Endangered
Flat-tailed day gecko
Phelsuma serraticauda
The flat-tailed day gecko is a diurnal gecko lives in eastern Madagascar.
Appearance
The body colour is dark green or yellowish green. On the neck, that may be bluish, two longitudinal yellow stripes are present. On the snout and head, there are three transversal red bars.
This lizard can reach an average total length of about 13 cm whereas females are slightly smaller. Some males may even reach a length of 15 cm.
Range and habitat
This species occurs on the east coast of Madagascar. Flat-tailed day gecko is largely restricted to coconut palms yet can also be found on banana trees. It typically inhabits rainforests and dwells on trees.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
The flat-tailed day gecko is a diurnal gecko lives in eastern Madagascar.
In crisis
It is endangered due to illegal collection for the international pet trade.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Flat-tailed day gecko is 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 Flat-tailed day gecko, Wikidata item Q3017802. 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.
