#1496 · 🦎 reptiles

Asian House Gecko

🇳🇱 Tjiktjak ·Hemidactylus frenatus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © sarayoung · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Chris Lima · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © sea-kangaroo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © miguelcashat · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Kakalotli · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Pasindu Dilshan Abegunawaradhana · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Roberto Daniel Avila · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The common house gecko ( Hemidactylus frenatus ) (not to be confused with the Mediterranean species Hemidactylus turcicus known as Mediterranean house gecko), is a reptile native of Southeast Asia. It is also known as the Pacific house gecko, the Asian house gecko, house lizard, or Moon Lizard.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 50,543iNaturalist observations
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.
50,543 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Hermann Schlegel in 1836 (190 years ago).