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    Species Accepted

    Tarentola americana (Gray, 1831)

    American Wall Gecko

    Classification and descendants

    Source: Catalogue of Life

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      Vernacular names

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      7 results
      American Wall Gecko English
      Amerikanischer Mauergecko German
      Cuban Giant Gecko English
      Cubansk Kæmpegekko Danish
      Kuba-Mauergecko German
      Американский широкопалый геккон Russian
      美洲歐非守宮 Chinese

      Bibliography

      Source: Catalogue of Life

      17 results
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      Burt, Charles E. & Myers, George S. (1942). Neotropical lizards in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Stanford University. Stanford University Press, 52 Pp.
      Barbour, T. and C. T. Ramsden. (1919). The herpetology of Cuba. Mem. Mus. Comp. Zool., Harvard Coll. 47: 69-213.
      Loveridge, A. (1944). Certain American geckos of the genus Tarentola. Copeia 1944 (1): 18-20.
      Estrada, A. R. (1998). Anfibios y Reptiles Encontrados Durante 1988 y 1989 en Cayo Paredón Grande, Archipiélago de Sabana-Camagüey, Cuba. Carib. J. Sci. 34 (1-2): 106-112.
      Weiss, Andrew J. and S. Blair Hedges. (2007). Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Antillean geckos Phyllodactylus wirshingi, Tarentola americana, and Hemidactylus haitianus (Reptilia, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45: 409-416.
      Duméril, A.M. C. and G. Bibron. (1836). Erpetologie Générale ou Histoire Naturelle Complete des Reptiles. Vol. 3. Libr. Encyclopédique Roret, Paris, 528 Pp.
      Schwartz, A. (1968). Geographic variation in the New World geckkonid lizard Tarentola americana Gray. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 18:123—142.
      Schwartz, A. and Henderson, R.W. (1985). A guide to the identification of the amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies exclusive of Hispaniola. Milwaukee Public Mus., 165 Pp.
      Schwartz, A., & Henderson, R. W. (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 Pp.

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