Goniurosaurus orientalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Reptilia
- Order
- Squamata
- Family
- Eublepharidae
- Genus
- Goniurosaurus
- Species
- Goniurosaurus orientalis
- Scientific Name
- Goniurosaurus orientalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Spotted ground gecko
The spotted ground gecko or Japanese cave gecko (Goniurosaurus orientalis) is a gecko endemic to the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Goniurosaurus orientalis is found in four small islands in the Okinawa group: Tonaki Island, Tokashiki Island, Ie Island, and Aka Island.
This particular species grows up to 16 cm and it has deep red eyes. Its basic color is dark brown or black with an orange or red pattern.
As with other geckos from the family Eublepharidae, they have fully functional eyelids.
...Goniurosaurus orientalis in languages:
- English
- Spotted ground gecko
- English
- Japanese Cave Gecko
- Japanese
- マダラトカゲモドキ
Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Goniurosaurus araneus
- Goniurosaurus bawanglingensis
- Goniurosaurus catbaensis
- Goniurosaurus chengzheng
- Goniurosaurus gezhi
- Goniurosaurus gollum
- Goniurosaurus hainanensis
- Goniurosaurus huuliensis
- Goniurosaurus kadoorieorum
- Goniurosaurus kuroiwae
- Goniurosaurus kwanghua
- Goniurosaurus kwangsiensis
- Goniurosaurus liboensis
- Goniurosaurus lichtenfelderi
- Goniurosaurus luii
- Goniurosaurus orientalis
- Goniurosaurus sengokui
- Goniurosaurus sinensis
- Goniurosaurus splendens
- Goniurosaurus toyamai
- Goniurosaurus varius
- Goniurosaurus wangshu
- Goniurosaurus yamashinae
- Goniurosaurus yingdeensis
- Goniurosaurus zhelongi
- Goniurosaurus zhoui