. The ecological impact of man on the south Florida herpetofauna . Figure 19. Rainbow Lizard (Cnonidophorus leiiiniscatus). (LP) lege and one of us (LP) has seen individuals copulating at 0100 h in the middle of a gasoline station parking lot devoid of vegetation. Basiliscus vittatus. — We first noted the establishment of a small colony of the brown basilisk (Fig. 18) on a sparsely-vegetated canal near the northwest corner of the Miami International Airport in 1976. Additional specimens of i?. vittatus escaped from an animal dealer compound located at 70th Avenue and 70th Street. In 1979
. The ecological impact of man on the south Florida herpetofauna . Figure 19. Rainbow Lizard (Cnonidophorus leiiiniscatus). (LP) lege and one of us (LP) has seen individuals copulating at 0100 h in the middle of a gasoline station parking lot devoid of vegetation. Basiliscus vittatus. — We first noted the establishment of a small colony of the brown basilisk (Fig. 18) on a sparsely-vegetated canal near the northwest corner of the Miami International Airport in 1976. Additional specimens of i?. vittatus escaped from an animal dealer compound located at 70th Avenue and 70th Street. In 1979 juveniles were seen in both populations. In 1981 the latter locality was demolished but individuals were subsequently seen on a nearby canal bank. The merging of these populations is likely since the colonies are close to one another. We are also aware of a well- established colony along a canal on 70th Street between Sterling and Griffin Road in Davie, Broward County. Because of differences in coloration, we suspect that these populations are of separate or- igin. Cnemodophonis Icniniscatiis. —King and Krakauer (1966) orig- inally reported this lizard (as C. picturatus) as having been released in the vicinity of W. 27th Street and E. 7th Avenue (=W. 7th Avenue) in Hialeah, but it has not been seen again and is no longer extant there. Bartlett (1967) recorded this species as C. picturata (sic) as being found "over much of the area [Dade County] but especially prevalent in vacant lots on 79th ; As pointed out by Smith and Kohler (1978), there is no such species as Cneinidophorus pic- turatus, but they erroneously suggested that the animal released might have been Henudactylus picturatus from South Africa. In actuality the animal is C. lemniscatus (Fig. 19), and it is established and
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