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    • Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles 

      Powell, Robert (ed.); Henderson, Robert W. (ed.) (2012)
      In collaboration with experts most familiar with specific areas within the West Indies, we set out to generate new island-by-island lists. Our reasons for doing so are fivefold: Since 1977, (1) we have found the (now ...

    • Major Caribbean and Central American frog faunas originated by ancient oceanic dispersal 

      Heinicke, Matthew P.; Duellman, William E.; Hedges, S. Blair (2007)
      Approximately one-half of all species of amphibians occur in the New World tropics, which includes South America, Middle America, and the West Indies. Of those, 27% (801 species) belong to a large assemblage, the ...

    • The origin of West Indian amphibians and reptiles 

      Hedges, S. Blair (1996)
      The known West Indian herpetofauna is comprised of 175 species of amphibians (99% endemic) and 457 species of reptiles (93% endemic). Informaation on distributions, relationships, and times of origin, with emphasis on ...

    • An overview of the evolution and conservation of West Indian amphibians and reptiles 

      Hedges, S. Blair (2006)
      The total area of the West Indies is small, only 0.15% of Earth’s land area, but the region supports 3.0% (180 species) of the world’s amphibians and 6.3% (520 species) of the world’s known reptiles. Nearly all species are ...

    • Vicariance and dispersal in Caribbean biogeography 

      Hedges, S. Blair (1996)
      The species diversity and phylogenetic relationships of West Indian vertebrates are incompletely known, but several lines of evidence support a dispersal origin for most of the fauna. Crother and Guyer have contested much ...