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Moorish gecko
Tarentola mauritanica
37.129, -7.66666
Field Notes
Description:
A plump, broad-tailed lizard with proportionately large eye with vertical pupils. Toes have adhesive pads along entire length of underside and these enable it to walk on walls and ceilings.
Habitat:
Fabours rocky places but also human habitation. Widespread in Iberia but mainly coastal across rest of Mediterranean.
Notes:
Other names include Common or Moorish Wall Gecko and Salamanquesa, Crocodile gecko, European common gecko, and Maurita naca gecko.
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