. The ecological impact of man on the south Florida herpetofauna . Figure 9. Greenhouse Frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris). (LP) noted it to occur in Florida City and Homestead. It is locally com- mon in various portions of southeastern and southwestern Florida and is usually encountered under trash. An excellent summary of the biology of this species was published by Goin (1947). Schwartz (1974) recently summarized the known distribution of/:, planirostris in Florida. Osteopilus septentrionalis. —The Cuban treefrog (Fig. 10) was first reported from Key West by Barbour (1931b). Since that t
. The ecological impact of man on the south Florida herpetofauna . Figure 9. Greenhouse Frog (Eleutherodactylus planirostris). (LP) noted it to occur in Florida City and Homestead. It is locally com- mon in various portions of southeastern and southwestern Florida and is usually encountered under trash. An excellent summary of the biology of this species was published by Goin (1947). Schwartz (1974) recently summarized the known distribution of/:, planirostris in Florida. Osteopilus septentrionalis. —The Cuban treefrog (Fig. 10) was first reported from Key West by Barbour (1931b). Since that time it appears to have dispersed northward, having been reported on Upper Matacumbe Key by Trapido (1947), Key Largo by Allen and Neill (1953), Miami by Schwartz (1952), Dania by King (1960), the Broward-Palm Beach County line by Lee (1969), Palm Beach County by Austin (1975), and Saint Lucie and Indian River counties by Myers (1977). On the west coast it has been reported from Naples by Duellman and Crombie (1970) and we know it to occur in Fort Myers, Sanibel Island, and Fort Myers Beach. Information on this species was summarized by Duellman and Crombie (1970). Anieiva anwiva.—The South American ground lizard (Fig. 11) was originally reported from south Florida by Neill (1957) from an unstated locality. Duellman and Schwartz (1958) stated that this lizard was first known to be established in Dade County in 1954 in overgrown vacant lots near the junction of 34th Avenue and 79th Street in Miami. King and Krakauer (1966) reported the species (as A. a. petersi) as occurring in an area of 25 city blocks from 79th Street south to 76th Street and from 36th Avenue west to Le Jeune Road. They also reported that A. a. ameiva had been released
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