Sphaerodactylus savagei SHREVE, 1968

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies	Sphaerodactylus savagei juanilloensis SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus savagei savagei SHREVE 1968
Common Names	E: Altagracia Speckled Geckolet, Savage's Least Gecko
Synonym	Sphaerodactylus notatus savagei SHREVE 1968: 7 Sphaerodactylus difficilis — GRANT 1952: 187 (part.) Sphaerodactylus savagei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 532 Sphaerodactylus savagei — KLUGE 1993 Sphaerodactylus savagei — RÖSLER 2000: 114 Sphaerodactylus savagei savagei — DE LISLE et al. 2013 Sphaerodactylus savagei juanilloensis SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus notatus juanilloensis SHREVE 1968 Sphaerodactylus savagei juanilloensis — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991 Sphaerodactylus savagei juanilloensis — RÖSLER 2000: 114 Sphaerodactylus savagei juanilloensis — DE LISLE et al. 2013
Distribution	Hispaniola: Dominican Republic (Province El Seibo, Prov. La Altagracia), Isla Soana savagei: from La Romana to east side of Rio Chavôn. Type locality: La Romana, Altagracia, Dominican Republic juanilloensis: extreme eastern Repéblica Dominicana; Isla Saona. Type locality: Juanillo, Altagracia, DR. INCERTAE SEDIS: Material from Isla Catalinita and Sabana Grande de Palenque is not assigned to subspecies.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: CAS-SUR 14695, formerly SU 14695, female Holotype: MCZ 73901 [juanilloensis]
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Comment	Apparently most closely related to S. notatus difficilis.
Etymology	Named for Jay M. Savage, American herpetologist (born 1928). S. s. juanilloensis was named after the type locality, Juanillo.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Donnelly, Maureen A. D 2013. Jay M. Savage. Copeia Dec 2013, Vol. 2013, No. 4: 757-767. - 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. Shreve, B. 1968. The notatus group of Sphaerodactylus (Sauria, Gekkonidae) in Hispaniola. Breviora (280): 1-28 - get paper here Thomas R. and S. B. Hedges 1988. Two new geckos (Sphaerodactylus) from the Sierra Martin Garcia of Hispaniola. Herpetologica 44: 96-104. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://blackbook.org/~sullivan/indexes/sciIndexS-Z.html Google images

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