Endangered
Spotted ground gecko
Goniurosaurus orientalis
The spotted ground gecko or Japanese cave gecko is a gecko endemic to the Ryukyu Islands, Japan.
Appearance
Its basic color is dark brown or black with an orange or red pattern.
This particular species grows up to 16 cm and it has deep red eyes.
Range and habitat
Spotted ground gecko inhabits mountainous regions or limestone areas covered with broad-leaved evergreen forests. The spotted ground gecko or Japanese cave gecko is a gecko endemic to the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Spotted ground gecko is found in four small islands in the Okinawa group: Tonaki Island, Tokashiki Island, Ie Island, and Aka Island.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Spotted ground 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 Spotted ground gecko, Wikidata item Q3110540. 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.
