Chichak

Weight

3.3 gsrc for Weight

Length

5.27 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

7 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

forestsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

60 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

1 – 2src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

76.1 days – 12 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

3 – 17src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

At night (nocturnal)src for Active

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

Not recorded

Not recorded

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classReptilia
4. orderSquamata
5. familyGekkonidae
6. genusHemidactylus
7. SpeciesHemidactylus frenatus Duméril & Bibron, 1836

Synonyms Gecko caracal, Gecko chaus, Hemi-dactylus frenatus, Hemidactylus bojeri, Hemidactylus fraenatus, Hemidactylus hexaspis, Hemidactylus inornatus, Hemidactylus javanicus, Hemidactylus longiceps, Hemidactylus nigriventris, Hemidactylus okinavensis, Hemidactylus okinawensis, Hemidactylus pumilus, Hemidactylus punctatus, Hemidactylus tristis, Hemidactylus vandermeer-mohri, Hemidactylus vandermeermohri, Hemidactylus vittatus, Pnoepus bojeri, Pnoepus frenatus, Pnoepus papuensis, Pnoepus punctatus

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistTAXREFWikidata

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• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
  Pagad, S., Genovesi, P., Carnevali, L., Schigel, D. & McGeoch, M.A. (2018) Introducing the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species. Scientific Data 5: 170202. https://doi.org/10.1038/sdata.2017.202. Country checklists published through GBIF by the IUCN SSC Invasive Species Specialist Group.
• ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles · CC BY 4.0 · v1-2
  Oskyrko, O., Mi, C., Meiri, S. et al. (2024) ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data 11: 243. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03079-5. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24572683.v4
• SquamBase 1.0 - a dataset of squamate species traits · CC0 1.0 · 1.0-dryad-v5
  Meiri, S. (2024) SquamBase - a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography 33(4): e13812. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13812. Data: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76hdr7t3b
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).

@misc{chichak_2026,
  title = {Chichak (Hemidactylus frenatus)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/chichak},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}