Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques COPE, 1862

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Jamaican Collared Geckolet, Jamaica Least Gecko
Synonym	Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques COPE 1862 Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques — BOULENGER 1885: 227 Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 496 Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques — RÖSLER 2000: 112 Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques — WILSON 2011
Distribution	Jamaica Type locality: Jamaica.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: ANSP 7555.
Diagnosis	DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL ofonly known female specimen 27 mm); dorsal scales keeled, flattened, imbricate, axilla to groin 20; no middorsal zone of granules or granular scales; ventrals smooth, flattened, cycloid, imbricate, axilla to groin 24; dorsal caudal scales keeled, flat-lying, imbricate, acute, ventral caudal scales cycloid, imbricate, possibly enlarged; snout relatively broad and rounded; scales of snout subhexagonal, weakly keeled, acute, cobble-like, becoming more elongate and subimbricate on frontal region; 3 supralabials to mid-eye; 1 post-nasal; 1 internasal; midbody scales 40. Dorsal ground color (as preserved) light brown; dorsal body pattern of scattered dark brown scales with little tendency toward grouping and formation of larger markings; dark brown median head stripe; 3 dark brown postocular stripes on each side of head; brown postauricular stripe proceeds caudad and fades in scapular region; dark brown preocular stripe; just anterior to scapular region a pale yellow, slightly sinuous collar 3+ (anterior to posterior) scales wide at maximum; venter unicolor paler brown than dorsal ground color; a few isolated dark spots laterally on throat (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 496).
Comment	For illustrations see Barbour, 1921; Thomas and Schwartz, 1974. Conservation: Presumably extinct (Powell & Henderson 2012, G. Rodda, pers. comm., 16 Dec 2014). Abundance: only known from the type specimen (Meiri et al. 2017).
References	Barbour, T. 1910. Notes on the herpetology of Jamaica. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 52: 273—301 - get paper here Barbour, T. 1921. Sphaerodactylus. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool. (Harvard) 47: 215-282. - get paper here Boulenger, G.A. 1885. Catalogue of the lizards in the British Museum (Nat. Hist.) I. Geckonidae, Eublepharidae, Uroplatidae, Pygopodidae, Agamidae. London: 450 pp. - get paper here Cope, E.D. 1862. On the genera Panolopus, Centropyx, Aristelliger and Sphaerodactylus. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 13 [1861]: 494-500. - 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 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. Thomas, R. and Schwartz, A. 1974. The status of Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques Cope, and of Sphaerodactylus nigropumictatus Gray (Sauria, Gekkonidae). Journal of Herpetology 8 (4): 353-358 - get paper here Wilson, Byron S. 2011. Conservation of Jamaican amphibians and reptiles. In: Hailey et al., eds, Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas Volume 2: 273-310 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List Google images

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