Cabiri” (MHNCUP/REP 210) and “Catete” (MHNCUP/REP 212–213). Agarwal et al. (2021) recently revised H. mabouia and found it to comprise as many as 20 putative species-level lineages. Ceríaco et al. (2020a) found the Angolan specimens to be conspecific with the nominotypical form.
Published as part of Santos, Bruna S., Marques, Mariana P., Bauer, Aaron M. & Ceríaco, Luis M. P., 2021, Herpetological results of Francisco Newton's Zoological Expedition to Angola (1903 – 1906): a taxonomic revision and new records of a forgotten collection, pp. 1-80 in Zootaxa 5028 (1) on page 19, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5028.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5453967
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