Sphaerodactylus beattyi GRANT, 1937
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Sphaerodactylus beattyi
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| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | Sphaerodactylus beattyi seamani THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1966 Sphaerodactylus beattyi beattyi GRANT 1937 |
| Common Names | E: Saint Croix Geckolet, Saint Croix's sphaero, Beatty's Least Gecko, |
| Synonym | Sphaerodactylus beattyi GRANT 1937: 508 Sphaerodactylus beattyi — BURT & MYERS 1942 Sphaerodactylus beattyi — THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1966: 249 Sphaerodactylus beattyi beattyi — THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1966: 250 Sphaerodactylus beattyi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 471 Sphaerodactylus beattyi — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus beattyi — RÖSLER 2000: 110 Sphaerodactylus beattyi beattyi — DE LISLE et al. 2013 Sphaerodactylus beattyi seamani THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1966 Sphaerodactylus beattyi seamani THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1966: 252 Sphaerodactylus beattyi seamani — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 170 Sphaerodactylus beattyi seamani — DE LISLE et al. 2013 |
| Distribution | US Virgin Islands, St. Croix, Green Cay, Buck Island Type locality: Good Hope, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (however, S. beattyi appears not to occur at the stated type-locality). seamani: St. Croix; Type locality: Ca. 0.5 mi. E Mt. Fancy, St. Croix, U. S. Virgin Islands. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: UMMZ 80567 Holotype: MCZ 81056, an adult male, collected on 7 August 1965 by David C. Leber and Richard Thomas. Paratypes: AMNH, KU, MCZ, UF, INHS (= UIMNH), USNM [seamani] |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 30 mm, in females to 29 mm); dorsals small, acute to cycloid, weakly keeled, slightly swollen, slightly imbricate, axilla to groin 34-44; no middorsal area of granules or granular scales; ventrals smooth to completely keeled. cycloid. imbricate. axilla to groin 26-36; dorsal caudal scales small, acute to cycloid, keeled, slightly swollen and slightly erected, ventral caudal scales smooth, cycloid, enlarged midventrally; snout moderate, not depressed or decurved; snout scales small, narrow, flat, slightly imbricate; 1 postnasal; 0-3 (mode 1) internasals; upper labials to mideye 3; gular scales keeled; chest scales smooth to keeled; midbody scales 57-64; escutcheon compact with no extensions onto thighs, 4-6 x 8-12. Pattern not sexually dichromatic; dorsum uniform brown or yellowish brown Uuveniles) or more or less uniform reticulate darker brown; head buff to cream with faint middorsal and supraocular stripes, or with bold, dark, trilineate pattern; sacral pattern a pale Y with elongate extension onto tail; venter grayish, yellowish gray, white; throat yellow, orange, whitish, unpatterned or with light to moderate mottling and striations; iris golden (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 471). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Grant, 1937; Thomas and Schwartz, 1966; MacLean, 1982. |
| Etymology | Named after Harry Andrew Beatty (1902-1989) from St. Croix. See Beolens et al. 2011 for more biographical details. |
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