Critically Endangered
Dragon Tree Half-toed Gecko
Hemidactylus dracaenacolus
Dragon Tree Half-toed Gecko is a gecko endemic to Socotra.
The gecko
It was first described by Herbert Rösler ug Wolfgang Wranik in 1999.
Typical geckos are night-active lizards with adhesive toe pads. They hunt insects on rock, bark, or walls.
Range and habitat
Dragon Tree Half-toed Gecko is a gecko endemic to Socotra.
GBIF currently lists 25 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.
Habits
Typical geckos hunt after dark on vertical surfaces. Day geckos in some genera are the exception — bright and diurnal.
In crisis
Dragon Tree Half-toed 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 Dragon Tree Half-toed Gecko — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3130058 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.
