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Robust velvet gecko

Oedura robusta

Description:

A relatively large and cosmopolitan gecko, often found hunting outside houses near lights. Does not call like asian house geckoes, but does growl when chasing other geckoes from its territory

Habitat:

Well treed suburbs, both inside and outside of houses.

Notes:

Similar to Leseur's velvet gecko (Oedura lesuerii)

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3 Comments

Marlyn
Marlyn 11 years ago

Beautiful spotting !!!!!

Asterope
Asterope 11 years ago

It was an easy spotting - I had two of these living in my house :)

Actually - I dont think they have too much problem with the asian house geckoes, especially when they reach this size as they are MUCH bigger and often go for prey that the house geckoes cant handle - like huntsman spiders and large moths. I also observed them chasing away house geckoes... They are shy compared to the house geckoes but lots of houses in the greener suburbs of Brisbane still have one or two of these hanging around so they must be doing alright!

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

Good spotting. Are these getting squeezed out by the invasive Asian House gecko yet?

Asterope
Spotted by
Asterope

Queensland, Australia

Spotted on Oct 21, 2009
Submitted on Jun 10, 2012

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