T he Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) is the most abundant of Cuba's four introduced species in the genus Hemidactylus. Hemidactylus mabouia is distributed across Cuba and its satellite islands and is particularly abundant in urban and rural areas (Borroto-Páez et al. 2015). It is considered invasive throughout the Caribbean and in most
Abstract.-We are reporting the first case of predation of a Cuban Treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis) on a confined caged bird, a Yellow-faced Grassquit, (Tiaris oilivaceus) in central Cuba. We comment about predation on aquarium fish too. Both cases of predation are not reported previously.
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