Mabouya

Weight

4.16 gsrc for Weight

Length

5.63 cm – 5.82 cmsrc for Length

Lifespan

Not recorded

Diet

Carnivoresrc for Diet

Longest recorded lifespan

2.6 years

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

grassland, shrublandsrc for Habitat

Egg incubation

48 dayssrc for Egg incubation

Young per litter or clutch

1 – 2src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

11 months – 12 monthssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

3.5 – 12src for Litters or clutches a year

Reproduction

Eggssrc for Reproduction

Active

Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active

Brain mass

33 mgsrc for Brain mass

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 mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818)

Synonyms Gecko aculeatus, Gecko cruciger, Gecko mabouia, Gecko mabuia, Gecko tuberculosus, Gekko armatus, Gekko armatus, Gekko incanescens, Gekko incanescens, Gekko incanescens, Gekko mabouia, Hemidactylus armatus, Hemidactylus benguellensis, Hemidactylus exaspis, Hemidactylus frenatus var. calabaricus, Hemidactylus gardineri, Hemidactylus mabuia, Hemidactylus mabuya, Hemidactylus mandanus, Hemidactylus mercatorius, Hemidactylus persimilis, Hemidactylus platycephalus, Hemidactylus sakalava, Hemidactylus tasmani, Hemidactylus tuberculosus

Catalogue of LifeiNaturalistITISTAXREFWikidataWoRMS

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• Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-11-13
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@misc{mabouya_2026,
  title = {Mabouya (Hemidactylus mabouia)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/mabouya},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-13}
}