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The hooded pitohui.The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact.. The following is a list of poisonous animals, which are animals that passively deliver toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested.
Mediterranean house gecko, (Hemidactylus turcicus), Chambers County, TexasThe Mediterranean gecko is a very small lizard generally measuring 10–13 cm (4–5 inches) in length, with sticky toe pads, vertical pupils, and large eyes that lack eyelids. [5]
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.
Despite actually being harmless, the common house gecko or "wood slave" is considered by some in Trinidad and Tobago to be a bad omen, and to have a poisonous touch. This is an old superstition, and in reality the house gecko is not only harmless, but also beneficial due to its hunting prey including mosquitos and cockroaches .
The family Gekkonidae is a member of the infraorder Gekkota, which seems to have first emerged during the Jurassic period (201–145 million years ago). Eichstaettisaurus schroederi is recognized as one of the earliest examples of an ancestral gecko species.
Tarentola mauritanica, referred to as the common wall gecko or the moorish gecko, is a species of gecko native to the western Mediterranean area of North Africa and Southwestern Europe. It has been introduced to the Portuguese island of Madeira and Spain' s Balearic Islands , and some areas of the Americas , such as Argentina , Uruguay , and ...
Eublepharis angramainyu, also known as the Iranian fat-tailed gecko or Iraqi eyelid gecko, is a nocturnal ground dwelling lizard native to Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. [3] Its diet is insectivorous but may eat smaller vertebrates .
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.