Sphaerodactylus elasmorhynchus THOMAS, 1966

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Shield-snouted Geckolet, Marche Leon Least Gecko
Synonym	Sphaerodactylus elasmorhynchus THOMAS 1966:1 Sphaerodactylus elasmorhynchus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 490 Sphaerodactylus elasmorhynchus — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus elasmorhynchus — RÖSLER 2000: 111
Distribution	Hispaniola: Haiti (Naco River/Cofradia) Type locality: Ca. 5 km (airline) SSE Marché Léon, Département de la Grand'Anse, Haiti.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: MCZ 81119.
Diagnosis	DESCRIPTION: Size very small (SVL in only female 17 mm); dorsals granular, sub-imbricate, keeled, more swollen on flanks than middorsally, axilla to groin 56; no area of middorsal granules or granular scales; ventrals large, cycloid, flattened, smooth, imbricate (no count possible); dorsal caudal scales flattened, flat-lying, acute, keeled, imbricate, ventral caudal scales flattened, flat-lying, cycloid, smooth, midventral row enlarged; snout covered by large, plate-like scales (rostral, supra-nasals, postnasals, labials), scales on snout behind plates swollen, subimbricate to imbricate, keeled; gular scales granular; chest scales smooth; midbody scales uncountable; supralabials to mideye 3. Dorsum dark brown with dark-edged, orange-centered ocelli on body and tail; ocelli arranged in 6 irregular rows on body, those of dorsolateral rows largest and most prominent, those of paramedian and ventrolateral rows smaller and less distinct; head with pair of light, transversely elongate occipital markings, and faint pair of forked, dark postocular stripes; sacrum with pair of enlarged light diagonal markings whose dark margins unite to form sacral U; tail with 2 dorsal rows of ocelli; throat lightly pigmented, with longitudinal streaks but with light central area (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 490).
Comment	For illustrations see Thomas, 1966. Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017).
References	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. 1966. A new Hispaniolan gecko. Breviora (253): 1-5. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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