Family Sphaerodactylidae (Least Geckos, etc.):
countries and regions with most species

© Rune Midtgaard
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*Countries/regions with same number of species are ranked alphabetically
Rank* Country / region Species
No. 1
Hispaniola [Dominican Republic / Haiti]
 37
No. 2
Venezuela
 28
No. 3
Dominican Republic
 25
No. 4
Colombia
 24
No. 5
Cuba
 23
No. 6
Haiti
 20
No. 7
Yemen
 18
No. 8
Brazil
 16
No. 9
Honduras
 13
No. 10
Ecuador
 11
No. 11
Ecuadorian mainland [Ecuador]
 11
No. 12
Peru
 11
No. 13
Jamaica
 10
No. 14
Panama
 10
No. 15
Para [Brazil]
 10
No. 16
Yemeni mainland [Yemen]
 10
No. 17
Guyana
 9
No. 18
Puerto Rico
 9
No. 19
Amazonas [Brazil]
 7
No. 20
Bahamas
 7
No. 21
Iran
 7
No. 22
Socotra Archipelago [Yemen]
 7
No. 23
Amapa [Brazil]
 6
No. 24
Costa Rica
 6
No. 25
French Guiana [France]
 6
No. 26
Mato Grosso [Brazil]
 6
No. 27
Oman
 6
No. 28
Puerto Rican mainland [Puerto Rico]
 6
No. 29
Somalia
 6
No. 30
Acre [Brazil]
 5
No. 31
Islas de la Bahia [Honduras]
 5
No. 32
Morocco
 5
No. 33
Roraima [Brazil]
 5
No. 34
Socotra [Yemen]
 5
No. 35
Surinam
 5
No. 36
Trinidad [Trinidad & Tobago]
 5
No. 37
Trinidad & Tobago
 5
No. 38
United Arab Emirates
 5
No. 39
Afghanistan
 4
No. 40
Ethiopia
 4
No. 41
Ile de la Gonave [Haiti]
 4
No. 42
Nicaragua
 4
No. 43
Rondonia [Brazil]
 4
No. 44
Saudi Arabia
 4
No. 45
Vieques [Puerto Rico]
 4
No. 46
Anguilla
 3
No. 47
Belize
 3
No. 48
Bolivia
 3
No. 49
Chiapas [Mexico]
 3
No. 50
China
 3
No. 51
Eritrea
 3
No. 52
Exuma Cays [Bahamas]
 3
No. 53
Great Inagua [Bahamas]
 3
No. 54
Great Inagua Bank [Bahamas]
 3
No. 55
Grenadines [Grenada / Saint Vincent & the Grenadines]
 3
No. 56
Guatemala
 3
No. 57
Isla Beata [Dominican Republic]
 3
No. 58
Isla de la Juventud [Cuba]
 3
No. 59
Marajo Island [Brazil]
 3
No. 60
Maranhao [Brazil]
 3
No. 61
Masirah [Oman]
 3
No. 62
Mexico
 3
No. 63
Piaui [Brazil]
 3
No. 64
Saint Vincent & the Grenadines
 3
No. 65
San Andres, Providencia & Santa Catalina [Colombia]
 3
No. 66
Tobago [Trinidad & Tobago]
 3
No. 67
Tocantins [Brazil]
 3
No. 68
Turks & Caicos Islands
 3
No. 69
U.S. Virgin Islands [USA]
 3
No. 70
Xinjiang [China]
 3
No. 71
Alagoas [Brazil]
 2
No. 72
Anavilhanas Archipelago [Brazil]
 2
No. 73
Anguilla Island [Anguilla]
 2
No. 74
Bahia [Brazil]
 2
No. 75
Barbareta [Honduras]
 2
No. 76
British Virgin Islands [United Kingdom]
 2
No. 77
Caicos Islands [Turks & Caicos Islands]
 2
No. 78
Cayman Brac [Cayman Islands]
 2
No. 79
Cayman Islands
 2
No. 80
Ceara [Brazil]
 2
No. 81
Cozumel [Mexico]
 2
No. 82
Culebra [Puerto Rico]
 2
No. 83
Dog Island [Anguilla]
 2
No. 84
El Salvador
 2
No. 85
Farasan Islands [Saudi Arabia]
 2
No. 86
Goias [Brazil]
 2
No. 87
Grand Cayman [Cayman Islands]
 2
No. 88
Guadeloupe [France]
 2
No. 89
Guanaja [Honduras]
 2
No. 90
Ile Grande Cayemite [Haiti]
 2
No. 91
Iles des Saintes [Guadeloupe]
 2
No. 92
Isla Alto Velo [Dominican Republic]
 2
No. 93
Isla Grande del Cisne [Honduras]
 2
No. 94
Isla Grande del Maiz [Nicaragua]
 2
No. 95
Isla Morat [Honduras]
 2
No. 96
Isla Pequena del Cisne [Honduras]
 2
No. 97
Islas del Cisne [Honduras]
 2
No. 98
Islas del Maiz [Nicaragua]
 2
No. 99
Little Cayman [Cayman Islands]
 2
No. 100
Margarita [Venezuela]
 2
No. 101
Maria Islands [Saint Lucia]
 2
No. 102
Mato Grosso do Sul [Brazil]
 2
No. 103
Navassa [USA]
 2
No. 104
Nevis [Saint Kitts & Nevis]
 2
No. 105
