Boettger's Wall Gecko

Striped Canary Islands Gecko ( Tarentola boettgeri )

The striped Canary Islands Gecko ( Tarentola boettgeri ) is a gecko species of the family Phyllodactylidae. It is endemic to several islands in the Canaries.

Features

The striped Canary Islands Gecko is the smallest and most delicate of the Canary Islands Gecko. Its head-body length is usually less than 60 mm, maximum 76 mm are given. He is dark medium brown to gray-brown. In the middle of the back is always a bright vertical stripes present, but no Tuberkelschuppen. The tubercles of the back and tail are smooth or slightly keeled and small. The iris is pale blue-gray and metallic shine.

Occurrence

The species occurs in Gran Canaria, El Hierro before including two smaller islands at the northwest end and three of the Selvagens Islands. The striped Canary Islands Gecko is on Gran Canaria from sea level to 1000 meters above sea level, may also be found to over 1500 meters above sea level, on El Hierro to 500 meters. The species colonized rocky habitats such as rock piles, sometimes found in homes and is considered common, especially near the coast.

Way of life

The biology of the species has hardly been studied. It is mainly nocturnal. In the terrarium were laid eggs on El Hierro from early May to early September, on Gran Canaria from March to end of August. It is believed that the females in the field or in the season in the sand under stones usually twice, rarely also put two eggs. About the diet, there is no information. A predator is the barn owl.

Documents

• Dieter Glandt: Pocket Encyclopaedia of amphibians and reptiles in Europe. Quelle & Meyer Verlag, Wiebelsheim 2010, ISBN 978-3-494-01470-8, pp. 536-537.

Weblink

• Tarentola boettgeri in the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN 2013.2. Posted by: . Paulo Sá - Sousa, Jose Antonio Mateo Miras, Valentin Pérez- Mellado, Iñigo Martínez- Solano, 2008 Retrieved on January 31, 2014

• Tarentola ( genus )