Also on that trip we were collecting for the late Albert Schwartz PHD, a proffessor here in Miami and a pioneer in West Indian taxonomy and research studies. I collected a large unfamiliar Gecko on N. Caicos that turned out to be a brand new species in the 1970's. It was named Aristellegar hecti for Barbara Hect who studied Aristellegar Gecko's for much of her life. I believe she was at the American Museum Of Natural History as a research biologist and proffessor. Back in that time as we were collecting the things we wanted we also were encouraged by Dr. Schwartz and Lou Ober [another West Indian academic] to bring back a selection of herps with exact locales for their studies. Keep in mind that not only I did this for them but many other collectors here in Florida. Most of us brought these herps back because we liked them and wanted to work with them and NOT for money. We brought them back without permits and simply declared them and we were passed through. As I said in an earlier post it was a different time....
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Tom Crutchfield

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