Desert Wall Gecko

Tarentola deserti is an African gecko species.

Description

Males reach a head-body length of more than 100 mm, females of 81 millimeters. The animals are brightly colored pink to flesh- colored. The eyes are striking ocher yellow. A drawing from 5-7 transverse bands, which are usually reduced to two spots may be present or absent. The head of the species is very broad and flat. The Rückentuberkel are very strong and seem prickly. Your center keel is sharp. Side keels are only a few indistinct exist or they are completely absent. The tubercles surrounding a clearly developed, horseshoe-shaped rosette, consisting of intermediate scales. All other dorsal scales are small. Around the middle of the body has the type 131-180 shed. From Mental to the area of the ear openings are 45-59 Gularschuppen any, between the eyes ( inter- orbital) 13 to 15 scales. In a Vertebrallinie there are 35-33 small Rückentuberkel, if such a line is fully available. On the bottom of the first toe to toe base are 13-17 overall and 16-20 enlarged scales and fins. To 21 scales available on the bottom of the fourth toe to toe base 17 of which are widened from 14 to 20, and on the bottom of the fifth toe to toe base 22 to 25 scales.

The sympatric occurring gecko is typically smaller and has a pure gray color and iris.

Occurrence

The species occurs in the Sahara Desert in the east of Morocco, northern Algeria, in southern Tunisia and north-west of Libya before.

System

Tarentola deserti was first described in 1891 by George Albert Boulenger.