Columbid remains are commonly recovered from Caribbean archaeological and paleontological sites. Identifying specimens to species level is therefore likely to yield a wealth of information concerning species diversity and changes in their distribution over time. Here we examine the metrical data and 42 osteological characters of eight skeletal elements of 80 specimens belonging to 12 species from five genera that represent most of the indigenous taxa of the West Indies. Our new data provide a reliable means for identifying these birds in the Caribbean fossil and subfossil record.
{"title":"Osteological characters for the identification of Caribbean columbids","authors":"M. Gala, V. Laroulandie, A. Lenoble","doi":"10.33800/NC.VI18.269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.VI18.269","url":null,"abstract":"Columbid remains are commonly recovered from Caribbean archaeological and paleontological sites. Identifying specimens to species level is therefore likely to yield a wealth of information concerning species diversity and changes in their distribution over time. Here we examine the metrical data and 42 osteological characters of eight skeletal elements of 80 specimens belonging to 12 species from five genera that represent most of the indigenous taxa of the West Indies. Our new data provide a reliable means for identifying these birds in the Caribbean fossil and subfossil record.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44280955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Schmidt, E. Mcmullin, Jeremy J. Wright, Bryan R. Weatherwax
Larvae of the Smallscaled Spinycheek Sleeper (Eleotris perniger) in transition from saltwater to freshwater were identified using COI and 16S gene sequences and the morphology and color pattern were then described. Available freshwater habitat for this species on Montserrat is minimal and continued existence is threatened by potential water withdrawals.
{"title":"Description of larvae of Eleotris perniger (Teleostei: Eleotridae) in transition from saltwater to freshwater from Montserrat, West Indies","authors":"R. Schmidt, E. Mcmullin, Jeremy J. Wright, Bryan R. Weatherwax","doi":"10.33800/NC.VI18.263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.VI18.263","url":null,"abstract":"Larvae of the Smallscaled Spinycheek Sleeper (Eleotris perniger) in transition from saltwater to freshwater were identified using COI and 16S gene sequences and the morphology and color pattern were then described. Available freshwater habitat for this species on Montserrat is minimal and continued existence is threatened by potential water withdrawals.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47771686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuevas observaciones de campo confirman que la ingestión de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) por Anolis sagrei no es un evento tan raro como se creía. De igual modo, las observaciones realizadas en tres inviernos consecutivos (2019, 2020, 2021), durante la temporada de floración de las orquídeas Cattleya lueddemanniana y Guarianthe skinneri, ratifican que la nectarivoría es un hábito regular en Anolis porcatus.
{"title":"Oligoquetofagia por Anolis sagrei y nectarivoría por Anolis porcatus (Squamata: Dactyloidae): nuevas observaciones","authors":"L. F. Armas","doi":"10.33800/NC.VI18.272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.VI18.272","url":null,"abstract":"Nuevas observaciones de campo confirman que la ingestión de lombrices de tierra (Oligochaeta) por Anolis sagrei no es un evento tan raro como se creía. De igual modo, las observaciones realizadas en tres inviernos consecutivos (2019, 2020, 2021), durante la temporada de floración de las orquídeas Cattleya lueddemanniana y Guarianthe skinneri, ratifican que la nectarivoría es un hábito regular en Anolis porcatus.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48086270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The genus Critomolgus Humes and Stock, 1983 represents a group of 34 species of copepods associated with marine invertebrates. Most of these species have been collected in associations with species of the phyla Cnidaria and Echinodermata in several localities in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with three species reported in the Mediterranean Sea. This is the first occasion in which a species belonging to the genus Critomolgus and the family Rhynchomolgidae Humes and Stock, 1972 is recorded for the Gulf of Mexico. Here, we describe a new species of marine copepod, Critomolgus walteri Varela, Price, Middlebrooks et Ambrosio, associated with the octocorals Leptogorgia virgulata (Lamarck, 1815) and L. hebes Verrill, 1869 in 3.3 meters of water in Tampa Bay, Florida. This species possesses characters that unite it with other members of the genus; however, it differs from all other species due to the body length and unique leg 5 and maxilla l characters. This new species provides evidence that much diversity remains to be discovered in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and future sampling efforts should target this region.
