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Boletín Científico. Centro de Museos. Museo de Historia Natural
versión impresa ISSN 0123-3068
Resumen
DE AYALA-MONEDERO, Rosa Mary y ALVAREZ-LEON, Ricardo. SHORT COMMUNICATION A REPORT ON A CASE OF INCOMPLETE LEUCISM IN THE GREEN IGUANA (Iguana iguana iguana) (SQUAMATA: IGUANIDAE) IN THE CARIBBEAN COLOMBIAN. Bol. Cient. Mus. Hist. Nat. Univ. Caldas [online]. 2014, vol.18, n.1, pp.158-162. ISSN 0123-3068.
Objectives: To complement the fauna associated with mangrove estands inventory in the Colombian Caribbean. Scope: Qualitative and quantitative inventory of specimens observed. Methodology: Direct observation,specific annotations and photographs of specimens. Main results:For the first time a copy of the green iguana (I. i. Iguana) with partial leucismo associated with mangro vestands (bobo or conchudo, Laguncularia racemosa and piñuelo or zaragoza, Conocarpus erecta) from the Colombian Caribbean coast is recorded. Conclusions: Despite therelative intensityof sampling and observations about iguanas, this finding represents an important advance in the knowledge of the family Iguanidae and, genera Iguana in Colombia.
Palabras clave : green iguana; leucismo incomplete; mangroves, Caribbean; Colombia.