Endangered
Goniurosaurus catbaensis
Goniurosaurus catbaensis
Goniurosaurus catbaensis, also known as the Cat Ba leopard gecko or Cat Ba tiger gecko, is a gecko endemic to Cát Bà Island in Vietnam.
Appearance
Their morphology consists of a thin body and limbs with thin, yellow bands on the body and thin, white bands on the tail.
Range and habitat
Goniurosaurus catbaensis lives in the microhabitat of limestone rocks, hills, cliffs, and caves. Goniurosaurus catbaensis, also known as the Cat Ba leopard gecko or Cat Ba tiger gecko, is a gecko endemic to Cát Bà Island in Vietnam. Goniurosaurus catbaensis is an endangered species threatened by human-caused activities and is primarily found on limestone.
Some have been spotted, though, in smaller islands 1.2km-13km away from Cat Ba Island in the Ha Long Bay. It is considered important in the pet trade in US, Japan, and the European Union, as well as showing up in pet shops local to Cat Ba Island.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Goniurosaurus catbaensis is nocturnal with evening to late-night hours producing the most activity. Goniurosaurus catbaensis is active at night and population sizes have been recorded as small but stable.
In crisis
Population sizes observed have all been small. Despite being small, recent data has found that the populations are stable and appear to be actively reproducing. Because this species has been collected and used for traditional medicine, its population size has been subject to poaching.
All of these factors have been threatening the population of the gecko.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Goniurosaurus catbaensis 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 Goniurosaurus catbaensis, Wikidata item Q292787. 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.
