Hemidactylus newtoni Ferreira, 1897

Hemidactylus newtoni Ferreira, 1897: 251 . Type locality: “ Ilha de Anno Bom”, Annobon.

Distribution. Endemic to Annobon (Ferreira 1897; Ceríaco et al. 2018) (Map 9A).

Comments. Specimens originally recorded in Annobon as H. mabouia by Bocage (1893:45) became the types of H. newtoni (Ferreira 1897) . Hemidactylus newtoni is the sister taxon of a putative undescribed species from São Tomé (Jesus et al. 2005a), which actually seem to be H. longicephalus (Ceríaco et al. 2022) . Based on direct observations, Jesus et al. (2005a) indicated that the introduced H. mabouia is much more commonly found than H. newtoni, which could be ecologically displaced.

Specimens examined. No specimens of this taxon were found in the examined collections.