Description: Snout obtusely pointed, longer than the distance between the eye and the ear-opening, 1.5 to 1.6 times the diameter of the orbit; forehead slightly concave; ear-opening small, rounded. Body and limbs moderate. A slight but distinct fold of the skin along the flanks, and another bordering the hind limb posteriorly. Digits free or with a very slight rudiment of web, moderately dilated, inner well developed; infradigital lamellae oblique, 6 or 7 under the inner digits, 10 to 12 under the fourth finger, and 11 to 14 under the fourth toe. Upper surfaces and throat covered with minute granular scales, a little larger on the snout; abdominal scales moderate, imbricate. Rostral subquadrangular, with median cleft above; nostril pierced between the rostral and three nasals; 12 or 13 upper and 9 to 11 lower labials; mental large, triangular, in contact posteriorly with a pair of pentagonal chin-shields, followed by a second smaller pair; the anterior pair of chin-shields in contact with the first infralabial, and with each other mesially; the posterior pair separated from each other, and also completely or nearly completely from the labials. Tail depressed, flat beneath, with sharp denticulated lateral edge; the scales on the upper surface very small, equal; those on the lower surface larger, imbricate, with a median series of large, transversely dilated plates.
Brownish grey above, uniform or with more or less distinct brown and whitish spots; lower surfaces uniform whitish. Snout to vent length (SVL) 2.3 inches; tail 2.6 inches.
Habitat: On walls and ceilings, on fences, on tree trunks and in tree crevices, under loose bark, in trash piles, under fallen palm fronds, under rocks at base of trees. In dry or wet areas; prefers forested areas. Usually concealed by day.
Range: Sikkim, Burma, Malay Peninsula and Malay Archipelago, South Pacific Islands. NE Bangladesh, NE India (Darjeeling, Assam, Sikkim), Nepal, Bhutan, Thailand, Myanmar (= Burma), Malaysia, southern China (Hong Kong, Guangdong, Hainan, southern Yunnan), Taiwan, Philippine Islands, New Zealand (introduced), Indonesia (Sumatra, Nias, Borneo, Java), New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, Polynesia, Fiji, Western Samoa. Introduced into Hawaii, Florida, and the Bahamas./p>
Diet: Eats insects (beetles, cockroaches, moth and beetle larvae, grasshoppers, katydids, termites, etc.) and spiders.
Reproduction:H. garnotii is a parthenogenetic species. Eggs are laid under rock slab, beneath loose bark on tree trunk, in crevice in tree trunk, under debris, in cavity in rotting wood, or in similar site
Status: Assessed as Least Concern in view of its very wide distribution. Its population is unlikely to be experiencing a significant decline and it is not affected by any major threats. It also occurs in a large number of protected areas throughout its range.
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