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Their backs are brown-grey with bright w-shaped splotches, resembling tree bark. Geckos in the southern end of their range often have brighter shades of red and orange. They can rapidly change colour according to their environment. They have grey bellies and white scales at the edge of the mouth. The
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477:References
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