- Origin: Madagascar
- Class: Reptiles
- Order: Squamates
- Suborder: Sauriens
This magnificent diurnal lizard lives in the dense vegetation of the tropical forest and is also easily found in inhabited houses.
It feeds on insects, other small lizards, ripe fruit, nectar and pollen. It has small teeth with which it can bite when threatened and emits shrill cries.
Eggs are laid two weeks apart, and there can be up to 5 in a row. The female attaches two eggs, sometimes just one, either to walls or to vegetation.
IUSN Status : least concern (Appendix III)