Anolis cristatellus, the Glossary

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1. 163 relations: Acanthocephala, Albert Schwartz (zoologist), Alexander Grant Ruthven, Allopatric speciation, American kestrel, Anders Sparrman, André Marie Constant Duméril, Anegada, Anolis, Anolis cooki, Anolis cristatellus, Anolis cuvieri, Anolis ecomorphs, Anolis evermanni, Anolis gundlachi, Anolis krugi, Anolis leachii, Anolis occultus, Anolis oculatus, Anolis pulchellus, Anolis stratulus, Arawak, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Auguste Plée, Autotomy, Beef Island, Blood cell, Brazil, Bribri people, British Virgin Islands, CAB International, Caja de Muertos Island, Caribbean, Cartago Province, Cayo Batata, Cayo Icacos, Cayo Santiago, Chameleon, Chapman Grant, Charles Frederick Millspaugh, Cladistics, Common name, Costa Rica, Cozumel, Culebra, Puerto Rico, Culebrita, Cursorial, Dactyloidae, Dewlap, ... Expand index (113 more) »

2. Reptiles of the United States Virgin Islands

Acanthocephala

Acanthocephala (Greek ἄκανθος, akanthos 'thorn' + κεφαλή, kephale 'head') is a group of parasitic worms known as acanthocephalans, thorny-headed worms, or spiny-headed worms, characterized by the presence of an eversible proboscis, armed with spines, which it uses to pierce and hold the gut wall of its host.

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Albert Schwartz (zoologist)

Albert Schwartz (September 13, 1923 – October 18, 1992) was an American zoologist who worked extensively with the herpetofauna of Florida and the West Indies, and later with butterflies.

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Alexander Grant Ruthven

Alexander Grant Ruthven (April 1, 1882 – January 19, 1971) was a herpetologist, zoologist and the President of the University of Michigan from 1929 to 1951.

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Allopatric speciation

Allopatric speciation – also referred to as geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name the dumbbell model – is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become geographically isolated from each other to an extent that prevents or interferes with gene flow.

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American kestrel

The American kestrel (Falco sparverius), is the smallest and most common falcon in North America.

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Anders Sparrman

Anders Sparrman (27 February 1748 – 9 August 1820) was a Swedish naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus.

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André Marie Constant Duméril

André Marie Constant Duméril (1 January 1774 – 14 August 1860) was a French zoologist.

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Anegada

Anegada is the northernmost of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

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Anolis

Anolis is a genus of anoles, iguanian lizards in the family Dactyloidae, native to the Americas. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis are anoles.

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Anolis cooki

Anolis cooki, also known commonly as Cook's anole, Cook's pallid anole, and the Guanica pallid anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis cooki are anoles and reptiles of Puerto Rico.

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Anolis cristatellus

Anolis cristatellus is a small species of anole, belonging to the Dactyloidae family of reptiles. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis cristatellus are anoles, lizards of North America, lizards of the Caribbean, reptiles described in 1837, reptiles of Puerto Rico, reptiles of the Dominican Republic, reptiles of the United States Virgin Islands, taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril and taxa named by Gabriel Bibron.

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Anolis cuvieri

Anolis cuvieri (Vernacular Spanish: lagarto verde, The Reptile Database. (www.reptile-database.org) Retrieved 1 September 2013. William A. Gould, Caryl Alarcón, Brick Fevold, Michael E. Jiménez, Sebastián Martinuzzi, Gary Potts, Maya Quiñones, Mariano Solórzano, and Eduardo Ventosa. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis cuvieri are anoles, lizards of the Caribbean and reptiles of Puerto Rico.

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Anolis ecomorphs

The ecomorph concept is a term first coined by Ernest Edward Williams in 1972 which he defined as a “species with the same structural habitat/niche, similar in morphology and behavior, but not necessarily close phyletically.” Williams first applied this definition to the Greater Antillean anoles (specifically in Puerto Rico) upon observing their evolutionary radiation, although it has since been used widely elsewhere. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis ecomorphs are anoles, lizards of the Caribbean and reptiles of Puerto Rico.

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Anolis evermanni

Anolis evermanni, also known commonly as the emerald anole, Evermann's anole, and the small green anole, is a species of lizard included within the family Dactyloidae. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis evermanni are anoles and reptiles of Puerto Rico.

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Anolis gundlachi

Anolis gundlachi, also commonly known as the yellow-chinned anole, Gundlach's anole, and the yellow-beard anole, is an oviparous, sexually dimorphic species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis gundlachi are anoles and reptiles of Puerto Rico.

