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Eublepharis macularius1🦎

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SpeciesEublepharidae
Reptiles

🦎Leopard gecko

Eublepharis macularius (Blyth, 1854)

Gekončík noční (Eublepharis macularius) (= gekončík skvrnitý) je díky své nenáročnosti a mnoha barevným formám jedním z nejčastěji chovaných a velmi oblíbených obyvatelů terárií.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Measurements
10
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≈ 1/1,750th of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
0.04 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
29 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Leopard gecko

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.04 kgrecord 0.11 kg · ReptTraits
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Maximum lifespan
29 yearsrecord 29 years · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Record: largest individual on record

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
55 days
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 2
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Diet
Carnivorous
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Nocturnal
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Foraging mode
AMB
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Venomous
No
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Snout–vent length
0.17 mmaximum recorded
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female0.12 mReptTraitsv1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024)
Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Leopard gecko yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyEublepharidae
  5. ›genusEublepharis
  6. ›speciesEublepharis macularius
Full lineage
  1. superorderLepidosauria
  2. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  3. infraorderGekkota
  4. genusEublepharis
All 12 branches ↓
  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. superorderLepidosauria
  10. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  11. infraorderGekkota
  12. genusEublepharis
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leopardgekko (nb), 豹紋壁虎 (zh), Leopardgecko (de), леопардов гекон (bg), dragó lleopard (ca), gekončík noční (cs) … and 21 more languages

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