| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | Sphaerodactylus torrei spielmani GRANT 1958
Sphaerodactylus torrei torrei BARBOUR 1914 |
| Common Names | E: Cuban Broad-banded Geckolet, Barbour's Least Gecko |
| Synonym | Sphaerodactylus torrei BARBOUR 1914: 260
Sphaerodactylus torrei — BARBOUR & RAMSDEN 1919
Sphaerodactylus torrei — KLUGE 1993
Sphaerodactylus torrei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 541
Sphaerodactylus torrei — RÖSLER 2000: 114
Sphaerodactylus torrei torrei — DE LISLE et al. 2013
Sphaerodactylus torrei spielmani GRANT 1958
Sphaerodactylus spielmani GRANT 1958
Sphaerodactylus spielmani — THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1966
Sphaerodactylus torrie spielmani — TANNER 1970: 221
Sphaerodactylus torrei spielmani — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 541
Sphaerodactylus torrei spielmani — DE LISLE et al. 2013 |
| Distribution | Cuba
torrei: Cuba (Santiago de Cuba east to Playa Juraguá, inland to Dos Bocas); Type locality: Santiago de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba Province, Cuba.
spielmani: Cuba (Rio Hatibonico to Bahia de Guantánamo); Type locality: Guantánamo, Guantanamo Province, Cuba; emended to east side of Rio Hatibonico, about one-quarter mile inland, approximately 10 miles west of the western side of the mouth of the Bahia de Guantanamo, Guantanamo Province, Cuba by THOMAS 1968.
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| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ R-6916 (not MCZ 1916 !)
Holotype: INHS (= UIMNH) 44015, paratype: BYU [spielmani] |
| Diagnosis | |
| Comment | Not listed by LINER 1994. |
| Etymology | Named after Professor Carlos de la Torre y la Huerta (1858-1950), regarded as the foremost Cuban naturalist of his generation. He was closely associated with the Smithsonian, but he died some 10 years before Castro took power and Cuba became isolated from USA. |
| References |
- Barbour, T. and C. T. Ramsden. 1919. The herpetology of Cuba. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Coll. 47: 69-213. - get paper here
- Barbour, Thomas 1914. A Contribution to the Zoögeography of the West Indies, with Especial Reference to Amphibians and Reptiles. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy 44 (2): 205-359 - get paper here
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Cochran, D. M. 1934. Herpetological collections from the West Indies made by Dr. Paul Bartsch under The Walter Rathbone Bacon Scholarship, 1928-1930. Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 92 (7): 1-48. - get paper here
- Fong, A. & Diaz 2004. Two new species of Sphaerodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the southeastern coast of Cuba. Solenodon 4: 73-84
- Grant, C. 1958. A new gekkonid lizard (Sphaerodactylus) from Cuba. Herpetologica 14: 225-227 - get paper here
- Grant, Chapman 1956. The Status of Sphaerodactylus gibbus. Herpetologica 12 (3): 247-248
- Liner, E.A. 1994. Scientific and common names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish. Herpetological Circular 23: 1-113
- Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Carlos A. Mancina & Vilma Rivalta González 2013. REPTILES OF CUBA: CHECKLIST AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (144): 1-96 - get paper here
- Röll, Beate 2006. Kugelfingergeckos, Sphaerodactylus elegans & S. torrei. Natur und Tier Verlag (Münster), 64 pp. - get paper here
- Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
- Rosler, H. 2020. Comparative studies on the extracorporal development of soft- and hard-shelled gecko eggs (Squamata: Gekkota): 5. Sphaerodactylus torrei torrei Barbour, 1914 (Sphaerodactylidae). Sauria 42 (1): 21-27.
- Schröder, E. & Röll, B. 2003. Sphaerodactylus torrei BARBOUR. Sauria (Suppl.) 25 (3): 581-584 - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Tanner, W. W. 1970. A catalogue of the fish, amphibian, and reptile types in the Brigham Young University Museum of Natural History. Great Basin Naturalist 30 (4): 219-226 - get paper here
- Thomas, R. 1968. Notes on Antillean geckos (Sphaerodactylus). Herpetologica 24: 46-60 - get paper here
- Thomas, R., and A. Schwartz. 1966. The Sphaerodactylus decoratus complex in the West Indies. Brigham Young University Science Bulletin, 7:1-26 - get paper here
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