Sphaerodactylus microlepis REINHARDT & LÜTKEN, 1862

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies	Sphaerodactylus microlepis thomasi SCHWARTZ 1965 Sphaerodactylus microlepis microlepis REINHARDT & LÜTKEN 1862
Common Names	E: Saint Lucia Geckolet, Little-scaled Least Gecko
Synonym	Sphaerodactylus microlepis REINHARDT & LÜTKEN 1862: 278 Sphaerodactylus melanospilos [DUMÉRIL 1873] Sphaerodactylus microlepis — BOULENGER 1885: 224 Sphaerodactylus microlepis — KING 1962: 27 Sphaerodactylus microlepis microlepis — SCHWARTZ 1965 Sphaerodactylus microlepis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 508 Sphaerodactylus microlepis — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus microlepis — RÖSLER 2000: 113 Sphaerodactylus microlepis microlepis — DE LISLE et al. 2013 Sphaerodactylus microlepis thomasi SCHWARTZ 1965 Sphaerodactylus microlepis thomasi SCHWARTZ 1965: 262 Sphaerodactylus microlepis thomasi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 183 Sphaerodactylus microlepis thomasi — DE LISLE et al. 2013
Distribution	Lesser Antilles: Santa Lucia, Dominica (? - no breeding population) microlepis: St. Lucia. Type locality: see comment, corrected to St. Lucia by Barbour, 1921. thomasi: St. Lucia; Type locality: southernmost of 2 Maria Is., Vieux Fort Quarter, St. Lucia.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ZMUC (UZM) R.34461 Holotype: MCZ 77229 [thomasi]
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1737 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	For illustrations see Barbour, 1921; King, 1962. Distribution: Not in Costa Rica fide SAVAGE 2002 and SAVAGE & BOLANOS 2009. The type locality was originally given erroneously as "St. Croix". Not in Martinique, Isla Monito, or the British Virgin Islands.
References	Barbour, T. 1921. Sphaerodactylus. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. (Harvard) 47: 215-282. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here Bourgade, Marcel 2020. Sphaerodactyls endemic to South Eastern of Martinique and geological history of the Eastern Caribbean: Demonstration of a 4th species S. X sp. presents on the peninsula of Sainte Anne, supposed center of dispersion of the common ancestor of Sphaeroda Lulu Press, - get paper here Duméril, A. H. A. 1873. Sphaerodactylus melanospilos. p. 44. In: Duméril, A. H. A., M.-F. Bocourt, and F. Mocquard. 1870-1909. Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l’Amérique Centrale, recherches zoologiques. Part 3, section l. Imprimerie Nationale, Paris. - get paper here King, W. 1962. Systematics of Lesser Antillean lizards of the genus Sphaerodactylus. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences, 7:1-52 - get paper here Malhotra, A. & Thorpe, R.S. 1999. Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean. MacMillan, London & Oxford Reinhardt, JOHANNES & CHRISTIAN FREDERIK LÜTKEN 1862. Bidrag tii det vestindiske Öriges og navnligen tii de dansk-vestindiske Oers Herpetologie. Vidensk. Meddel. Naturhist. For. Kjöbenhavn (10-18): 153-291 [1862] - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Schwartz, A. 1965. A new subspecies of the gecko Sphaerodactylus microlepis. Herpetologica 21: 261-269 - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Thorpe, R.S. 2022. Reptiles of the Lesser Antilles. Chimaira, Frankfurt, 608 pp. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.kingsnake.com/westindian/diapsida1.html Google images

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