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Anolis krugi

Anolis krugi, the olive bush anole, Krug's anole, or orange dewlap anole, is a species of lizard in the family Dactyloidae. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis krugi are anoles and reptiles of Puerto Rico.

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Anolis leachii

Anolis leachii, the Antigua Bank tree anole, Barbuda Bank tree anole, or panther anole, is a species of anole, a lizard in the family Dactyloidae. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis leachii are anoles, lizards of the Caribbean, reptiles described in 1837, taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril and taxa named by Gabriel Bibron.

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Anolis occultus

The Puerto Rican twig anole or dwarf anole (Anolis occultus) is a species of small, arboreal anole endemic to Puerto Rico and primarily inhabiting the Cordillera Central from the Sierra de Cayey range in the Southeast to the central-western ranges of Maricao. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis occultus are anoles and reptiles of Puerto Rico.

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Anolis oculatus

Anolis oculatus, the Dominica anole, Dominican anole, eyed anole or zandoli, is a species of anole lizard. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis oculatus are anoles and lizards of the Caribbean.

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Anolis pulchellus

Anolis pulchellus, the Puerto Rican anole, Puerto Rican bush anole, snake anole, or sharp-mouthed lizard, is a small species of anole lizard in the family Dactyloidae. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis pulchellus are anoles, reptiles described in 1837, reptiles of Puerto Rico, taxa named by André Marie Constant Duméril and taxa named by Gabriel Bibron.

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Anolis stratulus

Anolis stratulus is a moderately-sized species of anole (family Dactyloidae) found in Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands. Anolis cristatellus and Anolis stratulus are anoles, lizards of the Caribbean, reptiles of Puerto Rico and reptiles of the United States Virgin Islands.

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Arawak

The Arawak are a group of Indigenous peoples of northern South America and of the Caribbean.

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Arecibo, Puerto Rico

Arecibo is a city and municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta and Florida.

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Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (14 March 184430 January 1881) was a British poet and herpetologist.

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Auguste Plée

Auguste Plée, born 1787 in Paris and died 17 August 1825 in Fort Royal, Martinique, was a French naturalist.

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Autotomy

Autotomy (from the Greek auto-, "self-" and tome, "severing", αὐτοτομία) or 'self-amputation', is the behaviour whereby an animal sheds or discards an appendage, usually as a self-defense mechanism to elude a predator's grasp or to distract the predator and thereby allow escape.

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Beef Island

Beef Island is an island in the British Virgin Islands.

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Blood cell

A blood cell (also called a hematopoietic cell, hemocyte, or hematocyte) is a cell produced through hematopoiesis and found mainly in the blood.

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Brazil

Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.

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Bribri people

The Bribri (also Abicetava) are an Indigenous people in eastern Costa Rica and northern Panama.

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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially the Virgin Islands, are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and north-west of Anguilla.

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CAB International

CABI (legally CAB International, formerly Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux) is a nonprofit intergovernmental development and information organisation focusing primarily on agricultural and environmental issues in the developing world, and the creation, curation, and dissemination of scientific knowledge.

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Caja de Muertos Island

Caja de Muertos (also in English: Deadman's Chest or Coffin Island) is an uninhabited island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Ponce.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.

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Cartago Province

Cartago, which means Carthage in Spanish, is a province of central Costa Rica.

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Cayo Batata

Cayo Batata is an uninhabited, grass-covered island, located at, east of Morro de Humacao, the closest mainland feature (which is immediately south of the mouth of Río Humacao), in Humacao, Puerto Rico.

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Cayo Icacos

Cayo Icacos is a small, uninhabited island off the coast of Fajardo, Puerto Rico.

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Cayo Santiago

Cayo Santiago, also known as Santiago Island, Isla de los monos (or Island of the monkeys), is located at, to the east of Punta Santiago, Humacao, Puerto Rico.

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Chameleon

Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of June 2015.

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Chapman Grant

Chapman Grant (March 27, 1887 – January 5, 1983) was an American herpetologist, historian, and publisher.

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Charles Frederick Millspaugh

Charles Frederick Millspaugh (June 20, 1854 – September 15, 1923) was an American botanist and physician, born at Ithaca, New York, and educated at Cornell and the New York Homeopathic Medical College.

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Cladistics

Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry.

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Common name

In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in Latin.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

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Cozumel

Cozumel (Kùutsmil) is an island and municipality in the Caribbean Sea off the eastern coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula, opposite Playa del Carmen.

