Talk:Hemidactylus

Merge?

• Could you [= User:Anthony Appleyard ] please examine these two articles and put these two pages up for their contents to be merged because they appear to be talking about the very same Lizard. The artciles are Hemidactylus and Common House Lizard. I recommed that Hemidactylus be merged with Common House Lizard because it appears to be talking about the very same lizard. Even the same picture is used on both pages. But of cource one page may be talking about Hemidactylus in general as a genus and not the individual species I suppose so I could be in error in recommending that these be merged. Perhaps an expert on lizards and especially Geckos could be recruited. Thanks. Dr CareBear (talk) 19:48, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
• Yes I am in error. The page Hemidactylus is about the Genus and Common House Lizard is about a species within this Genus however there is a inconsitency at the top of the page calling Hemidactylus tuberculosus a relative of Hemidactylus when in fact Hemidactylus tuberculosus is a species within the Genus of Hemidactylus which would make these edits someone made to Hemidactylus very poor scholarship on their part. Dr CareBear (talk) 19:55, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
• I can see these articles now Anthony should not be merged because Hemidactylus is about the Genus and of which the Hemidactylus frenatus is a species within which the page Hemidactylus has a link withing a list of Hemidactylus species directing to Common House Gecko which is Hemidactylus frenatus. So I was in error asking you for help. What made me confused was the way the second paragraph was worded and I did not see the list of species below on the page Hemidactylus. I reworded the second paragraph so that it doesn't lead to cunfusion anymore. You can see the rewording in the nest section below this one. Thanks for your help Anthony. False Alarm though on my part. Sorry. Dr CareBear (talk) 20:11, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Second paragraph

I reworded the second paragraph so it would make more sense and be more accurate.

New edit: They are typically known as house geckos, due to their readyness to adapt to and coexist with humans. This genus was originally established by Lorenz Oken in 1817 for the species within this genus at that time known as Hemidactylus tuberculosus. That name Hemidactylus tuberculosus is nowadays considered to refer to the Tropical House Gecko which is properly known now as Hemidactylus mabouia.[1]

As it appeared before: They are typically known as house geckos, due to their readyness to adapt to and coexist with humans. This genus was originally established by Lorenz Oken in 1817 for the relatives of the gecko then known as Hemidactylus tuberculosus. That name is nowadays considered to refer to the Tropical House Gecko which is properly known as H. mabouia.[1]

I hope this makes it make more sense and be more accurate. Dr CareBear (talk) 20:04, 2 January 2010 (UTC)

Spacing Error

I'm not good at editing HTML, but there's a big space that needs to be closed up before the species list, and after the heading. Pammalamma (talk) 03:42, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

 Done—GRM (talk) 09:59, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

Species that live in houses

As someone with a keen interest in wildlife in general, and knowing exactly what I’ve seen in particular, I think it would be valuable to indicate which species are commensal with humans. Some of these are implied by the common English names given to the species.

Equally, it would be good to provide identification details of the various house-dwelling species, as they seem to have become global or at least spread throughout the tropics (with or without human assistance).

—GRM (talk) 09:49, 4 December 2011 (UTC)