Sphaerodactylus townsendi GRANT, 1931

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Puerto Rican Sandy Geckolet, Townsend's Least Gecko, Townsend's dwarf sphaero
Synonym	Sphaerodactylus townsendi GRANT 1931: 208 Sphaerodactylus nicholsi townsendi — THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1966: 245 Sphaerodactylus townsendi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 542 Sphaerodactylus townsendi — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus townsendi — RÖSLER 2000: 114
Distribution	Puerto Rico, Vieques, Caja de M. Type locality: Northeast corner of Cabeza de San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 34613.
Diagnosis
Comment	For illustrations see Grant, 1931; Thomas and Schwartz, 1966 (as S. nicholsi townsendi); Rivero, 1978 (as S. nicholsi townsendi).
Etymology	Named after Charles Haskins Townsend (1859-1944), a zoologist who worked for the U.S. Fish Commission (1883-1902). He explored northern California (1883-1884) and the Kobuk River, Alaska (1885), and was an expert before the Russo-American fisheries arbitration at The Hague (1896).
References	Allen, W., Moreno, N., Gamble, T. and Chiari, Y. 2020. Ecological, behavioral and phylogenetic influences on the evolution of dorsal color pattern in geckos. Evolution. doi:10.1111/evo.13915, published 2019 - 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 Brendan J Pinto, James Titus-McQuillan, Juan D Daza, Tony Gamble 2019. Persistence of a geographically-stable hybrid zone in Puerto Rican dwarf geckos. Journal of Heredity, esz015 - get paper here Grant, C. 1931. The sphaerodactyls of Porto Rico, Culebra and Mona islands. J. Dept. Agric. Puerto Rico 15: 199-213. - get paper here Rivero, J.A. 1978. Los anfibios y reptiles de Puerto Rico. M. Pareja Montana, 16, Barcelona, Espafia: x + 152 + 148pp. 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. Thomas, R., and A. Schwartz. 1966. Sphaerodactylus (Gekkonidae) in the greater Puerto Rico region. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences, 10:193—260 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/diapsida1.html http://www.arod.com.au/arod/reptilia/Squamata/Typhlopidae/Ramphotyphlops… Google images

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