Sphaerodactylus argus
Gosse, 1850
SSAR 9th Edition 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). The English name West Caribbean Ocellated Geckolet is used by Hedges et al. (2019, Caribbean Herpetology (67): 1–53).
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Province/State Distribution:
USA: Florida
First instance(s) of published English names:
West Caribbean Ocellated Geckolet (Sphaerodactylus argus: Hedges, S. Blair, Robert Powell, Robert W. Henderson, Sarah Hanson, and John C. Murphy. 2019. Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist
and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and
reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology (67):1–53);
Catalog of American Amphibians and Reptiles
The Reptile Database
GenBank
USGS - Nonindigenous Aquatic Species Database
Selected References:
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1850
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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
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1954
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Savage, Jay M. Notulae herpetologicae- 1-7. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 57(3):326-334
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1958
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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
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1973
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Schwartz, Albert Sphaerodactylus. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles (142):1-2
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1983
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Wilson, Larry D. and Louis Porras. The ecological impact of man on the South Florida herpetofauna. University of Kansas Special Publication (9):1-89
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1991
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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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2019
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Hedges, S. Blair, Robert Powell, Robert W. Henderson, Sarah Hanson, and John C. Murphy. Definition of the Caribbean Islands biogeographic region, with checklist
and recommendations for standardized common names of amphibians and
reptiles. Caribbean Herpetology (67):1–53
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