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Hoplodactylus duvaucelii (Northern Sticky-toed Gecko; Giant gecko)

Synonyms: Platydactylus duvaucelii

Wikipedia Abstract

Duvaucel's gecko, Hoplodactylus duvaucelii, is a gecko found on predator-free offshore islands of New Zealand, including Great Barrier Island and a number of Cook Strait islands. A dead gecko was also found at Maungatautari in March 2010, probably indicating that it is not extinct from mainland New Zealand. Its total length is up to 300 mm (snout to vent up to 160 mm) weighing up to 120 grams, making it the largest living gecko in New Zealand. The oldest known wild Duvaucel's gecko was aged at least 36 years.
View Wikipedia Record: Hoplodactylus duvaucelii

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  118 grams
Habitat Substrate [2]  Arboreal, Terrestrial
Maximum Longevity [3]  25 years
Reproductive Mode [2]  Viviparous
Snout to Vent Length [1]  6 inches (16 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
North Island temperate forests New Zealand Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Northland temperate kauri forests New Zealand Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests
Richmond temperate forests New Zealand Australasia Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
New Zealand New Zealand Yes

Emblem of

Uttar Pradesh

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
♦ 3de 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
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