Gigarcanum delcourti

Taxonavigation

Familia: Diplodactylidae
Genus: †Gigarcanum
Species: †Gigarcanum delcourti

Name

Gigarcanum delcourti (Bauer & Russell, 1986)

• Holotype: MMNH 1985-38 — no data accompany the specimen

References

• Bauer, A.M.; Russell, A.P. 1986: Hoplodactylus delcourti n. sp. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), the largest known gecko. New Zealand journal of zoology, 13: 141–148. Google books PDF
• Hitchmough, R.A.; Patterson, G.K.; Daugherty, C.H. (compilers) 2009: New Zealand living and recently extinct reptiles. P. 542 in: {{Chapter 24 in ISBN 978-1-877257-72-8}}
• Nielsen, S.V., Bauer, A.M., Jackman, T.R., Hitchmough, R.A. & Daugherty, C.H. 2011. New Zealand geckos (Diplodactylidae): cryptic diversity in a post-Gondwanan lineage with trans-Tasman affinities. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(1): 1–22. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.12.007 Reference page. 
• Heinicke, M.P., Nielsen, S.V., Bauer, A.M., Kelly, R., Geneva, A.J., Daza, J.D., Keating, S.E. & Gamble, T. 2023. Reappraising the evolutionary history of the largest known gecko, the presumably extinct Hoplodactylus delcourti, via high-throughput sequencing of archival DNA. Scientific Reports 13: 9141 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-35210-8

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