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

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.