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Big scaled least gecko

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Reptilia

Family
  
Gekkonidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Chordata

Order
  
Squamata

Subfamily
  
Gekkoninae

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Scientific name
  
Sphaerodactylus macrolepis

Similar
  
Sphaerodactylus, Fantastic least gecko, Island least gecko, Reef gecko, Ocellated gecko

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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. It is one of over 100 species in the genus Sphaerodactylus.

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.

References

Big-scaled least gecko Wikipedia