LEIOCEPHALUS CARINATUS ARMOURI (Northern Curlytailed Lizard) OPPORTUNISTIC PREDATION

Authors

Henry T. Smith, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Florida Park Service
Richard M. Engeman, USDA-APHIS-Wildlife ServicesFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

January 2003

Comments

Published by Herpetologica1 Review 34(3), 2003.

Abstract

Distinctive circumstances can result in opportunistic predation on atypical prey (Woodin and Woodin 198 1 . Florida Field Nat. 9:64). Here, we document an opportunistic predation event by a great barracuda on a northern curly-tailed lizard, Leiocephalus carinatus armouri>/i>, in South Florida.