Sphaerodactylus roosevelti, also known commonly as Roosevelt's beige sphaero or Roosevelt's least gecko, is a small species of lizard in the family Sphaerodactylidae. The species is endemic to Puerto Rico.
Etymology The specific name, roosevelti, is in honor of Theodore Roosevelt Jr., who was Governor of Puerto Rico in 1931.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. . (Sphaerodactylus roosevelti, p. 226).
Habitat The preferred habitats of S. roosevelti are forest and shrubland at altitudes of .
Description Adults of S. roosevelti have a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of . All dorsal scales are large, strongly keeled, flattened, and overlapping. There is no middorsal zone of granular scales.Thomas R, Schwartz A (1966). "Sphaerodactylus (Gekkonidae) in the Greater Puerto Rico Region". Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 10 (6): 193-260. (Sphaerodactylus roosevelti, pp. 234-236).
Reproduction S. roosevelti is oviparous.
References
Further reading Bauer AM, Russell AP, Shadwick RE (1990). "Skin mechanics and morphology of the gecko Sphaerodactylus roosevelti ". American Zoologist 30 (4): 570. Grant C (1931). "The sphaerodactyls of Porto Rico, Culebra and Mona islands". Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Puerto Rico 15: 199–213. (Sphaerodactylus roosevelti, new species, p. 203). Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. (Sphaerodactylus roosevelti, p. 114). (in German). Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. . (Sphaerodactylus roosevelti, p. 528). Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Sphaerodactylus roosevelti, pp. 160–161).