Endangered
Uruguay Marked Gecko
Homonota uruguayensis
Uruguay Marked Gecko is a lizard or snake in the family Phyllodactylidae — Homonota uruguayensis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Uruguay, Brazil, and Mexico.
The lizard or snake
This named form is a lizard or snake. The public files give taxonomy, a photograph, and a threat category — not a monograph.
Range and habitat
Uruguay Marked Gecko lives in rocky environments in mountain areas. It is distributed in the north, west and northeast of Uruguay and the south and southwest of the Austro-Brazilian state of Río Grande do Sul.
GBIF currently lists 292 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.
Diet
It is a saurian with nocturnal habits and an insectivorous diet that lives in the central-eastern part of the Southern Cone of South America.
In crisis
Uruguay Marked 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 Uruguay Marked Gecko — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3139872 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.
