Gecko asellus

Tarentola mauritanica (LINNAEUS, 1758)

A description of This species, if intact, the tail reaches a maximum length of 15 to 16 cm. features robust, flattened body and head. Big eyes without eyelids have vertical, in the light of the smrstenou his pupils. The tail is approximately as long as the body, segmented, has the ability to auto-rejection (autotomie) and the subsequent recovery (regeneration). Coloration is gray to Brown, with more or less distinctive, dark spots. The body is covered with rugged, hrbolovitymi scales. The fingers are provided with enhanced prisavnymi vanes on each of the petiprste limb is only the third and fourth finger is equipped with a.

Enlargement and wildlife Gekkoninae asellus are lived everywhere in the Mediterranean area, especially in its western part, including a number of Islands (Balearic Islands, Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Crete ...). They occupy virtually the entire Iberian and Apennine peninsula, in other parts of the Mediterranean is their occurrence is limited mostly to the coastal region. A number of sites were Gekkoninae inadvertently embroiled, through shipping. Non-originating population exist in North America (California) and in South America (Uruguay). Gekkoninae populate the rock, stone walls and the uninhabited and inhabited the building, sometimes living on trees, for example. on the base of old trees. It is possible to meet them, even in the middle of cities, for example. on the historical walls or in areas of the excavation. After dark, there is often a prey for switched-on lamps street lighting. To twilight and nocturnal activity, but the day is often bask in the Sun, with their colour darkens to black. They hunt insects, spiders, and the young lizards. In danger quickly fled to shelters, while trapping shrill noises. Females usually lay two eggs with a fixed vapnitou shell. In the wild I Broods in the cracks in the walls of the gekonu, in the cavities of trees and zahrabane under the stones.

The breeding of Snake we dry terariich, whose rear wall, where appropriate, the walls of the side is the imitation rocks or walls, or cover the large plates, Cork bark. As a substrate, a mixture of clay and sand. The Interior of the tank several times a week porosime. Of course it is a shallow power dish. Meet the daily temperature 25 28?(C) with a slight decline in the night and heating the place where the day temperature 30-35?C. we feed daily, or every other day various insects, cockroaches, crickets, sarancaty, etc. Snake holding in pairs, or in a group of one male and 2 3 females. During the season, puts the female several snusek, each are frequently two eggs dimensions 12x10 mm. females lay Eggs in the substrate under a flat stone or a piece of bark. We are the incubation of outside the terrarium, because otherwise it would after the Cubs served as parents welcome the zest of the diet. Period of incubation is 26 in temperatures of 30?(C) around 70 days. Adult snake shortly naznakove zimujeme at temperatures of 15 to 20?(C) for a period of 3 to 5 weeks. Gekonu farming is possible, even outside the terrarium in the living room or better in the Conservatory or winter garden.

Similar claims for care to other related species, in the terariich are often held, for example. Tarentola negleta from Northwestern Africa, Tarentola annularis from Northeastern Africa Tarentola delalandii or from the Canary and Cape Verde Islands. Genus Tarentola currently includes 20 species.

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