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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 house gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus) Hemidactylus yerburyi; Southern ghats slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus aurantiacus) Palau slender gecko (Hemiphyllodactylus ganoklonis) Wahlberg's velvet gecko (Homopholis walbergii) Yellow-lined smooth-scaled gecko (Lepidodactylus aureolineatus) Batan scaly-toed gecko (Lepidodactylus balioburius)
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
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.
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.
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)
Pigeons intermingle with tourists in Venice. A synanthrope (from ancient Greek σύν sýn "together, with" and ἄνθρωπος ánthrōpos "man") is an organism that evolved to live near humans and benefit from human settlements and their environmental modifications (see also anthropophilia for animals who live close to humans as parasites).
Gekkonid geckos occur globally and are particularly diverse in tropical areas. Many species of these geckos exhibit an adhering ability to surfaces through Van der Waals forces utilizing intermolecular forces between molecules of their setae (foot hair) and molecules of the surface they are on.