Critomolgus Humes and Stock属，1983年，代表了与海洋无脊椎动物相关的34种桡足类。这些物种中的大多数是在印度洋、太平洋和大西洋的几个地方与刺胞动物门和棘皮动物门的物种相关联地收集的，据报道，地中海有三个物种。这是1972年墨西哥湾首次记录到属于Critomolgus属和Rhynchomolgidae Humes and Stock科的物种。在这里，我们描述了一种新的海洋桡足类物种，Critomolgus walteri Varela，Price，Middlebrooks et Ambrosio，与佛罗里达州坦帕湾3.3米深的水中的八角珊瑚Leptogoria virgulata（Lamarck，1815）和L.hebes Verrill（1869）有关。该物种具有将其与本属其他成员结合在一起的特征；然而，由于身体长度和独特的腿5和上颌骨特征，它与所有其他物种不同。这一新物种提供了证据，表明墨西哥湾水域仍有许多多样性有待发现，未来的采样工作应针对该地区。
{"title":"First finding of the family Rhynchomolgidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida) in the Gulf of Mexico, with the description of a new species","authors":"C. Varela, W. Price, M. Middlebrooks, L. Ambrosio","doi":"10.33800/NC.VI18.262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.VI18.262","url":null,"abstract":"The genus Critomolgus Humes and Stock, 1983 represents a group of 34 species of copepods associated with marine invertebrates. Most of these species have been collected in associations with species of the phyla Cnidaria and Echinodermata in several localities in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans with three species reported in the Mediterranean Sea. This is the first occasion in which a species belonging to the genus Critomolgus and the family Rhynchomolgidae Humes and Stock, 1972 is recorded for the Gulf of Mexico. Here, we describe a new species of marine copepod, Critomolgus walteri Varela, Price, Middlebrooks et Ambrosio, associated with the octocorals Leptogorgia virgulata (Lamarck, 1815) and L. hebes Verrill, 1869 in 3.3 meters of water in Tampa Bay, Florida. This species possesses characters that unite it with other members of the genus; however, it differs from all other species due to the body length and unique leg 5 and maxilla l characters. This new species provides evidence that much diversity remains to be discovered in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and future sampling efforts should target this region.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41466297","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ricardo Ernesto Olmos-García, Felipe de Jesús Cruz-López, Á. J. Ramírez-Villalobos
En el presente estudio se elaboró el listado taxonómico actualizado de los gasterópodos de la planicie del arrecife “Verde”, en el Parque Nacional Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano (PNSAV), Veracruz. Se realizaron siete salidas al área de estudio (junio de 2017 a septiembre de 2018), en las cuales se hicieron muestreos aleatorios, cubriendo un área de 275 m2. Se registró un total de 66 especies, reunidas en 50 géneros y 31 familias. Un total de 13 especies, nueve géneros y dos familias representan nuevos registros para el área de estudio. Con estos nuevos registros, la riqueza específica para el arrecife “Verde” queda conformada por 109 especies, agrupadas en 71 géneros y 40 familias de gasterópodos.
