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Photo Credit: Wikipedia. Geckos are a unique variety of lizard known for their more than 2,000 species that can be found worldwide. While geckos thrive in warm and tropical habitats and have for approximately fifty million years, these diverse lizards are also often kept as pets.
The word exotic of course is open to the way you interpret its meaning. What may be an exotic lizard species to one reader may be a common or familiar species to a different reader, such as an introduced species from one area of the country to another. In this article however, we will discuss lizards typically kept as pets but not native to the United States of America. Not all of the lizard species listed below are easily kept but rather have a broad range of care requirements.