Endangered
Malayan Forest Gecko
Cyrtodactylus pulchellus
Malayan Forest Gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Cyrtodactylus pulchellus, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
Head large, much depressed, oviform. Snout longer than the orbit, the diameter of that equals its distance from the ear-opening; forehead and loreal region concave; ear opening suboval, vertical, slightly oblique, one third to two fifths the diameter of the eye. Head granular, with small round tubercles on the occipital and temporal regions, the granules enlarged on the snout, except in the frontal and loreal concavities. Body and limbs above with small flat granules intermixed with small roundish, keeled, subtrihedral tubercles. A series of keeled tubercles from axilla to groin, limiting the abdominal region; ventral scales cycloid, imbricate, moderately large.
Range and habitat
Cyrtodactylus abrae, found on the Cape York Peninsula and northern Queensland in Australia, is now considered a synonym. The Malayan forest gecko or banded bent-toed gecko is a gecko found in Southeast Asia.
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
Malayan Forest 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 Malayan Forest Gecko, Wikidata item Q3009358. 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.
