Sphaerodactylus storeyae explained

Sphaerodactylus storeyae, also known commonly as the Isle of Pines sphaero or the Los Canarreos geckolet, is a small species of gecko, a lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Isla de la Juventud in Cuba.

Etymology

The specific name, storeyae, is in honor of American herpetologist Margaret Hamilton Storey.^[1]

Habitat

The preferred habitats of S. storeyae are forest and shrubland.

Reproduction

S. storeyae is oviparous.

Further reading

• Grant C (1944). "New sphaerodactyls from Cuba and the Isle of Pines". Herpetologica 2: 118–125. (Sphaerodactylus storeyae, new species, p. 125).
• Hedges SB, Garrido OH (1993). "A New Species of Gecko (Sphaerodactylus) from Central Cuba". Journal of Herpetology 27 (3): 300–306. (Sphaerodactylus storeyae, p. 300). (in English, with an abstract in Spanish).
• Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Sphaerodactylus oliveri storeyae, p. 114). (in German).
• Schwartz A (1961). "A Review of the Geckoes of the Sphaerodactylus scaber Group of Cuba". Herpetologica 17 (1): 19–26. (Sphaerodactylus oliveri storeyae, new combination, p. 25).
• Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville, Florida: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. . (Sphaerodactylus oliveri storeyae, p. 518).

Notes and References

1. Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Sphaerodactylus storeyae, p. 256).