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Gehyra oceanica (Oceanic dtella; Pacific Dtella)

Synonyms: Gecko oceanicus; Gehyra pacifica; Hemidactylus oualensis; Hemidactylus ovalensis; Stellio argyropus

Wikipedia Abstract

The oceanic gecko, Gehyra oceanica, is a species of gecko in the genus Gehyra. It is also known as the Pacific Dtella or the big tree gecko. The larger Gehyra vorax (voracious gecko) of Fiji, Vanuatu and New Guinea has sometimes been included in this species, but is now treated as distinct.
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  7.9 grams
Egg Length [2]  0.551 inches (14 mm)
Egg Width [2]  0.472 inches (12 mm)
Litter Size [2]  2
Maximum Longevity [4]  11 years
Reproductive Mode [3]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [2]  3.937 inches (10 cm)
Habitat Substrate [3]  Arboreal

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
National Park of American Samoa II   American Samoa, United States    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cylindrotaenia decidua <Unverified Name>[5]
Maxvachonia chabaudi <Unverified Name>[5]
Oochoristica javaensis <Unverified Name>[5]
Pharyngodon oceanicus[5]
Spauligodon gehyrae[5]

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
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Gibson, 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