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Gekko monarchus (Spotted House Gecko)

Synonyms: Platydactylus burmeisteri; Platydactylus deissneri; Platydactylus monarchus

Wikipedia Abstract

The spotted house gecko (Gekko monarchus) is a species of gecko found in the Malay Peninsula (including southern Thailand and Singapore), some smaller Malaysian islands, Borneo (East Malaysia and Kalimantan), the Philippines, many Indonesian islands including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and New Guinea (Irian Jaya and Papua New Guinea).
View Wikipedia Record: Gekko monarchus

Attributes

Egg Length [1]  0.512 inches (13 mm)
Egg Width [1]  0.394 inches (10 mm)
Gestation [1]  3 months 20 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Reproductive Mode [2]  Oviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  3.937 inches (10 cm)
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Saxicolous, Terrestrial

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Philippines Philippines No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No
Wallacea East Timor, Indonesia No

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
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