GeckosBynoe’s Gecko Eastern Tree Dtella Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko

The Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko (Oedura tryoni), also commonly known as Tryon’s Gecko or Tryon’s Velvet Gecko. Endemic to Australia, whose current known distribution is along south-eastern Queensland down through north-eastern New South Wales.

The Tryon’s Gecko pictured was seen around the bee hotel in the photographer’s garden in Ballandean, a rural town and locality in the Southern Downs Region of Queensland.

Tryon's Gecko (Oedura tryoni), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Tryon’s Gecko (Oedura tryoni), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Tryon's Gecko (Oedura tryoni), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman
Tryon’s Gecko (Oedura tryoni), Ballandean QLD © Marc Newman

Photographs © Marc Newman


  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia
  • Phylum: Chordata
  • Subphylum: Vertebrata
  • Informal: Gnathostomata
  • Class: Reptilia
  • Subclass: Lepidosauria
  • Order: Squamata
  • Suborder: Gekkota
  • Family: Diplodactylidae
  • Genus: Oedura
  • Species: Oedura tryoni

Footnote & References

  1. Photographs Tryon’s Gecko, Ballandean, QLD © Marc Newman, Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/koolbee/
  2. Oedura tryoni De Vis 1884, Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Oedura tryoni
  3. Southern Spotted Velvet Gecko (Oedura tryoni), iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/34183-Oedura-tryoni

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