Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1777
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 25v
Additional Source Text:
In one of eleven "white flint bottles containing in Spirit a variety of reptiles & fishes of Jamaica."
Notes:
Du Simitière may have had an Anolis garmani, the Jamaican giant anole, also known as the Jamaican crested anole, a lizard in the family Dactyloidae.
The donor, Andrew Caldwell (1722-1788), was a Philadelphia merchant who during the Revolution commanded the Pennsylvania Navy which repelled the British ships Roebuck and Liverpool (Memorial to Commodore John Barry [Philadelphia, 1907], p. 3)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Great green lizard
Current Common Name:
Jamaican giant anole, Jamaican crested anole
Current Scientific Name
Anolis garmani
