#1759 · 🦎 reptiles

Common Four-clawed Gecko

Gehyra mutilata

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The four-clawed gecko ( Gehyra mutilata , also known as the stump-toed gecko , tender-skinned house gecko , sugar lizard , or Pacific gecko , or butiki ) is a wide-ranging lizard that is probably native to Southeast Asia. S. Pacific Islands. The gecko is somewhat plump, with delicate skin. The skin is usually colored a soft purplish/pinkish gray with golden spots on younger...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,946iNaturalist observations
weight 3.1 gadult, up to
length 5.4 cmadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,946 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 3 g.
About 5 cm long.