Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis subsp. grandisquamis grandisquamis Stejneger 1904

Sphaerodactylus grandisquamis grandisquamis Stejneger, 1904 Figures 14���15 Holotype ��� USNM 27007 Type locality: ��� Luquillo, Porto Rico.��� Synonyms: Sphaerodactylus g. phoberus Thomas & Schwartz, 1966 Diagnosis: SVL Min/Max (17.79/ 34.08 mm); midbody scales 36���46 (x�� 41.2); scales on the snout are rounded (also in S. g. guarionex and S. g. stibarus); head ventral scales with faint keels (contrary to the other species where the keels are more defined); seven toe lamellae on the fourth toe; males with faint head pattern (also in S. g. guarionex and S. g. stibarus); males with faint throat pattern; females without throat pattern; males and females with a large hexagonal black scapular patch; ocelli enclosed on the scapular patch, and patch usually surrounded by a white margin (also in S. g. stibarus and S. g. ateles). Color in life (Fig. 14): Female: ground color brown to yellowish, head and tail fluctuates from orange to yellow, head pattern well defined, medial lines separated and parallel, ocelli color white. Males ground color brown to yellowish brown, head red-orange to yellowish. Iris color variable, greenish-yellow, black suffused with yellow, golden or grayish-yellow (Thomas & Schwartz 1966). Distribution: Low elevation coastal areas of northeastern Puerto Rico, Cayo Santiago and Cayo Batata, a transition to S. g. guarionex around San Juan and to S. g. mimetes in the Maunabo area.
Published as part of Daza, Juan D., Pinto, Brendan J., Thomas, Richard, Herrera-Martinez, Alexandra, Scantlebury, Daniel P., Padilla Garc��a, 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), pp. 151-201 in Zootaxa 4712 (2) on pages 167-168, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/3586953
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