Forest gecko

The forest gecko (Mokopirirakau granulatus) is a species of gecko. Granulatus refers to the granular texture of the skin.[2] Its Māori name is moko pirirākau ("lizard that clings to trees").[3][4] It is endemic to New Zealand, found in all areas except the Far North, Marlborough, and Canterbury.

Forest gecko

Gradual Decline (NZ TCS)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Diplodactylidae
Genus: Mokopirirakau
Species:
M. granulatus
Binomial name
Mokopirirakau granulatus
Gray, 1845
Synonyms
  • Naultinus granulatus
  • Naultinus pacificus
  • Naultinus brevidactylus
  • Naultinus sylvestris
  • Naultinus versicolor
  • Naultinus silvestris
  • Hoplodactylus granulatus
  • Dactylocnemis granulatus

In June 2010 seven forest geckos, four female and three male, were stolen from a wildlife park in Northland.[5] Forest geckos are a protected species under the Wildlife Act 1953.

Conservation status

In 2012 the Department of Conservation reclassified the forest gecko as At Risk under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. It was judged as meeting the criteria for At Risk threat status as a result of it having a low to high ongoing or predicted decline. This gecko is also regarded as being Data Poor which indicates the Department of Conservations uncertainty about the listing due to lack of data.<ref name="Conservation 2012" /

gollark: Where else would they go?
gollark: What? Of course they are in our universe.
gollark: Those aren't heaven and hell, silly.
gollark: > The temperature of Heaven can be rather accurately computed from available data. Our authority is Isaiah 30:26, “Moreover, the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” Thus Heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and in addition seven times seven (49) times as much as the Earth does from the Sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the Moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the Sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of Heaven. The radiation falling on Heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation, i.e., Heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the Earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann law for radiation, (H/E)^4 = 50, where E is the absolute temperature of the earth (-300K), gives H as 798K (525C). The exact temperature of Hell cannot be computed, but it must be less than 444.6C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulphur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8 says “But the fearful, and unbelieving … shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone.” A lake of molten brimstone means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, or 444.6C (Above this point it would be a vapor, not a lake.) We have, then, that Heaven, at 525C is hotter than Hell at 445C. – “Applied Optics”, vol. 11, A14, 1972
gollark: This is because it canonically receives 50 times the light Earth does.

See also
  • Geckos of New Zealand

References
  1. Hitchmough, Rod; Anderson, Peter; Barr, Ben; Monks, Jo; Lettink, Marieke; Reardon, James; Tocher, Mandy; Whitaker, Tony. "Conservation status of New Zealand reptiles, 2012" (PDF). Department of Conservation. The Government of New Zealand. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
  2. Gill, B.J. and Whitaker, A.H. (2001). New Zealand Frogs and Reptiles. David Bateman Limited, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand
  3. "moko pirirākau - Māori Dictionary". maoridictionary.co.nz. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  4. "Atlas species information - Mokopirirakau cryptozoicus". www.doc.govt.nz. New Zealand Department of Conservation. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  5. Eriksen, Alanah May (30 June 2010). "Thousands for stolen geckos on European black market". New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
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