COOKTOWN RING-TAILED GECKO

Photographed at Black Mountain, south of Cooktown, Queensland, January 2021

 

163                COOKTOWN RING-TAILED GECKO                   Cyrtodactylus tuberculatus

AUSTRALIAN LIZARDS                115

South from Cape York Peninsula from Mount Leswell north on mainland to Cape Melville and offshore north to Stanley Island. Found in rocky areas, including granite boulders and sandstone outcrops, extending on to adjacent aerial root systems of figs and occasionally buildings.