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Hemidactylus frenatus🦎

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SpeciesGekkonidae
Reptiles

🦎Common house gecko

Hemidactylus frenatus Duméril & Bibron, 1836

El geco casero común (Hemidactylus frenatus) es una especie de geco de la familia Gekkonidae. Es nativo del Sudeste Asiático y de algunas islas del Pacífico. Ha sido introducido en buena parte del mundo tropical, en Latinoamérica desde México hasta Argentina; en Estados Unidos en Florida; en el continente africano en Madagascar; en algunas islas del Índico y en Australia.​ Sube paredes de casas y demás edificios en búsqueda de insectos atraído por las luces.​ No crece más de 6-15 cm y vive hasta cinco años.[cita requerida]

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Photos
4
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/18,800th of your weight
Also called
Pacific Gecko
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

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

Everything we know about the Common house gecko

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

Body mass
0 kgrecord 0.01 kg · ReptTraits
AnAge
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data quality: low

Record: largest individual on record

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

Maximum lifespan
7 yearsmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
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Source: ReptTraits · v1.2 (Oskyrko et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
58 days
AnAge
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data quality: low

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

Litter size
about 2
AnAge
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data quality: low

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
Mixed
ReptTraits
Details ↓

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
0.07 mmaximum recorded
ReptTraits
Other figures ↓

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

By sex

  • Female0.05 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 Common house gecko yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyGekkonidae
  5. ›genusHemidactylus
  6. ›speciesHemidactylus frenatus
Full lineage
  1. orderLizards & snakes · Squamata
  2. infraorderGekkota
  3. familyGekkonidae
  4. genusHemidactylus
All 13 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. familyGekkonidae
  13. genusHemidactylus
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疣尾蜥虎 (zh), Hemidactylus frenatus (pt), Hemidactylus frenatus (fr), Hemidactylus frenatus (es), Thạch sùng (vi), tjitjak (nl) … and 17 more languages

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