Sphaerodactylus richardsoni GRAY, 1845

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies	Sphaerodactylus richardsonii gossei GRANT 1939 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii richardsonii GRAY 1845
Common Names	E: Northern Jamaica Banded Geckolet, Richardson's Least Gecko
Synonym	Sphaerodactylus Richardsoni GRAY 1845:168 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii — BOULENGER 1885: 227 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii — BARBOUR 1910: 290 Sphaerodactylus richardsoni richardsoni — GRANT 1940: 78 Sphaerodactylus richardsoni — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 527 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii — RÖSLER 2000: 114 Sphaerodactylus richardsoni — WILSON 2011 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii gossei GRANT 1939 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii gossei GRANT 1939: 10 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii gossei — GRANT 1940: 76 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii gossei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1988: 190 Sphaerodactylus richardsonii gossei — DE LISLE et al. 2013
Distribution	Antilles, Jamaica richardsoni: known with certainty only from vicinity of Montego Bay. Type locality: "America"; restricted to Montego Bay, St. James Parish, Jamaica, by Grant, 1939. gossei: known with certainty only from north coastal region of Jamaica. Altitudinal distribution sea level to 260 ft. Type locality: Mouth of Roaring River, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1946.8.26.51, female (formerly 1845.2.20.5) Holotype: MCZ 45015, adult female (given as “Grant collection 2149” by Grant 1939 [gossei]
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Comment	For illustrations see Grant, 1940. The main distinction between S. r. richardsoni and S. r. gossei is the presence of unicolor males in the nominate subspecies versus essentially female-colored males in S. r. gossei.
Etymology	Named after the collector or donor, “Presented by Dr. Richardson” (Gray 1845: 169) S. r. gossei was named after P. H.Gosse who wrote “A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica.” (1851) and who collected the types of Sphaerodactylus richardsoni.
References	Barbour, T. 1910. Notes on the herpetology of Jamaica. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 52: 273—301 - 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 Grant, C. 1939. Two new sphaerodactyls from Jamaica. Copeia 1939 (1): 7-13. - get paper here Grant, C. 1940. The herpetology of Jamaica Il. The reptiles. Bull. Inst. Jamaica., Sci. Ser. 1: 61-148. Gray, J. E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp. - 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. 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 National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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