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Culebra, Puerto Rico

Isla Culebra (Snake Island) is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico and geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands.

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Culebrita

Isla Culebrita (little Culebra, little snake) is a small, uninhabited island off the eastern coast of Culebra, Puerto Rico and is part of the Puerto Rico Archipelago.

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Cursorial

A cursorial organism is one that is adapted specifically to run.

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Dactyloidae

Dactyloidae are a family of lizards commonly known as anoles and native to warmer parts of the Americas, ranging from southeastern United States to Paraguay. Anolis cristatellus and Dactyloidae are anoles.

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Dewlap

A dewlap is a longitudinal flap of skin or similar flesh that hangs beneath the lower jaw or neck of many vertebrates.

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Digenea

Digenea (Gr. Dis – double, Genos – race) is a class of trematodes in the Platyhelminthes phylum, consisting of parasitic flatworms (known as flukes) with a syncytial tegument and, usually, two suckers, one ventral and one oral.

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Dominica

Dominica (or; Dominican Creole French: Dominik; Kalinago: Waitukubuli), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean.

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Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north.

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Dwarf forest

National Park in the Philippines, a UNESCO World Heritage Site An elfin forest in Sumatra's Gunung Leuser National Park Dwarf forest, elfin forest, or pygmy forest is an uncommon ecosystem featuring miniature trees, inhabited by small species of fauna such as rodents and lizards.

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Ecological niche

In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.

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El Yunque National Forest

El Yunque National Forest (Bosque Nacional El Yunque), formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest (or Bosque Nacional del Caribe), is a forest located in northeastern Puerto Rico.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Eucestoda

Eucestoda, commonly referred to as tapeworms, is the larger of the two subclasses of flatworms in the class Cestoda (the other subclass is Cestodaria).

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Eukaryote

The eukaryotes constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound nucleus.

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Fallen Jerusalem Island

Fallen Jerusalem is an uninhabited island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, located to the south of Virgin Gorda.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Field Museum of Natural History

The Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH), also known as The Field Museum, is a natural history museum in Chicago, Illinois, and is one of the largest such museums in the world.

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Flanagan Island

Flanagan Island (sometimes referred to in older charts as Witch Island) is an island located within the Virgin Islands archipelago in the Caribbean and forms part of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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French Guiana

French Guiana (or; Guyane,; Lagwiyann or Gwiyann) is an overseas department and region of France located on the northern coast of South America in the Guianas and the West Indies.

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Frenchman's Cay

Frenchman's Cay is an island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.

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Gabriel Bibron

Gabriel Bibron (20 October 1805 – 27 March 1848) was a French zoologist and herpetologist.

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Georges Cuvier

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

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Great Dog Island

Great Dog Island is an uninhabited islet of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.

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Guana Island

Guana Island is an island of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the Caribbean.

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Guánica State Forest

The Guánica State Forest (Bosque Estatal de Guánica), popularly known as the Guánica Dry Forest (Spanish: Bosque seco de Guánica) is a subtropical dry forest located in southwest Puerto Rico.

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Herpetology

Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν herpetón, meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is a branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and tuataras).

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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Hobart Muir Smith

Hobart Muir Smith, born Frederick William Stouffer (September 26, 1912 – March 4, 2013), was an American herpetologist.

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Holotype

A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described.

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Ice age

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Immunology

Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine that covers the study of immune systems in all organisms.

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International Union for Conservation of Nature

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.

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Introduced species

An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.

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Invasive species

An invasive species is an introduced species that harms its new environment.

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Isla Cardona

Isla Cardona, also known as Sor Isolina Ferré Island, is a small, uninhabited island located 1.30 nautical miles south of the mainland Puerto Rican shore across from Barrio Playa, on the west side of the entrance to the harbor of Ponce, Puerto Rico.

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Isla de Cabras

Isla de Cabras (Spanish for goat island) is an islet located at the entrance of San Juan Bay, immediately across from San Juan Islet in Puerto Rico.

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Isla de Mona

Mona Island (Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques.

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Javan mongoose

The Javan mongoose (Urva javanica) is a mongoose species native to Southeast Asia.

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Jay M. Savage

Jay Mathers Savage (born August 1928 in Santa Monica, California) is an American herpetologist known for his research on reptiles and amphibians of Central America.

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Jost Van Dyke

Jost Van Dyke (sometimes colloquially referred to as JVD or Jost) is the smallest of the four main islands of the British Virgin Islands, measuring roughly.

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Karyotype

A karyotype is the general appearance of the complete set of chromosomes in the cells of a species or in an individual organism, mainly including their sizes, numbers, and shapes.

