Endangered
Paroedura masobe
Paroedura masobe
Paroedura masobe is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae, recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
The gecko
Paroedura masobe reaches lengths of up to 17 centimetres (6.69 in).
Range and habitat
Paroedura masobe inhabits low elevation humid primary forest. It is an arboreal species, active 1–4 m above the forest floor. This species is endemic to Madagascar, where it is known from low elevation sites in Zahamena National Park, in the north of the Zahamena-Ankeniheny Corridor, in Betaikankana in the south east of the Zahamena-Ankeniheny Corridor, and in Betampona Special Reserve, and.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The diet of wild Paroedura masobe has not been studied. Females benefit greatly from inclusion of snails and isopods in their diet because of the increase in calcium.
Females that are ready to breed should be fed isopods or land snails at least twice a month. During hunting, overly large animals or very small prey are often ignored.
In crisis
This species is threatened by low elevation humid forest into farmland and the removal of timber.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Paroedura masobe 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 Paroedura masobe, Wikidata item Q3009979. 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.
