Yamashina's Ground Gecko

Yamashina's Ground Gecko (Goniurosaurus yamashinae) is an eyelid gecko endemic to Kume Island in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, with the robust body and functional eyelids used to recognise Goniurosaurus. Identification should combine documented pattern, scalation, body form and locality because related Japanese reptiles may be very similar. Claims here are limited to the opened species accounts (Wikipedia, general species account; Reptile Database).

Its documented range is restricted to Kume Island; accessible species accounts establish this locality and taxonomic identity but do not provide enough species-level ecology to add diet or reproduction. Information absent from those species-level sources is omitted rather than inferred from relatives. Japanese occurrence follows the site's catalogue and the opened distribution accounts (Wikipedia, general species account; Reptile Database). This conservative treatment keeps unresolved parts of its natural history clearly visible to readers.