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kawekaweau
The kawekaweau (''Hoplodactylus delcourti''), also commonly known as Delcourt's sticky-toed gecko〔Beolens B, Watkins M, Grayson M. 2011. ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. (''Hoplodactylus delcourti'', p. 69).〕 or Delcourt's giant gecko, is a species of lizard which was by far the largest of all geckos with a snout-to-vent length of and an overall length of at least . It was endemic to New Zealand, and is now believed to be extinct.〔
==History==
According to his own report, in 1870, a Māori chief killed a kawekaweau he found under the bark of a dead rata tree in the forests of the Waimana Valley〔Bauer AM, Russell AP. ("''Hoplodactylus delcourti'' n. sp. (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), the largest known gecko" ), ''New Zealand Journal of Zoology'' (1986), Vol. 13: 141–148. 〕 (now protected as part of the northern section of Te Urewera National Park〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Waimana Valley tracks )〕). This is the only documented report of anyone ever seeing one of these animals alive.〔 He described it as being "brownish with reddish stripes and as thick as a man's wrist." Whether his story was true or not is unknown. A single stuffed museum specimen was "discovered" in the basement of the Natural History Museum of Marseille in 1986;〔 however, the origins and date of collection of the specimen remain a mystery, as when it was found, it was not labelled.〔 Scientists examining it eventually concluded it was from New Zealand and was in fact the lost "kawekaweau", a giant and mysterious forest lizard of Maori oral tradition.
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