JT Stroud
Onward to the mid-Atlantic: first records of Cuban Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) on Ascension Island
Stroud, JT; Richardson, AJ; Sim, J; Airnes, A; Stritch, JM
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AJ Richardson
J Sim
A Airnes
JM Stritch
Abstract
Cuban Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) are native to Cuba and many Bahamian islands (Schwartz and Henderson1991), but the species has an expansive non-native range, having been introduced and become established in a number of US states (Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, California), several Lesser Antillean islands (Grenada, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Barbados), Mexico, Belize, Hawaii, Bermuda (Stroud et al. 2017), Taiwan, and Singapore (reviewed in Henderson and Powell 2009). Recently, two newly discovered populations represent expansion of A. sagrei into the Southern Hemisphere for the first time, first in the Pacific coastal town of Guayaquil, Ecuador (Amador et al. 2017) and secondly in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Oliveira et al. 2018). Herein we present further evidence of A. sagrei in the Southern Hemisphere, with the first record of A. sagrei on the mid-Atlantic island of Ascension (Fig. 1A). No native terrestrial reptiles occur on Ascension, but four other species of lizards have been introduced and are established (Edgar 2010): Asian House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus), Gray’s Leaf-toed Gecko (H. mercatorius), Cradock Thick-toed Gecko (Pachydactylis geitje), and Weigmann’s Swift (Liolaemus wiegmanni).
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Stroud, J., Richardson, A., Sim, J., Airnes, A., & Stritch, J. (2018). Onward to the mid-Atlantic: first records of Cuban Brown Anoles (Anolis sagrei) on Ascension Island. Iguana times, 25(3), 220-222
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | Dec 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Dec 8, 2022 |
Publicly Available Date | Dec 8, 2022 |
Journal | Reptiles & Amphibians |
Print ISSN | 1098-6324 |
Volume | 25 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 220-222 |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.17161/randa.v25i3.14316 |
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