Salamanquesa
Tarentola mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Status not recordedlizards
The salamanquesa (Tarentola mauritanica) is a species in the family Phyllodactylidae, order Squamata. Recorded adults weigh 5.78 g to 6.54 g, reach 7 cm in length and live up to 10.5 years.
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Quick facts about the salamanquesa
- Weight
- 5.78 g – 6.54 gsrc for Weight
- Length
- 5.28 cm – 7 cmsrc for Length
- Lifespan
- 10.5 yearssrc for Lifespan
- Diet
- Carnivoresrc for Diet
- Longest recorded lifespan
- 14 years
- Main food
- Not recorded
- Habitat
- shrubland, woodlandsrc for Habitat
- Egg incubation
- 70 dayssrc for Egg incubation
- Young per litter or clutch
- 1 – 3src for Young per litter or clutch
- Age at maturity
- 12 months – 5 yearssrc for Age at maturity
- Litters or clutches a year
- 2 – 15src for Litters or clutches a year
- Reproduction
- Eggssrc for Reproduction
- Active
- Day and night (cathemeral)src for Active
- Brain mass
- 70 mgsrc for Brain mass
- Conservation status
- Not recorded
- Countries on record
- Not recorded
How big is the salamanquesa?
Where does the salamanquesa live?
Not recorded
Where has it been introduced?
The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists the salamanquesa as introduced in 5 countries, and flagged as invasive in 1 of them.
Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).
Is the salamanquesa endangered?
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.
How is the salamanquesa classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- classReptilia
- orderSquamata
- familyPhyllodactylidae
- genusTarentola
- SpeciesTarentola mauritanica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms Ascalabotes mauritanicus, Ascalobotes mauritanicus, Gecko fascicularis, Gecko muricatus, Gecko stellio, Gekko mauritanicus, Gekko muricatus, Lacerta mauritanica, Platydactylus facetanus, Platydactylus muralis, Tarentola mauretanica, Tarentola mauritanica subvar. atlantica, Tarentola mauritanica subvar. gracilis, Tarentola mauritanica subvar. lissoide, Tarentola tuberculata
Other names and names in other languages (45)
- Common wall geckoEnglish
- Crocodile geckoEnglish
- European common geckoEnglish
- Maurita Naca geckoEnglish
- Moorish geckoEnglish
- Moorish wall geckoEnglish
- AbosomakoterɛAkan
- saltarrostruAsturian
- DragóCatalan
- Dragó comúCatalan
- gekon zedníCzech
- MurgekkoDanish
- MaurgeckoGerman
- MauergeckoGerman
- ΤαρέντολαGreek
- Μαυριτανικό σαμιαμίδιGreek
- Ταρέντολα / κλινταράκιGreek
- Salamanquesa ComúnSpanish
- DragoitxoBasque
- Dragoitxo arruntaBasque
- muurigekkoFinnish
- Tarente communeFrench
- Tarente de MaurétanieFrench
- Tarente de Maurétanie (La)French
- Tarente du midiFrench
- Osga comúnGalician
- Salmantesa comúnGalician
- zidni macaklinCroatian
- Fali GekkóHungarian
- geco comuneItalian
- tarantola muraiolaItalian
- ムーアカベヤモリJapanese
- Sieninis gekonasLithuanian
- Gekon murowyPolish
- Tarentola murowaPolish
- OsgaPortuguese
- Lagartixa-mouraPortuguese
- Osga-comumPortuguese
- Osga-mouraPortuguese
- Стенной гекконRussian
- gekón širokoprstýSlovak
- Pozidni gekonSlovenian
- murgeckoSwedish
- Гекон стіннийUkrainian
- Muurgekkoroot
Relatives of the salamanquesa
Other species in the same genus Tarentola.
Helmeted gecko
Tarentola chazaliae
Canary wall gecko
Tarentola angustimentalis
Egyptian gecko
Tarentola annularis
Gran Canaria gecko
Tarentola boettgeri
Böhme's gecko
Tarentola boehmei
La Gomera gecko
Tarentola gomerensis
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Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
How big is the salamanquesa?
An adult salamanquesa weighs 5.78 g – 6.54 g and measures 5.28 cm – 7 cm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.
How long does the salamanquesa live?
The salamanquesa has a recorded lifespan of 10.5 years.
Is the salamanquesa an invasive species?
In some places. The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species flags the salamanquesa as invasive in 1 country: Mexico. It lists it as introduced in 5 in all.
What kind of animal is the salamanquesa?
The salamanquesa (Tarentola mauritanica) belongs to the family Phyllodactylidae in the order Squamata.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-13. How this page is put together.
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Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1 - AnimalTraits: a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size · CC0 1.0 · 1.0.7
Herberstein, M.E., McLean, D.J., Lowe, E. et al. (2022) AnimalTraits: a curated animal trait database for body mass, metabolic rate and brain size. Scientific Data 9: 265. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01364-9. Data: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6468938 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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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
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