Endangered
Mauritius upland forest day gecko
Phelsuma rosagularis
Mauritius upland forest day gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Phelsuma rosagularis, recorded as Endangered and tied to Mauritius.
Appearance
The green body colour is paler than in the Mauritius lowland forest day gecko. The ventral side is light grey. The chin is pink or rust-coloured without the typical v-shaped baring as seen in Phelsuma guimbeaui.
Males can reach a total length of about 15.5 cm.
Range and habitat
This species inhabits the upland forest of Mauritius. It occurs only in parts of the mountain forests of Macchabée and Les Mares, the Brise Fer area, and in the mountain forest of Montagnes Bambous. The Mauritius upland forest day gecko prefers large endemic forest trees.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
The Mauritius lowland forest day gecko is an egg gluer and often a colony nester.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Mauritius upland forest day 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 Mauritius upland forest day gecko, Wikidata item Q3378698. 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.
