Reptilia · Squamata
Lepidoblepharis miyataiLamar, 1985
Colombian Dwarf Gecko
Photograph by Jorge I. Merchán Mayorga, CC BY-SA, via iNaturalist
A ground-dwelling, day-active gecko from the Neotropic region, reaching 23 mm snout to vent.
Reptilia › Squamata › Sphaerodactylidae › Lepidoblepharis
- Grows to
- 23mm
- greatest recorded
- Active
- Diurnal
- Lives
- Terrestrial
- Weighs up to
- 0.31g
- greatest
Longer than only 5% of all species in Sphaerodactylidae anyone has measured.
The bar is the rank itself: its length is the share of the family this animal exceeds. The chart below is the family’s real spread, on a logarithmic scale because body length here runs from 17 to 150 mm. The solid rule is this animal. Every bar is a count of real species, and nothing on this figure is estimated.
What is known
29 sourced facts, each taken from a named scientific dataset. How to read these.
Cited from a dataset unless a row is marked otherwise.
Standing in the world
- Still living
- Possibly extinct
- Conservation status
- Critically Endangered
- Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- 2013
- Red List criteria
- B1ab(v)+2ab(v)
The animal itself
- Limbs
- Four legs
- Venomous
- No
- Fangs
- None
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 23mm0.9 in
- Body mass · greatestcomputed
- 0.31g0.01 oz
Shai Meiri, unpublished
largely converted from length by allometry in the source
How it lives
- Active
- Diurnal
- Where it lives
- Terrestrial
- Habitat
- Shrubland
- Biome
- Deserts & Xeric Shrublands
- Region
- Neotropic
- Mainland or island
- Mainland
- Elevation · above sea level
- 50–1100m
- Range size
- 74km²
Fernando Castro Hererra, pers. Comm. April 2017, Montes-Correa et al. 2018, Saboya-Acosta et al. 2020
Leaf Litter / "Herbaceous Trunks" (Fernando Castro Hererra, pers. Comm. April 2017) / leaf litter, fallen logs and terrestrial (Montes-Correa et al. 2018) / terrestrial (Saboya-Acosta et al. 2020)
50-1100 (Calderon-Espinosa and Medina-Rangel 2016), 0-370 (Montes-Correa et al. 2018, 360 in the abstract)
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Oviparous
- Average clutch
- 1eggs
- Eggs or young per clutch
- 1eggs
- Mean clutch
- 1eggs
- Clutches a year
- 2per year
Saboya-Acosta et al. 2020
Naming and history
- Suborder
- Sauria
- Infraorder
- Gekkota
- Subspecies
- No
- Described by
- Lamar
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- No
- Described in
- 1985
- Type locality
- Colombia
Keeping one
Colombian Dwarf Gecko is assessed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. Species at risk in the wild are often covered by CITES and by national law, which decide what may be bought, sold, moved across a border or kept at all — and captive-bred and wild-caught animals are usually treated differently. Check the rules where you are before acquiring one. Nothing below is a judgement about keeping this species; it is what a published welfare standard says about space, and what the animal itself was measured doing.
No enclosure size, temperature or feeding figure is given for this species. What is recorded about the animal stays on this page above; advice on keeping one does not, because there is none to keep.
Feeding
0kJ per day
Worked out for an animal of 0 g, the heaviest recorded for Colombian Dwarf Gecko — so it is the top of the range, not a figure for a particular animal. Weigh yours and the number will be lower.
An upper estimate, not a feeding target, and not veterinary advice. The equation covers only what an animal burns staying alive, so a growing, gravid or recovering animal needs more — and it was measured on wild animals, which move far more than one in an enclosure. Body condition and a vet who knows the species are what a feeding decision should rest on. Where this comes from.
What nobody knows
These are not gaps in our research. No scientific dataset records them for this species — and saying so is information you cannot get from a reference that simply leaves a field out.
- — Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult male mean
- — Length snout to vent · adult mean
- — Length nose to tail · greatest recorded
- — Female length · mean, nose to tail
- — Length nose to tail · adult male mean
- — Length nose to tail · adult mean
- — Largest female · snout to vent
- — Largest male · snout to vent
- — Largest female · shell length
- — Largest male · shell length
- — Hatchling length · snout to vent
- — Hatchling length · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · a typical adult
- — Body mass · adult female, mean
- — Body mass at hatching
- — Longest recorded life
- — Preferred body temperature · chosen in a laboratory gradient
- — Body temperature when active · measured in the wild
- — Diet
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How it hunts
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Clutches in a year
- — First breeds from · youngest recorded
- — First breeds by · oldest recorded
- — Hatchling length · smallest recorded
- — Hatchling length · largest recorded
- — Age at first breeding · female
- — Mature from · youngest recorded
- — Mature by · oldest recorded
- — Size at maturity · smallest recorded
- — Size at maturity · largest recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · lowest mean recorded
- — Body temp in the wild · highest mean recorded
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Population trend
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Active in
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This species as JSON · the whole dataset
Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Lepidoblepharis miyatai. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/lepidoblepharis-miyatai
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- Meiri, S. (2024). SquamBase — a database of squamate (Reptilia: Squamata) traits. Global Ecology and Biogeography. Public domain (CC0).
- Oskyrko, O. et al. (2024). ReptTraits: a comprehensive dataset of ecological traits in reptiles. Scientific Data. Used under CC BY 4.0.
- Catalogue of Life (dataset 3LR), used under CC BY.