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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 ...
Mediterranean thin-toed gecko, Mediodactylus (kotschyi) oertzeni (Dodecanese islands in Greece) [3] Caucasian gecko, Mediodactylus russowii LC (in Europe southern Russia, extirpated) Mediterranean house gecko, Hemidactylus turcicus LC (southern Europe) Family: Phyllodactylidae. Gomero wall gecko, Tarentola gomerensis LC
This file has an extracted image: Hemidactylus turcicus (Mediterranean House Gecko), feet underside.jpg. Camera location 34° 51′ 33.26″ N, 32° 24′ 58.64″ E
Another species of rock-dwelling gecko was discovered in Tamil Nadu, India. Hemidactylus quartziticolus, or the quartzite brookiish gecko, is small, reaching less than 3 inches in length. It has a ...
Mediterranean house gecko. More than 1,850 species of geckos occur worldwide, [57] including these familiar species: Coleonyx variegatus, the western banded gecko, is native to the southwestern United States and northwest Mexico. Cyrtopodion brachykolon, the bent-toed gecko, is found in northwestern Pakistan; it was first described in 2007.
House gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) Mediterranean house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) Moorish gecko (Tarentola mauritanica) Family: Lacertidae Algerian psammodromus (Psammodromus algirus) [3] Andalusian wall lizard (Podarcis vaucheri) Bocage's wall lizard (Podarcis bocagei) [4] Carbonell's wall lizard (Podarcis carbonelli) [5]
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)
One gecko had a “small piece of skin shedding inside its stomach,” indicating the new species may eat its own shed skin. A preserved Pseudogonatodes quihuai, or Quihua’s dwarf gecko.