bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.23.436310; this version posted March 23, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 1 JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY 2 Molecular phylogeny of Puerto Rico Bank dwarf geckos (Squamata: 3 Sphaerodactylidae: Sphaerodactylus) 4 1,9 1,2 3 5 R. GRAHAM REYNOLDS , ARYEH H. MILLER , ALEJANDRO RÍOS-FRANCESCHI , CLAIR A. 1 4 2,5 6 6 HUFFINE , JASON FREDETTE , NICOLE F. ANGELI , SONDRA I. VEGA-CASTILLO , LIAM J. 4,7 8 7 REVELL , ALBERTO R. PUENTE-ROLÓN 8 9 1Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Asheville, 1 University Heights, Asheville, NC 10 28804, USA 11 2Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 12 Washington, DC, 20560 USA 13 3Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, 17 Ave. Universidad STE 1701, Puerto 14 Rico, 00664 15 4Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125, 16 USA 17 5Division of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Government of Virgin 18 Islands, Frederiksted, Virgin Islands 00840 19 6Departamento de Biología, Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto de Arecibo, KM. 0.8 PR-653, Arecibo, 20 PR, 00614 21 7Departamento de Ecologia, Universidad Cátolica de la Santísima Concepción, Alonso de Ribera 2850, 22 Concepción, Chile. 23 8Departamento de Biología, Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez, Call Box 9000, Mayagüez, PR, 00681, 24 USA 25 9Corresponding author. E-mail:
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