| Tropical house gecko | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Gekkonidae |
| Genus: | Hemidactylus |
| Species: | H. mabouia
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| Binomial name | |
| Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)
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The tropical house gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia), also called commonly the Afro-American house gecko and the cosmopolitan house gecko, is a species of house gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is native to sub-Saharan Africa. However, it is also found in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, where it has been inadvertently introduced by humans.[3][4]
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- ^ Martínez Rivera, Carlos Cesar; et al. (2003). "Tropical house gecko" (PDF). Caribbean Journal of Science. 39 (3): 321–326. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
- ^ Anjos, L.A.; Almeida, W.O.; Vasconcellos, A.; Freire, E.M.X.; Rocha, C.F.D. (Aug 2008). "Pentastomids infecting an invader lizard, Hemidactylus mabouia (Gekkonidae) in northeastern Brazil". Brazilian Journal of Biology. 68 (3): 611–615. doi:10.1590/S1519-69842008000300019. ISSN 1519-6984. PMID 18833483.