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Ocellated Gecko
Sphaerodactylus argus Gosse, 1850

Current SSAR Comments:
Native to Cuba, Jamaica, and The Bahamas. It was introduced via cargo during the 1940s and is established on Key West and Stock Island, Monroe County, Florida (Savage, 1954, Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 57: 326–334; Duellman and Schwartz, 1958, Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Biological Sciences. 3: 181–324; Wilson and Porras, 1983, University of Kansas Special Publication : 1–89; Lawson et al., 1991, Herpetological Review 22: 11–12; Krysko and Sheehy, 2005, Caribbean Journal of Science 41: 169–172; Alfonso and Krysko, 2019, Sphaerodactylus argus argus. Pages 345–346 in Krysko et al. (Editors) Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida).

Range maps are based on curated specimens and provided gratis by CNAH.
(Created by Travis W. Taggart; Version: 2024.07.03.10.47.39)
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First instance(s) of published English names:
No historic English names have been assigned to this taxon yet.

Taxon Links:

  
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
  
The Reptile Database
  
NatureServe
  
iNaturalist
  
GenBank
  
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database

Pertinent LIterature:
1850 Gosse, Philip H. Description of a new genus and six new species of saurian reptiles. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2(6):344-348
1954 Savage, Jay M. Notulae herpetologicae- 1-7. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 57(3):326-334
1958 Duellman, William E. and Albert Schwartz. Amphibians and reptiles of southern Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History. Biological Sciences. 3(5):181–324
1983 Wilson, Larry D. and Louis Porras. The ecological impact of man on the South Florida herpetofauna. University of Kansas Special Publication (9):1-89
1991 Lawson, Robin, Philip G. Frank, and David L. Martin. A new gecko to the United States herpetofauna, with notes on geckoes of the Florida Keys. Herpetological Review 22(1):11-12

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