Sphaerodactylus shrevei LAZELL, 1961
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Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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Common Names | E: Northwest Haitian Blotched Geckolet, Shreve's Least Gecko |
Synonym | Sphaerodactylus shrevei LAZELL 1961:1 Sphaerodactylus shrevei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 535 Sphaerodactylus shrevei — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus shrevei — RÖSLER 2000: 114 |
Distribution | Haiti, Hispaniola
Type locality: Môle St.-Nicholas, Département du Nord-Ouest, Haiti.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: MCZ 62548. |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | For illustrations see Schwartz and Graham, 1980 (fig. 2A). |
Etymology | Named after Benjamin Shreve (1908-1985), a volunteer herpetologist at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology (being from a wealthy family of jewelers). |
References |
- Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
- Lazell, J. D. Jr. 1961. A new species of Sphaerodactylus from northern Haiti. Breviora (139): 1-5. - get paper here
- Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153
- Schwartz, A and E. D. Graham, Jr. 1980. The shrevei group of Hispaniolan Sphaerodactylus (Reptilia, Gekkonidae). Tulane Studies Zool. Bot. 22: 1-15. - get paper here
- Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp.
- Schwartz. A. 1973. A third species of tie Hispaniolan shrevei group of Sphaerodactylus (Sauria, Gekkonidae),. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 86: 35-40. - get paper here
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