Endangered
Banded Ground Gecko
Goniurosaurus splendens
Banded Ground Gecko is a snake.
The leopard gecko
It was first described by Nakamura ug Uéno in 1959.
Eyelid geckos lack the sticky toe pads of house geckos. They walk on the ground or on rock, and they blink.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to Tokunoshima in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
GBIF currently lists 35 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Banded 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 Banded Ground Gecko — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3110538 and GBIF occurrence geography. 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.
