BULLETIN ISLAND LISTS OF WEST INDIAN AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES Robert Powell and Robert W. Henderson, Editors Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 85–166 2012 UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA GAINESVILLE The FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY is Florida’s state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding, preserving, and interpreting biological diversity and cultural heritage. The BULLETIN OF THE FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes results of original research in zoology, botany, paleontology, archaeology, and museum science. The Bulletin is published at irregular intervals, and volumes are not necessarily completed in any one year. Volumes contain between 150 and 300 pages, sometimes more. The number of papers contained in each volume varies, depending upon the number of pages in each paper, but four numbers is the current standard. Multi-author issues of related papers have been published together, and inquiries about putting together such issues are welcomed. 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Box 117800 Gainesville, FL 32611-7800 USA FAX: 352-846-0287 Email: bulletin@flmnh.ufl.edu mailto:bulletin@flmnh.ufl.edu ISLAND LISTS OF WEST INDIAN AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES Robert Powell1 and Robert W. Henderson2, Editors 1Department of Biology, Avila University, Kansas City, Missouri 64145-1698, USA 2Section of Vertebrate Zoology, Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA Powell, R., and R. W. Henderson, Eds. 2012. Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51(2):85– 166. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction by Robert Powell and Robert W. Henderson .....................................86 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i Swan Islands by Robert Powell and Robert W. Henderson ....................................91 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i Bahama Islands and Turks & Caicos Islands by Sandra D. Buckner, Richard Franz, and R. Graham Reynolds ..........................................................93 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i Cayman Islands by Arthur C. Echternacht ............................................................ 111 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i The Cuban Archipelago by Alberto R. Estrada ..................................................... 113 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i Jamaica by Byron S. Wilson, Thera Edwards, and Robert Powell .......................126 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i Hispaniola and Navassa by Robert Powell ...........................................................129 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by Gregory C. Mayer ....................................136 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i Lesser Antilles by Robert W. Henderson and Michel Breuil ................................148 Literature Cited ..........................................................................................................i 126 BULLETIN FLORIDA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY VOL. 51(2) Over 65 species of amphibians and reptiles have been documented on Jamaica and its satellites. Several species are extinct, many are threatened with extinction, and several others are not native to the area, but have become established on islands due to human activity. Besides sources noted in the Introduction, we relied on the overviews of Crombie (1999) and Wilson (2011) and a treatise by Lazell (1996). Perimeters of cays and offshore islands were derived from tracing land areas, using either Garmin MapSource or Google Earth®. The preferred source was Google Earth®, as it provided a current satellite image of the land mass. Cays and islands that were not visible on Google Earth® were digitized in MapSource using BlueChart Americas v9.5 maps (Chart Gb383730, Chart Us26125 Portland Bight, Chart Us26127 (B) Approaches to Kingston, Morant Cays). In Map Source, the grid was set to UTM and the datum to WGS 84. The outline of the cay/island was traced and saved as a dxf file. CAD2Shape software was used to convert the dxf file to an ESR ArcMap compatible shapefile. The shapefile was opened in a data frame set to UTM Zone 18N and assigned a UTM projection in ArcMap. The file was then re-pro ected into the JAD2001 datum. Cays and islands with perimeters traced in Google Earth® were saved as kml files. A JAD2001 dataframe set at decimal degrees and metric units was opened and the kml files and JAD2001 files were added. All individual shapefiles were merged into one shapefile. The Tools extension was used to calculate the area of each island/cay in hectares in the final merged shapefile. The central point of each island/cay was calculated using the “convert features to spherical centroids” tool in the Graphics and Shapes extension. Since the data frame was set to decimal degrees the centroid’s X and Y coordinates were returned as longitude and latitude in decimal degrees. The attribute table was exported to Excel