Unlike most geckos, it has clawed toes and no adhesive discs, probably due to its arboreal lifestyle.

Body is flattened and limbs are long and spindly; dorsal surface bears sharply pointed tubercles (its eponymous "horns").

they live in trees, using their leaflike tail to blend in, as they feed on insects.

Nocturnal tree dweller in warm temperate and tropical rainforests and wet sclerophyll forests, typically above 750m, in the Coastal and Great Dividing Ranges in NE Queensland and south to Taree in New South Wales.

[4] The Northern leaf-tailed gecko eats large insects and other arthropods, including cockroaches isopods and spiders.