#1648 · 🦎 reptiles

Flat-tailed House Gecko

🇳🇱 Platstaartgekko ·Hemidactylus platyurus

LCleast concern 🦎 Reptiles 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

Hemidactylus platyurus , commonly known as the flat-tailed house gecko , is a species of Gekkonidae native to southeastern and southern Asia. The species is sometimes classified under the genus Cosymbotus .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 17,638iNaturalist observations
weight 3.9 gadult, up to
length 5.6 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.
17,638 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 4 g.
About 6 cm long.
Scientifically named by Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider in 1797 (229 years ago).