#1696 · 🦎 reptiles
Yellow-headed Gecko
🇳🇱 Geelkopdaggekko ·Gonatodes albogularis
📍 Finca la Gracia
📍 Barichara, Santander, Colombia
📍 Barichara, Santander, Colombia
📍 Saint Andrew, JM
📍 Jeremie, Haiti
📍 Santiago de Cuba, CU-SC, CU
📍 Ancón, Panama
📍 Gamboa, Panamá.
📍 Stirling Rd, Davie, FL, US
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Geoff Gallice · CC BY 4.0
- 2. Finca la Gracia:© Heidi Pasch de Viteri · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. Barichara, Santander, Colombia:© Julian Alzate · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Barichara, Santander, Colombia:© Herb Yeates · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Saint Andrew, JM:© Sheldon Logan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Jeremie, Haiti:© Martin Reith · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Santiago de Cuba, CU-SC, CU:© David Duany Mayet · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Ancón, Panama:© aheine · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Gamboa, Panamá.:© Carmelo López Abad · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Stirling Rd, Davie, FL, US:© outsidr_ed · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The yellow-headed gecko or white-throated gecko ( Gonatodes albogularis ) is a species of gecko found in warm parts of Central and South America, and as an introduced species, in Florida.
base stats
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.
- 9,970 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by André Marie Constant Duméril in 1836 (190 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-headed Gecko
- Nederlands
- Geelkopdaggekko
- scientific name
- Gonatodes albogularis
- class
- Reptilia
- order
- Squamata
- family
- Sphaerodactylidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 9,970
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1836 by André Marie Constant Duméril
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Sphaerodactylidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 34580, Wikidata Q2708095, GBIF 2447609, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.