Endangered
Günther's flat-tail gecko
Uroplatus guentheri
Günther's flat-tail gecko is a gecko in the family Gekkonidae — Uroplatus guentheri, recorded as Endangered and tied to Madagascar.
The gecko
U. Guentheri reaches a total length (among them tail) of 150 mm (5.9 in).
Range and habitat
U. Guentheri is found in northwestern Madagascar in the area around Ankarafansika and near Morondava in western Madagascar. U. Guentheri usually lives in forest, at altitudes of 30–120 m (98–394 ft). The species is endemic to Madagascar.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
U. Guentheri forages and roosts on small trees and bushes. During the night even so, it becomes active, hunting for invertebrate prey.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Günther's flat-tail 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 Günther's flat-tail gecko, Wikidata item Q2711832. 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.
