Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum PETERS & SCHWARTZ, 1977
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Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
Subspecies | |
Common Names | E: Cuban Bromeliad Geckolet, El Yunque Least Gecko |
Synonym | Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum PETERS & SCHWARTZ 1977: 395 Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 473 Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum — RÖSLER 2000: 111 |
Distribution | Cuba (Western part of El Yunque de Baracoe, above Tabojó, 15 km west of Baracoe, Oriente Province)
Type locality: Western slope of El Yunque de Baracoa, above Tabojó, 15 km W Baracoa, Guantánamo Province, Cuba.
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Reproduction | oviparous |
Types | Holotype: ZMB 42827. |
Diagnosis | |
Comment | For illustrations see Peters and Schwartz, 1977. The year of description has been given as “1972”.
Abundance: only known from the type locality (Meiri et al. 2017). |
Etymology | Named after its preference for bromeliads. |
References |
- Iturriaga, Manuel and Adonis González. 2015. Sphaerodactylus bromeliarum size record. Herpetological Review 46 (4): 635 - get paper here
- Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Allen Allison, Fernando Castro-Herrera, Laurent Chirio, Guarino Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Frank Glaw, Lee L. Grismer, Marinus Hoogmoed, Fred Kraus, Matthew LeBreton, Danny Meirte, Zoltán T. Nagy, Cristiano d 2017. Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions - get paper here
- Peters, G. and A. Schwartz 1977. Ein neuer, Bromelien bewohender Kugelfingergecko (Gekkonidae: Sphaerodactylus) aus Oriente/Cuba. Mitt. zool. Mus. Berlin 48: 393-399.
- Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Carlos A. Mancina & Vilma Rivalta González 2013. REPTILES OF CUBA: CHECKLIST AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTIONS. Smithsonian Herp. Inf. Serv. (144): 1-96 - 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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