Cyclura rileyi STEJNEGER, 1903

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Higher Taxa	Iguanidae, Iguania, Sauria, Squamata (lizards)
Subspecies	Cyclura rileyi cristata SCHMIDT 1920 Cyclura rileyi rileyi STEJNEGER 1903 Cyclura rileyi nuchalis BARBOUR & NOBLE 1916
Common Names	E: White Cay Ground Iguana rileyi: San Salvador Iguana cristata: White cay iguana nuchalis: Acklins Iguana, Acklins Rock Iguana
Synonym	Cyclura rileyi STEJNEGER 1903: 130 Cyclura rileyi — SCHWARTZ & CAREY 1977 Cyclura rileyi — SCHWARTZ & HENDERSON 1991: 401 Cyclura rileyi — BUCKLEY et al. 2016 Cyclura rileyi rileyi STEJNEGER 1903 Cyclura rileyi rileyi — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975 Cyclura rileyi rileyi — LEMM & ALBERTS 2012 Cyclura rileyi rileyi — BUCKLEY et al. 2016 Cyclura rileyi cristata SCHMIDT 1920 Cyclura cristata SCHMIDT 1920: 6 Cyclura rileyi cristata — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975 Cyclura rileyi cristata — LEMM & ALBERTS 2012 Cyclura rileyi cristata — BUCKLEY et al. 2016 Cyclura rileyi nuchalis BARBOUR & NOBLE 1916 Cyclura nuchalis BARBOUR & NOBLE 1916 Cyclura rileyi nuchalis — SCHWARTZ & THOMAS 1975 Cyclura rileyi nuchalis — LEMM & ALBERTS 2012 Cyclura rileyi nuchalis — BUCKLEY et al. 2016
Distribution	Central Bahama Islands, including San Salvador, the Exuma Cays, islands of the Crooked-Acklins group. rileyi: San Salvador I. and satellites. Type locality: San Salvador Island, Bahama Islands. cristata: southern Exuma Cays. Type locality: "White Cay [Exuma Islands], Bahama Islands". nuchalis: cays in Bight of Acklins.
Reproduction	oviparous
Types	Holotype: USNM 3 1969, MCZ R-36749 Holotype: ANSP 11985 [nuchalis] Holotype: AMNH 7238 [cristata]
Diagnosis	Additional details, e.g. a detailed description or comparisons (1595 characters), are available for collaborators and contributors. Please contact us for details.
Comment	For illustrations see Barbour and Noble, 1916 (as C. nuchalis); Schwartz and Carey, 1977.
Etymology	Named after Joseph Harvey Riley (1873-1941), a biologist and ornithologist at the Smithsonian (1896-1941) who became Associate Curator of Birds (1932).
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 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 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 GASKINS, Leo C. & Brian R. SILLIMAN 2015. Crab predation by the San Salvador rock iguana (Cyclura rileyi). Herpetological Bulletin (132) - get paper here Hayes, William K.; Ricardo A. Escobar, Shawn K. Fry, Edgar M. Fortune, Joseph A. Wasilewski, Donald M. <br>Tuttle, Kathryn S. West, John B. Iverson, Sandra D. Buckner, and Ronald L. Carter 2016. Conservation of the Endangered Sandy Cay Rock Iguanas (Cyclura rileyi cristata): Invasive Species<br>Control, Population Response, Pirates, Poaching, and Translocation. Herp. Cons. Biol. 11 (Monograph 6) - get paper here Hayes, William K.; Samuel Cyril Jr., Tom Crutchfield, Joseph A. Wasilewski, Thomas A. Rothfus, and<br>Ronald L. Carter 2016. Conservation of the Endangered San Salvador Rock Iguanas (Cyclura rileyi rileyi): Population Estimation, Invasive Species Control, Translocation, and Headstarting. Herp. Cons. Biol. 11 (Monograph 6) - get paper here Iverson, John B.; Geoffrey R. Smith, Stesha A. Pasachnik, Kirsten N. Hines, and Lynne Pieper 2016. Growth, Coloration, and Demography of an Introduced Population of the Acklins Rock Iguana (Cyclura rileyi nuchalis) in the Exuma Islands, the Bahamas. Herp. Cons. Biol. 11 (Monograph 6) - get paper here Lemm, J.M. & Alberts, A.C. 2012. Cyclura. Elsevier / Academic Press, 221 pp. 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 Schmidt, K. P. 1920. A new Cyclura from White Cay, Bahama Islands. Proc. Linn. Soc. New York 33: 6-7 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 Stejneger, L. 1903. A new species of large iguana from the Bahama Islands. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 16:129-132. - get paper here
External links	IUCN Red List National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.world4you.com/cyclura/photo1.htm http://www.scz.org/iguana/meet.html http://www.iucn-isg.org/actionplan/ch2/sansalvador.php http://www.iucn-isg.org/actionplan/ch2/whitecay.php http://www.iucn-isg.org/actionplan/ch2/acklins.php Google images

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