This evening I was leaving a friend's home in Tyler, Tx (inside the city limits) when I caught a gecko on his porch. Tyler is located in North East Texas half way between Dallas and Shreveport and just south of I-20. I have been catching herps here for years. I am pretty familiar with most of my local snakes but my lizard identification skills are very weak. How weak? I had no clue we HAD geckos.

So far I can find almost no info or PICTURES of my local geckos. I see that there are a couple native species and several introduced species but that info varied greatly site to site. It sounds like the banded gecko and the reticulated gecko are the only native species. This does not appear to be a banded gecko as its the ONLY species with any pictures I can find.

I would appreciate some help finding reference pictures and description about what this could be this far north and east in Texas.



I will get some pics on tomorrow morning as soon as the sun will let me.



I appreciate all the help.



-Michael-

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• texas gecko species - theMAC, Fri Jul 25 23:56:36 2003
• RE: texas gecko species - theMAC, Sat Jul 26 08:16:12 2003
• Definitely a Mediterranean Gecko >> - chris_mcmartin, Sat Jul 26 09:05:38 2003
• RE: Definitely a Mediterranean Gecko >> - theMAC, Sat Jul 26 09:28:12 2003