Tarentola albertschwartzi Sparckland & Swinney 1998
Jamaican giant gecko, Cooper's giant gecko
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Missing
Last record: 1884 or before
Distribution
Jamaica
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Holotype: NMSZ 1884.23.7 (adult female)
Known only from the holotype which was given to the National Museum of Scotland in 1884.
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Sprackland, R.G., Swinney, G.N. (1998). A new species of giant gecko of the genus Tarentola (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Jamaica. Journal of Zoology 245: 73-78. [Abstract] [text available online for ProBoards members]
Other references:
Powell, Robert and Henderson, Robert W. (2012). Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(2): 85-166. [considers this taxon as possibly extinct]
Regalado, Pedro Galán. (2015). Los Anfibios y Reptiles Extinguidos: Herpetofauna Desaparecida Desde el Año 1500. Monografías de la Universidade da Coruña 155: 1-509.
http://reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Tarentola&species=albertschwartzi