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| Jamaican giant gecko | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Phyllodactylidae |
| Genus: | Tarentola |
| Species: | T. albertschwartzi |
| Binomial name | |
| Tarentola albertschwartzi Sprackland & Swinney, 1998 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
The Jamaican giant gecko (Tarentola albertschwartzi), also known commonly as Schwartz's wall gecko, is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae. The species is endemic to Jamaica.
Etymology
[edit]The specific name, albertschwartzi, is in honor of American herpetologist Albert Schwartz.[3]
Taxonomy
[edit]T. albertschwartzi is only known from a single specimen uncovered in the late 1990s in a museum in Scotland; this specimen was entered into the collection in 1884 and labelled as from Jamaica. The species is possibly extinct.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Wilson, B.S.; Hedges, B. (2016). "Tarentola albertschwartzi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T29456A77337835. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T29456A77337835.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- ^ a b Tarentola albertschwartzi at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ^ Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (Tarentola albetschwartzi, p. 239).
Further reading
[edit]- Carranza S, Arnold EN, Mateo JA, López-Jurado LF (2000). "Long-distance colonization and radiation in gekkonid lizards, Tarentola (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 267: 637–649.
- Rösler H (2000). "Kommentierte Liste der rezent, subrezent und fossil bekannten Geckotaxa (Reptilia: Gekkonomorpha)". Gekkota 2: 28–153. "Tarentola (Neotarentola) albertschwartzi ", new combination, p. 115. (in German).
- Sprackland RG, Swinney GN (1998). "A new species of giant gecko of the genus Tarentola (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Jamaica". Journal of Zoology 245 (1): 73–78. (Tarentola albertschwartzi, new species).
- Wilson BS (2011). "Conservation of Jamaican amphibians and reptiles". In: Hailey A (2011). Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas Volume 2: Regional Accounts of the West Indies. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 440 pp. ISBN 978-9004194083.
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