Sphaerodactylus cinereus WAGLER, 1830
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Sphaerodactylus cinereus
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| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | Sphaerodactylus cinereus stejnegeri COCHRAN 1931 Sphaerodactylus cinereus cinereus WAGLER 1830 |
| Common Names | E: Haitian Broad-banded Geckolet, Gray Gecko G: Aschgrauer Kugelfingergecko |
| Synonym | Sphaerodactylus cinereus WAGLER 1830:143 Sphariodactylus [sic] cinereus — MACLEAY 1834:12 Sphaerodactylus cinereus — COCHRAN 1941 Sphaerodactylus cinereus — BURT & MYERS 1942 Sphaerodactylus cinereus cinereus — GRAHAM & SCHWARTZ 1978 Sphaerodactylus cinereus cinereus — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 477 Sphaerodactylus cinereus — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus cinereus — RÖSLER 2000: 111 Sphaerodactylus cinereus cinereus — POWELL & HENDERSON 2012 Sphaerodactylus cinereus stejnegeri COCHRAN 1931 Sphaerodactylus stejnegeri COCHRAN 1931 Sphaerodactylus stejnegeri — THOMAS & SCHWARTZ 1966 Sphaerodactylus cinereus stejnegeri — GRAHAM & SCHWARTZ 1978 Sphaerodactylus cinereus stejnegeri — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 478 Sphaerodactylus cinereus stejnegeri — POWELL & HENDERSON 2012 |
| Distribution | Antilles, Haiti (Jeremi), Hispaniola Type locality: St.-Domingue (= Haiti). |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: iconotype, based on Lacépède's, 1788, le sputateur. Holotype: USNM 76640 [stejnegeri] |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 32 mm, in females to 32 mm); dorsals flattened to slightly swollen, smooth, cycloid, slightly imbricate, axilla to groin 40-61; no area of middorsal granules or granular scales; ventrals smooth, flattened, cycloid, imbricate, axilla to groin 27-38; dorsal caudal scales smooth, flat-lying, cycloid, imbricate, ventral caudal scales smooth, cycloid, imbricate, enlarged midventrally; tail often swollen and disproportionately broad (= "fat"); head scales granular, relatively large, cobble-like, and tending toward conical; 1 postnasal; 0-2 (mode 1) internasals; upper labials to mideye 4-5 (mode 4); central gular scales smooth; chest scales smooth; midbody scales 46-65; escutcheon relatively large, compact, and with extensions well onto thighs, 2-7 x 7-23. Pattern strongly sexually dichromatic; dorsum (males) patternless tan to very pale gray; head and tail bright yellow-orange; dorsum (females) with 2 black body bands, either boldly outlined with white or very clear pale gray (the dorsal ground color); a black occipital band joined by 2 canthal lines, enclosing pale snout; snout with or without median dark line or figure; a black nuchal band; interspaces between dark bands with either fine wavy lines or scribblings, or bold, heavy, and dark interband markings (by subspecies); occipital band may be complete across throat (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 477). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Lacépède, 1788; Mertens, 1939; Cochran, 1941 (as S. steinegeri); Grant, 1949 (as S. steinegeri); Thomas and Schwartz, 1966 (as S. steinegeri); Graham and Schwartz, 1978 [all fide SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991]. Distribution: Not listed by CROTHER 2000 for North America. Reprots from Florida (e.g. in HOLANOVA 2003) are in error and based on confusion with S. elegans. Hatchlings and juveniles are banded while adults are speckled (see HOLANOVA 2003). Not listed by Krysko & Daniels (2005). Diagnosis (stejnegeri): “Dorsals imbricate, smooth, 14-16 in the standard distance bertween center of eye and tip of snout; no differentiated mid-dorsal zone.” (Cochran 1931). |
| Etymology | Named after its color, Latin “cinis, cineris” = ash. |
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