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Iguana melanoderma • Painted Black: A New Melanistic Endemic Species of Iguana Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata, Iguanidae) from Saba and Montserrat Islands (Lesser Antilles)

The Lesser Antilles, in the Eastern Caribbean, is inhabited by three Iguana species: the Lesser Antillean iguana Iguana delicatissima, which is endemic to the northernmost islands of the Lesser Antilles, the introduced common iguana from South America, Iguana iguana iguana, represented also by the two newly described endemic subspecies Iguana iguana sanctaluciae from Saint Lucia and Iguana iguana insularis from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada, and the introduced Iguana rhinolopha from Central America. Leer más.

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