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Austen's Thick-toed Gecko
Pachydactylus austeni
Pachydactylus austeni, also known commonly as Austen's thick-toed gecko or Austen's gecko, is a species of small thick-toed gecko, a lizard in the family Gekkonidae. The species is indigenous to the western coast of South Africa.
From the article Pachydactylus austeni on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
P. austeni has a smooth, colourful body with large eyes and conspicuous yellow or white eyelids.
Range & habitat
The natural habitat of P. austeni is coastal dunes and alluvial sands, at elevations up to 600 m (2,000 ft). It lives in a tiny burrow that it digs in the sand, and it leaves its burrow at night to forage for small insects among the dune vegetation.
Wikipedia: “Habitat, behaviour and diet”
In human culture
The specific name, austeni, is in honour of English topographer Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen.
Wikipedia: “Etymology”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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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 34157.