Jamaican giant gecko

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.

Jamaican giant gecko
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Reptilia
Order:	Squamata
Suborder:	Gekkota
Family:	Phyllodactylidae
Genus:	Tarentola
Species:	T. albertschwartzi
Binomial name
Tarentola albertschwartzi Sprackland & Swinney, 1998
Synonyms[2]
Tarentola albertschwartzi Sprackland & Swinney, 1998 Tarentola (Neotarentola) albertschwartzi — Rösler, 2000 Tarentola albertschwartzi — B. Wilson, 2011

Etymology

The specific name, albertschwartzi, is in honor of American herpetologist Albert Schwartz.^[3]

Taxonomy

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]