Reptilia, Gekkonidae, Hemidactylus mabouia, Tarentola mauritanica: distribution extension and anthropogenic dispersal

, were reported as capable of displacing native ones (Hanley et al. 1998, Dame and Petren 2006, Rivas Fuenmayor et al. 2005). Interestingly, human related translocations aided some of these invasive lizards to have currently an almost cosmopolitan distribution in tropical and temperate regions (Vences et al. 2004, Carranza and Arnold 2006). Two of these vagile species are