Predation of Hemidactylus mabouia (Squamata: Gekkonidae) by Tropidophis pardalis (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae)
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The predation of a free-living Tropical House Gecko Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès, 1818) by the Spotted Brown Trope, Tropidophis pardalis (Gundlach, 1840), is recorded for the first time. Other two vertebrates, the Cuban Green Anole, Anolis porcatus Gray, 1841 (Squamata: Dactyloidae) and the small frog Eleutherodactylus planirostris (Cope, 1862) are also recorded as preys of this dwarf boa in the same locality.
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Anolis, Eleutherodactylus, boa enana, natural history, Cuba, West Indies
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Domínguez Díaz, M. y L. V. Moreno. 2003. Serpientes del suelo. Pp. 98-109, en: Anfibios y reptiles de Cuba (L. Rodríguez Schettino, ed.). UPC Print, Vaasa, Finlandia, 169 pp.
Henderson, R. W. y R. Powell. 2009. Natural history of West Indian reptiles and amphibians. Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 495 pp.
Meshaka, W. E., Jr. 1996 Diet and the colonization of buildings by the Cuban Treefrog, Osteopilus septentrionalis (Anura: Hylidae). Caribbean Journal of Science, 32 (1): 59-63.
Owen, J. y G. Perry. 2005. Anolis cristatellus wileyae (Virgin Islands Crested Anole). Saurophagy. Herpetological Review, 36: 444.
Polo Leal, J. L. y A. Arango Leiva. 2011. Mantenimiento y reproducción del Majasito o Boa Leopardo Tropidophis pardalis, Gundlach, 1840 (Serpentes: Tropidophidae) en el Parque Zoológico Nacional de Cuba. Cubazoo, 24: 49-57.
Polo Leal, J. L. y L. V. Moreno. 2010. Serpientes de Cuba, ¿amigas o enemigas? Editorial Gente Nueva, La Habana, 91 pp.
Pough, F. H., R. M. Andrews, M. L. Crump, A. H. Savitzky, K. D. Wells y M. C. Brandley. 2016. Herpetology. Sinauer Associates, Inc, Sunderland, USA, 591 pp.
Rodríguez-Schettino, L., C. A. Mancina y V. G. Rivalta. 2013. Reptiles of Cuba: Checklist and Geographic Distributions. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service, 144: 1-92.
Schwartz, A. y R. W. Henderson. 1991. Amphibians and reptiles of the West Indies. Descriptions, distributions and natural history. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, xvi + 720 pp.
Silva Lee, A. 1982. Chipojos, bayoyas y camaleones. Editorial Gente Nueva, La Habana, 84 pp. + 64 láminas.
Weiss, A. J. y S. B. Hedges. 2007. Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the Antillean geckos Phyllodactylus wishingi, Tarentola americana and Hemidactylus haitianus (Reptilia, Squamata). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 45: 409-416.
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de Armas, L. F., & Iturriaga, M. (2017). Predation of Hemidactylus mabouia (Squamata: Gekkonidae) by Tropidophis pardalis (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae). Novitates Caribaea, (11), 99–102. https://doi.org/10.33800/nc.v0i11.22
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