Survival of the Jamaican Iguana, Cyclura collei
1980; The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles; Volume: 14; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/1563874
ISSN1937-2418
Autores Tópico(s)Rabies epidemiology and control
ResumoThe recorded history of the Jamaican Iguana is reviewed and brought up to date. Once abundant, iguanas were greatly reduced by hunting and were rare by the middle of the nineteenth century. For a hundred years, they were only known to survive on the Goat Islands but, after the introduction of the mongoose and the interference consequent on the Second World War, that population became extinct in about 1948. But iguanas had, after all, survived on the mainland; in the Hellshire Hills. Hog-hunters have been catching occasional specimens up to 1978 and one of these, killed in 1969, was obtained by the author and positively identified. It is unlikely that the Jamaican Iguana, already very rare, will survive the proposed development of the Hellshire Hills.
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