{"title":"Discovery of the Common House Gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus (Duméril & Bibron), in Puerto Rico","authors":"A. Sánchez","doi":"10.31611/CH.60","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31611/CH.60","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":344218,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Herpetology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130591764","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}
I report the first records of Sphaerodactylus from the Prickly Pear Cays of Anguilla. Two species of the genus are known from the Anguilla Bank, S. parvus and S. sputator, but neither has been recorded from the Prickly Pear Cays (Hodge et al. 2003, Powell and Henderson 2012). Here, I document the occurrence of S. sputator and S. macrolepis on those islands, the latter species being a native of the Puerto Rico region and not known previously to occur on the Anguilla Bank. I went to Prickly Pear Cays on 26–30th March 2018 with my colleague, Jonas Hochart, to make an inventory of the flora during conservation work for Iguana delicatissama. Once there, we also explored the fauna of the cays and soon located a population of S. macrolepis on Prickly Pear Cay East. Lizards were in the center of the island and on the rocky coast. It was not found on Prickly Pear Cay West. We found S. sputator to be common on both cays. With three species of Sphaerodactylus now known from the Anguilla Bank, I have constructed a table to aid in their identification (Table 1). Prickly Pear East is uninhabited, but has two restaurants and is visited daily by tourists and charter boats. Sphaerodactylus macrolepis may have been inadvertently transported by charter boats based in the Virgin Islands. This would explain why this species is present on Prickly Pear East and not on Prickly Pear West, which is only rarely visited. Given the presence of Sphaerodactylus sputator on the islands of the Anguilla Bank surrounding the Prickly Pear Cays, it was either introduced from those nearby islands or was native and overlooked until now.
我报告了安圭拉刺梨礁的球形动物的第一个记录。安圭拉海岸已知两种，S. parvus和S. sputator，但在多刺梨礁均未见记录(Hodge et al. 2003, Powell and Henderson 2012)。在这里，我记录了S. sputator和S. macrolepis在这些岛屿上的出现，后者是波多黎各地区的原生物种，以前不知道在安圭拉海岸出现过。2018年3月26日至30日，我和同事乔纳斯·霍查特(Jonas Hochart)一起去了刺梨礁(Prickly Pear Cays)，在保护鬣蜥(Iguana delicatissama)期间对植物区系进行了盘点。到了那里，我们还探索了珊瑚礁的动物群，很快就在东刺梨礁岛上找到了一个大鳄的种群。蜥蜴生活在岛的中心和岩石海岸上。它不是在西刺梨礁发现的。我们发现S. sputator在这两天都很常见。现在在安圭拉海岸发现了三种球藻，我制作了一张表来帮助识别它们(表1)。东刺梨岛无人居住，但有两家餐馆，每天都有游客和包船光顾。大鳞球爪藻可能是由维京群岛的租船无意中运输的。这就解释了为什么这个物种出现在刺梨东部而不是刺梨西部，后者很少被访问。鉴于Sphaerodactylus sputator在刺梨礁周围的安圭拉群岛上的存在，它要么是从附近的岛屿引进的，要么是本地的，直到现在才被忽视。
{"title":"Discovery of geckos, Sphaerodactylus macrolepis Günther and Sphaerodactylus sputator Sparrman, on Prickly Pear Cays, Anguilla, British West Indies","authors":"K. Questel","doi":"10.31611/CH.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31611/CH.61","url":null,"abstract":"I report the first records of Sphaerodactylus from the Prickly Pear Cays of Anguilla. Two species of the genus are known from the Anguilla Bank, S. parvus and S. sputator, but neither has been recorded from the Prickly Pear Cays (Hodge et al. 2003, Powell and Henderson 2012). Here, I document the occurrence of S. sputator and S. macrolepis on those islands, the latter species being a native of the Puerto Rico region and not known previously to occur on the Anguilla Bank. I went to Prickly Pear Cays on 26–30th March 2018 with my colleague, Jonas Hochart, to make an inventory of the flora during conservation work for Iguana delicatissama. Once there, we also explored the fauna of the cays and soon located a population of S. macrolepis on Prickly Pear Cay East. Lizards were in the center of the island and on the rocky coast. It was not found on Prickly Pear Cay West. We found S. sputator to be common on both cays. With three species of Sphaerodactylus now known from the Anguilla Bank, I have constructed a table to aid in their identification (Table 1). Prickly Pear East is uninhabited, but has two restaurants and is visited daily by tourists and charter boats. Sphaerodactylus macrolepis may have been inadvertently transported by charter boats based in the Virgin Islands. This would explain why this species is present on Prickly Pear East and not on Prickly Pear West, which is only rarely visited. Given the presence of Sphaerodactylus sputator on the islands of the Anguilla Bank surrounding the Prickly Pear Cays, it was either introduced from those nearby islands or was native and overlooked until now.","PeriodicalId":344218,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Herpetology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114164609","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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