Phelsuma gouldi
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Anja Day Gecko


This species is found only within this small community reserve and a spot or two nearby. It is very similar in appearance and genetics to the more widespread Phelsuma mutabilis.
I was expecting to see these geckos during the day, them being Day Geckos after all. I wasn't expecting to see one on our first night sleeping on a granite wall, where the nocturnal rock-dwelling geckos belong.
Here is a list of all the reptiles and frogs I saw on this 2023 trip to Madagascar.



That's more like it. Day geckos during the day, doing day-gecko things.
Online references:
- Phelsuma parva account on The Reptile Database
- Phelsuma parva account on iNaturalist
- Angelica Crottini, Philip-Sebastian Gehring, Frank Glaw, D. James Harris, Alexandra Lima & Miguel Vences, 2010. Deciphering the cryptic species diversity of dull-coloured day geckos Phelsuma (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Madagascar, with description of a new species
Printed references:
- Glaw, F., Vences, M. 2007. A Field Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar, Third Edition