Abstract
From the J. V. Carus collection (now inventoried in the Museum fur Tierkunde, Dresden) we describe two specimens of Gekkonidae originally catalogued as Gehyra oceanica (Lesson, 1826). The locality given is the Society Islands. Further study showed that both geckos belong to the species G. vorax Girard, 1857, whose type locality is the Fiji Islands. Records of G. vorax east of Fiji are currently uncertain. The locality of one specimen (USNM 5698), which was previously interpreted to belong to the syntype series of G. vorax, is Raraka Island, Tahiti. We discuss possibilities of a current or extinct occurrence of G. vorax on the Society Islands. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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