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Aristelliger barbouri NOBLE & KLINGEL, 1932

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Higher TaxaSphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies 
Common NamesE: Inagua Croaking Gecko, Striped Caribbean Gecko 
SynonymAristelliger barbouri NOBLE & KLINGEL 1932:4
Aristelligella barbouri — NOBLE & KLINGEL 1932
Aristelliger cochranae barbouri — HECHT 1951
Aristelliger (Aristelligella) cochranae barbouri — HECHT 1952
Aristelliger barbouri — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 358
Aristelliger barbouri — RÖSLER 2000: 60 
DistributionBahamas

Type locality: South West Point, Great Inagua Island, Bahama Islands.  
Reproductionoviparous 
TypesHolotype: AMNH 45829. 
DiagnosisDESCRIPTION: Size small (SVL in males to 50 mm, in females to 46 mm); lateral
postmentals 1/2-3/4 as wide as first infralabial and in contact on midline; fourth finger lamellae 15-19; fourth toe lamellae 14-24; "friction pads" on 3 fingers and 2 outer toes. Dorsal pattern in adults develops from a "ladder" which fades with maturity but is usually visible; dorsum gray to brown, a series of 8 dark crossbands (typical of juveniles) separating pale gray rhombs, at times present but irregular and represented by transverse spots or streaks of brown or white; lateral band (continuations of black dorsal bands) brown, somewhat reddish, lateral light bands buff; sides barred with reddish brown and buff, may become flecked or streaked with white; tail banded yellowish to dark brown; hatchlings dark brown with 8 pale gray, saddle-shaped areas, feebly edged with white from occiput to tail; tail very dark brown with series of dorsal saddles continued on tail as white rings (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 358). 
CommentIllustrations: see Noble and Klingel, 1932. 
EtymologyNamed after Thomas Barbour (1884-1946), Associate Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians (1923), and, later, Director (1927) of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. 
References
  • Bauer, A. M. and A. P. Russell. 1993. Aristelliger barbouri. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (566) - get paper here
  • Bauer, A.M. and A.P. Russell 1993. Aristelliger. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (565): 1-4 - get paper here
  • Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here
  • DÍAZ, LUIS M. & S. BLAIR HEDGES 2009. First record of the genus Aristelliger (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) in Cuba, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 2028: 31-40 - get paper here
  • Hecht, M.K. 1951. Fossil lizards of the West Indian genus Aristelliger (Gekkonidae). American Museum Novitates (1538): 1-33 - get paper here
  • Hecht, M.K. 1952. Natural selection in the lizard genus Aristelliger. Evolution 6: 112-24. - get paper here
  • Klingel,G.C. 1940. The Ocean Island (Inagua). Dodd, Mead Co., NY: xii + 385 pp.
  • Loveridge, Arthur 1946. Thomas Barbour, Herpetologist: 1884-1946. Herpetologica 3 (2): 33-39 - get paper here
  • Noble, G. K. and G. C. Klingel. 1932. The reptiles of Great Inagua Island, British West Indies. American Museum Novitates 549: 1-25. - 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.
 
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