{"title":"Lista actualizada de las especies y nuevos registros de gasterópodos en el arrecife “Verde”, Veracruz, México","authors":"Ricardo Ernesto Olmos-García, Felipe de Jesús Cruz-López, Á. J. Ramírez-Villalobos","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I14.206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I14.206","url":null,"abstract":"En el presente estudio se elaboró el listado taxonómico actualizado de los gasterópodos de la planicie del arrecife “Verde”, en el Parque Nacional Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano (PNSAV), Veracruz. Se realizaron siete salidas al área de estudio (junio de 2017 a septiembre de 2018), en las cuales se hicieron muestreos aleatorios, cubriendo un área de 275 m2. Se registró un total de 66 especies, reunidas en 50 géneros y 31 familias. Un total de 13 especies, nueve géneros y dos familias representan nuevos registros para el área de estudio. Con estos nuevos registros, la riqueza específica para el arrecife “Verde” queda conformada por 109 especies, agrupadas en 71 géneros y 40 familias de gasterópodos.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41496530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adrian D. Trapero-Quintana, Yusdiel Torres‐Cambas, A. Rivas-Torres, S. Ferreira, A. Cordero-Rivera
Several species of biting midges of the genus Forcipomyia are frequently found attached to the wings of adult odonates, acting as parasites by sucking haemolymph from the wing veins. Here we report the first finding of F. incubans on odonates in the peninsula of Zapata, Cuba. We found the midge on the wings of Erythrodiplax simplicicollis, E. umbrata, Crocothemis servilia, and in the wings and body of Perithemis domitia, all species belonging to the family Libellulidae. This is the first record of this interaction for the Antilles.
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Milton Vinicio Monzón, Jaime A. Rodríguez, L. Diéguez, P. M. Alarcón-Elbal, José San Martín
Las enfermedades vectoriales constituyen un gran reto para la salud global por su diversidad genética y evolutiva, así como por su potencialidad para causar infecciones graves. Entre estas, merecen especial atención las enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae), con especial énfasis en las arbovirosis. Con el objetivo de profundizar en los hábitats preferenciales de cría de Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762), se realizó un estudio descriptivo y retrospectivo mediante la revisión documental del registro de muestras del Laboratorio de Entomología Departamental (LED) de Jutiapa, en la región suroriental de Guatemala. Como resultado de las inspecciones periódicas trimestrales, intra y peridomicialiares, realizadas en el universo urbano y rural, se reportaron 56 tipos de depósitos positivos a formas preimaginales de Ae. aegypti, de los cuales 17 fueron útiles (30.35 %) y aunaron el 90.00 % de los depósitos con presencia del mosquito. Se destacó la pila estándar, que aportó el 36.26 % de los casos positivos, y de los cuales el 88 % estuvieron ubicados en el exterior. Ante la variedad de tipos de depósitos artificiales que la población jutiapaneca utiliza en el entorno domiciliario, las hembras de Ae. aegypti no mostraron preferencia por oviponer en depósitos naturales, reportándose la presencia del vector en siete jícaras de coco y 11 oquedades en árboles, fuentes de infestación que oscilaron entre el 0.16 % y el 0.25 %, respectivamente.
{"title":"Hábitats de cría de Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) en Jutiapa, Guatemala","authors":"Milton Vinicio Monzón, Jaime A. Rodríguez, L. Diéguez, P. M. Alarcón-Elbal, José San Martín","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I14.203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I14.203","url":null,"abstract":"Las enfermedades vectoriales constituyen un gran reto para la salud global por su diversidad genética y evolutiva, así como por su potencialidad para causar infecciones graves. Entre estas, merecen especial atención las enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos (Diptera: Culicidae), con especial énfasis en las arbovirosis. Con el objetivo de profundizar en los hábitats preferenciales de cría de Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus, 1762), se realizó un estudio descriptivo y retrospectivo mediante la revisión documental del registro de muestras del Laboratorio de Entomología Departamental (LED) de Jutiapa, en la región suroriental de Guatemala. Como resultado de las inspecciones periódicas trimestrales, intra y peridomicialiares, realizadas en el universo urbano y rural, se reportaron 56 tipos de depósitos positivos a formas preimaginales de Ae. aegypti, de los cuales 17 fueron útiles (30.35 %) y aunaron el 90.00 % de los depósitos con presencia del mosquito. Se destacó la pila estándar, que aportó el 36.26 % de los casos positivos, y de los cuales el 88 % estuvieron ubicados en el exterior. Ante la variedad de tipos de depósitos artificiales que la población jutiapaneca utiliza en el entorno domiciliario, las hembras de Ae. aegypti no mostraron preferencia por oviponer en depósitos naturales, reportándose la presencia del vector en siete jícaras de coco y 11 oquedades en árboles, fuentes de infestación que oscilaron entre el 0.16 % y el 0.25 %, respectivamente.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47113822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
La Bijirita de Connecticut (Oporornis agilis) es una especie de ave migratoria neotropical. La literatura y los mapas de distribución publicados por eBird sugieren que la especie utiliza la región del Caribe durante la migración otoñal y primaveral. La isla de Cuba solo posee un reporte de la especie en la cayería norte de Ciego de Ávila y Camagüey. Fue capturado un individuo macho en redes de niebla pertenecientes a la Estación de Anillamiento Permanente Juan Christoph Gundlach, ubicada en la Reserva Ecológica Siboney Juticí, del municipio de Santiago de Cuba, provincia Santiago de Cuba. Este constituye el primer reporte de la especie en la zona oriental de Cuba. La falta de avistamientos de Bijirita de Connecticut en Cuba puede estar condicionada por dos factores principalmente: la baja densidad de individuos en la isla durante la migración o la posible confusión de los ornitólogos cubanos con especies similares.
