Sphaerodactylus parkeri (GRANT, 1939)
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Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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Common Names | E: South Jamaican Banded Geckolet, Parker's Least Gecko |
Synonym | Spliacrodactylus parkeri GRANT 1939: 8 Sphaerodactylus parkeri — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 521 Sphaerodactylus parkeri — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus parkeri — RÖSLER 2000: 113 Sphaerodactylus parkeri — WILSON 2011 |
Distribution | Antilles, Jamaica, St. Elisabeth`s
Type locality: Alligator Pond, Manchester Parish, Jamaica.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: MCZ 45005. |
Diagnosis | Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1051 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details. |
Comment | For illustrations see Barbour, 1921 (as S. richardsoni); Grant, 1939; Grant, 1940. |
Etymology | Named after Dr. Hampton Wildman Parker (1897-1968), an English zoologist who studied in Cambridge. |
References |
- Barbour, T. 1921. Sphaerodactylus. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. (Harvard) 47: 215-282. - 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
- Grant, C. 1939. Two new sphaerodactyls from Jamaica. Copeia 1939 (1): 7-13. - get paper here
- Grant, C. 1940. The herpetology of Jamaica Il. The reptiles. Bull. Inst. Jamaica., Sci. Ser. 1: 61-148.
- 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.
- Wilson, B.S. & Vogel, P. 2000. A survey of the herpetofauna of the Hellshire Hills, Jamaica, including the rediscovery of the Blue-tailed Galliwasp (Celestus duquesneyi Grant). Carib. J. Sci. 36: 244-249
- Wilson, Byron S. 2011. Conservation of Jamaican amphibians and reptiles. In: Hailey et al., eds, Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas Volume 2: 273-310 - get paper here
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