Oaxaca [Mexico]
 2
No. 106
Orchila [Venezuela]
 2
No. 107
Pakistan
 2
No. 108
Quintana Roo [Mexico]
 2
No. 109
Rio Grande do Norte [Brazil]
 2
No. 110
Roatan [Honduras]
 2
No. 111
Saint Barthelemy [France]
 2
No. 112
Saint Croix [U.S. Virgin Islands]
 2
No. 113
Saint Kitts [Saint Kitts & Nevis]
 2
No. 114
Saint Kitts & Nevis
 2
No. 115
Saint Lucia
 2
No. 116
Saint Martin [France / Netherlands]
 2
No. 117
San Andres [Colombia]
 2
No. 118
Sint Eustatius [Netherlands]
 2
No. 119
Sirid Sarso Island [Saudi Arabia]
 2
No. 120
Tabasco [Mexico]
 2
No. 121
Tajikistan
 2
No. 122
Tortuga [Venezuela]
 2
No. 123
Union Island [Saint Vincent & the Grenadines]
 2
No. 124
Utila [Honduras]
 2
No. 125
Uzbekistan
 2
No. 126
Western Sahara
 2
No. 127
Abd al Kuri [Yemen]
 1
No. 128
Algeria
 1
No. 129
Anegada [British Virgin Islands]
 1
No. 130
Antigua [Antigua & Barbuda]
 1
No. 131
Antigua & Barbuda
 1
No. 132
Bahrain
 1
No. 133
Barbuda [Antigua & Barbuda]
 1
No. 134
Blanquilla [Venezuela]
 1
No. 135
Bonaire [Netherlands]
 1
No. 136
Campeche [Mexico]
 1
No. 137
Capraia [Italy]
 1
No. 138
Carrot Rock [British Virgin Islands]
 1
No. 139
Cay Sal Bank [Bahamas]
 1
No. 140
Cayo Cochino Pequeno [Honduras]
 1
No. 141
Cayos Cochinos [Honduras]
 1
No. 142
Coche [Venezuela]
 1
No. 143
Conception Bank [Bahamas]
 1
No. 144
Conception Island [Bahamas]
 1
No. 145
Corsica [France]
 1
No. 146
Crooked-Acklins Bank [Bahamas]
 1
No. 147
Cubagua [Venezuela]
 1
No. 148
Curacao [Netherlands]
 1
No. 149
Dahlak Archipelago [Eritrea]
 1
No. 150
Darsah [Yemen]
 1
No. 151
Desecheo [Puerto Rico]
 1
No. 152
Desirade [Guadeloupe]
 1
No. 153
Djibouti
 1
No. 154
East Plana Cay [Bahamas]
 1
No. 155
Egypt
 1
No. 156
Elba [Italy]
 1
No. 157
France
 1
No. 158
French mainland [France]
 1
No. 159
Gansu [China]
 1
No. 160
Grenada
 1
No. 161
Hanish al Kabir [Yemen]
 1
No. 162
Hanish Islands [Yemen]
 1
No. 163
Ile a Vache [Haiti]
 1
No. 164
Iles de la Petite Terre [Guadeloupe]
 1
No. 165
Inner Mongolia [China]
 1
No. 166
Isla del Coco [Costa Rica]
 1
No. 167
Islas las Aves [Venezuela]
 1
No. 168
Italian mainland [Italy]
 1
No. 169
Italy
 1
No. 170
Jordan
 1
No. 171
Kazakhstan
 1
No. 172
Kenya
 1
No. 173
Kuwait
 1
No. 174
Little Bahama Bank [Bahamas]
 1
No. 175
Little Scrub Island [Anguilla]
 1
No. 176
Los Frailes [Venezuela]
 1
No. 177
Los Monjes [Venezuela]
 1
No. 178
Los Roques [Venezuela]
 1
No. 179
Los Testigos [Venezuela]
 1
No. 180
Marie-Galante [Guadeloupe]
 1
No. 181
Martinique [France]
 1
No. 182
Mauritania
 1
No. 183
Mayaguana Bank [Bahamas]
 1
No. 184
Mona [Puerto Rico]
 1
No. 185
Mongolia
 1
No. 186
Monito [Puerto Rico]
 1
No. 187
Montecristo [Italy]
 1
No. 188
Montserrat [United Kingdom]
 1
No. 189
Paraiba [Brazil]
 1
No. 190
Pernambuco [Brazil]
 1
No. 191
Plana Cays [Bahamas]
 1
No. 192
Providencia [Colombia]
 1
No. 193
Puebla [Mexico]
 1
No. 194
Qatar
 1
No. 195
Qeshm Island [Iran]
 1
No. 196
Redonda [Antigua & Barbuda]
 1
No. 197
Saba [Netherlands]
 1
No. 198
Saint Vincent [Saint Vincent & the Grenadines]
 1
No. 199
Samhah [Yemen]
 1
No. 200
San Salvador Bank [Bahamas]
 1
No. 201
Sardinia [Italy]
 1
No. 202
Sergipe [Brazil]
 1
No. 203
Sombrero [Anguilla]
 1
No. 204
Sudan
 1
No. 205
Terre-de-Bas [Guadeloupe]
 1
No. 206
Tunisia
 1
No. 207
Turkmenistan
 1
No. 208
Turks Islands [Turks & Caicos Islands]
 1
No. 209
Veracruz [Mexico]
 1
No. 210
Yucatan [Mexico]
 1