{"title":"Reporte de la Bijirita de Connecticut (Oporornis agilis; Aves: Parulidae) en el oriente de Cuba","authors":"C. León, Malbelys Padilla Sánchez, Yasit Segovia Vega, Nicasio Viña Dávila, Freddy Rodríguez Santana","doi":"10.33800/NC.V0I14.208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/NC.V0I14.208","url":null,"abstract":"La Bijirita de Connecticut (Oporornis agilis) es una especie de ave migratoria neotropical. La literatura y los mapas de distribución publicados por eBird sugieren que la especie utiliza la región del Caribe durante la migración otoñal y primaveral. La isla de Cuba solo posee un reporte de la especie en la cayería norte de Ciego de Ávila y Camagüey. Fue capturado un individuo macho en redes de niebla pertenecientes a la Estación de Anillamiento Permanente Juan Christoph Gundlach, ubicada en la Reserva Ecológica Siboney Juticí, del municipio de Santiago de Cuba, provincia Santiago de Cuba. Este constituye el primer reporte de la especie en la zona oriental de Cuba. La falta de avistamientos de Bijirita de Connecticut en Cuba puede estar condicionada por dos factores principalmente: la baja densidad de individuos en la isla durante la migración o la posible confusión de los ornitólogos cubanos con especies similares.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48443724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco Santos-Mella, Vasti García-Gómez, Karina Hierro-Santos, Nabab Feliz-Feliz, Argenis Solano
En esta comunicación se refuta el estado de comensalismo entre Metanophrys sp. y el erizo verdiblanco Lytechinus variegatus, debido al comportamiento depredador del ciliado contra las larvas del erizo. Para este trabajo, los erizos de mar se colocaron en botellas con 1 L de agua de mar esterilizada, destinadas al desove con la parte oral hacia arriba. Se aplicó una inyección de 5 ml de KCl al celoma. Se muestrearon 32 erizos de mar para completar 30 botellas con ambos tipos de gametos. Después de una hora de fertilización, Metanophrys sp. se encontró en algunas botellas. Después de 72 horas, 24 de las 30 botellas tenían ciliados con una proporción de aproximadamente 25 individuos por larva de erizo, observándose la depredación de éstas por Metanophrys sp. Debido al comportamiento depredador de Metanophrys sp. contra L. variegatus, con respecto a la ecología de la especie no deben considerarse comensales.
