A new species of giant gecko of the genus Tarentola (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Jamaica

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作者：
Sprackland, RG [1 ]
Swinney, GN [1 ]
机构：
[1] Natl Museums Scotland, Dept Nat Hist, Edinburgh EH1 1JF, Midlothian, Scotland
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JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY | 1998年 / 245卷
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new species; Gekkonidae; Tarentola; Jamaica;
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Q95 [动物学];
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071002 ;
摘要：
A new species of gecko of the genus Tarentola is described from a single specimen in the herpetological collection of the National Museums of Scotland. The gecko was part of a presentation made in 1884 by a resident of Jamaica, and is presumed to be a Jamaican endemic, possibly now extinct. Though clearly a member of the predominantly African genus Tarentola, the new species bears no specific affinity with the only other known New World species, and is very distinct in lepidosis from similar African taxa. A complete description is given for this new species, and it is named Tarentola albertschwartzi. Its possible relationship to the fossil Aristelliger titan Hecht, 1951, is discussed.
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