Vietnamese leopard gecko [SEP] parent taxon
Vietnamese leopard gecko
The Vietnamese leopard gecko or Chinese tiger gecko ("Goniurosaurus araneus") is a species of lizards in the family Eublepharidae. It is endemic to the Cao Bằng Province of Vietnam. The scientific species name, is from the Latin, "aranea", which means "spider", due to the spindly, spider-like form of this species.
Description.
The Vietnamese Tiger gecko is dark gray in color and has lots of black spots and four wide orange bands across the back.
Afghan leopard gecko
The Afghan leopard gecko ("Eublepharis macularius afghanicus") is one of the five subspecies of the common leopard gecko, a small to midsized lizard belonging to the family Gekkonidae. This subspecies was first discovered by entomologist Carl Julius Bernhard Börner in 1976. It is much smaller than other leopard gecko subspecies.
Distribution and habitat.
The Afghan leopard gecko is native to southeastern Afghanistan along the Kabul River and its tributaries, its range extending into northern Pakistan. It can be found in the Hindu Kush