Endangered
Réunion Island day gecko
Phelsuma borbonica
Réunion Island day gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Phelsuma borbonica, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The body colour is bluish green or dark green. The head has a yellowish colour, finely mottled with brown. On the back and tail there are brownish or red-brick coloured dots that form a network of reticulated bars.
It can reach a total length of about 16 cm.
Range and habitat
This species only inhabits northern part of Réunion. It was found at. Les Hauts du Brûlé, Les Hauts Mensiol, Morne de Patates à Durand, near Bois de Nèfles, Belle-Vue, La Bretagne, Beaumont les Hauts, near St.Marie and Les Hauts de la Perrière near St. The Reunion Island day gecko is a gecko.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
It is diurnal and lives in northern Réunion.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Réunion Island 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 Réunion Island day gecko, Wikidata item Q310816. 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.
