Cyclura collei GRAY, 1845

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Higher Taxa	Iguanidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies
Common Names	E: Jamaican Iguana, Jamaican Rock Iguana, Jamaica Iguana
Synonym	Cyclura Collei GRAY 1845: 190 Cyclura lophoma GOSSE 1848: 99 Cyclura lophoma GOSSE 1849: 64 Cyclura lophoma — BARBOUR 1910: 293 Cyclura collei — BARBOUR & NOBLE 1916 Cyclura collei — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 390 Cyclura collei — LEMM & ALBERTS 2012
Distribution	Jamaica, Goat I, Little Goat I Type locality: Jamaica.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: BMNH 1936.12.3.108.
Diagnosis
Comment	For illustrations see Barbour and Noble, 1916; Schwartz and Carey, 1977. Synonymy: note that Gosse has published his description twice, in two different journals, which apparently appeared in different years (as he actually has done with other papers). Abundance: Rare. This is one of the species called 'lost' and 'rediscovered' by Lindken et al. 2024.
Etymology	Although possibly named after its habitat, “hills”, after Latin “collei” for "of the hill", Gray refers to the species as Colley's Iguana, so he must have had someone in mind named “colley”, although it remains unknown who that person was.
References	Alberts, A.C.; Carter, R.L.; Hayes, W.K. & Martins, E.P. (eds.) 2004. Iguanas - Biology and Conservation. University of California Press, 356 pp. - get paper here Alberts, Allison 1993. The most endangered lizard in the world: the Jamaican iguana, Cyclura collei. Vivarium 5 (1): 12-14;30 Barbour, T. and Noble, G.K. 1916. A revision of the lizards of the genus Cyclura. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 60 (4): 139-64. - get paper here Baum, T. 2008. Jamaika, seine Leguane und der Riesenanaolis Anolis garmani. Reptilia (Münster) 13 (72): 73-80 - get paper here Beolens, Bo; Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson 2011. The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, USA - get paper here Buckley, Larry J.; Kevin de Queiroz, Tandora D. Grant, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, John B. Iverson (Chair, <br />Stesha A. Pasachnik, and Catherine L. Stephen (Iguana Taxonomy Working Group, ITWG 2016. A Checklist of the Iguanas of the World (Iguanidae; Iguaninae). Herp. Cons. Biol. 11 (Monograph 6) - get paper here Cooper, Taylor; Amanda Liew, Gabriel Andrle, Elisabeth Cafritz, Hannah Dallas, Trent Niesen, Emily Slater, Joseph Stockert, Taylor Vold, Michael Young & Joseph Mendelson 2019. Latency in Problem Solving as Evidence for Learning in Varanid and Helodermatid Lizards, with Comments on Foraging Techniques. Copeia 107 (1): 78-84 - get paper here Gosse, P. H. 1849. On the habits of Cyclura lophoma, an iguaniform lizard. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (2) 4: 64-68 - get paper here Gosse, P.H. 1848. On the habits of Cyclura lophoma, an iguaniform lizard. Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1848: 99-103 - get paper here Grant, C. 1940. The herpetology of Jamaica Il. The reptiles. Bull. Inst. Jamaica., Sci. Ser. 1: 61-148. Gray, J. E. 1845. Catalogue of the specimens of lizards in the collection of the British Museum. Trustees of die British Museum/Edward Newman, London: xxvii + 289 pp. - get paper here Hudson, Rick 1994. Efforts to save the Jamaican Iguana (Cyclura collei). Reptiles 1 (6): 16-17 KUMAR, KIRTANA; STESHA A. PASACHNIK, DAVID REID & AARON M.T. HARMER. 2021. Spatial Ecology of Invasive Predatory Species Informs Predator Control Program for the Jamaican Rock Iguana (Cyclura collei). Caribbean Journal of Science 51(2): 242–263. - get paper here Lemm, J.M. & Alberts, A.C. 2012. Cyclura. Elsevier / Academic Press, 221 pp. Lindken T.; Anderson, C. V., Ariano-Sánchez, D., Barki, G., Biggs, C., Bowles, P., Chaitanya, R., Cronin, D. T., Jähnig, S. C., Jeschke, J. M., Kennerley, R. J., Lacher, T. E. Jr., Luedtke, J. A., Liu, C., Long, B., Mallon, D., Martin, G. M., Meiri, 2024. What factors influence the rediscovery of lost tetrapod species? Global Change Biology, 30: 1-18 - get paper here Malone,C.L.; Wheeler,T.; Taylor, J.F. & Davis,S.K. 2000. Phylogeography of the Caribbean Rock Iguana (Cyclura): implications for conservation and insights on the biogeographic history of the West Indies. Mol. Phylogen. Evol. 17 (2): 269 - get paper here Schwartz, A. & Henderson, R.W. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, 720 pp. Schwartz, A. and Carey, M. 1977. Systematics and evolution in the West Indian iguanid genus Cyclura. Stud. Fauna Curaçao and Carib. Is. 53(173):15-97. - get paper here Veen, Rick van; Byron S. Wilson, Tandora Grant and Richard Hudson 2014. Where to now? An uncertain future for Jamaica's largest endemic vertebrate. Oryx 48 (2): 169-170 - get paper here WHYTE, DAMION L., ERIC GARRAWAY & ADRIAN THOMAS. 2022. Description of the nesting sites of the critically endangered Jamaican iguana Cyclura collei. The Herpetological Bulletin (160). - get paper here Wilson, B.S. & Vogel, P. 2000. A survey of the herpetofauna of the Hellshire Hills, Jamaica, including the rediscovery of the Blue-tailed Galliwasp (Celestus duquesneyi Grant). Carib. J. Sci. 36: 244-249 Wilson, Byron; Tandora D. Grant, Rick Van Veen, Rick Hudson, Dawn Fleuchaus, Orlando Robinson, and <br />Kimberly Stephenson 2016. The Jamaican Iguana (Cyclura collei): A Report on 25 Years of Conservation Effort. Herp. Cons. Biol. 11 (Monograph 6) - get paper here Woodley, J.D. 1980. Survival of the Jamaican Iguana, Cyclura collei Journal of Herpetology 14 (1): 45-49. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/die-100-gefaehrdetsten-arten-der-welt… http://www.iucn-isg.org/publications/actions-plans/ http://www.iucn-isg.org/species/iguana-species/cyclura-collei/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/steven_wong/6588494045/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/hisno/6099332498/in/set-72157625373217395/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/lizardcatcher101/1372503020/ Google images

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