Least ConcernFat-tail Gecko
Hemitheconyx caudicinctus
43 countries13 parks
Species group · Reptiles
WAnimals has 6 species of gecko, spread across 3 families (Diplodactylidae, Eublepharidae, Gekkonidae).
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
1 species in this group is in a threatened category according to the IUCN.
Recorded in 52 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
It stores fat in its tail and, like the leopard gecko, has movable eyelids.
From
Its tail is a larder: it stores enough fat to survive weeks without eating, and if it loses it to a predator it grows back a shorter one of a different shape, losing all its reserves with it.
From
Like the leopard gecko, it has movable eyelids and can blink, something most geckos cannot do because their eye is covered by a transparent scale.
From
It regrows its skin very quickly after shedding patches of it to escape a predator's grip, a defence quite separate from dropping its tail.
From
It is a day-active gecko, unusual in a mostly nocturnal group, and for that reason it has a round pupil instead of a vertical one.
From
It climbs glass thanks to the lamellae on its toes, covered in millions of microscopic setae that adhere by Van der Waals forces.
From
Its defence is pure theatre: it rises up on all four legs fully extended, arches its back, gapes and rocks from side to side giving high-pitched barks, a display out of all proportion to an animal twelve centimetres long.
·
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 6.
From
Its bulbous tail stores fat and ends in a small spherical knob; if it loses it, the one it grows back is shorter and a different shape.
From