Neftalí Ríos-López - The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean

Amphibians in the Caribbean

Dedication

Stephen Blair Hedges (in his late 30s) presumably at the parking lot of the Greyhound Bus Station in University Park campus, Pennsylvania State University (Pennsylvania, USA) in April 1994. Cuban herpetologist Alberto R. Estrada took this picture as part of a one-week working session, between Blairs house and his facility at Mller Laboratory (University Park), with material collected by Estrada in 1993 from Cuba. This work resulted in the descriptions of Eleutherodactylus glamirus, E. iberia, and E. tetajulia, which were published elsewhere in separate papers. S. Blair Hedges has contributed to the taxonomy, phylobiogeography, evolution, and conservation of the Caribbean amphibians in profound and significant ways: by the time of this volume, Blair's legacy includes 298 publications (10 of these books and monographs) in 43 years of publishing, and continuing; he has authored and coauthored the description of 36 species of amphibians in which 21 are from the Caribbean islands. His work an ongoing endeavour has motivated younger generations of herpetologists into applying the methodic and rigorous approach to the study of amphibians and their conservation in the Caribbean.

Calling maleEleutherodactylus auriculatus. Cupeyal del Norte, Guantanamo, Cuba. Photo Luis M. Diaz.

The Conservation and Biogeography of
Amphibians in the Caribbean

Edited by
Neftal Ros-Lpez
and
Harold Heatwole

Pelagic Publishing

Harold Heatwole and Neftal Ros-Lpez

R. Graham Reynolds and Sean T. Giery

Luis M. Daz, Ansel Fong G., Alberto R. Estrada, Antonio Cdiz, Amnerys Gonzlez, Rolando Fernndez de Arcila, Irelis Bignotte-Gir, and Sixto J. Inchustegui

Harold Heatwole and Javier Sunyer

Kimberly Stephenson and Byron Wilson

Neftal Ros-Lpez

Sixto J. Inchustegui and Luis M. Daz

Neftal Ros-Lpez, Alberto R. Puente-Roln, Nicole F. Angeli, Sondra I. Vega-Castillo, and Daniel Dvila-Casanova

Robert Powell and Robert W. Henderson

Gerard van Buurt

Harold Heatwole

Renoir J. Auguste, J. Roger Downie, Michael J. Jowers, Richard M. Lehtinen, Ryan S. Mohammed, and John C. Murphy

Sandra P. Galeano, Layla Freeborn, and Ricardo Cossio

ROS-LPEZ, Neftal, University of Puerto RicoHumacao Campus, Call Box 860, Humacao, Puerto Rico, 00792.

neftali.rios@upr.edu

HEATWOLE, Harold, Department of Zoology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.

harold_heatwole@ncsu.edu

ANGELI, Nicole F., Division of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, USA.

nicoleangeli1@gmail.com

AUGUSTE, Renoir J., Department of Life Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

renguste@gmail.com

BIGNOTTE-GIR, Irelis, Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad (BIOECO), Museo de Historia Natural 'Toms Romay', Enramadas # 601, Santiago de Cuba 90100, Cuba.

irelis@bioeco.cu

CDIZ, Antonio, Department of Biology, University of Miami, 215 Cox Science Center, 1301 Memorial Drive, Coral Gables, FL, 33146, USA.

tonycadiz@miami.edu

COSSIO, Ricardo, University of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Zoology, Bnteweg 17, 30559 Hannover, Lower Saxony, Germany.

calcalifer2@gmail.com

DVILA-CASANOVA, Daniel, Puerto Rico Biodiversity Conservation Office, Inter American University of Puerto Rico, Metropolitan Campus, P.O. Box 19597, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00919; Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Puerto RicoRo Piedras Campus, P.O. Box 70377, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 00936.

coquidanny@gmail.com

DAZ, Luis M., Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Cuba. Obispo #61 Esquina Oficios, Plaza de Armas, Habana Vieja, CP 10100, Cuba.

luisfromcuba@yahoo.es

DOWNIE, J. Roger, School of Life Sciences, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.

Roger.Downie@glasgow.ac.uk

ESTRADA, Alberto R., 13355 SW 9th Ct APT 415 H, Pembroke Pines, FL 33027, USA.

peleuth@gmail.com

FERNNDEZ de ARCILA, Rolando, Centro Nacional de reas Protegidas. Calle 18A, #4114 e/ 43 y 47, Playa, La Habana, Cuba.

roland@snap.cu

FONG, Ansel, Centro Oriental de Ecosistemas y Biodiversidad (BIOECO), Museo de Historia Natural 'Toms Romay', Enramadas # 601, Santiago de Cuba 90100, Cuba.

ansel@bioeco.cu

FREEBORN, Layla, Department of Biological Sciences, Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 4249 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.

LRF18@pitt.edu

GALEANO, Sandra P., Instituto de Investigacin de Recursos Biolgicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogot, Colombia and Grupo Herpetolgico de Antioquia, Instituto de Biologa, Universidad de Antioquia, Medelln, Colombia.

spgalean@gmail.com

GIERY, Sean T., Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.

stgiery@gmail.com

GONZLEZ, Amnerys, Centro Nacional de reas Protegidas. Calle 18A #4114 e/ 43 y 47, Playa, La Habana, Cuba.

amnerys@snap.cu

HENDERSON, Robert W., Vertebrate Zoology, Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W. Wells St., Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA.

rh@mpm.edu

INCHUSTEGUI, Sixto J., Grupo Jaragua, El Vergel 33, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana.

sixtojinchaustegui@yahoo.com

JOWERS, Michael J., CIBIO, Centro de Investigao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genticos, InBIO Laboratrio Associado, Campus de Vairo, Universidade do Porto, 4485661 Vairo, Portugal. Departamento de Zoologa, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain.

michaeljowers@hotmail.com

LEHTINEN, Richard M., Department of Biology, The College of Wooster, 931 College Mall, Wooster, Ohio 44691, USA.

rlehtinen@wooster.edu

MOHAMMED, Ryan, Biological Department, Auburn University, Alabama, USA.

ryansmohammed2020@gmail.com

MURPHY, John C., Science and Education, Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60616, USA.

serpentresearch@gmail.com

POWELL, Robert, Department of Biology, Avila University, 11901 Wornall Road, Kansas City, MO 64145, USA.

robert.powell@avila.edu

PUENTE-ROLN, Alberto R., Department of Biology, University of Puerto RicoMayagez Campus, Carr. 108 Barrio Miradero Km 1.3, Mayagez, Puerto Rico, 00681-9012.

alberto.puente@upr.edu

REYNOLDS, R. Graham, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina Asheville, One University Heights, Asheville, NC 28804, USA.

greynold@unca.edu

STEPHENSON, Kimberly, Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston 7, Jamaica.

kimberly.stephenson02@uwimona.edu.jm

SUNYER, Javier