Endangered
Mantanzas Least Gecko
Sphaerodactylus intermedius
Mantanzas Least Gecko is a dwarf gecko in the family Sphaerodactylidae — Sphaerodactylus intermedius, recorded as Endangered and tied to Cuba and Jamaica.
Appearance
The snout-vent length in males and females is 36 and 35 millimeters respectively. Mantanzas Least Gecko is a gecko in the genus Sphaerodactylus, family Sphaerodactylidae, order Squamata.
It was scientifically described by Barbour and Ramsden in 1919.
Range and habitat
It is distributed throughout Cuba.
GBIF currently lists 24 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
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix III. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Mantanzas Least Gecko is 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 Mantanzas Least Gecko — often a short stub, Wikidata item Q3493140 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.
