Critically Endangered
Hispaniolan tailspot sphaero
Sphaerodactylus epiurus
Hispaniolan tailspot sphaero, also called Hispaniolan Tailspot Geckolet, is a dwarf gecko in the family Sphaerodactylidae — Sphaerodactylus epiurus, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Dominican Republic.
The dwarf gecko
Sphaerodactyl geckos are tiny New World lizards. Many are leaf-litter or rock-face animals measured in centimetres.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Dominican Republic.
GBIF currently lists 9 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
Hispaniolan tailspot sphaero is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Hispaniolan tailspot sphaero — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3493130 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
