Common name: the Common House Gecko
Conservation status: Least Concern
Distribution: Philippines, Japan, Palau, Singapore, Laos, Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, Solomon Islands, New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Taiwan, China, India, Pakistan, Andaman Islands, Nicobar Islands, Bangladesh, Bhutan,
Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Nauru, Vanuatu, Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Rodrigues, Comoro Islands, Nossi Be, Nosy Mitsio, Seychelles, Chagos Archipelago, Australia, Western Samoa, Tonga Islands
Introduced to: New Caledonia, Fiji, Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Panama, Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia, Mariana Islands, USA, Cuba
Size: up to 150 mm
Description: upperside varies from brown to dark grey with a pattern of black spots or stripes on the back, underside varies from grey to yellow
Habitat: rainforest, mangroves and human buildings
Activity: nocturnal
Diet: various invertebrates
Reproduction: oviparous
Photo gallery:
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Sepilok, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Vietnam
- Vietnam
- Vietnam
- Vietnam
- Vietnam