Gekko cicakterbang (Grismer, Wood Jr., Grismer, Quah, Thy, Phimmachak, Sivongxay, Seateun, Stuart, Siler, Mulcahy, Anamza & Brown, 2019)

Fatihah-Syafiq, Muhamad, Badli-Sham, Baizul Hafsyam, Fahmi-Ahmad, Muhammad, Aqmal-Naser, Mohamad, Rizal, Syed Ahmad, Azmi, Mohd Shahrizan Azrul, Grismer, Larry L. & Ahmad, Amirrudin B., 2020, Checklist of herpetofauna in the severely degraded ecosystem of Bidong Island, Peninsular Malaysia, South China Sea, ZooKeys 985, pp. 143-162 : 143

Gekko cicakterbang (Grismer, Wood Jr., Grismer, Quah, Thy, Phimmachak, Sivongxay, Seateun, Stuart, Siler, Mulcahy, Anamza & Brown, 2019) Malaysian parachute gecko Fig. 7

Notes.

This gecko was occasionally observed on man-made structures in MNRS. It is nocturnal and apparently has the capability to glide from one tree to another. Until 2019, this species was thought to be conspecific with Ptychozoon lionotum (see Grismer et al. 2019 as Ptychozoon cicakterbang ). Ptychozoon later became a subgenus of Gekko (see Wood et al. 2020).

Distribution.

Gekko cicakterbang ranges throughout Peninsular Malaysia and its associated islands but in the islands off Terengganu, it has only been found on Perhentian Besar, Redang, and Bidong islands ( Grismer 2011b; Grismer et al. 2011, 2019).

Figures

Figure 7. Gekko cicakterbang