Check List 9(6): 1383-1390, doi: 10.15560/9.6.1383
Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) of the Corn Islands, Caribbean Nicaragua
Javier Sunyer‡,
Kirsten Elizabeth Nicholson§,
John Gerhardt Phillips|,
Jenny Ann Gubler§,
Lenin Alexander Obando‡‡ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua-León, Nicaragua§ Central Michigan University, United States of America| Central Michigan University University of Tulsa, United States of America
Corresponding author:
Javier Sunyer
(
jsunyermaclennan@gmail.com
)
© 2017 Javier Sunyer, Kirsten Nicholson, John Phillips, Jenny Gubler, Lenin Obando. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Sunyer J, Gubler J, Nicholson K, Phillips J, Obando L (2013) Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) of the Corn Islands, Caribbean Nicaragua. Check List 9(6): 1383-1390. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.6.1383 |  |
Abstract
The Corn Islands are two small Caribbean islands with the richest collection of endemic herpetofaunal taxa in Nicaragua. Despite increasing human population and associated habitat alteration, both islands lack protected areas. The lizard fauna of Great Corn Island consists of 14 species corresponding to nine families, and includes three endemic taxa. We collected three lizard species (Corytophanes cristatus, Gonatodes albogularis, and Hemidactylus frenatus) that were not previously recorded from that island. On Little Corn Island, where there were no previous records of lizards, we found seven species (Ctenosaura similis, Gonatodes albogularis, Hemidactylus frenatus, Holcosus undulatus, Iguana iguana, Lepidodactylus lugubris, and Norops unilobatus), all of which are also present on Great Corn Island.
Keywords
Reptilia; Squamata; Nicargua; endemic herpetofauna; Caribbean