Heteronotia binoei

Heteronotia binoei
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Gekkonidae
Genus: Heteronotia
Species:
H. binoei
Binomial name
Heteronotia binoei
(Gray, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Heteronota [sic] binoei
    Gray, 1845
  • Gymnodactylus binoei
    A.H.A. Duméril, 1856
  • Heteronota [sic] binoei
    Günther, 1875
  • Heteronotia binoei
    Worrell, 1963

Heteronotia binoei, known commonly as Bynoe's gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Gekkonidae, and is endemic to Australia. One of the continent’s least-habitat-specific geckos, it occurs naturally across much of the country, and has also established in areas where it does not occur normally, such as urban Perth, Western Australia. It is dark brown to reddish-brown, depending on the colour of the ground upon which it lives (to which it adapts for camouflaging), as well as irregular light bands with dark edges along its back.

Bynoe’s gecko is one of a small number of vertebrate species that are known to reproduce by parthenogenesis, another reptilian example being the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris) of Southeast Asia and Oceania islands (not Australia or New Zealand).

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