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Common English name: Crested gecko, crestie. There is not just one way to care about a given species, so be aware it is a personal care sheet, out of any mercantile considerations.
This species has been known to science for more than years. This can be explained by the difficulty to reach their natural habitats- primary rainforest patches and gallery forests near rivers in New Caledonia mainland. They are endemic to this French overseas territory and occur on the Southern half of the mainland as well as on Pine Island. Most specimens in the wild have lost their tails. So, their import was only possible between and , and NOT for the pet trade but for scientific purposes only.
I have precise data from New Caledonian local authorizes which corresponds to permits delivered for the exportation of dead or alive specimens for scientific researches purposes. I am not allowed to give precise data in public, but all I can say is that over that period, less than live specimens were legally allowed to leave New Caledonia. If you withdraw from that number specimens which did not survive the trip or were put down for scientific purposes, it really leaves a very small genetic pool.
