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Gekko japonicus (Japanese gecko; Schlegel's Japanese Gecko)

Synonyms: Hemidactylus nanus; Platydactylus jamori; Platydactylus japonicus; Platydactylus yamori

Attributes

Egg Length [1]  0.512 inches (13 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.394 inches (10 mm)
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Habitat Substrate [2]  Saxicolous

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Fanjingshan Nature Reserve V 86145 Guizhou, China  
Fujian Wuyishan Nature Reserve V 206754 Fujian, China  
Tianmushan Biosphere Reserve 47993 China  
Yakushima Island Biosphere Reserve   Japan    
Yancheng Nature Reserve V 711488 China    

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Parathelandros orientalis[3]
Skrjabinelazia machidai[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 2Meiri, 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
♦ 3Gibson, 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
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