Robust Velvet Gecko – Nebulifera robusta, house, Mount Tamborine.
From a velvet worm to a velvet gecko, though, based on fossil records, geckos were in Asia some four hundred million years later than the velvet worm.
This is a beautiful creature with a broad, dark grey stripe from its eyes to the tip of its tail, covered in whitish lichen crypsis (mimicking) patches.
It was attached to the outside of a window. The species is found in a wide arc extending inland from coastal central Queensland to coastal central New South Wales.
It can attain a length from nose to tip of tail of 15cm, which makes it nearly as big as its leaf-tailed namesake.
It is aptly named with its plump body, limbs and tail.
