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A Mediterranean house gecko in ambush on a nest of a sphecid wasp Sceliphron spirifex. Mediterranean house geckos are nocturnal. [21] They emit a distinctive, high-pitched call somewhat like a squeak or the chirp of a bird, possibly expressing a territorial message. Because of this aggressive behavior, juveniles avoid most interaction with ...
They include the Indo-Pacific gecko, brown anole, Texas horned lizard, and Mediterranean house gecko. [4] Human predation and habitat destruction has placed several reptile species and subspecies at risk of extirpation or extinction.
This list of reptiles of Texas includes the snakes, lizards, crocodilians, and turtles native to the U.S. state of Texas.. Texas has a large range of habitats, from swamps, coastal marshes and pine forests in the east, rocky hills and limestone karst in the center, desert in the south and west, mountains in the far west, and grassland prairie in the north.
Mediterranean chameleon, Chamaeleo chamaeleon (Linnaeus, 1758) Family: Gekkonidae. Kotschy's gecko, Cyrtopodion kotschyi (Steindachner, 1870) Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758) Family: Lacertidae. Schreiber's fringe-fingered lizard, Acanthodactylus schreiberi (Boettger, 1878)
Hemidactylus is a genus of the common gecko family, Gekkonidae. [3] [4] It has 195 [5] described species, newfound ones being described every few years.These geckos are found in all the tropical regions of the world, extending into the subtropical parts of Africa and Europe.
The common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus) is a gecko native to South and Southeast Asia as well as Near Oceania. It is also known as the Asian house gecko, Pacific house gecko, wall gecko, house lizard, tiktiki, chipkali [3] or moon lizard. These geckos are nocturnal; hiding during the day and foraging for insects at night.
Rough-tailed gecko (Cyrtopodion scabrum) Genus: Eublepharis. Iranian fat-tailed gecko (Eublepharis angramainyu) Genus: Hemidactylus. Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) Genus: Stenodactylus. Jordan short-fingered gecko (Stenodactylus grandiceps) Family: Phyllodactylidae. Genus: Asaccus. Werner's leaf-toed gecko (Asaccus elisae)
Tropical house gecko, Hemidactylus mabouia (I) Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus (I) American wall gecko, Tarentola americana; Tuberculate gecko, Tarentola crombiei; Reyes' Caribbean gecko, Aristelliger reyesi; Ashy gecko, Sphaerodactylus elegans; Baracoan eyespot sphaero, Sphaerodactylus celicara