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Sphaerodactylus sommeri GRAHAM, 1981

IUCN Red List - Sphaerodactylus sommeri - Critically Endangered, CR
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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Northwest Haitian Banded Geckolet, TerreNueve Least Gecko 
SynonymSphaerodactylus sommeri GRAHAM 1981: 363
Sphaerodactylus sommeri — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 536
Sphaerodactylus sommeri — KLUGE 1993
Sphaerodactylus sommeri — RÖSLER 2000: 114 
DistributionHaiti (St.Nicolas), Hispaniola

Type locality: 12.2 km W Ca Soleil, Departement de l’Artibonite, Haiti  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: USNM 197337 
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CommentFor illustrations see Graham, 1981.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). 
EtymologyNamed after William W. Sommer, an entomologist at the Allyn Museum of Entomology, Sarasota, Florida (now part of the University of Florida). He and Graham collected together in Haiti (1978). 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Graham, F. D., Jr. 1981. A new species of lizard (Sphaerodactylus) from northwestern Haiti. Journal of Herpetology 15 (3): 363-366. - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here
  • Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
 
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