. Breviora. Zoology; Paleontology. 2012 A NEW AMBER GECKO FROM HISPANIOLA. scofo Figure 5. Right lateral view of Sphaerodactylus ciguapa sp. nov. showing skull, cervical vertebrae, and pectoral girdle. Gray areas with white zig-zags indicate portions of the specimen worn during polishing. Abbreviations: lcb, first ceratobranchial; at, atlas; ax, axis; civ, clavicle; cob, compound bone; cor, coronoid; cv#, cervical vertebrae #; epi, epipterygoid; h, humerus; hvc, groove for the course of the lateral head vein; hy, hypapophyses; mf, mandibular fossa; ocr, occipital recess; ppp, postparietal proc

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. Breviora. Zoology; Paleontology. 2012 A NEW AMBER GECKO FROM HISPANIOLA. scofo Figure 5. Right lateral view of Sphaerodactylus ciguapa sp. nov. showing skull, cervical vertebrae, and pectoral girdle. Gray areas with white zig-zags indicate portions of the specimen worn during polishing. Abbreviations: lcb, first ceratobranchial; at, atlas; ax, axis; civ, clavicle; cob, compound bone; cor, coronoid; cv#, cervical vertebrae #; epi, epipterygoid; h, humerus; hvc, groove for the course of the lateral head vein; hy, hypapophyses; mf, mandibular fossa; ocr, occipital recess; ppp, postparietal process; pt, pterygoid; rap, retroarticular process; rib, rib; sco, scapulocoracoid; scofo, scapulocoracoid foramen; sq, squamosal; V, incisura prootica for the course of the trigeminal nerve. Scale bar = 5 mm. this island is not part of the Puerto Rican Bank). The specimen of S. ciguapa is skeletally mature (see Discussion), and is comparable in size (here we have considered 29-36-mm SVL to be in the same size range of S. ciguapa) to 17 extant species from Hispaniola (S. altavelensis, S. armstrongi, S. asterulus, S. cinereus, S. clenchi, S. darlingtoni, S. diffici- lis, S. lazelli, S. leucaster, S. randi, S. rhabdotus, S. samanensis, S. savagei, S. schuberti, S. shrevei, S. thompsoni, and S. zygaena), four from the Puerto Rico Area (S. monensis, S. klauberi, S. macrolepis, S. micropithecus), and to the amber-preserved species S. dommeli (Bohme, 1984). Of these 22 species, S. ciguapa may be distinguished from S. monensis, S. macrolepis, and S. thompsoni by its much smaller dorsal scales, from S. samanensis by its larger and more swollen scales, from S. cinereus by its heterogeneous dorsal scalation including imbricating, keeled scales (versus granular dorsal scalation), and from all others except S. asterulus, S. difficilis, S. dommeli, S. rhabdotus, and 5. shrevei by its swollen, weakly keeled to keelless dorsal scales (versus flat scales with strongly to very strongly keeled scal