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Hemidactylus muriceus PETERS, 1870

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Guinea Leaf-toed Gecko 
SynonymHemidactylus muriceus PETERS 1870: 641
Hemidactylus muriceus — BOULENGER 1885: 123
Hemidactylus intestinalis WERNER 1897: 263
Hemidactylus muriceus — SCHMIDT 1919: 444
Hemidactylus muriceus — KLUGE 1993
Hemidactylus intestinalis — KLUGE 1993
Hemidactylus muriceus — RÖSLER 2000: 87
Hemidactylus intestinalis — RÖSLER 2000: 86
Hemidactylus muriceus — PAUWELS et al. 2004
Hemidactylus muriceus — RÖSLER 2015
Hemidactylus cf. muriceus — MARQUES et al. 2018
Hemidactylus murecius — BRANCH et al. 2019: 315 (in error) 
DistributionLiberia, Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Guinea (Conakry) east to W/C Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire), Congo (Brazzaville) (Gold/Quittah/Keta), Central African Republic ?, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea

intestinalis: Nigeria, Liberia (Sapele Stat/Niger-Delta),
Benin ?, Togo ?, Ghana ?, Ivory Cost ?

Type locality: “Keta (Guinea)” [= Ghana]  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 6921 
Diagnosis 
CommentDistribution: Has been reported from Sao Tome but these records are doubtful (SCHÄTTI & LOUMONT 1992). Not in Angola fide Ceríaco et al. 2020. For a map with localities in Equatorial Guinea see SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS et al. 2022.

Synonymy: Perret (1975) and Kluge (1993) considered H. ansorgii as a junior synonym of H. intestinalis Werner, 1897 but Henle and Böhme (2003) have presented compelling evidence that the latter is, in reality, a junior synonym of H. muriceus.

Similar species: H. echinus, H. pseudomuriceus. 
References
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  • BAUER,A.M.; S. TCHIBOZO, O.S.G. PAUWELS & G. LENGLET 2006. A review of the gekkotan lizards of Bénin, with the description of a new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 1242: 1-20 - get paper here
  • Böhme, Wolfgang, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christian Brede & Philipp Wagner 2011. The reptiles (Testudines, Squamata, Crocodylia) of the forested southeast of the Republic Guinea (Guinée forestière), with a country-wide checklist. Bonn zoological Bulletin 60 (1): 35-61 - get paper here
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  • Branch, William R.; Pedro Vaz Pinto, Ninda Baptista, and Werner Conradie 2019. The Reptiles of Angola: History, Diversity, Endemism and Hotspots. Chapter 13 in: B. J. Huntley et al. (eds.), Biodiversity of Angola. Springer Verlag, pp. 283-334 - get paper here
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