Tenerife Wall Gecko

• It changes tone according to the surface and the time of day: it is noticeably paler at night than by day, a colour adjustment that serves both for camouflage and for regulating heat absorption.
• It vocalises: it gives audible clicks and chirps to communicate, which is uncommon among reptiles and which it shares with other geckos.
• It can shed its tail along fracture planes preformed in the vertebrae, and the tail goes on writhing for several minutes, distracting the predator while the animal escapes.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (reptile)

Habitat and environment

Lava badlands (malpaís), walls, ravines, gardens and buildings of Tenerife and La Gomera

Size at birth

About 2.5 cm of body on hatching

Sexual maturity

12 months

Gestation / incubation

75 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarentola_delalandii

Best time: All year round on Tenerife and La Palma, at dusk, on walls, house fronts and street lamps; in winter it also basks by day.

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.