Critically Endangered
Fairy Rock Gecko
Cnemaspis paripari
Fairy Rock Gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Cnemaspis paripari, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Malaysia.
The gecko
Typical geckos are night-active lizards with adhesive toe pads. They hunt insects on rock, bark, or walls.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to northern Borneo, Indonesia.
GBIF currently lists 24 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Typical geckos hunt after dark on vertical surfaces. Day geckos in some genera are the exception — bright and diurnal.
In crisis
It is threatened by the loss of its natural habitat.
Fairy Rock Gecko is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Fairy Rock Gecko — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2980887 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
