I'd like to add New Mexico as a state of introduction for:
H. turcicus - Mediterranean House Gecko
H.t. turcicus - Turkish House Gecko
(I'm not sure if turks are here, but we do have meds). To my knowledge
Otero Co. and Doña Ana Co. are the current counties to contain established
breeding populations of Meds.
Below is a link to a rather bright and slightly blurred picture of a med
gecko. I took the picture at my friend's house (home here in Alamogordo).
He's now over at NMSU Main Campus and I believe he's told me of sitings of
meds there.
Later,
Chris
http://www.geocities.com/nmherper_anm/medgecko.jpg - Med gecko pic.
----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Watkins-Colwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Gecko] US geckos
> on 2/11/01 2:07 PM, Lyle Puente at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > any notes on where in the USa some of the non native stuff has become
> > established? Mostly Hawaii?
>
> That publication doesn't provide such information. You'd need to go to
> through each and every issue of the Herp. Review to see where things are
> noted... although you could also go through each regional field guide and
> see (in THEORY... they've done their home work and know what's where).
>
> The following are places where I've seen, or heard of, or read about, or
> actually collected... the species named.
>
>
> >Cosymbotus - Asian House Gecko
> >C. platyurus - Flat-tailed House Gecko
> Miami I think. And I've heard of them from San Diego.
>
> >Cyrtopodion - Bowfoot Geckos
> >C. scabrum - Rough-tailed Gecko
> Texas: Galveston area
>
> >Gehyra - Dtellas
> >G. mutilata - Stump-toed Gecko
> Florida (assume Miami)
>
> >Gekko - Tropical Asian Geckos
> >G. gecko - Tokay Gecko
> Miami and the Florida Keys and some of the places around Glades Herp
>
> >Gonatodes - Bent-toed Geckos
> >G. albogularis - Yellow-headed Gecko
> > G.a. fuscus - Dusky Yellow-headed Gecko
> Florida, including West Palm Beach area and further south.
>
> >Hemidactylus - House Geckos
> >H. frenatus - Common House Gecko
> Florida mostly limited to areas where mabouia isn't... yet. Note that I'm
> ignoring Hawaii...
>
> >H. garnotti - Indo-Pacific Gecko
> Florida, including Tampa area and Disney World
>
> >H. mabouia - Amerafrican House Gecko
> Florida. the Keys, Miami area, including the Everglades (the Homestead,
FL
> end)
>
> >H. turcicus - Mediterranean House Gecko
> > H.t. turcicus - Turkish House Gecko
> Everywhere... sorta. Florida, Louisiana, Alabama, Texas, Georgia, San
Diego
> area, Tennessee, North Carolina, and even in Baltimore! Northern
> populations tend to be spotty. It would probably be almost easier to list
> the states where it DOESN'T occur. But that list would shrink each year.
>
> The rest are mostly in Hawaii.
>
> Has anyone done any good range mapping of the non-natives with wholesale
> importer's businesses and home addresses mapped? I bet there is a
> correlation. with some things though, the pattern would much more clearly
> follow the distribution of tropical house plants through the garden center
> trade.
>
> Greg
>
>
>
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> Dept. of Biology
> Sacred Heart University
> 5151 Park Avenue
> Fairfield, CT 06432
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>
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