CHECK LIST N. AMER. AMPH. KEPT. 45 



Alligator missisipensis [sic] Gray 



Syn. Kept., 1831, p. 62. 

 Alligator mississippiensis Cope 



Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1898 (1900), p. 168, fig. 1. 



TYPE locality: "Les bords du Mississippi." 



range: Rivers and swamps of the lowlands of the Carolinas, 

 Georgia and Florida, west to Louisiana, Mississippi and west- 

 ward to the Rio Grande in Texas. 



SQUAMATA {ORDER) 



Oppel, Ordn. Rept., 1811, p. 14 



SAURIA (SUBORDER) 



Macartney, in Ross's Transl. Cuvier's Lect. Comp. Anat., 

 1802, Vol. 1, table 3 



GEKKONIDAE (FAMILY) 



Hemidactylus (GENUS) 



Oken, Isis, 1817, p. 1183 

 type: " Gecko tuberculeaux Daudin" = mabouia 



Hemidactylus turcicus (Linne) 



Lacerta turcica Linne 



Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, Vol. 1, 1758, p. 202. 

 Hemidactylus turcicus Boettger 



Ber. Offenbach. Ver. Naturk., 1876, p. 57. 



TYPE locality: In Oriente. 



range: Borders of Red and Mediterranean Seas, northwestern 

 India; Key West.^ 



Phyllodactylus (GENUS) 



Gray, Spicileg. ZooL, 1830, p. 3 

 type: pulcher 



Phyllodactylus tuberculosus Wiegmann 



Phyllodactylus tuberculosus Wiegmann 



Nova Acta Ac. Leopold. -Carol., Vol. 17, 1835, p. 241, pi. 18, figs. 2-2a. 



* Accidentally introduced and possibly not established. 



