{"title":"Examination of the Helminth Fauna of the Bermuda Skink, Plestiodon longirostris (Scincidae), Utilizing Faecal Analysis","authors":"V. Roca, G. Garcia","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47496359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fredrik Møller-Stranges, Line Maj Hedegaard, B. Dalsgaard
A bstrAct —Double mutualism describes the situation where two species interact for the benefit of both in more than one type of interaction. For instance, if a given plant species is both pollinated and has its seeds dispersed by the same animal species. Double mutualism is thought to be more present in ecosystems where organisms are generalized, such as on oceanic islands. In the Caribbean islands, double mutualism has only been reported four times, of which only one involves a bird, between the widespread Bananaquit ( Coereba flaveola ) and the plant Cordia bicolor (Boraginaceae) on the continental island of Tobago. Here, for the first time, we report an observation of double mutualistic behaviour of a bird on Caribbean oceanic islands: The Black-crowned Tanager ( Phaenicophilus palmarum ), a bird endemic to Hispaniola, and the widespread plant Beach Creeper ( Ernodea littoralis , Rubiaceae). Whereas hummingbirds and insects were more frequent visitors to the flowers of E. littoralis compared to P. palmarum , only P. palmarum was observed as a seed-disperser of E. littoralis . Based on our observations, we conclude that P. palmarum and E. littoralis show double mutualistic behaviour, though more detailed studies are needed to quantify the importance of this mutualistic behaviour, both from the bird’s point of view and from the plant’s point of view regarding the effectiveness of
{"title":"Double Mutualism Between the Black-crowned Palm-Tanager (Passeriformes, Pheanicophilidae, Phaenicophilus palmarum) and the Beach Creeper (Rubiaceae, Ernodea littoralis) on Hispaniola, Greater Antilles, Caribbean","authors":"Fredrik Møller-Stranges, Line Maj Hedegaard, B. Dalsgaard","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A10","url":null,"abstract":"A bstrAct —Double mutualism describes the situation where two species interact for the benefit of both in more than one type of interaction. For instance, if a given plant species is both pollinated and has its seeds dispersed by the same animal species. Double mutualism is thought to be more present in ecosystems where organisms are generalized, such as on oceanic islands. In the Caribbean islands, double mutualism has only been reported four times, of which only one involves a bird, between the widespread Bananaquit ( Coereba flaveola ) and the plant Cordia bicolor (Boraginaceae) on the continental island of Tobago. Here, for the first time, we report an observation of double mutualistic behaviour of a bird on Caribbean oceanic islands: The Black-crowned Tanager ( Phaenicophilus palmarum ), a bird endemic to Hispaniola, and the widespread plant Beach Creeper ( Ernodea littoralis , Rubiaceae). Whereas hummingbirds and insects were more frequent visitors to the flowers of E. littoralis compared to P. palmarum , only P. palmarum was observed as a seed-disperser of E. littoralis . Based on our observations, we conclude that P. palmarum and E. littoralis show double mutualistic behaviour, though more detailed studies are needed to quantify the importance of this mutualistic behaviour, both from the bird’s point of view and from the plant’s point of view regarding the effectiveness of","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48291227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jimena Samper‐Villarreal, Juan Guillermo Sagot-Valverde, Eddy Gómez-Ramírez, J. Cortés
{"title":"Water Quality as a Potential Factor Influencing Seagrass Change Over Time at Cahuita National Park, Costa Rica","authors":"Jimena Samper‐Villarreal, Juan Guillermo Sagot-Valverde, Eddy Gómez-Ramírez, J. Cortés","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67941251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Elasmobranch (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) Habitat Use in an Insular Tropical Lagoon in Exuma, The Bahamas","authors":"Ellery Lennon, K. Sealey","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43260501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"First Record of the Nematode Physaloptera squamatae in the Helminth Community of the Introduced Anole Anolis grahami (Polychrotidae) on Bermuda","authors":"V. Roca, G. Garcia","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47151871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. Antúnez-Fonseca, Carlos Juarez-Peña, Ángel Sosa-Bartuano, Raquel Alvarado-Larios, Lucia Sánchez-Trejo, Hermes VEGA-RODRÍGUEZ
