Sphaerodactylus rhabdotus SCHWARTZ, 1970
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Sphaerodactylus rhabdotus
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| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Hispaniolan Two-striped Geckolet, Two-striped sphaero, Vallede Neiba Least Gecko |
| Synonym | Sphaerodactylus rhabdotus SCHWARTZ 1970: 64 Sphaerodactylus rhabdotus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 526 Sphaerodactylus rhabdotus — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus rhabdotus — RÖSLER 2000: 114 |
| Distribution | Hispaniola: Dominican Republic (Valle de Neiba) Type locality: 5 km SE La Florida, 500 ft. (153 m), Independencia Province, República Dominicana. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: USNM 166960. |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 31 mm, in females to 32 mm); dorsals keeled, only slightly imbricate, axilla to groin 20-28; a few small, keeled mid-dorsal scales in shoulder region; no area of middorsal granules or granular scales; ventrals smooth, cycloid, imbricate, axilla to groin 24-31; dorsal caudal scales keeled, erected, acute, imbricate, ventral caudal scales cycloid, imbricate, not enlarged midventrally; snout blunt, not depressed or decurved; snout scales small, broad, swollen, smooth, juxtaposed; 3 postnasals; 1-3 (strongly modally 2) intemasals; upper labials to mideye 4-6 (strongly modally 4); gular scales smooth; chest scales smooth; midbody scales 36-44; escutcheon 5-9 x 7-25. Color weakly sexually dichromatic; dorsum pink (almost lavender) to very pale gray; a dorso- lateral pair of brown to black lines, usually entire and without interruption; head with an occipital Y but variable in expression from clear and distinct to somewhat blurred, stem of Y at times leading to brown median dorsal line to make dorsal body pattern trilineate; male head and snout yellow; tail in both sexes yellow (more pronounced in males); iris brown with golden pupillary ring, or gray (Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 526). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Schwartz, 1970; Schwartz and Graham, 1980 (fig. 2C). |
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