MCZ Herpetology R-12304

Sphaerodactylus scaber

Holotype of Sphaerodactylus scaber

Date Collected:

1918-01-01/1918-12-31

Central America: Cuba: Holguin Province: West Indies: Greater Antilles: Cuba | Sierra de San Juan de Perus, N. Camaguey

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Current Identification
Sphaerodactylus scaber
Animalia Chordata Reptilia Lepidosauromorpha Squamata Sauria Gekkonidae
Determiner: Thomas Barbourlinked data icon; Charles T. Ramsden
Nature of ID: type ID
Remarks: Barbour&Ramsden/1919; Identification Made Date: 1919

Barbour and Ramsden 1919, page 127, Holotype of Sphaerodactylus scaber
Media type: text; Barbour and Ramsden 1919 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XLVII;

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Shows Publication: Barbour and Ramsden 1919 Description: MCZ Memoirs Vol. XLVII

  • muse location number: ZR12304

Part Condition Disposition Count
tissue (95% ethanol) good in collection 1 History
Remarks: liver; sub-sampled as part of NSF CSBR Holotype grant; transferred to MCZ-CRYO on 2021-11-23
subsampled by = Rina Morisawa   determined date=2021-11-18   determined by=Rina Morisawa  
whole animal (ethanol) fair in collection 1 History (5)
Remarks: detached tail

Attribute Value Determination On
sex female By: Thomas Barbour 1929-12-31
Remarks: noted in Barbour and Loveridge 1929 type list
associated grant Preserving the genomes of the type specimens in the MCZ (CSBR) By: Rina Morisawa 2021-11-23

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  • Continent:
  • Central America
  • Country:
  • Cuba
  • State/Province:
  • Holguin Province
  • Island Group:
  • West Indies: Greater Antilles
  • Island:
  • Cuba
Specimens with same Higher Geography
Specimens from the same Locality
Specimens from the same Collecting Event
  • Specific Locality:
  • Sierra de San Juan de Perus, N. Camaguey
  • Verbatim Locality:
  • Sierra de San Juan de Perus,N.Camaguey CUba
  • Georeference:
  • 20.9986000°, -75.860800° (Error radius: 2km) By: Cesar Buitrago (MCZ) on 2004-11-02 (Source: Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer)
  • Datum:
  • WGS84
  • Radial of Feature:
  • 1980 m
  • Coordinates Entered As:
  • decimal degrees
  • Collecting Source:
  • wild caught
  • Began Date / Ended Date:
  • 1918-01-01 / 1918-12-31
  • Verbatim Date:
  • 1918-1918
  • Collector:
  • Samuel Walton Garmanlinked data icon

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Media type: text; Herpetology R-12301; R-12302; R-12303; R-12304; R-12305; R-12306; R-12307; R-12308; R-12309; R-12310; R-12311; R-12312; R-12313; R-12314; R-12315; R-12316; R-12317; R-12318; R-12319; R-12320; R-12321; R-12322; R-12323; R-12324; R-12325 Description: MCZ Herpetology Reptiles 008001-014025, pg.173;

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