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Key Biscayne

Key Biscayne (Cayo Vizcaíno) is an island located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, located between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay.

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Last Interglacial

The Last Interglacial, also known as the Eemian (primarily used in a European context) among other names (including the Sangamonian, Ipswichian, Mikulino, Kaydaky, Valdivia, and Riss-Würm), was the interglacial period which began about 130,000 years ago at the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period and ended about 115,000 years ago at the beginning of the Last Glacial Period.

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Le Règne Animal

Le Règne Animal is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier.

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Leopold Fitzinger

Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist.

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Limón Province

Limón is one of seven provinces in Costa Rica.

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List of Anolis lizards

The large lizard genus Anolis contains around 436 accepted anole species, which have been considered in a number of subgroups, or clades such as carolinensis and isolepis. Anolis cristatellus and List of Anolis lizards are anoles.

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List of endemic fauna of Puerto Rico

This is a list of the endemic fauna of Puerto Rico.

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List of islands of Puerto Rico

This is a list of islands of Puerto Rico.

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List of reptiles of Puerto Rico

This is a list of the reptiles of the archipelago of Puerto Rico. Anolis cristatellus and list of reptiles of Puerto Rico are reptiles of Puerto Rico.

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Little Thatch

Little Thatch is a privately owned island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, upon which a resort has been built.

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Llave

Llave is a barrio in the island-municipality of Vieques, Puerto Rico.

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Los Tres Picachos State Forest

Los Tres Picachos State Forest (Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Los Tres Picachos) is one of the 20 forests that make up the public forest system of Puerto Rico.

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Luquillo Experimental Forest

The Luquillo Experimental Forest (Bosque experimental de Luquillo) is a protected area of tropical rainforest in northeastern Puerto Rico.

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Maricao State Forest

Maricao State Forest (Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Maricao) is a state forest located in the eastern Cordillera Central mountains of Puerto Rico.

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Marina Cay

Marina Cay is an island of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.

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Martinique

Martinique (Matinik or Matnik; Kalinago: Madinina or Madiana) is an island in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the eastern Caribbean Sea.

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Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

Mayagüez is the ninth-largest municipality in Puerto Rico.

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Miami

Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.

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Miami-Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Morrillito

Morrillito is a small uninhabited island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico.

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Museum of Comparative Zoology

The Museum of Comparative Zoology (formally the Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology and often abbreviated to MCZ) is a zoology museum located on the grounds of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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National Museum of Natural History, France

The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a grand établissement of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities.

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Necker Island (British Virgin Islands)

Necker Island is a island in the British Virgin Islands just north of Virgin Gorda.

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Nicolaus Michael Oppel

Nicolaus Michael Oppel (December 7, 1782 in Schönficht – February 16, 1820 in Munich) was a German naturalist.

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Nomen nudum

In taxonomy, a nomen nudum ('naked name'; plural nomina nuda) is a designation which looks exactly like a scientific name of an organism, and may have originally been intended to be one, but it has not been published with an adequate description.

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Norman Island

Norman Island is an island at the southern tip of the British Virgin Islands archipelago.

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Oviparity

Oviparous animals are animals that reproduce by depositing fertilized zygotes outside the body (known as laying or spawning) in metabolically independent incubation organs known as eggs, which nurture the embryo into moving offsprings known as hatchlings with little or no embryonic development within the mother.

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Palomino Island

Palomino Island is a small island located to the east of Puerto Rico, near the coast of Las Croabas in Cabezas barrio, Fajardo.

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Panama

Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America.

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Paraphyly

Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.

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Paratype

In zoology and botany, a paratype is a specimen of an organism that helps define what the scientific name of a species and other taxon actually represents, but it is not the holotype (and in botany is also neither an isotype nor a syntype).

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Pearly-eyed thrasher

The pearly-eyed thrasher (Margarops fuscatus) is a bird in the thrasher family Mimidae.

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Peter Island

Peter Island is a private island located in the British Virgin Islands (BVI).

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Pinworm infection

Pinworm infection (threadworm infection in the UK), also known as enterobiasis, is a human parasitic disease caused by the pinworm, Enterobius vermicularis.

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Plagiorhynchidae

Plagiorhynchidae is a family of parasitic Acanthocephalan worms.

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Plasmodium azurophilum

Plasmodium azurophilum is a species of the genus Plasmodium.

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Ponce, Puerto Rico

Ponce is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Prickly Pear Island

Prickly Pear Island is an islet approx.

