Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Gekkonidae > Hemidactylus > Hemidactylus platyurus

Hemidactylus platyurus (Flat-tailed House Gecko)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hemidactylus platyurus, commonly known as the flat-tailed house gecko, is a species of Gekkonidae native to southeastern and southern Asia. The species is sometimes classified under the genus Cosymbotus.
View Wikipedia Record: Hemidactylus platyurus

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.8 grams
Female Weight [2]  4 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.394 inches (10 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.315 inches (8 mm)
Gestation [2]  65 days
Litter Size [2]  2
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  2.362 inches (6 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Indo-Burma Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Viet Nam No
Philippines Philippines No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Oochoristica javaensis <Unverified Name>[4]
Paradistomum geckonum[4]
Postorchigenes majeedi <Unverified Name>[4]
Postorchigenes ovatus[4]
Spauligodon hemidactylus[4]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Length–weight allometries in lizards, S. Meiri, Journal of Zoology 281 (2010) 218–226
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Meiri, Shai (2019), Data from: Traits of lizards of the world: variation around a successful evolutionary design, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.f6t39kj
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0