Common Prickly Gecko
Heteronotia binoei
- Class
- Reptile
- Rarity
- Common
- Observations
- 1,586
- Most observed in
- 🇦🇺 Australia
- Conservation
- Least Concern
Description
Heteronotia binoei, known commonly as Bynoe's gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae, and is endemic to Australia. One of the continent's least-habitat-specific geckos, it occurs naturally across much of the country, and has also established in areas where it does not occur normally, such as urban Perth, Western Australia. It is dark brown to reddish-brown, depending on the colour of the ground upon which it lives (to which it adapts for camouflaging), as well as irregular light bands with dark edges along its back. Bynoe's gecko is one of a small number of vertebrate species that are known to reproduce by parthenogenesis, another reptilian example being the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris) of Southeast Asia and Oceania islands (not Australia or New Zealand).
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Heteronotia binoei”.