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Sphaerodactylus armasi SCHWARTZ & GARRIDO, 1974

IUCN Red List - Sphaerodactylus armasi - Endangered, EN
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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Guantanamo Coastal Geckolet, Guantanamo Least Gecko 
SynonymSphaerodactylus armasi SCHWARTZ & GARRIDO 1974: 339
Sphaerodactylus armasi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 468
Sphaerodactylus armasi — KLUGE 1993
Sphaerodactylus armasi — RÖSLER 2000: 110 
DistributionSE Cuba (Cabo Mais, Baracoa, Provinces Oriente, Guantanamo)

Type locality: Cabo Maisi, Baracoa, Guantánamo Province, Cuba.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: CZACC (= IZAC = IZ) 4089, paratype: CMNAR 15849 (Ottawa) 
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CommentReference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Luis F. de Armas (b. 1945), a Cuban zoologist, arachnologist, and herpetologist. 
References
  • Alfonso, Yasel U.; Pierre Charruau, Gabriel Fajardo and Alberto R. Estrada. 2012. Interspecific communal oviposition and reproduction of three lizard species in Southeastern Cuba. Herpetology Notes 5: 73-77.
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Fong, A. & Diaz 2004. Two new species of Sphaerodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the southeastern coast of Cuba. Solenodon 4: 73-84
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Schwartz, A. and O. H. Garrido 1985. The Cuban lizards of the genus Sphaerodactylus (Sauria, Gekkonidae). Milwaukee Public Mus. Contrib. Biol. Geol. 62: 1-67. - get paper here
  • Schwartz, A. and O. H. Garrido. 1974. A new Cuban species of Sphaerodactylus (Gekkonidae) of the nigropunctatus complex. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 87: 337-343. - get paper here
  • Uetz, P.H.; Patel, M.; Gbadamosi, Z.; Nguyen, A.; Shoope, S. 2024. A Reference Database of Reptile Images. Taxonomy 4: 723–732 - get paper here
 
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