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title: "Pacific Dtella"
description: "Gehyra oceanica — Reptielen. Gehyra oceanica, also known as the Oceania gecko or Pacific dtella, is a species of gecko in the genus Gehyra."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/pacific-dtella
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pacific Dtella

> Gehyra oceanica — Reptielen. Gehyra oceanica, also known as the Oceania gecko or Pacific dtella, is a species of gecko in the genus Gehyra.

- Scientific name: *Gehyra oceanica*
- Category: `reptiles` (Reptielen)
- Habitats: `urban` (Steden en tuinen)
- iNaturalist observations: 822
- Wikidata: [Q978926](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q978926)
- iNaturalist taxon: [101304](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/101304)

## Names

- en: Pacific Dtella
- fr: Gecko d'Océanie

## Countries with the most observations

PF (213), FJ (118), VU (65), CK (35), MP (31), GU (30), SB (30), NU (21), WS (11), TO (9), ID (7), FM (6)

## Summary

Gehyra oceanica, also known as the Oceania gecko or Pacific dtella, is a species of gecko in the genus Gehyra. The larger Gehyra vorax (voracious gecko) of Fiji, Vanuatu and New Guinea has sometimes been included in this species, but is now treated as distinct.
The species is native to New Guinea and a number of islands in Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. It has also been widely introduced across the islands of the Pacific, reaching as far as the Marquesas Islands in Polynesia (where the species was first collected  for science), although the extent to which the species has been introduced by human intervention…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehyra_oceanica

## Photo

![Pacific Dtella](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pacific-dtella/medium.jpg)

Photo: James Eaton · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/258617070

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pacific-dtella?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).