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Tokay Gecko
   

Photographed at Langkawi, Peninsular Malaysia

Family : GEKKONIDAE
Species : Gekko gecko
Size (snout to vent) : 18.5 cm
Size (total length) : 36.5 cm

References : H1, H2, H3

A large, stunning gecko familiar to millions of Southeast Asia's rural dwellers; this species commonly takes up residence in the roofs of village huts and houses. At night it emerges to feed on insects and small vertebrates.

It can be located by its call - a loud 'tock, tock, tock-eh' similar to the Large Forest Gecko. The species is easily distinguished by its size, and distinctive pattern of reddish-orange spots on a blue-grey background. 

This is a wide-ranging species, extending from Bangladesh, through India, Burma, Thailand and Indochina to Peninsular Malaysia and most of the Indonesian and Philippine islands. In Singapore it is now rarely seen due to urbanisation.


Close-ups of the head and fore-foot.