Lucasium damaeum
In 3 days ~80% in a week >90%
The beaded gecko (Lucasium damaeum) is a gecko endemic to Australia. With only a few species of the genus Lucasium it is endemic to Australia. The 7 cm long beaded gecko is reddish brown on top, with what looks like chains of beads surrounding the cream pale ridged vertebral strip, thus given the name of beaded gecko. Single lines of pale blotches run down the side of its body with scattered smaller spots covering its dark brown limbs and surrounding body. This gecko has a rounded snout rather than beaked (with the rostral connection to the nostril), reddish brown in colour with a white or cream upper eyelid that is not able to cover, protect or clean the eye, rather the eye is covered in protective transparent scales. To keep the eye clean they use their long flat tongue to wipe the eye. With relatively large eyes, the pupil is a thin vertical slit during the day and rounded and full in the dark. The tail is a straight continuum of the body and the original tail has continuing patterns from the body down but will reproduce plain brown or spotted darker tails. The toes of a beaded gecko are flat and unkinked without adhesive pads and usually whitish in colour. The... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hattah-Kulkyne National Park | 🇦🇺 Australia |
More parks will be added in future updates.
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Phoenix Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States |
Likely
About 40% of wildlife watchers report a Beaded Gecko sighting in Hattah-Kulkyne National Park on a given day, based on 41 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 3rd most-seen of the 19 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 80%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
February–March and December
In those months about 60% of wildlife watchers report a Beaded Gecko in Hattah-Kulkyne National Park on a given day, against under 5% in June, August and October, the lowest months. Those are among Hattah-Kulkyne National Park's driest months, with about 10 mm of rain a month against 40 mm in November.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Beaded Gecko sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is mostly seen at night.
Only Hattah-Kulkyne National Park, in our data
Hattah-Kulkyne National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Beaded Gecko sightings: about 40% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Beaded Gecko is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Hattah-Kulkyne National Park (41 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
