Animalia > Chordata > Squamata > Phyllodactylidae > Tarentola > Tarentola fascicularisTarentola fascicularis (Common Wall Gecko, Moorish Gecko)Synonyms: Gecko fascicularis (heterotypic) | Adult Weight [1] | 7.3 grams | | Female Weight [2] | 6 grams |  | | Egg Length [2] | 0.512 inches (13 mm) | | Egg Width [2] | 0.394 inches (10 mm) | | Gestation [2] | 70 days | | Litter Size [2] | 2 | | Litters / Year [2] | 6 | | Maximum Longevity [4] | 14 years | | Snout to Vent Length [2] | 2.756 inches (7 cm) | | | Habitat Substrate [3] | Saxicolous |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
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Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests |
Greece, Turkey, Macedonia |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands |
Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Egypt , Iraq, Jordan, Syria |
Palearctic |
Deserts and Xeric Shrublands |
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Cantabrian mixed forests |
Spain, Portugal |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Cape Verde Islands dry forests |
Cape Verde |
Afrotropic |
Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests |
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Corsican montane broadleaf and mixed forests |
France |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Crete Mediterranean forests |
Greece |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Iberian conifer forests |
Spain |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests |
Spain, Portugal |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests |
Italy, France |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets |
Morocco, Spain |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests |
Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe |
Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe |
Morocco |
Palearctic |
Montane Grasslands and Shrublands |
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Mediterranean woodlands and forests |
Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests |
France, Spain |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Northwest Iberian montane forests |
Portugal, Spain |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Po Basin mixed forests |
Italy |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests |
Spain, France, Andorra |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Saharan halophytics |
Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Mauritania, Western Sahara |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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South Appenine mixed montane forests |
Italy |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands |
Spain |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests |
Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Morocco |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests |
France, Italy |
Palearctic |
Mediterranean Forests, Woodlands, and Scrub |
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Location |
Endemic |
Species |
Website |
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Mediterranean Basin |
Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey |
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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 ♦ 5Geographic variation in the diet composition of a secretive Mediterranean colubrid snake: Coronella girondica from Spain and Italy, Luca Luiselli, Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Massimo Capula, Carmen Villafranca, Ital. J. Zool., 68: 57-60 (2001) ♦ 6Body size, diet and reproductive ecology of Coluber hippocrepis in the Rif (Northern Morocco), Juan M. Pleguezuelos, Soumia Fahd, Amphibia-Reptilia 25: 287-302 (2004) ♦ 7Gibson, 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 |
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
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