Guess the gecko - should be easy...

[Pythonodipsas]

It is found along the Kwazulu-Natal coastline. I will enter buildings where it can and hunt around night-lights for insects.

I want common and scientific name.

Rob, you're not allowed to tell.

Good luck!

[EDDY]

Blue Phase tropical House Gecko

I dont know

[Mongoose]

Really taking a shot in the dark here..

Marbled leaf toed gecko?

[Pythonodipsas]

Good guesses BUT its neither.

I can hear the pages of Bill Branches book flapping!

The last pic will also give some direction.

Come on guys!

[Mongoose]

Alright, im in town atm, so don't have a field guide with me, but another shot in the dark which I think is right - Wahlberg's Velvet gecko Homopholis wahlbergii

[Pythonodipsas]

Good guess Mongoose BUT pictured in my hand is a large adult. Way to small for Homopholis.

My original clue: "It is found along the Kwazulu-Natal coastline."... is a bit cryptic.

It is actually only really found along the 'southern' Kwazulu-Natal coastline and also ranging into Transkei/Pondoland (Eastern Cape).

[alexander]

I think its the Pondo Flat Gecko-Afroedura pondolia.

[Pythonodipsas]

WELL DONE ALEXANDER!

As you may know, these gecko's were supposedly once common on the coast but their habitat has been invasively occupied by the more aggressive and territorial Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus maboia (spelling?)), of East Africa.

I think I have seen less than a dozen in the 7 odd years I have been on the KZN south coast.