Sphaerodactylus microlepis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Gekkonoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Lacertilia Infraordo: Gekkota Parvordo: Gekkomorpha Superfamilia: Gekkonoidea

Familia: Sphaerodactylidae
Genus: Sphaerodactylus
Species: Sphaerodactylus microlepis
Subspecies (2): S. m. microlepis – S. m. thomasi

Name

• Sphaerodactylus microlepis Reinhardt & Lütken, 1862: 278

Holotype: ZMUC R-34461.

Type locality: “St. Croix”, corrected to “St. Lucia” by Barbour (1921: 267).

References

Primary references

• Reinhardt, J. & Lütken, C. 1862. Bidrag til det vestindiske Öriges og navnligen til de dansk-vestindiske Öers Herpetologie. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra den naturhistoriske Forening i Kjöbenhavn series 2, 4: 153–291. BHL Reference page. 
• Barbour, T. 1921. Sphaerodactylus. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 47: 215–282. BHL

Links

• Uetz, P., Freed, P., Aguilar, P., Reyes, R., Kudera, F. & Hošek, J. (eds.) 2025. Sphaerodactylus microlepis. The Reptile Database. Accessed on 9 June 2018.

Vernacular names

English: Little-scaled Least Gecko