C.platyurus is in Tampa as well. Specifically in Riverhills and Brandon.
Likely as a result of a LARGE nursery near a longstanding importer in the
area. I have twice seen gravid females hanging around on the pool cage in
addition to various other individuals.
Jamie
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From: Greg Watkins-Colwell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:37 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell
Dept. of Biology
Sacred Heart University
5151 Park Avenue
Fairfield, CT 06432
and
Yale Peabody Museum
Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology
170 Whitney Ave
PO Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
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