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Helmethead Gecko
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IUCN VU · Vulnerable

Helmethead Gecko

Tarentola chazaliae

The helmeted gecko or helmethead gecko (Tarentola chazaliae) is a member of the gecko family native to the northwestern coast of Africa, where it is present in Western Sahara, Mauritania and Morocco. The environment in which this gecko lives is sandy and rocky desert with sparse vegetation, in a zone near the coast where the humidity is high.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 146464.