Endangered
Rough gecko
Naultinus rudis
Rough gecko is a lizard or snake in the family Diplodactylidae — Naultinus rudis, recorded as Endangered and tied to New Zealand.
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
The rough gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae native to New Zealand. It is endemic to the Kaikōura Ranges.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
As of 2012 the Department of Conservation (DOC) classified the Rough gecko as Nationally Vulnerable under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Rough 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 Rough gecko — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q2711701. 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.
