Australian Marbled Gecko

Marbled geckos are actually quite common in some parts of melbourne but people rarely see them because they are nocturnal.

Australian marbled gecko.

You re most likely to find them between pieces of wood in your garden in your roof or even indoors behind a picture frame. Finding geckos in melbourne. The barking gecko is dark purple black to purple brown above with small yellow or white spots arranged in bands across the head body and tail. The females retain sperm over winter until fertilisation which occurs in the late spring to early summer.

The tail is fat and broad tapering to a point. There is a dense band of these spots around the neck. Found in woodpiles under fallen logs or timber in trees and urban areas. The marbled gecko is a small soft bellied lizard up to 150mm long.

Marbled geckos are an arboreal species and hides under the bark of trees fallen timber or logs during the day. Photographs distribution map and other information on marbled gecko christinus marmoratus at the australian reptile online database. Look for the droppings the dung looks like sparrow droppings black thinner than mouse droppings but capped in a white crystalline excressence in impossible situations like upside down under an eave. The marbled gecko has fat reserves in their tail and can be disconnected from their tail when threatened to aid in their escape.

Tails take about eight months to regenerate. At night they are often seen around external lights where they hunt insects attracted to the light. The atlas of living australia acknowledges australia s traditional owners and pays respect to the past and present elders of the nation s aboriginal and torres strait islander communities. Marbled geckos mate in late summer to early autumn.