Big-scaled least gecko

Big-scaled Least Gecko
S. macrolepis in Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Researve, Aguirre, Puerto Rico
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Family:	Gekkonidae
Subfamily:	Gekkoninae
Genus:	Sphaerodactylus
Species:	S. macrolepis Günther, 1859
Binomial name
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis
Subspecies
S. m. macrolepis - Günther, 1859 S. m. ateles - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 S. m. grandisquamis - Stejneger, 1904 S. m. guarionex - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 S. m. inigoi - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 S. m. mimetes - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 S. m. parvus (see text) - King, 1962 S. m. phoberus - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 S. m. spanius - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 S. m. stibarus - Thomas & Schwartz 1966
Synonyms
Sphaerodactylus imbricatus - Fischer, 1881 Sphaerodactylus danforthi - Grant, 1931 Sphaerodactylus ateles - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis — Heatwole et al., 1963

The Big-scaled Least Gecko (Sphaerodactylus macrolepis) is a gecko mainly distributed in Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean. It is also found on the mainland in Costa Rica, Panama, and Colombia.

The former subspecies S. m. parvus, which is endemic to the Anguilla Bank (Anguilla, Saint Martin, and Saint Barthélemy) in the Lesser Antilles, was elevated to species level in 2001, as S. parvus.

See also

• Little-scaled Least Gecko
• Fauna of Puerto Rico
• List of amphibians and reptiles of Puerto Rico

References

• Malhotra, Anita; Thorpe, Roger S. (1999), Reptiles & Amphibians of the Eastern Caribbean, Macmillan Education Ltd., p. 55, ISBN 0-333-69141-5.
• Powell, Robert; Henderson, Robert W. (2001), "On the Taxonomic Status of Some Lesser Antillean Lizards", Carib. J. Sci. 37 (3-4): 288–290.

External links

• Media related to Sphaerodactylus macrolepis at Wikimedia Commons
• Sphaerodactylus macrolepis at the Encyclopedia of Life
• Sphaerodactylus macrolepis at the Reptile Database