Of their March 2023 version, the St Barth Weekly (in its column on SAINT BARTH AND ITS BIODIVERSITY) not too long ago introduced consideration to the Island Least Gecko or Sphaerodactylus sputator. The S. sputator might be discovered within the Lesser Antilles, together with Anguilla, Saba, St. Barthélemy (St. Barth), St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Martin, and Sint Eustatius (Statia), amongst others.
Every week, the Journal de Saint-Barth, in partnership with the Territorial Surroundings Company (ATE), presents a species (fauna or flora, terrestrial or marine) that populates the huge biodiversity of the island. This week, the Island Least Gecko (sphaerodactylus sputator).
The place does it stay? This little lizard usually lives hidden beneath vegetation, more often than not beneath useless leaves, but it surely doesn’t object to concealing itself beneath residing crops.
What does it eat? Like most different lizards, it feeds totally on bugs of all types, every time it could actually catch them.
Do you know? A fable, “evidently false,” confirms the ATE, says that this cat-eyed reptile secretes and spits black saliva when confronted by a predator. A fable that comes from its identify since a part of its Latin appellation signifies “spitter.”
For authentic publish, see http://www.stbarthweekly.com/pdf/Weekly476.pdf
Additionally see https://www.dcbd.nl/doc/presence-island-least-gecko-sphaerodactylus-sputator-confirmed-saba-caribbean-netherlands
[Image above: 1921 illustration, by Thomas Barbour, of an island least gecko in St. Kitts, Wikipedia.]