Sphaerodactylus macrolepis

Sphaerodactylus macrolepis, also known as the big-scaled least gecko, big-scaled dwarf gecko, or cotton ginner, is a gecko distributed in the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands and Culebra, Puerto Rico in the Caribbean.[2] It is one of over 100 species in the genus Sphaerodactylus.

Sphaerodactylus macrolepis
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis (cropped)

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Order: Squamata
Family: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Sphaerodactylus
Species:
S. macrolepis
Binomial name
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis
Günther, 1859
Synonyms
  • Sphaerodactylus imbricatus - Fischer, 1881
  • Sphaerodactylus danforthi - Grant, 1931

The former subspecies S. m. parvus, which is endemic to the Anguilla Bank (Anguilla, Saint Martin, and Saint Barthélemy) in the Lesser Antilles, was elevated to species level in 2001, as S. parvus. The subspecies Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis, restricted to Puerto Rico, and Sphaerodactylus inigoi, on Culebra, Puerto Rico and Vieques, were recently elevated to full species using a combination of genetic and morphological analyses. This leaves Sphaerodactylus macrolepis restricted to Culebra, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.[2]


References
  1. Platenberg, R., Joglar, R. & Rodriguez, C. 2016. Sphaerodactylus macrolepis (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T75605505A115488645. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T75605505A75607799.en. Downloaded on 03 March 2019.
  2. Daza, J.D.; Pinto, B.J.; Thomas, R.; Herrera-Martinez, A.; Scantlebury, D.P.; Padilla García, L.F.; Balaraman, R.P.; Perry, G.; Gamble, T. (2019). "The sprightly little sphaerodactyl: Systematics and biogeography of the Puerto Rican dwarf geckos Sphaerodactylus (Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota)". Zootaxa. 4712: 151–201. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.1. PMID 32230683.
  • Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S. (1999), Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean, Macmillan Education Ltd., p. 55, ISBN 0-333-69141-5.
  • Powell, Robert; Henderson, Robert W. (2001), "On the Taxonomic Status of Some Lesser Antillean Lizards", Caribb. J. Sci., 37 (3–4): 288–290.


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