. The ecological impact of man on the south Florida herpetofauna. Amphibians -- Ecology Florida; Nature -- Effect of human beings on Florida. SOUTH FLORIDA HERPETOFAUNA 47. Figure 21. Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko). (LP) board piles have been cleaned up, and some large piles of tree trunks and limbs in which the lizards lived have been burned. The area is now fenced and seems slated for a future housing development. We believe this area to be the primary nesting ground for the lizards; the frequency of young seen during the past few seasons has de- creased. At any rate, the survival of C. pectinata
. The ecological impact of man on the south Florida herpetofauna. Amphibians -- Ecology Florida; Nature -- Effect of human beings on Florida. SOUTH FLORIDA HERPETOFAUNA 47. Figure 21. Tokay Gecko (Gekko gecko). (LP) board piles have been cleaned up, and some large piles of tree trunks and limbs in which the lizards lived have been burned. The area is now fenced and seems slated for a future housing development. We believe this area to be the primary nesting ground for the lizards; the frequency of young seen during the past few seasons has de- creased. At any rate, the survival of C. pectinata appears reasonably assured, even if in a reduced fashion, because it also inhabits the rock walls along the fronts of certain properties on the bay side of Old Cutler Road, and it also occurs on roofs and foundations of houses, and in trash piles and tree hollows. Eggert (1978) reported finding 13 Ctenosaura eggs which had been buried in sand. In early June 1975, one of us (LP) dug several gravid iguanas out of their burrows and they later laid eggs in captivity. Ctenosaura pectinata appears to feed on leaves of various types of vegetation, as deter- mined by examination of feces. In addition we have observed them to eat mamey fruit. Gekko gecko. —The tokay gecko (Fig. 21) has been introduced in disparate localities in Dade and Broward counties. The species is usually liberated in the confines of someone's home for control of cockroaches. Although released at a number of localities, we are unaware of any sizable population. These geckos appear to remain close to their site of introduction. If a group of individuals occurs within a building, territories are established and the geckos will usually move outside their territorial limits only to mate. Gonatodes albogiilaris. —The yellow-headed gecko (Fig. 22) was first reported as introduced in Key West by Carr (1939). The gecko. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally e
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