Southern Leaf-tailed Gecko

Description:

Southern leaf tailed geckos are a light to dark brown colour with darker patterns. When threatened or caught geckos can drop their tail to confuse predators. Eventually a new tail will be regenerated, although only the original tail will have the tubercules and matching colour and pattern to the torso; new tails will be very different in both colour and pattern.

Habitat:

Saltaurius swaini inhabits rainforests and lives inside large tree root systems and hollows of strangler figs.