Pachydactylus austeni
| 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]