Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis spanius, Thomas & Schwartz, 1966

Daza, Juan D., Pinto, Brendan J., Thomas, Richard, Herrera-Martinez, Alexandra, Scantlebury, Daniel P., Padilla García, Luis F., Balaraman, Rajesh P., Perry, Gad & Gamble, Tony, 2019, The sprightly little sphaerodactyl: Systematics and biogeography of the Puerto Rican dwarf geckos Sphaerodactylus (Gekkota, Sphaerodactylidae), Zootaxa 4712 (2), pp. 151-201 : 171-172

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5671217

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Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis spanius
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Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis spanius comb. nov. Thomas & Schwartz, 1966

Figures 22–23 View FIGURE 22 View FIGURE 23

Holotype — MCZ R-81047

Type locality: “ 17.7 km NE Utuado (~ about 8 km airline), 1100 feet, Puerto Rico.”

Diagnosis: SVL Min/Max (14.68/ 35.68 mm); midbody scales 41–47 (x̅ 43.6); males with elevated number of escutcheon scales (~95); ten toe lamellae on the fourth toe; males with marked lineated head pattern; males with marked reticular pattern; scapular patch reduced to a midcentral rectangle, and ocelli located on the periphery of the patch; scapular patch in contact with nuchal spots ( Padilla 2006).

Color in life ( Fig. 22 View FIGURE 22 ): Female: ground color light brown to straw, head and tail orange to light gray, head pattern well defined, medial lines separated and parallel, ocelli color white, or sometimes gray ( Thomas & Schwartz 1966). Male ground color light brown, head and tail orange. Iris color yellow, green, brown, copper, or golden.

Distribution: Uplands of the Cordillera Central and the Sierra of Cayey from 335 m to 850 m. Thomas & Schwartz (1966) report some intergrades with S. g. mimetes near Aibonito.

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Museum of Comparative Zoology

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