They are typically known as house geckos, due to their readiness to adapt to and coexist with humans.
His surname refers to the Malay name ("cicak", pronounced chee-chak) for a common house gecko.
Formerly considered a house gecko, it has been displaced to natural habitats by the more recently arrived common house gecko.
Pied crow was then native to the atoll but ship rats were recorded before 1870, and house geckos were noted from the 1970s.
Cosymbotus, the Asian house geckos, is a genus of Gekkonidae.
It is also known as the Pacific house gecko, the Asian house gecko, or simply, the house lizard.
They are also used in territorial posturing, male house geckos lift their tails and vibrate it briefly to ward off other males.
There is evidence that the Asian house geckos can compete and perhaps replace locally native gecko species, especially in urban areas.
The Tropical house gecko can be found predominantly in urban locations.
Choleoeimeria xiangmaii - common house gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus)
