Sphaerodactylus altavelensis NOBLE, 1933
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Sphaerodactylus altavelensis
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| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | Sphaerodactylus altavelensis brevirostratus SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis enriquilloensis SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis lucioi THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1983 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis altavelensis NOBLE & HASSLER 1933 |
| Common Names | E: Hispaniolan Desert Geckolet, Alto Velo Least Gecko, Alto Velo sphaero |
| Synonym | Sphaerodactylus altavelensis NOBLE & HASSLER 1933: 7 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis — COCHRAN 1941 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis altavelensis — THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1983 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 464 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis — RÖSLER 2000: 110 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis brevirostratus SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus brevirostratus brevirostratus SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis brevirostratus — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975:143 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis brevirostratus — THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1983 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis brevirostratus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 167 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis brevirostratus — DE LISLE et al. 2013 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis enriquilloensis SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus brevirostratus enriquilloensis SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis enriquilloensis — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975:143 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis enriquilloensis — THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1983 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis enriquilloensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 167 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis enriquilloensis — DE LISLE et al. 2013 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis lucioi THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1983: 94 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis lucioi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 167 Sphaerodactylus altavelensis lucioi — DE LISLE et al. 2013 |
| Distribution | Hispaniola, Alta Velo, Dominican Republic, Haiti (Department de l'Ouest, Indepedencia Province), Ile a Cabrit Type locality: “Alta Vela Island, Dominican Republic” brevirostratus: Haiti; Type-locality: 5 km S Dufort, south of Leogane, Departement de l'Ouest, Haiti. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: AMNH 51488. Holotype. MCZ 156208, adult male, collected 9 July 1978 by native collectors. Paratypes ASFS [lucioi] Holotype: MCZ 57846, a male, collected by Clayton E. Ray and A. Stanley Rand, August 22, 1958. Paratypes: AMNH, MCZ [enriquilloensis] Holotype: MCZ 63234, a female, collected by A. Stanley Rand and James D. Lazell, Jr., July 31, 1960. Paratypes: AMNH, MCZ, USNM [brevirostratus] |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size small (SVL in males to 28 mm, in females to 29 mm); dorsals large, acute, strongly keeled, flattened, imbricate, axilla to groin 20-36; no area of middorsal granules or granular scales; ventrals smooth, cycloid, imbricate, axilla to groin 22-32; dorsal caudal scales keeled, acute, imbricate, flat-lying, ventral caudal scales smooth, cycloid, enlarged midventrally; snout blunt, not depressed or decurved; snout scales moderate, rounded, keeled, juxtaposed, cobble-like to weakly raised on posterior edge, or weakly imbricate; 2 postnasals; 0-3 inter- nasals; upper labials to mideye 3; central gular scales smooth to keeled; chest scales smooth; midbody scales 36-62; escutcheon with broad central area and extensions onto thighs to underside of knee, 3-8 x 11-27. Pattern weakly sexually dichromatic; males with yellow throat and reduced pattern, occasionally unicolor; pattern of paired light areas on upper surface of head, followed by second pair on occiput and neck; dark scapular patch and scapular ocelli surrounded by contin- uous light border (concave anteriorly, convex posteriorly); dorsal pattern dark- spotted or lineate, or combination of both; venter pale with dark lines; throat with dark lines or mottling; sacral pattern dorsolateral light and dark lines; tail with dark middorsal zone and series of irregular ocelli (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 464). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Shreve, 1968 (as S. brevirostratus brevirostratus); Thomas and Schwartz, 1983; Thomas and Hedges, 1988. |
| Etymology | Named after the type locality. |
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