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Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum PETERS & SCHWARTZ, 1977

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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Cuban Bromeliad Geckolet, El Yunque Least Gecko 
SynonymSphaerodactylus bromeliarum PETERS & SCHWARTZ 1977: 395
Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum — SCHWARTZ & GARRIDO 1985
Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 473
Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum — KLUGE 1993
Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum — RÖSLER 2000: 111 
DistributionCuba (Western part of El Yunque de Baracoe, above Tabojó, 15 km west of Baracoe, Oriente Province)

Type locality: Western slope of El Yunque de Baracoa, above Tabojó, 15 km W Baracoa, Guantánamo Province, Cuba.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: ZMB 42827. 
DiagnosisAdditional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1041 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. 
CommentFor illustrations see Peters and Schwartz, 1977. The year of description has been given as “1972”.

Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017).

Reference images: see Uetz et al. 2024 for high-resolution reference images for this species. 
EtymologyNamed after its preference for bromeliads. 
References
  • Iturriaga, Manuel and Adonis González. 2015. Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum size record. Herpetological Review 46 (4): 635 - 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
  • Peters, G. and A. Schwartz 1977. Ein neuer, Bromelien bewohender Kugelfingergecko (Gekkonidae: Sphaerodactylus) aus Oriente/Cuba. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin 48: 393-399.
  • 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
  • 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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