Sphaerodactylus ramsdeni RUIBAL, 1959
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Sphaerodactylus ramsdeni
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| Higher Taxa | Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos) |
| Subspecies | |
| Common Names | E: Cuban Forest Geckolet, Ramsden's Least Gecko |
| Synonym | Sphaerodactylus ramsdeni RUIBAL 1959: 89 Sphaerodactylus ramsdeni — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 524 Sphaerodactylus ramsdeni — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus ramsdeni — RÖSLER 2000: 113 |
| Distribution | Cuba Type locality: Monte Libano, Guantánamo Province, Cuba. |
| Reproduction | oviparous |
| Types | Holotype: MCZ 8536. |
| Diagnosis | DESCRIPTION: Size moderate (SVL in males to 29 mm, in females to 30 mm); body relatively elongate, limbs small; dorsals small, more or less granular, smooth to very slightly keeled, only barely or not at all imbricate, axilla to groin 41-57; no area of middorsal granules or granular scales; ventrals smooth, imbricate, cycloid, axilla to groin 20-37; dorsal caudal scales acute, flat-lying, ventral caudal scales cycloid, flat-lying, enlarged midventrally; snout rather blunt, short; snout scales small, narrow, swollen, smooth, juxtaposed; 1 postnasal; 3-5 internasals; upper labials to mideye 2-3 (mode 2); supraorbital spine tiny; gular scales smooth; chest scales smooth; midbody scales 50-65; escutcheon small and compact, extending to behind knee in full adults, 5-6 x 13-22. Very weakly sexually dichromatic; dorsum (males) uniform very dark brown (chestnut); head with pale buffy to beige loreal-postorbital line on each side and buffy or beige diagonal line from eye to angle of jaws, the upper pale line at times continuing posteriorly over anterior quarter of body, and bordered above by a vague darker line (barely distinguishable from dorsal ground color); a single, tiny, buffy median ocellus, outlined in dark brown, at times present; a pair of sacral lines onto base of tail at times present; dorsum (females) like males and with male sacral pattern; head pattern more complete, composed of pale beige occipital U; often a single pale median occipital ocellus present but continuous on both sides with pale occipital U; anterior pale stripes present as in males but at times more or less continuous along dorsolateral portion of trunk and joining pale sacral lines, the entire complex outlined with darker brown; some specimens with only a single pale occipital ocellus plus remnants of pale cephalic U, or patternless (from Schwartz & Henderson 1991: 524). |
| Comment | For illustrations see Barbour and Ramsden, 1919 (as S. nigropunctatus). |
| Etymology | Named after Dr. Charles Theodore Ramsden (1876-1951), an entomologist, herpetologist, and naturalist who received his doctorate from Universidad de La Habana (1917). |
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