Gold Dust Day Gecko (Phelsuma laticauda)

Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Historic Park

June 25, 2017

Phelsuma Laticauda

You better get used to sharing your space with these cute geckos if you want to live on the Big Island!

Gold-dust Day Gecko

Gold Dust Day Gecko (Phelsuma laticauda)

Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Historic Park

June 25, 2017

The common name comes from the gold dots on the head and neck. This image shows its remarkable ability to hang on while upside down and nearly vertical. Look at those toes!

Like so many plants and animals in Hawaii, it is not indigenous.

Hawaii

March 2007

Gold Dust Day Gecko found in Hawaii. #Phelsumalaticauda #gecko #hawaiiangecko #herping #herpinghawaii #herpetology

Photographed in a restaurant eating jelly.

Hawaii

March 2007

Maui, Hawaii

Gold Dust Day Gecko (Phelsuma laticauda)

Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Historic Park

June 25, 2017

The male Gold Dust

A colorful lizard at Hawaii Tropical Botanical Gardens.

Maui, Hawaii

Goldstaub-Taggecko. Gold Dust Day Gecko, Phelsuma laticauda

Gold Dust Day Gecko found in Hawaii. #Phelsumalaticauda #gecko #hawaiiangecko #herping #herpinghawaii #herpetology

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Gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda). Photo taken in Madagascar by Rhett Ayers Butler

Gold dust day gecko (Phelsuma laticauda). Photo taken in Madagascar by Rhett Ayers Butler

Goldstaub-Taggecko (Phelsuma laticauda)

(c) Karen Andrea Böhme