Austen's Thick-toed Gecko | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Reptilia |
Order: | Squamata |
Suborder: | Sauria |
Family: | Gekkonidae |
Subfamily: | Gekkoninae |
Genus: | Pachydactylus |
Species: | P. austeni |
Binomial name | |
Pachydactylus austeni (Smith, 1846) |
Austen's Gecko (Pachydactylus austeni) is a small thick-toed gecko that is indigenous to the western coast of South Africa.
Its natural habitat is coastal dunes, where it lives in a tiny burrow that it digs in the sand and forages at night for small insects among the dune vegetation. It has a smooth, colourful body with large eyes and conspicuous yellow or white eyelids. [1]