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 |
Salamanquita sphaerodactylus macrolepis big scaled least gecko
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(Text) CC BY-SA