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What Kind Of Lizard Is This?

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Posted by sora_dart (My Page) on
Wed, Dec 9, 09 at 3:41

We found it on the garage door, and we have a lot of cats so if we had left it there it would have been eaten(many lizard corpses and random limbs prove this) So now we have a tiny lizard that needs proper care, for that I need to know what kind it is.

Here is a picture of it, I think its a type of house gecko but which exact breed is it?

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From the rows of small knobby tubercules along the back, I'd guess Hemidactylus turcius, MEDITERRANEAN GECKO. But since I don't know where you live nor where you found this little guy, I won't say 100%.

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I'm about 45 minutes north of Bakersfield, California. If it is a med gecko how do i tell if it is a male or female?

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Look at the underside of the Gecko just above the tail

Is there a visable row of pores shaped liked a V? If so, you have a male Gecko.

These pores are femoral pores. Female Geckos have them, too, but they are hardly noticeable.

Is there a slight bulge at the start off the tail? If so, you have a male Gecko.

This bulge is where the hemipenes are located.

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thats a meditrranean gecko alright, i've sold them at the pet store i work at for years, also they live wild around here in cincinnati , ohio. I do wish people would be more carefull and not introduce spiecies that arn't native

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I'd concur with the ID. These guys are established in many areas in the south and some isolated locales in the north (Kansas City, for example).

Sandy - I'm an Ohio native and pretty up-to-date with the research going on in the state, so far as I know there aren't any H. turcicus in Cincinnati, but it certainly isn't outside the realm of possibilities. Do you have photographs? It would be great to know for certain if we have them.

However, I've got a feeling you're seeing the introduced European Wall Lizard (Podarcis muralis), which is very common in much of Cincinnati.

Here is a link that might be useful: European Wall Lizard

  
 

 

 


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