Reptilia · Squamata
Tropiocolotes yomtoviRibeiro-Junior, Tamar, Maza, Flecks, Wagner, Shacham, Calvo, Geniez, Crochet, Koch, Meiri, 2022
Photograph by Wouter Beukema, CC BY, via iNaturalist
A ground-dwelling, nocturnal, meat-eating gecko from the Saharo-Sindian region, reaching 29 mm snout to vent.
No English name has been recorded for this species.
Reptilia › Squamata › Gekkonidae › Tropiocolotes
- Grows to
- 28.7mm
- greatest recorded
- Eats
- Carnivorous
- Active
- Nocturnal
- Lives
- Terrestrial
Longer than only 2% of all geckos 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 23 to 220 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
26 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
- Extant
The animal itself
- Limbs
- Four legs
- Venomous
- No
- Fangs
- None
- Body temp in the wild · mean, when active
- 26°C
body temperature of active animals in nature
Size
- Length snout to vent · greatest recorded
- 28.7mm1.25 in
- Length snout to vent · adult female mean
- 25.4mm1 in
- Hatchling length · snout to vent
- 12.2mm0.5 in
Ribeiro-Junior et al. 2022 (max 28.71 mm)
How it lives
- Diet
- Carnivorous
- How it hunts
- Active foraging
- Active
- Nocturnal
- Where it lives
- Terrestrial
- Region
- Saharo-Sindian
- Mainland or island
- Mainland
- Highest it lives · above sea level
- 600m
insects (Bar et al. 2021, Ribeiro Junior et al. 2022, Pinho et al. 2023b, Spawls et al. 2023)
active (Ribeiro-Junior et al. 2022)
Ribeiro-Junior et al. 2022, Spawls et al. 2023, sm, pers. obs.
Ribeiro-Junior et al. 2022, sm, pers obs., Spawls et al. 2023
minus 360 to 600 (Ribeiro-Junior et al. 2022), 0-830 (Spawls et al. 2023)
Breeding
- Reproduction
- Oviparous
- Average clutch
- 2eggs
- Eggs or young per clutch
- 1eggs
- Mean clutch
- 1eggs
e.g., Spawls et al. 2023, SM, pers obs.
Ribeiro-Junior et al. 2022, Spawls et al. 2023, Shai Meiri, pers. obs.
Naming and history
- Suborder
- Sauria
- Infraorder
- Gekkota
- Subspecies
- No
- Described by
- Ribeiro-Junior, Tamar, Maza, Flecks, Wagner, Shacham, Calvo, Geniez, Crochet, Koch, Meiri
- Moved to another genus · since it was first described
- No
- Described in
- 2022
- Type locality
- Israel
Keeping one
4.5 in × 4.5 in × 2.75 in(12 × 12 × 7 cm)
Minimum length × width × height, for one animal. Bigger is always better.
The standard sizes ground-dwelling species at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times snout-vent length.
Mindestanforderungen an die Haltung von Reptilien (Sachverständigengutachten), German Federal Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture and Forestry, Animal Welfare Division, 10 January 1997. The standard states these floor areas are recommendations rather than binding limits.
From this animal’s own snout-vent length of 1.25 in (28.7 mm), at 4 × 4 × 2.5 times it, following the German federal welfare standard — how this is worked out.
No preferred body temperature has been recorded for Tropiocolotes yomtovi. Rather than repeat a number from a care sheet, this page leaves it out.
Feeding
A prey item should be no wider than the space between the animal's eyes.
Widely used across reptile husbandry references. The stated reason is that the gap approximates the width of the throat, so wider prey is associated with impaction. This is established practice, not a measurement.
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 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 · nose to tail
- — Largest juvenile · snout to vent
- — Largest juvenile · shell length
- — Egg length
- — Egg width
- — Body mass · greatest
- — 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
- — Eats arthropods
- — Eats vertebrates
- — Eats plant matter
- — How the young develop
- — Gestation or incubation
- — Clutches in a year
- — Clutches a year · fewest
- — Clutches a year · most
- — 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
- — Colour on the back
- — Pattern on the back
- — Pupil
- — Sex decided by
- — Conservation status
- — Status assessed · the year the Red List last looked
- — Population trend
- — Red List criteria
- — Biome
- — Active season · shortest recorded
- — Active season · longest recorded
- — Density · lowest recorded
- — Density · highest recorded
- — Home range · largest recorded
- — Habitat
- — Active in
- — Lowest it lives · above sea level
- — Range size
Others in Gekkonidae
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Cite this page
The Reptile & Amphibian Encyclopedia (2026). Tropiocolotes yomtovi. Retrieved 2026-09-08, from https://www.allanglescreatures.com/species/tropiocolotes-yomtovi
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- 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.