Until now two snake species of the genus Leptophis (parrot snakes) have been known to  inhabit Trinidad and Tobago. One, L. stimsoni , is ...

The dwarf day geckos of the genus Sphaerodactylus are primarily lizards of the Caribbean. The Reptile Database lists 101 currently recogni...

The second annual Trinidad Bioblitz has come and gone.  This year it was held in the very biodiverese Arima Valley, with the base camp at th...

Convergent evolution sometimes covers the tracks of genetic lineages, so species can appear to be very similar but have different ancesto...

Walking in the oldest protected forest in the Western Hemisphere at night you expect to see frogs, lizards, and snakes as well as interestin...

Green iguanas are well known for diving into streams from arboreal basking sites, but their behavior under water after the escape has to my ...

After a day of monsoonal rains the hylid fog Trachycephalus typhonius move to a breeding pond, males start to call, and soon the noise beco...

Leptodactylus validus and tadpoles on Tobago. JCM The very abundant whistling frog, Leptodactylus validus , has been long considered a...

A Tobago specimen. JCM Treeboas of the genus Corallus (subfamily Boinae), had a Gondwanan origin. As noted in the previous post...

 Ruschenberg's treeboa from the Frenchman's River, Tobago. JCM Nine species of  Neotropical treeboas in the genus Corallu s ran...

The following is from the Trinidad Express. The Tucker Valley Bushmaster, Lachesis muta . The small headed treefrog, Dendropsophs microcep...

Erythrolamprus reginae . JCM Using eight mitochondrial and nuclear genes Gazziotin et al . present a phylogenetic analysis of the New Wo...