[It.: see TARANTULA.] A harmless lizard, Tarentola (Platydactylus) mauritanica, the Moorish Gecko, found in southern Europe and northern Africa. Also the genus to which this belongs. So Tarente.
[1838. Penny Cycl., XI. 104/2. Those lizards which the Italians called Tarentola.]
1883. in List Anim. Zool. Soc. (1896), 577.
