Sphaerodactylus schuberti THOMAS & HEDGES, 1998

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Higher Taxa	Sphaerodactylidae, Gekkota, Sauria, Squamata (lizards: geckos)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Neiba Agave Geckolet, Neiba Agave sphaero
Synonym	Sphaerodactylus schuberti THOMAS & HEDGES 1998 Sphaerodactylus schuberti — RÖSLER 2000: 114
Distribution	Hispaniola, Dominican Republic (xeric southern slopes of the Sierra de Neiba) Type locality: 5.1 km NW of La Descubierta, elevation 273 m, Independencia Province, Dominican Republic.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 512215
Diagnosis
Comment	Abundance: only known from its original description (Meiri et al. 2017).
Etymology	Named after Andreas Schubert, a German zoologist who lives in the Dominican Republic and works for the National Park Service.
References	Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - 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 24 (2): 262-273 - get paper here Rösler, H. 2000. Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha). Gekkota 2: 28-153 Thomas, Richard and S. Blair Hedges 1998. A new gecko from the Sierra de Neiba of Hispaniola (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Sphaerodactylus). Herpetologica 54 (3): 333-336 - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information Google images

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