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Phyllodactylus sommeri SCHWARTZ, 1979

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Higher TaxaPhyllodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Haitian Leaf-toed Gecko, Haiti Leaf-toed Gecko 
SynonymPhyllodactylus wirshingi sommeri SCHWARTZ 1979
Phyllodactylus sommeri — WEISS & HEDGES 2007 
DistributionHispaniola, northwestern Haiti.

Type locality: 9.3 km W Cą Soleil, 92 m elevation, Departement de I'Artibonite Haiti. (Cą Soleil is the name of the intersection of the main north-southroad between Gonaïves and Cap-Haîtien, and the dirt road that goes to Coridon on the southern coast of the Presqu’île du Nord Ouest).  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 156201; paratypes: ASFS 
Diagnosis 
CommentFor illustrations see Grant, 1932; Kerster and Smith, 1955; Rivero, 1978.

Based on mtDNA sequence differences WEISS & HEDGES 2007 elevated the (allopatric) subspecies of P. wirshingi to full species status.

Habitat: creviced and pocked limestone cliffs. The major plants are various cacti, both small and arborescent, Agave, and Acacia. The holotype was secured on the red earth substrate between two boulders, each about 1m ind iameter.The smaller juvenile was native-collected; the larger juvenile was taken from the underside of a small rock in a rockpile about 1m in diameter intermixed with, and at the base of, a long-dead basal rosette of Agave leaves. A second adult was seen by Graham and Sommer on the night of 14 July 1978; this individual was observed on a rock face about 3 m high. 
EtymologyNamed (apparently) after William W. Sommer, who collected the holotype of the species. 
References
  • Bauer, A.M., and Russell, A.P. 2003. Phyllodactylus wirshingi. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles 770: 1-4 - 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
  • Grant, C. 1932. A genus of gecko new to the Greater Antilles. J. Dept. Agric. Puerto Rico 16 (3): 335-37.
  • Kerster, H. W. and H. M. Smith. 1955. The identity of the Puerto Rican species of Phyllodactylus (Reptilia: Squamata). Herpetologica 11: 229-232 - 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. 1979. The status of Greater Antillean Phyllodactylus (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). Journal of Herpetology 13 (4): 419-426 - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
  • Weiss, Andrew J. and S. Blair Hedges 2007. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Antillean geckos Phyllodactylus wirshingi, Tarentola americana, and Hemidactylus haitianus (Reptilia, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 409-416 - get paper here
 
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