and the data converted to return results to two decimal places, and change hectares to square kilometres. The calculated areas were verified by selecting two random cays/islands and comparing those results to measures generated using the online Google Planimeter. JAMAICA BANK JaMaICa (18.15°/-77.30°) (10,829 km2) Eleutherodactylus alticola Eleutherodactylus andrewsi Eleutherodactylus cavernicola Eleutherodactylus cundalli Eleutherodactylus fuscus Eleutherodactylus glaucoreius Eleutherodactylus gossei gossei Eleutherodactylus gossei oligaulax Eleutherodactylus grabhami Eleutherodactylus griphus Eleutherodactylus jamaicensis Eleutherodactylus johnstonei (I) Eleutherodactylus junori Eleutherodactylus luteolus Eleutherodactylus nubicola Eleutherodactylus orcutti Eleutherodactylus pantoni amiantus Eleutherodactylus pantoni pantoni Eleutherodactylus pentasyringos Eleutherodactylus planirostris (I) Eleutherodactylus sisyphodemus Leptodactylus fallax (I, E) Lithobates catesbeianus (I) Osteopilus crucialis Osteopilus marianae Osteopilus ocellatus Osteopilus sp. Osteopilus wilderi Rhinella marina (I) Trachemys terrapen Ameiva dorsalis Anolis garmani Anolis grahami aquarum Anolis grahami grahami Anolis lineatopus ahenobarbus 1Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 2Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica 3Department of Biology, Avila University, Kansas City, Missouri 64145-1698, USA JAMAICA Byron Wilson1, Thera Edwards2, and Robert Powell POWELL AND HENDERSON: Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles 127 Anolis lineatopus lineatopus Anolis lineatopus merope Anolis lineatopus neckeri Anolis opalinus Anolis reconditus Anolis sagrei ssp. (I?) Anolis valencienni Aristelliger praesignis praesignis Aristelliger titan (F) Celestus barbouri Celestus crusculus crusculus Celestus crusculus cundalli Celestus duquesneyi Celestus fowleri Celestus hewardii Celestus microblepharis (PE) Celestus molesworthi (PE) Celestus occiduus (PE) Cyclura collei Gonatodes albogularis notatus (I?) Hemidactylus mabouia (I?) Leiocephalus jamaicensis (F) Sphaerodactylus argus Sphaerodactylus dacnicolor Sphaerodactylus gilvitorques (PE) Sphaerodactylus goniorhynchus Sphaerodactylus oxyrhinus Sphaerodactylus parkeri Sphaerodactylus richardsoni gossei Sphaerodactylus richardsoni richardsoni Sphaerodactylus semasiops Sphaerodactylus sp. Spondylurus fulgidus Tarentola albertschwartzi (PE) Epicrates sub a us Hypsirhynchus ater (PE) Hypsirhynchus callilaemus Hypsirhynchus funererus Hypsirhynchus polylepis Tropidophis jamaicensis Tropidophis stejnegeri Tropidophis stullae Typhlops jamaicensis Crocodylus acutus Big Halfmoon Cay (17.74°/-77.09°) (0.04 km2) Ameiva dorsalis Big Pelican Cay (17.80°/-77.02°) (0.03 km2) Ameiva dorsalis Figure 6. Map of Jamaica and surrounding small islands and cays. 128 BULLETIN FLORIDA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY VOL. 51(2) Bogue Islands (18.45°/-77.94°) (0.16 km2 for three cays combined) Aristelliger praesignis praesignis Cabarita Island (18.37°/-76.88°) (0.02 km2) Anolis grahami grahami Anolis lineatopus merope Sphaerodactylus goniorhynchus Careening Island (= Crane Island) (17.88°/-77.08°) (0.21 km2) Anolis grahami grahami Anolis lineatopus lineatopus Goat Island (= Great Goat Island) (17.87°/-77.05°) (2.20 km2) Anolis grahami grahami Anolis lineatopus lineatopus Anolis opalinus Cyclura collei (PE) Sphaerodactylus argus Epicrates sub a us (?) Lime Cay (17.92°/-76.82°) (0.02 km2) Ameiva dorsalis Little Goat Island (17.89°/-77.07°) (1.04 km2) Anolis grahami grahami Anolis lineatopus lineatopus Anolis opalinus Cyclura collei (PE) Sphaerodactylus argus NE Morant Cay (17.42°/-75.97°) (0.07 km2) Aristelliger praesignis praesignis Sphaerodactylus notatus atactus (I?) NE Pedro Cay (= Top Cay) (17.05°/-77.75°) (0.04 km2) Sphaerodactylus argus Pigeon Island (17.80°/-77.07°) (0.18 km2) Ameiva dorsalis SE Morant Cay (17.39°/-75.98°) (0.09 km2) Aristelliger praesignis praesignis SW Morant Cay (= Rocky Morant Cay) (17.39°/-76.00 (0.02 km2) Aristelliger praesignis praesignis SW Pedro Cay (= Bird Cay) (16.99°/-77.81°) (0.17 km2) Aristelliger praesignis praesignis i BULLETIN FLORIDA MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY VOL. 51(2) LITERATURE CITED Crombie, R. I. 1999. Jamaica. Pp. 63–92 in B.I. Crother, ed. Caribbean Amphibians and Reptiles. Academic Press, San Diego, California. Lazell J. 1996. Careening Island and the Goat Islands: Evidence for the arid-insular invasion wave theory of dichopatric speciation in Jamaica. Pp. 195–205 in R. Powell & R. W. Henderson, eds. Contributions to West Indian Herpetology: A Tribute to Albert Schwartz. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Contributions to Herpetology, vol. 12. Ithaca, New York. Wilson, B. S. 2011. Conservation of Jamaican amphibians and reptiles. Pp. 273–310 in A. Hailey, B. S. Wilson, & J. A. Horrocks, eds. Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas. Volume 2: Regional Accounts of the West Indies. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands Powell and Henderson-TOC.pdf Vol51-No2-126-128.pdf covervol51no2covers vol51no2 covervol51no2covers Powell and Henderson-LitCit-126-128.pdf