Tropical house gecko

Tropical house gecko
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Genus:	Hemidactylus
Species:	H. mabouia
Binomial name
	Hemidactylus mabouia; (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)
Synonyms
	Gecko mabouia ; Moreau de Jonnès, 1818; Gecko tuberculosus Raddi, 1823; Hemidactylus mabouia ; — A.M.C. Duméril & Bibron, 1836;

The tropical house gecko, Afro-American house gecko or cosmopolitan house gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) is a species of house gecko native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is also currently found in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, where it has been inadvertently introduced by humans.

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