The Seychelles Fruit Bat Pteropus seychellensis (Sousouri) is a megabat endemic to Seychelles. It is widely distributed throughout the central…
Seychelles Wildlife
Skinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae. In Seychelles, there are five species. The Seychelles skink Trachylepis seychellensis (top…
The Bronze-eyed gecko is endemic to the granitic Seychelles. This gecko is rather bulky, with warty skin patterned in pale…
The green geckos are hard to miss because of their bright colour colour and because unusual for other geckos, they…
Tropical millipedes can grow to be very large and Seychelles has a giant one. The Seychelles Giant Millipede (Seychelleptus seychellarum)…
The Seychelles giant centipede (Milpat in Creole) is a very large centipede found throughout the tropics. It’s found on the…
Stick insects (Seval-d-bwa) as the name suggests are elongate, green or brown twig-like herbivores. Their resemblance to the sticks on…
Spiders in Seychelles include some large web-building species and the free-roaming rather tarantula-like huntsman spiders. The palm spider is the…
Seychelles has an incredible 32 species of land, shore, brackish water and freshwater crabs. These do not include all the…
There are two types of hermit crabs – land and marine and about 500 different species of hermit crabs around…