Critically Endangered
Gonatodes daudini
Gonatodes daudini
Gonatodes daudini is a dwarf gecko in the family Sphaerodactylidae, recorded as Critically Endangered.
The dwarf gecko
Gonatodes daudini is a dwarf gecko in the family Sphaerodactylidae.
Range and habitat
The preferred G. Daudini usually lives in remnant dry forest. Gonatodes daudini, also known commonly as the Grenadines clawed gecko or the Union Island gecko, is a lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Union Island in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The Union Island gecko is threatened by demand from the international pet trade.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
G. Daudini is diurnal and terrestrial. G. Daudini females will lay 1 egg instead of a clutch of two.
In crisis
Trained local residents have patrolled the tropical dry forest the gecko inhabits since 2017 in an attempt to deter poachers.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Gonatodes daudini 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 Gonatodes daudini, Wikidata item Q3110413. 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.
