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Hemidactylus karenorum (THEOBALD, 1868)

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Higher TaxaGekkonidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Burmese spotted gecko, Burmese Leaf-toed Gecko 
SynonymDoryura karenorum THEOBALD 1868: 30
Hemidactylus karenorum — BOULENGER 1885: 140
Hemidactylus karenorum — ANNANDALE 1905
Hemidactylus karenorum — DE ROOIJ 1915: 30
Hemidactylus karenorum — SMITH 1935: 102
Hemidactylus karenorum — KLUGE 1993
Hemidactylus karenorum — RÖSLER 2000: 86
Hemidactylus karenorum — NGUYEN et al. 2009 
DistributionMyanmar (= Burma), Vietnam

Type locality: Karen-choung, near Toungoo, Myanmar (= Burma).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesTypes: lost, according to Smith (1935) 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1395 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentDistribution: The presence of this species outside Myanmar has been questioned (ZUG et al. 2007). Specimens from NE India (Assam, Toungoo) appear to be misidentifications (MAHONY & ZUG 208). 
EtymologyNamed after the Karens, a hill tribe in Myanmar (Beolens et al. 2011). 
References
  • Annandale, Nelson 1905. Contributions to Oriental Herpetology. Suppl. II. Notes on the Oriental lizards in the Indian Museum, with a list of the species recorded from British India and Ceylon. J. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (2) 1: 81-93 - get paper here
  • Bauer, Aaron M.; Todd R. Jackman, Eli Greenbaum, Varad B. Giri, Anslem de Silva 2010. South Asia supports a major endemic radiation of Hemidactylus geckos. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57 (1): 343-352 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here
  • de Rooij, N. de 1915. The Reptiles of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. I. Lacertilia, Chelonia, Emydosauria. Leiden (E. J. Brill), xiv + 384 pp. - get paper here
  • Giri, Varad B.; Bauer, Aaron M. 2008. A new ground-dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Maharashtra, with a key to the Hemidactylus of India. Zootaxa 1700: 21-34 - get paper here
  • Mahony, S. & Zug, G.R. 2008. Hemidactylus karenorum (Squamata, Gekkonidae) in India. Hamadryad 32: 84–86 - get paper here
  • Mahony, Stephen 2009. A New Species of Gecko of the Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Andhra Pradesh, India. Russ. J. Herpetol. 16 (1): 27-34 - get paper here
  • McMahan, C.D. & Zug, G.R. 2007. Burmese Hemidactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae): geographic variation in the morphology of Hemidactylus bowringii in Myanmar and Yunnan, China. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. 58 (23-30): 485-509
  • Nguyen, S.V., Ho, C.T. and Nguyen, T.Q. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 768 pp.
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Smith, M.A. 1935. The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptiles and Amphibia, Vol. II. Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, 440 pp.
  • Theobald, William 1868. Catalogue of the reptiles of British Birma, embracing the provinces of Pegu, Martaban, and Tenasserim; with descriptions of new or little-known species. Zool. J. Linnean Soc. 10: 4-67. - get paper here
  • Zug, G.R., Vindum, J.V. & Koo, M.S. 2007. Burmese Hemidactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae): taxonomic notes in tropical Asian Hemidactylus. Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci. (4) 58: 387–405
 
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