REPTILIA: SQUAMATA: GEKKONIDAE: Phelsuma

Phelsuma cepedianus (Merrem, 1820)

Blue-tailed day gecko / Lacepède's day gecko

Photo & text by Dr. Robert Sprackland.

Range: Found across much of the island Mauritius in the Indian Ocean.

Diagnosis: A small gecko with large red markings on the head and body, and turquoise hips and tail.

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 Literature: Click on book to order a copy.

Glaw, Frank and Miguel Vences. 1994. A Fieldguide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar. Second edition. Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. ISBN: 3-929449-01-3.

Henkel, F. and W. Schmidt. 1995. Geckoes. (An excellent book despite the misspelled title.) Krieger Publishing. ISBN: 0-89464-919-1.

Henkel, F-W. and Wolfgang Schmidt. 1995. Amphibien und Reptilien Madagaskars, der Maskarenen, Seychellen und Komoren. Verlag Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart. [In German.] ISBN: 3-8001-7323-9.

Mazorlig, Tom. 2000. An introduction to day geckos. Reptile & Amphibian Hobbyist, January:8-19.

McKeown, Sean. 1993. The General Care and Maintenance of Day Geckos. AVS Books, Escondido, CA. ISBN: 1-882770-22-6.

Mertens, Robert. 1970. Neues über einige Taxa der Geckonengattung Phelsuma. Senckenbergiana Biologica 51(1/2):1-13.

Mertens, Robert. 1963. The geckos of the genus Phelsuma on Mauritius and adjacent islands. The Mauritius Institute Bulletin 5(7):299-305.