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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.
Adult male and juvenile G. gecko: Note the brownish, regenerated tail on the adult (top) Female tokay gecko, distinguished by its duller colors than the male. The tokay gecko is a large nocturnal [1] gecko, reaching a total length (including tail) of 25–30 cm (10–12 inches) on average, but some grow as large as 40 cm (16 inches) long. It is ...
This gecko was 600 millimetres (24 inches) long, and it was likely endemic to New Caledonia, where it lived in native forests. [9] The smallest gecko, the Jaragua sphaero, is a mere 16 millimetres (0.63 inches) long, and was discovered in 2001 on a small island off the coast of Hispaniola. [10]
The quartzite brookiish gecko was named for its preferred quartzite rock habitat, though one was found on the wall of a small temple. The lizards are most active at night. A male quartzite ...
Turnip-tailed gecko; U. Uroplatinae; Y. Yantarogekko This page was last edited on 23 January 2021, at 14:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
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 ...
Leopard geckos were first described as a species by zoologist Edward Blyth in 1854 as Eublepharis macularius. [1] The generic name Eublepharis is a combination of the Greek words eu (good) and blepharos (eyelid), as having eyelids is the primary characteristic that distinguishes members of this subfamily from other geckos, along with a lack of lamellae.
It has traditionally been called the white-throated clawed gecko or white-throated gecko in English, which is a calque of its scientific name. [4] The name yellow-headed gecko is now commonly used for this species in the United States, but it originally applied to Gonatodes fuscus , now G. albogularis fuscus , which is the subspecies formerly ...