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APHIS Raleigh Plant Protection Center
A plant in the legume family; the fruit of a legume; a pod. Lemma: The lower (outer) of two bracts enclosing a grass flower. Lesser Antilles: A group of islands in the eastern West Indies (southeast of the Virgin Islands). Ligule: A collar-like appendage at the top of the sheath of a grass leaf. Linear: Long and narrow. Mericarp: One of two seedlike ...
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Iguana Specialist Group (formerly the West Indian Iguana Specialist Group)
Taxonomic Accounts Chapter Three: Action Plan Executive Summary The West Indian iguanas form a unique group of species inhabiting tropical dry forests throughout the Bahamas and the Greater and Lesser Antilles. They are among the most endangered of the worlds lizards, primarily because much of their fragile island habitat has been eliminated by human development or severely degraded by exotic ...
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Iguana Specialist Group (formerly the West Indian Iguana Specialist Group)
Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles. While Cyclura are terrestrial, depending heavily on the presence of rocky crevices to serve as ... (Perera 1985a), the Grand Cayman iguana on 45 species (Burton and Gould, in preparation), the Lesser Caymans iguana on over 40 species (G. Gerber, unpublished data), and the Mona Island iguana ...
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ASM | Mammals of Texas
Phocidae (seals) Caribbean Monk Seal Monachus tropicalis Extinct Former range was the Gulf Coast, Ytcatan, western Caribbean, Greater & Lesser Antilles, Bahamas, & Florida Keys Probably became extinct in the mid-1950's. They were slow on land and showed no fear of people, and so were easy to kill. ARTIODACTYLA (even-toed ungulates) Suidae (pigs) ...
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SCS: Caribbean Monk Seal (Monachus tropicalis)
Caribbean monk seal, also known as the West Indian monk seal, since 1952. The species is thought to have originally inhabited the beaches, cays and reefs of the Caribbean, including at least the Greater Antilles, the northern Lesser Antilles, the Bahamas, the northeastern coasts of Central America, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the Florida Keys. The last ...
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Using Radar to Detect Ash Clouds
Soufriere Hills, Montserrat. William I Rose 8 February 1998 For more than two years the activity at Soufriere Hills, Montserrat has produced numerous ash-bearing volcanic clouds that drift around the Lesser Antilles region. The activity is a growing hazard beyond the island itself because volcanic clouds are a serious threat to aviation (Rose, 1986; Casadevall, 1994) and because in general the ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
In 1957 the South American cactus moth was introduced to the island of Nevis in the Lesser Antilles to control a pest cactus. Hopping from island to island, and possibly aided by inadvertent ... of the cactus moth in the Florida Keys, more than thirty years after its release in the Lesser Antilles, is a good example. Lastly, biological control agents are sometimes released by groups or individuals ...
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Threatened and Endangered Animals
Vertebrate Pop...Entire Critical Habitat.NA Special Rule.....NA Common Name......Tern, least Scientific Name..Sterna antillarum Historic Range...U.S.A. (Atlantic and Gulf coasts, Miss. R. Basin, CA), Greater and Lesser Antilles, Bahamas, Mexico; winters Central America, northern South America Status...........E When Listed......182 Vertebrate Pop...U.S.A. (AR, CO, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA--Miss. ...
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Frog FACT SHEET
Puerto Rico mesic and rain forest 0-100m (3900') elev E. martincensis Maui (2 sites); in nursery, residential area and surrounding forest Lesser Antilles (Caribbean) dry, mesic, and rain forest, 0-770m (2500') elev E. planirostris Big Island (3 sites), Oahu (1 site), nuseries and adjacent ohia scrub, residential areas Cuba, ...
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FROGS ARE DEVASTATING
E. coqui, except for a greater toleranee for dry conditions, occurring in tropical dry forest in the Lesser Antilles. E. planirostris consumes similar, though smaller, prey items to E. coqui and can occur at high densities but probably requires warmer temperatures for survival than does E. coqui. Hence, it is unlikely to invade mid- ...
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