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Sphaerodactylus williamsi THOMAS & SCHWARTZ, 1983

IUCN Red List - Sphaerodactylus williamsi - Critically Endangered, CR
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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Haitian Striped Geckolet, Williams' Least Gecko 
SynonymSphaerodactylus williamsi THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1983: 96
Sphaerodactylus williamsi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 547
Sphaerodactylus williamsi — KLUGE 1993
Sphaerodactylus williamsi — RÖSLER 2000: 114 
DistributionHaiti (vicinity of Ca Soleil), Hispaniola

Type locality: 12.2 km W Ça Soleil, Département de l'Artibonite, Haiti.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: MCZ 156209. 
Diagnosis 
CommentFor illustrations see Thomas and Schwartz, 1983.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024. 
EtymologyNamed after Dr. Ernest Edward Williams (1914-1998), a herpetologist, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. 
References
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here
  • Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - 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.
  • Thomas R. and S. B. Hedges 1988. Two new geckos (Sphaerodactylus) from the Sierra Martin Garcia of Hispaniola. Herpetologica 44: 96-104. - get paper here
  • Thomas, R. and A. Schwartz. 1983. Variation in Hispaniolan Sphaerodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae), In: A. G. J. Rhodin and K. Miyata (eds.), Advances in Herpetology and Evolutionary Biology. Essays in Honor of Ernest E. Williams. Museum of Comparative Zoology, pp. 86-98. - get paper here
 
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