American wall gecko
| American wall gecko | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Reptilia |
| Order: | Squamata |
| Family: | Phyllodactylidae |
| Genus: | Tarentola |
| Species: | T. americana
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| Tarentola americana (Gray, 1831)
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The American wall gecko (Tarentola americana) is a species of lizard in the family Phyllodactylidae, endemic to Cuba and the Bahamas.[2] There are two recognized subspecies.
Subspecies
[edit]Including the nominotypical subspecies, two subspecies are recognized as valid.[2]
- Tarentola americana americana (Gray, 1831)
- Tarentola american warreni Schwartz, 1968
Gray's trinomial authority in parentheses indicates he originally described T. a. americana in a different genus.
Etymology
[edit]The subspecific name, warreni, is in honor of C. Rhea Warren, who collected the holotype.[3]
Geographic range
[edit]T. a. americana lives on the island of Cuba and associated islets. T. a. warreni lives on some of the northern islands of the Bahamas.[2]
Reproduction
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Powell R, Buckner S, Reynolds RG, Fong A (2017). "Tarentola americana". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T178190A77338253. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-2.RLTS.T178190A77338253.en. Downloaded on 07 February 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Tarentola americana at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database
- ^ Schwartz (1968).
Further reading
[edit]- Boulenger GA (1885). Catalogue of the Lizards in the British Museum (Natural History). Second Edition. Volume I. Geckonidæ ... London: Trustees of the British Museum (Natural History). (Taylor and Francis, printers). xii + 436 pp. + Plates I–XXXII. (Tarentola americana and T. cubana, p. 195).
- Gray JE (1831). "A Synopsis of the Species of the Class Reptilia". Supplement, 110 pp. In: Griffith E (1831). The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization, by the Baron Cuvier, Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c. with Additional Descriptions of All the Species hitherto Named, and of Many not before Noticed, Volume the Ninth. London: Whitaker, Treacher, and Co. 480 pp. (Platydactylus americanus, new species, p. 48).
- Schwartz A (1968). "Geographic variation in the new world gekkonid lizard Tarentola americana Gray". Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 81: 123–142. (Tarentola americana warreni, new subspecies, pp. 134–139, Figure 2).
- Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Tarentola americana, p. 549).
- Schwartz A, Thomas R (1975). A Check-list of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Natural History. 216 pp. (Tarentola americana, pp. 165).
- Stejneger L (1917). "Cuban amphibians and reptiles collected for the United States National Museum from 1899 to 1902". Proceedings of the United States National Museum 53: 259–291. (Tarentola cubana, p. 266, Figures 27–29).
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