Scaly-toed round-fingered gecko

	Scaly-toed round-fingered gecko
	; Sphaerodactylus macrolepis at the National Research Reserve Hobos Bay in Aguirra, Puerto Rico.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryotes
Kingdom:	Animals
The kingdom :	Eumetazo
No rank :	Bilateral symmetric
No rank :	Recycled
Type of:	Chord
Subtype :	Vertebrates
Infratip :	Jaws
Above class :	Tetrapods
Class:	Reptiles
Subclass :	Diapsides
Infraclass :	Lepidozavromorfy
Nadotryad :	Lepidosaurus
Squad:	Scaly
Suborder :	Lizards
Infrastructure :	Gecko
Family:	Sphaerodactylidae
Rod:	Spiked geckos
View:	Scaly-toed round-fingered gecko
International Scientific Name
	Sphaerodactylus macrolepis Günther , 1859

Scaly-clawed gecko ^[1] (Latin Sphaerodactylus macrolepis ) is a species of the genus Sphaerodactylus of the gecko family ( Gekkonidae ).

This animal lives mainly in the Caribbean islands - Puerto Rico , Virgin Islands - both British and US. Occasionally also found in South and Central America - in Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia.

Considered earlier as a subspecies of S. m. parvus , whose representatives live in the Lesser Antilles - Anguilla, Sint Maarten and Sint Barthelemy - in 2001 was allocated to a separate species S. parvus . In general, the following subspecies are distinguished in the composition of the species Sphaerodactylus macrolepis :

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 above) - King, 1962
S. m. phoberus - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966
S. m. spanius - Thomas & Schwartz, 1966
S. m. stibarus - Thomas & Schwartz 1966

Notes

Ань Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I. S. , Orlov N. L. The Five-Language Dictionary of Animal Names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., 1988. - p. 201. - 10 500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .

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[1] Ань Ananyeva N. B. , Borkin L. Ya. , Darevsky I. S. , Orlov N. L. The Five-Language Dictionary of Animal Names. Amphibians and reptiles. Latin, Russian, English, German, French. / edited by Acad. V.E. Sokolova . - M .: Rus. lang., 1988. - p. 201. - 10 500 copies. - ISBN 5-200-00232-X .

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