{"title":"First Records in El Salvador and New Distribution Records in Honduras for Eleutherodactylus planirostris Cope, 1862 (Anura, Eleutherodactylidae), with Comments on its Dispersal and Natural History","authors":"C. Antúnez-Fonseca, Carlos Juarez-Peña, Ángel Sosa-Bartuano, Raquel Alvarado-Larios, Lucia Sánchez-Trejo, Hermes VEGA-RODRÍGUEZ","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47939432","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Héctor Rivera-Jiménez, Sandra L. Maldonado-Ramírez
{"title":"Changes in the Endophytic Fungal Community Associated with Pilosocereus royenii (Cactaceae) Infested by the Invasive Hypogeococcus sp. (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae)","authors":"Héctor Rivera-Jiménez, Sandra L. Maldonado-Ramírez","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49512766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Brown, Ely Augustinus, Andrea P. Izaguirre, J. M. Solís
{"title":"Central American Snapping Turtle (Chelydridae, Chelydra rossignonii) on Utila Island, Honduras, Demonstrates Hurricanes are a Likely Past and Future Oversea Dispersal Pathway for Species Introduction in the Caribbean","authors":"T. Brown, Ely Augustinus, Andrea P. Izaguirre, J. M. Solís","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47484023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Soundscape Structure of the Carite State Forest in Puerto Rico Before and After the 2017 Hurricane Season","authors":"Diana López‐Hernández","doi":"10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/CJOS.V51I1.A8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41859631","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jerson Arturo Santamaría Martínez, J. Mora, J. Rodríguez, Emmanuel Rojas, J. Alvarado, Ruth Torres Medina
Abstract Anomalous pigmentations have been reported in several groups of reptiles. Among these, albinism is one of the most striking aberrations of body coloration. This pigmentary anomaly is caused by the absence of melanin in the integument. Many cases of albinism have been reported in snakes, primarily in species with cryptozoic habits, and several reports are available for the Dipsadidae family from South America. Geophis is one of the most diverse genera in this family, with 50 species distributed mainly in Mesoamerica. The Yellow-bellied Earth Snake (Geophis godmani) is known only from the mountain ranges of Costa Rica and western Panama. In September, 2020 we encountered an albino individual of the Yellow-bellied Earth Snake at Palmira de Zarcero, Alajuela province, Costa Rica. Here we report on this finding and discuss possible consequences of albinism in snakes. Snakes affected by albinism have red eyes and a yellow or pink coloration due to the presence of xanthophores and erythrophores. As a result, aspects such as thermoregulation can be affected, and jeopardize the snake's survival. However, some individuals can have traits that potentially preclude the negative effects of albinism. These characteristics would allow for the survival of individual snakes to the adult stage, such as the albino individual of Geophis godmani we found in central Costa Rica.
{"title":"Albinism in a Yellow-bellied Earth Snake (Geophis godmani Boulenger, 1894) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Central Costa Rica","authors":"Jerson Arturo Santamaría Martínez, J. Mora, J. Rodríguez, Emmanuel Rojas, J. Alvarado, Ruth Torres Medina","doi":"10.18475/cjos.v51i1.a2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v51i1.a2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Anomalous pigmentations have been reported in several groups of reptiles. Among these, albinism is one of the most striking aberrations of body coloration. This pigmentary anomaly is caused by the absence of melanin in the integument. Many cases of albinism have been reported in snakes, primarily in species with cryptozoic habits, and several reports are available for the Dipsadidae family from South America. Geophis is one of the most diverse genera in this family, with 50 species distributed mainly in Mesoamerica. The Yellow-bellied Earth Snake (Geophis godmani) is known only from the mountain ranges of Costa Rica and western Panama. In September, 2020 we encountered an albino individual of the Yellow-bellied Earth Snake at Palmira de Zarcero, Alajuela province, Costa Rica. Here we report on this finding and discuss possible consequences of albinism in snakes. Snakes affected by albinism have red eyes and a yellow or pink coloration due to the presence of xanthophores and erythrophores. As a result, aspects such as thermoregulation can be affected, and jeopardize the snake's survival. However, some individuals can have traits that potentially preclude the negative effects of albinism. These characteristics would allow for the survival of individual snakes to the adult stage, such as the albino individual of Geophis godmani we found in central Costa Rica.","PeriodicalId":55274,"journal":{"name":"Caribbean Journal of Science","volume":"51 1","pages":"14 - 19"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47831359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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