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The native whiptail lizard and its avian predators on Curaçao. A. The Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus). Photograph by R. Scanlon; used with permission. B. The whiptail lizard (Cnemidophorus murinus). Photograph by A. Dornburg. C. The Groove-billed Ani, (Crotophaga sulcirostris). Photograph by R. Scanlon; used with permission.
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Despite increasing popularity of the island as an ecotourist destination, the ecology and natural history of many organisms native to the Lesser Antillean island of Curaçao have remained enigmatic. We document multiple new observations of the behavioral ecology of several terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates that inhabit Curaçao. We present the firs...
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... C. murinus is becoming an increasingly common model organism for the study of squamate evolu- tion (e.g., Schall 1990;Schall and Ressel 1991;Schall and Dearing 1994;Baird et al. 2003;Cooper et al. 2003Cooper et al. , 2004Vitt et al. 2005), it is surprising that the predators of this lizard are poorly known (van Buurt 2005). Herein we report the first documented cases of avian predation on C. murinus by two species of birds ( Figure 2): the Groove-billed Ani (Crotophaga sulcirostris) and the Tropical Mockingbird (Mimus gilvus). ...
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Despite increasing popularity of the island as an ecotourist destination, the ecology and natural history of many organisms native to the Lesser Antillean island of Curaçao have remained enigmatic. We document multiple new observations of the behavioral ecology of several terrestrial and aquatic vertebrates that inhabit Curaçao. We present the firs...
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Spauligodon bonairensis n. sp. from the large intestines of the Antilles gecko, Gonatodes antillensis (Lacertidae), from Bonaire, Lesser Antilles, is described and illustrated. The new species is the 48th assigned to the genus and the 10th from the Neotropical region. Spauligodon bonairensis n. sp. is most similar to S. giganticus, S. hemidactylus, S. lamonthei, and S. oxkutzcabiensis in that only these 5 species possess lanceolate eggs. For males of these species, only S. lamothei possess a spicule, and only S. oxktzcabiensis has an aspinose tail. The egg of S. hemidactylus has 2 knobs; in S. giganticus, the more rounded end supports the single knob. In S. bonairensis n. sp., the more pointed end supports the single knob.
