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#1499 · 🦎 reptiles

Tropical House Gecko

🇳🇱 Afrikaanse Huisgekko ·Hemidactylus mabouia

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 in Europe, not in NL
8 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © David Torres · CC BY-NC 4.0
  2. 2. © Alexandre Roux · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  3. 3. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0
  4. 4. © tjeerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © tjeerd · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. © Norbert VERNEAU · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  8. 8. © markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
Tropical House Gecko, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © David Torres · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The tropical house gecko , Afro-American house gecko or cosmopolitan house gecko ( Hemidactylus mabouia ) is a species of house gecko native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is also currently found in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean, where it has been inadvertently introduced by humans.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 34,437iNaturalist 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.
  • 34,437 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Tropical House Gecko
Nederlands
Afrikaanse Huisgekko
scientific name
Hemidactylus mabouia
class
Reptilia
order
Squamata
family
Gekkonidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
3
sightings worldwide
34,437
GBIF records in NL
5
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Gekkonidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 68492, Wikidata Q2703241, GBIF 5959942, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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