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Puerto Rican coastal blind snake

The Puerto Rican coastal blind snake (Antillotyphlops hypomethes) is a species of snake in the Typhlopidae family.

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Puerto Rican tody

The Puerto Rican tody (Todus mexicanus) is a bird endemic to Puerto Rico.

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Puerto Rico

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Push-up

The push-up (press-up in British English) is a common calisthenics exercise beginning from the prone position.

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Red-tailed hawk

The red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) is a bird of prey that breeds throughout most of North America, from the interior of Alaska and northern Canada to as far south as Panama and the West Indies.

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Relict (biology)

In biogeography and paleontology, a relict is a population or taxon of organisms that was more widespread or more diverse in the past.

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Reptile

Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.

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Reptile Database

The Reptile Database is a scientific database that collects taxonomic information on all living reptile species (i.e. no fossil species such as dinosaurs).

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Richard Thomas (herpetologist)

John Paul Richard Thomas (born 1938) is an American taxonomist and systematist, and retired professor of herpetology and evolution at University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (San Juan, Puerto Rico).

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Robert Powell

Robert Powell (born 1 June 1944) is an English actor who is known for the title roles in Mahler (1974) and Jesus of Nazareth (1977), and for his portrayal of secret agent Richard Hannay in The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) and its subsequent spinoff television series.

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Robert Powell (herpetologist)

Robert ″Bob″ Powell (born 17 August 1948 in Germany) is an American herpetologist.

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Roseau

Roseau (Dominican Creole: Wozo) is the capital and largest city of Dominica, with a population of 14,725 as of 2011.

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Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands

Saint John (Sankt Jan; San Juan) is one of the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Sea and a constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.

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Sexual dimorphism

Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.

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Simpson Bay Lagoon

Simpson Bay Lagoon (also spelt Simson Bay Lagoon, or referred to simply as The Great Pond) is one of the largest inland lagoons in the West Indies of the Caribbean.

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Sint Maarten

Sint Maarten is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean region of North America.

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Siquirres

Siquirres is a district of the Siquirres canton, in the Limón province of Costa Rica.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Sympatry

In biology, two related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter one another.

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Synonym (taxonomy)

The Botanical and Zoological Codes of nomenclature treat the concept of synonymy differently.

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Syntype

In biological nomenclature, a syntype is any one of two or more biological types that is listed in a description of a taxon where no holotype was designated.

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Tampa Bay

Tampa Bay is a large natural harbor and shallow estuary connected to the Gulf of Mexico on the west-central coast of Florida, comprising Hillsborough Bay, McKay Bay, Old Tampa Bay, Middle Tampa Bay, and Lower Tampa Bay.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (back-formation from taxonomy;: taxa) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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Tortola

Tortola is the largest and most populated island of the British Virgin Islands, a group of islands that form part of the archipelago of the Virgin Islands.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Turrialba (canton)

Turrialba is a canton in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.

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United States Virgin Islands

The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States.

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University of Michigan Museum of Natural History

The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History (UMMNH) is a natural history museum of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.

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Vertebra

Each vertebra (vertebrae) is an irregular bone with a complex structure composed of bone and some hyaline cartilage, that make up the vertebral column or spine, of vertebrates.

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Vieques, Puerto Rico

Vieques, officially Isla de Vieques, is an island and municipality of Puerto Rico, a United States territory in the northeastern Caribbean.

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Virgin Gorda

Virgin Gorda is the third-largest island (after Tortola and Anegada) and second-most populous of the British Virgin Islands (BVI).

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Virgin Islands National Park

The Virgin Islands National Park is an American national park preserving about 60% of the land area of Saint John in the United States Virgin Islands, as well as more than of adjacent ocean, and nearly all of Hassel Island, just off the Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas harbor.

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West Dog Island

West Dog Island is an uninhabited islet of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean.

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Yucatán Peninsula

The Yucatán Peninsula (also,; Península de Yucatán) is a large peninsula in southeast Mexico and adjacent portions of Belize and Guatemala.

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See also

Reptiles of the United States Virgin Islands

• Anolis acutus
• Anolis cristatellus
• Anolis stratulus
• Borikenophis portoricensis
• Cope's worm lizard
• Magliophis exiguus
• Mona Island boa
• Richard's worm snake
• Saint Croix ground lizard
• Saint Croix racer
• Sphaerodactylus beattyi
• Sphaerodactylus macrolepis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anolis_cristatellus

Also known as A. cristatellus, Anolis cristatellus cristatellus, Common Puerto Rican anole, Crested anole, Puerto Rican Crested Anole.

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