Endangered
Forest spotted gecko
Cyrtodactylus speciosus
The forest spotted gecko or Erode ground gecko is a gecko that is endemic to hills of South India, in parts of Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats.
The gecko
It was first described from hills near Erode in Tamil Nadu in 1870.
Range and habitat
It is a terrestrial lizard that lives on the ground among thick leaf litter, pebbles and debris on the forest floor. The forest spotted gecko or Erode ground gecko is a gecko that is endemic to hills of South India, in parts of Eastern Ghats and Western Ghats.
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
Forest spotted 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 Forest spotted gecko, Wikidata item Q55611902. 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.
