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Hemiphyllodactylus
typus
Bleeker, 1860:
Hemiphyllodactylus
typus P. Bleeker. 1860. Natur. Tijdsch. v. Nederl. Indië 20: 327.
Lepidodactylus aurantiacus E.
Bartlett. 1895. J. Str. Br. Royal Asiatic Soc. (28): 78.
Lepidodactylus aurantiacus T.
Barbour. 1912. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. 44(1): 179.
Hemiphyllodactylus typus N.
De Rooij. 1915. Reptiles Indo-Australian Arch. 1: 46.
Hemiphyllodactylus typus
R. Mertens. 1930. Abh. Senckenberg. Naturf. Ges. 42(3): 131.
Hemiphyllodactylus typus H.
Wermuth. 1965. Das Tierreich 80: 88.
Hemiphyllodactylus typus typus K.
R. G. Welch, P. S. Cooke & A. S. Wright. 1990. Lizards Orient: 26.
Hemiphyllodactylus typus F.
L. Tan. 1993. Checklist Lizards Borneo: 6.
Hemiphyllodactylus typus A.
G. Kluge. 1993. Gekkonoid Lizard Taxon.: 17.
Hemiphyllodactylus typus U.
Manthey & W. Grossmann. 1997. Amphibien & Reptilien Südostasiens: 239.
Type
locality: BMNH 1946.8.30.83 (holotype), “Agam” (00º 15’S; 100º 05’E,
north of Bukittinggi, western Sumatera Province, Indonesia). Type locality
erroneously stated to be “Gunong Paring, Java” by Smith (1935: 107), which
was followed by Wermuth (1965: 88) and Brown and Alcala (1978: 45); see Kluge
(1968).
Distribution:
Nicobar Islands in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula,
Sumatra, Borneo, Nias, Simalur, Java, Bali, Sumbawa, Komodo, the Philippines
Archipelago, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Polynesia, Hawaii and the Mascarene
Islands (Manthey and Grossmann, 1997: 240).
Localities
in Borneo: SARAWAK: Lambir Hills (Das and Charles, 1993); Naga Tekalit Camp at
Mengion River (FMNH 138545; 213665); Labang Camp at Sungei Seran (FMNH 158734);
Bako National Park (FMNH 196268); BRUNEI:
Batu Apoi (Das, 1995, based on UBD 13); Tasek Merembun, Bandar Seri Begawan
(Das, 1992, based on UBD 03); SABAH: Kiau, Mount Kinabalu (Smith, 1931, based on
BMNH 1929.12.22.87; Manthey, 1983); Sandakan (Tan, 1993: 6, based on FMNH
63661-62; BMNH 95.9.11.5), Kota Marudu, Marak Parak (Tan, 1993: 6, based on FMNH
239661); Bundu Tuan, Luidan River, Mount Kinabalu (UMMZ 82949, 127683); Purulon
(FMNH 243789).
Derivation:
Greek for model or artifice, in allusion to its beauty.
Remarks:
A species complex (see Bauer and Das, 1999), whose systematics is being
investigated by George Zug (pers. comm., 1998).
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