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Sydney has or used to have 29 threatened animals within its boundaries. One of them is me, the Lord Howe Island Gecko.

We took care to attach appropriate images that are as close to representative of each species as our resources and the availability of images allowed. However, we could not ensure perfect accuracy in every case. Some images show species that share the same genus but not at the species or subspecies level.

Lord Howe Island Gecko

Christinus guentheri

Status: Vulnerable

The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act) lists threatened species under six categories:
Extinct, Extinct in the wild, Critically Endangered, Endangered, Vulnerable, Conservation dependent. Read more about these categories

Christinus guentheri is found across 2 electorates.

The Lord Howe Island Gecko is a pale olive-grey to dark brown, heavily built reptile growing to 8 cm, weighing around 12 g. It is peppered with dark brown spots and a series of six paler, W-shaped tranverse markings, continuous with the paler flanks. The tail has a dull, russet-red mid-dorsal stripe, is whitish/yellow-brown below and peppered with dark brown spots. The species has smooth, small scales, and long, slender fingers and toes.¹

Explore more about this species on the Atlas of Living Australia

Habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation