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Hemidactylus frenatus🦎

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SpeciesGekkonidae
Reptiles

🦎Common house gecko

Hemidactylus frenatus Duméril & Bibron, 1836

The Common house gecko is a gecko native to South and Southeast Asia and Near Oceania. It is also known as the Asian house gecko, Pacific house gecko, wall gecko, House lizard, Tiktiki, chipkali and moon lizard.

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1
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
Details ↓

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
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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
0.07 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
Details ↓

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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