Sphaerodactylus corticola GARMAN, 1888
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Sphaerodactylus corticola
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| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | Sphaerodactylus corticola aporrox SCHWARTZ 1968 Sphaerodactylus corticola campter SCHWARTZ 1968 Sphaerodactylus corticola soter SCHWARTZ 1968 Sphaerodactylus corticola corticola GARMAN 1888 |
| Common Names | E: Central Bahamas Geckolet, Rum Cay Least Gecko |
| Synonym | Sphaerodactylus corticolus GARMAN 1888:111 Sphaerodactylus corticola — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 483 Sphaerodactylus corticola — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus corticola — RÖSLER 2000: 111 Sphaerodactylus corticola aporrox SCHWARTZ 1968 Sphaerodactylus corticola aporrox SCHWARTZ 1968: 240 Sphaerodactylus corticola aporrox — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 174 Sphaerodactylus corticola aporrox — DE LISLE et al. 2013 Sphaerodactylus corticola campter SCHWARTZ 1968 Sphaerodactylus corticola campter SCHWARTZ 1968: 237 Sphaerodactylus corticola campter — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 174 Sphaerodactylus corticola campter — DE LISLE et al. 2013 Sphaerodactylus corticola soter SCHWARTZ 1968 Sphaerodactylus corticola soter SCHWARTZ 1968: 232 Sphaerodactylus corticola soter — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 174 Sphaerodactylus corticola soter — DE LISLE et al. 2013 |
| Distribution | Bahamas (East Plana Cay, Acklin's Island), Crooked Island, North Cay, Fish Cay, Castle Island, Rum Cay), San Salvador Island corticola: Rum Cay. Type locality: Rum Cay, Bahama Islands. apporox: East Plana Cay. Type locality: East Plana Cay, Bahama Islands. campter: Crooked-Acklins Bank. Type locality: East of Snug Corner, Acklin's Island, Bahama Islands soter: San Salvador I. and satellites. Type locality: 1.3 mi. S Dixon Hill (= United Estates), San Salvador, Bahamas. INCERTAE SEDIS: The species may occur on Conception I.; material from Samanâ Cay, Bahama Is., is unassigned subspecifically. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Syntypes: MCZ 6219, USNM 52408 Holotype: AMNH 76146 [apporox] Holotype: CM 40636 [campter] Holotype: CM 40635 [soter] Holotype: AMNH 76146, an adult male, taken March 4, 1953 by George B. Rabb. PARATYPES: AMNH (5), UMMZ 115619 (10). [aporrox] |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 37 mm, in females to 39 mm); dorsals small, acute, strongly keeled, flattened, imbricate, axilla to groin 33-58; no area of middorsal granules or granular scales; ventrals smooth, cycloid, imbricate, axilla to groin 26-43; dorsal caudal scales keeled basally, smooth distally, acute, imbricate, flat-lying, ventral caudal scales smooth, cycloid, enlarged midventrally; snout blunt, short, broad; snout scales small, broad, flat, juxtaposed; 2 postnasals; 0-2 (mode 1) internasals; upper labials to mideye 3-4 (strongly modally 3); gular scales variable, from keeled to smooth, but keeling (if present) weak, not prominent, on only a few scales; chest scales smooth; midbody scales 48-84; escutcheon with short, compact, central area and extensions onto thighs to near underside of knee, 4-9 x 12-29. Dorsal pattern variable both between and within populations; weakly sexually dichromatic, often obscured by pattern variation within a population; dorsum medium brown to dark purplish brown in both sexes; dorsal pattern varies from rather uniform and fine flecking to heavy, dark, and light flecking and/or dotting (= giving "salt-and-pepper" effect), to large, discrete, but usually diffusely edged dark spots, which may fuse to give pattern of longitudinal markings; adult females occasionally with a pair of vague, paler dorsolateral lines (remnants of juvenile pattern); no scapular markings; head pattern variable, from absent to a weakly to prominently delineated figure composed of (maximally) a broad, postocular U and heavy, discrete, dark spots on snout and neck, snout spots often intermixed with scattered white to pale gray scales giving "frosted" effect; iris brown, blue, or gray (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 483). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Schwartz, 1968. |
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