Species Profile
Hemidactylus
House lizard / Gecko
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassReptilia
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Hemidactylus lives in warm terrestrial habitats.
It is agile and climbs vertical surfaces.
Important insect-controlling reptile.
Size & Structure
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Small flattened body
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Adhesive toe pads
03
Scaly skin
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Brown or grey colour
Hemidactylus — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Coelomate
- Body plan
- Tube within a tube body plan (Deuterostomous)
- Germ layer
- Triploblastic
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Bilateral
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Complete
- Nervous system
- Well developed brain and spinal cord
- Excretory organ
- Kidneys
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Closed circulation, incomplete double
- Development type
- Direct
- Respiratory type
- Pulmonary respiration
- Mode of excretion
- Uricotelism
- Circulation system
- Closed
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (bony)
- Level of Organisation
- Organ system level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoregulator
Ecology
Controls insect population
Part of terrestrial food web
Prey for birds and snakes
Economic Importance
Natural pest control
Educational importance
Urban ecological balance