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The satanic leaf-tailed gecko is a living thing because it grows and develops, it reproduces, the gecko has more than one cell, and it responds. For example, it will respond when you touch it, it will flinch. The animal has lots of cells. It the size of your finger nail when it's born and it grows to be nine cm long.It lays eggs for babies.

The shelter of the gecko is any good camouflage it finds in the madagascar it best likes a pile of dead leaves beside a tree the leaeves for camouflage the tree for food to store. It eats crickets, mealworms, silkworms, and butter worms for food. It gets water from the bugs it eats and it has a nose and a mouth and it breaths through lungs small lungs.

Kingdom: Animalia (an animal)

Phylum: Chordata (has a back bone)

Class: Reptilia (a reptile)

Order: Squamata (a large order of reptiles which comprises the snakes, lizards, and worm lizards)

Suborder: Gekkota (The Gekkota are an infraorder of reptiles in the suborder Scleroglossa, comprising all geckos and the limbless Pygopodidae)

Family: Gekkonidae (geckos)

Genus: //U////roplatus (scientific name)//

//Fun Fact// Uroplatus phantasticus, the Satanic Leaf Tailed Gecko, is a species of gecko endemic to the island of Madagascar. First described in 1888 by George Albert Boulenger, U. phantasticus is the smallest in body of the Uroplatus geckos. It may also be known as the eyelash leaf tailed gecko or the fantastic leaf tailed gecko.

A nocturnal reptile, with suitably large eyes, the satanic leaf-tailed gecko moves about its rainforest habitat at night feeding on insects.

The satanic leaf tailed gecko is a Carnivore.

Food Chain As they are well camoflauged they sneak up behind insects such as crickets and moths, jump on them and eat the food alive.

Geckos are not a species on the top of the food chain and have multiple defences to keep them out of harms way.

Territory

They are marked in the Madagascar (a.k.a where they live) African island of Madagascar and on a number of the little island that surround it. There are eight different species of leaf-tailed gecko all of which are endemic to the island.