Critically Endangered
Lauhachinda's cave gecko
Gekko lauhachindai
Lauhachinda's cave gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Gekko lauhachindai, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Thailand.
Appearance
Medium-sized for its genus, G. Lauhachindai as an adult has a snout-to-vent length over 10 cm (3.9 in). In life, the iris of the eye may be entirely coppery brown, or it may be greenish gray with coppery brown around the margins of the pupil. G. Lauhachindai is distinct from its congeners by its size, slender body shape, a relatively smaller snout-to-eye-diameter ratio, and the presence of large, bright whitish dorsal spots and horizontal bars.
Range and habitat
G. Lauhachindai is found in karst regions of central Thailand. G. Lauhachindai usually lives in dry caves. This habitat is shared with other members of Gekkonidae such as the tokay gecko G. Gecko and Siamese green-eyed gecko G. Siamensis.
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
Lauhachinda's cave 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 Lauhachinda's cave gecko, Wikidata item Q3100216. 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.