{"title":"Depredación de las larvas del erizo verdiblanco Lytechinus variegatus por Metanophrys sp.","authors":"Francisco Santos-Mella, Vasti García-Gómez, Karina Hierro-Santos, Nabab Feliz-Feliz, Argenis Solano","doi":"10.33800/nc.v0i14.207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i14.207","url":null,"abstract":"En esta comunicación se refuta el estado de comensalismo entre Metanophrys sp. y el erizo verdiblanco Lytechinus variegatus, debido al comportamiento depredador del ciliado contra las larvas del erizo. Para este trabajo, los erizos de mar se colocaron en botellas con 1 L de agua de mar esterilizada, destinadas al desove con la parte oral hacia arriba. Se aplicó una inyección de 5 ml de KCl al celoma. Se muestrearon 32 erizos de mar para completar 30 botellas con ambos tipos de gametos. Después de una hora de fertilización, Metanophrys sp. se encontró en algunas botellas. Después de 72 horas, 24 de las 30 botellas tenían ciliados con una proporción de aproximadamente 25 individuos por larva de erizo, observándose la depredación de éstas por Metanophrys sp. Debido al comportamiento depredador de Metanophrys sp. contra L. variegatus, con respecto a la ecología de la especie no deben considerarse comensales.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44159464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We revise the species of Audantia, a genus of dactyloid lizards endemic to Hispaniola. Based on our analyses of morphological and genetic data we recognize 14 species in this genus, four of which we describe as new species (A. aridius sp. nov., A. australis sp. nov., A. higuey sp. nov., and A. hispaniolae sp. nov.), and two are resurrected from the synonymy of A. cybotes (A. doris comb. nov., A. ravifaux comb. nov.). Also, we place Anolis citrinellus Cope, 1864 in the synonymy of Ctenonotus distichus (Cope, 1861); Anolis haetianus Garman, 1887 in the synonymy of Audantia cybotes (Cope, 1863); and Anolis whitemani Williams, 1963 in the synonymy of Audantia saxatilis (Mertens, 1938). Finally, we designate a lectotype for Anolis cybotes Cope, 1863, and for Anolis riisei Reinhardt & Lütken, 1863. Our main focus is on the populations of anoles formerly referred to as Audantia cybotes which we demonstrate to be a complex of seven distinct species. For these seven species we provide a standardized description of external morphology, color descriptions in life, color photographs in life, description and illustration of hemipenis morphology (if available), distribution maps based on the specimens examined, comments on the conservation status, and natural history notes. Finally, we provide a dichotomous key for the identification of the 14 species of the genus Audantia occuring on Hispaniola.
{"title":"A revision of the genus Audantia of Hispaniola with description of four new species (Reptilia: Squamata: Dactyloidae)","authors":"G. Köhler, C. Zimmer, K. McGrath, S. Hedges","doi":"10.33800/nc.v0i14.201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i14.201","url":null,"abstract":"We revise the species of Audantia, a genus of dactyloid lizards endemic to Hispaniola. Based on our analyses of morphological and genetic data we recognize 14 species in this genus, four of which we describe as new species (A. aridius sp. nov., A. australis sp. nov., A. higuey sp. nov., and A. hispaniolae sp. nov.), and two are resurrected from the synonymy of A. cybotes (A. doris comb. nov., A. ravifaux comb. nov.). Also, we place Anolis citrinellus Cope, 1864 in the synonymy of Ctenonotus distichus (Cope, 1861); Anolis haetianus Garman, 1887 in the synonymy of Audantia cybotes (Cope, 1863); and Anolis whitemani Williams, 1963 in the synonymy of Audantia saxatilis (Mertens, 1938). Finally, we designate a lectotype for Anolis cybotes Cope, 1863, and for Anolis riisei Reinhardt & Lütken, 1863. Our main focus is on the populations of anoles formerly referred to as Audantia cybotes which we demonstrate to be a complex of seven distinct species. For these seven species we provide a standardized description of external morphology, color descriptions in life, color photographs in life, description and illustration of hemipenis morphology (if available), distribution maps based on the specimens examined, comments on the conservation status, and natural history notes. Finally, we provide a dichotomous key for the identification of the 14 species of the genus Audantia occuring on Hispaniola.","PeriodicalId":33102,"journal":{"name":"NOVITATES CARIBAEA","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2019-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45137544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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