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I.I.S. Board of Directors
Joseph Wasilewski, President
Homestead, FL

Joseph Burgess, Vice-president
Jacksonville, FL

A.C. Echternacht, Ph.D., Treasurer
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

AJ Gutman, Executive Secretary and 
Associate Editor of IGUANA
West Hartford, CT

John & Sandy Binns, Directors, Associate Editors
of IGUANA and Internet Operations
International Reptile Conservation Foundation,
San Jose, CA

Gunther Köhler, Ph.D. and Elke Köhler,
Directors
Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Senckenberg & Herpeton, Frankfurt, Germany

Robert Powell, Ph.D., Director and Editor of
IGUANA
Avila University, Kansas City, MO

I.I.S. Editorial/Advisory Board
Allison C. Alberts, Ph.D.
IUCN/SSC Iguana Specialist Group and
Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, CA

John Bendon, Illustrator for IGUANA
Bath, England

Gordon M. Burghardt, Ph.D.
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Frederic J. Burton
Blue Iguana Recovery Program, Grand Cayman,
Cayman Islands

Jorge Ferrari
Organización de Rescate y Protección de Reptiles
y Anfibios, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Matthias Goetz, Dipl.-Biol.
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Jersey, 
British Isles

Alexander Gutsche, Dipl.-Biol.
Humboldt Universität, Berlin, Germany

Richard Hudson
International Iguana Foundation and 
Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth, TX

John B. Iverson, Ph.D.
Earlham College, Richmond, IN

Chuck Knapp
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Michael Ripca, Managing Editor of IGUANA
Leaping Lizards Graphic Design, Atco, NJ

Thomas Wiewandt, Ph.D.
Wild Horizons, Tucson, AZ

Founder
Robert W. Ehrig
Big Pine Key, FL

Statement of Purpose
The International Iguana Society, Inc. is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to preserving the biological diversity of iguanas.
We believe that the best way to protect iguanas and other native plants and animals is to preserve natural habitats and to encour-
age development of sustainable economies compatible with the maintenance of biodiversity. To this end, we will: (1) engage in
active conservation, initiating, assisting, and funding conservation efforts in cooperation with U.S. and international governmen-
tal and private agencies; (2) promote educational efforts related to the preservation of biodiversity; (3) build connections between
individuals and the academic, zoo, and conservation communities, providing conduits for education and for involving the general
public in efforts to preserve endangered species; and (4) encourage the dissemination and exchange of information on the ecology,
population biology, behavior, captive husbandry, taxonomy, and evolution of iguanas.

Membership Information
Iguana, the Journal of The International Iguana Society, is distributed quarterly.

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JOIN ON-LINE AT:  www.IguanaSociety.org

Membership questions? Call AJ at 860-236-8203, or write to: The International Iguana Society, Inc., 133 Steele
Road, West Hartford, CT 06119

Solicitations
Members of the I.I.S. are encouraged to contribute articles, letters to the Editor, news items, and announcements for publication
in IGUANA. General articles can deal with any aspect of iguana biology, including conservation, behavior, ecology, physiology,
systematics, or husbandry. Submission of photographs to accompany articles is encouraged.

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail (send to ctenosaura@cyclura.com). For any contribution, please include your name,
address, phone number, and e-mail address. Authors of one page or more of print will receive a free copy of the journal in which
their contribution appears, and will receive a PDF file of their article for distribution.

Advertising Policy of IGUANA
We advertise only non-living products (except feeder insects). All products have been examined and been found to be high quality
and fairly priced. Contact Sandy Binns, Advertising Director, at sandy@cyclura.com or 3010 Magnum Drive, San Jose, CA 95135.

IGUANA Copyright ©2004 by The International Iguana Society, Inc., 133 Steele Road, West Hartford, CT 06119 USA. ISSN # 1098-6324. The contents of IGUANA, excluding Research Articles, Research Updates, and reprinted articles,
may be reproduced for inclusion in the newsletters of other herpetological societies, provided the material is reproduced without change and with appropriate credits, and a copy of the publication is sent to The International Iguana Society.
Occasional exceptions may be made to this policy.

Remarks
Craig Hassapakis, editor of Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC), originally conceived the idea to
devote a special publication entirely to iguana conservation. Allison Alberts organized the topics and
authors. The first five articles in this issue were subsequently reviewed and edited by Craig, his associate
editor, Jack Sites, and the editorial team at ARC. They thank the following individuals for their service in
reviewing and/or editing those articles: Mark Goodwin, Malcolm McCallum, Gad Perry, Michael Dreslik,
Csilla Csaplar, John McVay, Stephen Johnson, Deahn Donner Wright, Bethany Meisinger-Reiff, and Craig
Snyder. Due to an impacted publication schedule at ARC, IGUANA kindly offered to publish the special
issue. This solution exemplifies the cooperation being exhibited in herpetology, and ARC and the authors
of the articles are grateful to the editors of IGUANA for their foresight and generosity in accommodating
this material.

Editorial Note.—In Powell (2004. IGUANA 11(2):108–113), the author commented (figure caption, p.
109) that “Cyclura carinata bartschi is not genetically distinct from the nominate subspecies,” citing Malone
and Davis (2004. In: Alberts et al. (eds.), Iguanas: Biology and Conservation). In fact, the genetic compo-
sition of the Booby Cay population has yet to be compared to populations in the Turks & Caicos Islands
that are assigned to the nominate population. We thank Glenn Gerber for bringing this to our attention.




