I found this wee chap sprinting across our driveway. He was confined long enough to get some photos but has been liberated into the vegetation he was heading for.
Struggling to identify this beautiful plain green gecko from current literature unless it's N. elegans well out of known territory. It had virtually no markings apart from the visible tiny patches of white spotting.
It wasn't interested in hanging about for a better portrait. Can anyone help please.
I have seen similar but with a few white patterns, presumably N. stellata, in 2015, but too shy and wary to get photos.
A pair (Male / Female) noted by Herpetologist participating in November 2019 Wharariki - Puponga Bioblitz. Specimens noted basking on tauhinu (Ozothamnus leptophyllus agg.) on margin of rawiritoa (Kunzea amathicola) forest.
Female - one of a pair observed by Herpetologist during the November 2019 Wharariki - Puponga Bioblitz. Specimens noted basking on tauhinu (Ozothamnus leptophyllus agg.) on margin of rawiritoa (Kunzea amathicola) forest.
This gorgeous little gecko was out in the hot sun on the roadside. Not sure that it's a jewelled gecko, so suggestions welcome.