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Hemidactylus
brookii Gray,
1845:
Hemidactylus Brookii
J. E. Gray. 1845. Cat. Lizards British Mus.: 153.
Hemidactylus kushmorensis J.
A. Murray. 1884. Ann. & Mag. nat. Hist. 14: 109. (type locality: "Upper
Sind, Kushmore and Thool Talookas" [Kushmore = Kashmor, 28° 26’N; 69°
35’E; Thool Thakoola is an administrative division, both presently in Sindh
Province, south-eastern Pakistan]; type unlocated).
Hemidactylus brookii
G. A. Boulenger. 1885. Cat. Lizards British Mus. 1: 128.
Hemidactylus Brookei E.
Bartlett. 1895. J. Str. Br. Royal Asiatic Soc. (28): 77.
Hemidactylus brookii R.
Mertens. 1930. Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges. 42(3): 127.
Hemidactylus brookii H.
Wermuth. 1965. Das Tierreich 80: 71.
Hemidactylus brookii K.
R. G. Welch, P. S. Cooke & A. S. Wright. 1990. Lizards Orient: 23.
Hemidactylus brookii A.
G. Kluge. 1993. Gekkonoid Lizard Taxon.: 15.
Hemidactylus brookii U.
Manthey & W. Grossmann. 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens: 237.
Type
locality: BMNH 1947.3.6.47; BMNH 1947.3.6.48; BMNH 1947.3.6.49 (three syntypes),
"Borneo" (in the Greater Sundas; politically divided between Indonesia
[Kalimantan], Malaysia [Labuan, Sabah and Sarawak] and Brunei Darussalam).
According to the original description, there are two syntypes from
"Borneo", and one from "Australia".
Distribution:
Widespread in the Old World tropics, from tropical Africa to southern China and
south-east Asia.
Localities
in Borneo: SARAWAK: Kuching (Bartlett, 1895; De Rooij, 1915: 33).
Derivation:
For Sir James Brooke (1803-1868), Governor of Sarawak from 1841, and Governor of
Labuan and Consul-General to the Sultan of Brunei from 1846. See Payne (1960)
for a biography.
Remarks:
The record of the present species from Borneo was doubted by Shelford (1901),
while Bartlett (1895) appears to have examined specimen(s) from Kuching, and
suspected that the species was introduced.
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