Sphaerodactylus asterulus SCHWARTZ & GRAHAM, 1980
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Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
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Common Names | E: Haitian Stippled Geckolet, Haitian Least Gecko |
Synonym | Sphaerodactylus asterulus SCHWARTZ & GRAHAM 1980: 8 Sphaerodactylus asterulus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 470 Sphaerodactylus asterulus — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus asterulus — RÖSLER 2000: 110 |
Distribution | Haiti Type locality: 9.3 km W Ça Soleil, 92 m, Département de l'Artibonite, Haiti. |
Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: CM 60521. |
Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 31 mm, in females to 31 mm); dorsals keeled, slightly imbricate to nonimbricate, axilla to groin 17-24; no area of middorsal granules or granular scales; ventrals smooth, imbricate, cycloid, axilla to groin 25-33; dorsal caudal scales keeled, erected, acute, imbricate, ventral caudal scales slightly acute, imbricate, not enlarged midventrally~ snout blunt, not depressed or decurved; snout scales small, broad, swollen, smooth, slightly imbricate; 2 postnasals; 1-4 (strongly modally 2) internasals; upper labials to mideye 3-5 (strongly modally 4); central gular scales smooth; chest scales smooth; midbody scales 33-42; escutcheon 1-9 x 6-21. Dorsal pattern rather weakly sexually dichromatic; dorsum with 2 dark brown dorsolateral and dark brown lateral lines on purplish tan ground; dorsolateral lines with a series of tiny white dots, each encompassing a granule (on neck) or a portion of a dorsal scale (on body), as many as 12 on each side; a dark brown nuchal Y, which may disappear or become more diffuse with increasing size or darker ground, Y most often represented only by its stem in males, complete in females; heads yellowish to yellow in males, only faintly yellowish in females; throat and tail bright yellow in males; often with some sort of stippled, lineate, or reticulate dark throat pattern in both sexes, more pronounced and frequent in males (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 470). |
Comment | For illustrations see Schwartz and Graham, 1980 (Fig. 2D). |
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