Adler's Gecko

Adler's Gecko (Gekko adleri) is an agamid or gecko recorded for Vietnam in the project inventory. The supporting occurrence note is “Expert range list”. Its use of the exact scientific name is important because Southeast Asian lizard taxonomy changes frequently and several close relatives were described only recently. Where a familiar English name is present it is retained; otherwise the scientific name avoids inventing an unsupported vernacular name (project species data; Reptile Database taxonomy).

Gekko species are nocturnal climbing lizards with adhesive toe pads, usually hunting insects and other small prey on trees, rocks or built surfaces. They shelter in crevices and typically attach hard-shelled eggs to protected substrates. Many Vietnamese taxa are narrow-range and require scalation, colour pattern and locality for identification. These are genus-level traits, not a species-specific local breeding account (general Gekko ecology; Reptile Database).