Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Gray 1827) is a medium-sized terrestrial lizard native to Cuba, The Bahamas, and the lesser Cayman Islands that favors disturbed, open, sandy habitats and is a generalist predator of terrestrial invertebrates and small vertebrates (Rabb 1957; Schoener et al. 1982).The species was first recorded in the United States in the 1940s following a deliberate introduction into Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, from the Bahamas (e.g., Weigl 1969; Fig. 1).The population expanded to sur-rounding counties during the following decades (King 1960; Smith et al. 2004; Connor et al. 2013) and recent credible records have extended the range as far north as Duval (2007; UF-Herpetology 151366) and Leon Counties, Florida, USA (2022; UF-Herpetology 201666).Leiocephalus carinatus has an affinity for anthropogenic habitat (e.g., parking lots, sea walls, buildings, etc.) and distribution patterns suggest that human-mediated dispersal likely is key to the species' northward expansion (Smith and Engeman 2004).Observations of
Source: Reptiles & Amphibians
Authors: Taylor Cooper, Jonathan Suh
Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4416193713
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