Critically Endangered
Yamashina's Ground Gecko
Goniurosaurus yamashinae
Yamashina's Ground Gecko is a leopard gecko in the family Eublepharidae — Goniurosaurus yamashinae, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Japan.
The leopard gecko
It was first described by Toyohi Okada in 1936.
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 Kume Island in the Ryukyu Islands of Japan.
GBIF currently lists 18 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
Yamashina's Ground 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 Yamashina's Ground Gecko — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3110541 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.
