Check List 19(5): 709-711, doi: 10.15560/19.5.709

First record of Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Colonia Carlos Pellegrini (Corrientes) and Salvador Mazza (Salta) in Argentina

Vanesa Chocobar^‡, Carolina Lobo Terán^§, Fernando Lobo^|, Matías Quipildor^|, Soledad Ruiz^|, Soledad Valdecantos^|

‡ Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina§ CONICET-Fundación Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina| CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Salta, Salta, Argentina

Corresponding author: Vanesa Chocobar ( vanesachocobar616@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Raúl Maneyro

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Citation: Chocobar V, Lobo Terán C, Lobo F, Ruiz S, Quipildor M, Valdecantos S (2023) First record of Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Colonia Carlos Pellegrini (Corrientes) and Salvador Mazza (Salta) in Argentina. Check List 19(5): 709-711. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.5.709

Abstract

Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) is an African species introduced and widely distributed in South America. We report H. mabouia for the first time in the municipal campsite of Colonia Carlos Pellegrini (province of Corrientes, Argentina) and in Salvador Mazza (province of Salta, Argentina). These new records increase the known distribution in Argentina of this invasive species, and they are the first from Salta, and only the second from Corrientes.

Keywords

Gecko, introduced species, natural reserve