Gehyra oceanica: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Gekkonidae
- Genus
- Gehyra
- Species
- Gehyra oceanica
- Scientific Name
- Gehyra oceanica
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Gehyra oceanica
Gehyra oceanica, also known as the Oceania gecko or Pacific dtella, is a species of gecko in the genus Gehyra. The larger Gehyra vorax (voracious gecko) of Fiji, Vanuatu and New Guinea has sometimes been included in this species, but is now treated as distinct.
The species is native to New Guinea and a number of islands in Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. It has also been widely introduced across the islands of the Pacific, reaching as far as the Marquesas Islands in Polynesia (where the species was first collected for science), although the extent to which the species has been introduced by human intervention is a matter of some debate. There are two apparent populations, a northern one in Micronesia and a southern one in Melanesia and Polynesia. There are also records of the species in New Zealand and Hawaii, but the species has apparently not become established there.
The species is generally arboreal and nocturnal. The diet includes insects and even smaller geckos. Some stomachs have also been found with seeds from fruit. It reproduces sexually, and unlike some other geckos in its genus its eggs are non-adhesive. The species shares communal nests of not more than twelve eggs in each, with only two eggs being laid by a female at a time. These eggs have a long incubation time, up to 115 days. It inhabits a range of habitats including plantations, gardens, and disturbed and undisturbed forests. The species will also feed inside human buildings, but is not described as commensal.
...Gehyra oceanica in languages:
- Danish
- Pacifisk Stumpfingergekko
- English
- Pacific Dtella
- English
- Oceanic Gecko
- French
- Gecko d'Océanie
- Russian
- Гехира океанская
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Gehyra angusticaudata
- Gehyra arnhemica
- Gehyra australis
- Gehyra baliola
- Gehyra barea
- Gehyra borroloola
- Gehyra brevipalmata
- Gehyra calcitectus
- Gehyra capensis
- Gehyra catenata
- Gehyra chimera
- Gehyra crypta
- Gehyra dubia
- Gehyra einasleighensis
- Gehyra electrum
- Gehyra fehlmanni
- Gehyra fenestrula
- Gehyra finipunctata
- Gehyra gemina
- Gehyra georgpotthasti
- Gehyra girloorloo
- Gehyra granulum
- Gehyra incognita
- Gehyra insulensis
- Gehyra interstitialis
- Gehyra ipsa
- Gehyra kimberleyi
- Gehyra koira
- Gehyra lacerata
- Gehyra lapistola
- Gehyra lauta
- Gehyra lazelli
- Gehyra leopoldi
- Gehyra macra
- Gehyra marginata
- Gehyra media
- Gehyra membranacruralis
- Gehyra micra
- Gehyra minuta
- Gehyra montium
- Gehyra moritzi
- Gehyra multiporosa
- Gehyra mutilata
- Gehyra nana
- Gehyra occidentalis
- Gehyra oceanica
- Gehyra ocellata
- Gehyra pamela
- Gehyra papuana
- Gehyra paranana
- Gehyra peninsularis
- Gehyra pilbara
- Gehyra pluraporosa
- Gehyra polka
- Gehyra pseudopunctata
- Gehyra pulingka
- Gehyra punctata
- Gehyra purpurascens
- Gehyra robusta
- Gehyra rohan
- Gehyra serraticauda
- Gehyra spheniscus
- Gehyra unguiculata
- Gehyra variegata
- Gehyra versicolor
- Gehyra vorax
- Gehyra wongchan
- Gehyra xenopus




























































































































































