They are great little geckoes to keep. Hardy as and quite active and can be kept as a small colony. I had mine for a couple of years until entrusting them to a good animal-loving mate to look after for three weeks while I went on a holiday. After a week or so he felt sorry for them and decided to let them all go. I was “not happy Jan” but as I had decided to move to WA I would have had to get rid of them anyway.
It is a Leseur's velvet gecko. Oedura leseuri. These are common under bark and tree debris around the Sydney Basin as well as along the coast of NSW.
Good call on the ID Geckophotographer. I must say, however, that I have only ever found
O. leseuri under rock slabs, never on fallen or standing timber.
Do you know the difference between the Oedura leseuri and Geyhra dubia? It looks very similar to the Geyhra dubia to me but i am far from an expert.
As far as I know,
G. dubia is not found in Sydney, only
G. variegata.
O. leseuri differs from both
Gehyra species in markings, having a distinctive ragged vertebral zigzag band. The digits on
Gehyra are more expanded at the tips with a semi-circular shape and an obvious claw on all but the first digit of each foot. Whereas
Oedura have a less obvious claw on all digits and the tip is only very slightly expanded compared to the rest of the digit. The tail on the two
Gehyras tapers more slowly to a point and is almost round in cross-section, whereas
Oedura have distinctly flattened tail that is approximately the same width for most of its length.
If you have a hand lens for field ID, the lamellae are all paired on
Gehyra and only distally paired on
Oedura.
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