>>I would have appreciated a common name.Not all of us are herpatologists here.
>>Anyway according to everything Ive read they are from the southern states and cant survive the ice and snow here in Kansas.
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And not all common names are universally used.

I remember seeing these geckos living indoors (university gymansium) in central texas where the winters were probably cool enough to kill them off. I think they just found warm spots in heated buildings and lived off of the indoor insects.