A two-year conservation project studying Bermuda’s anoles has uncovered a new species as well as lifting the lid on how the lizard population has expanded across the Island.
The initiative was led by Florida International University’s James Stroud and Sean Giery from North Carolina State University.
The two research scientists worked alongside the Department of Conservation’s wildlife ecologist, Mark Outerbridge, to record the distribution of the three species of anoles in Bermuda.
The team’s work led to the discovery of a new species of anole, the Cuban brown anole, as well as providing groundbreaking data of how the other species’ populations had spread.
“We embarked on this project in an attempt to record the current distributions of all Anolis lizards and recorded range expansions that may have occurred,” Mr Stroud said.READ MORE
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