Biology Reference
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Table B.1
(continued)
Evidence questioning, correcting, or
providing evidence against claim for
introduction
Claimed locality
of introduction
Source for claimed
introduction
Species
Valid?
Reason invalid
Ramphotyphlops
braminus
CNMI
W.C. Brown, 1956; Wiles
et al., 1989, 1990; Lever,
2003
N
Apparently native
Pregill, 1998
Guam
W.C. Brown, 1956; Lever,
2003
N
Apparently native
Pregill, 1998
Typhlops lumbri-
calis
Bahamas
Westermann, 1953; Lever,
2003
N
Native
Schwartz & Henderson, 1991; McDiarmid
et al., 1999
TURTLES
Gopherus agassizi
US: SE Arizona,
SW New
Mexico
D.J. Germano et al., 1994;
Hulse & Middendorf,
1979
?
Uncertain if introduced or
relict
Hulse & Middendorf, 1979; Patterson,
1982; Degenhardt et al., 1996
Indotestudo
forstenii
Indonesia
Pritchard, 1979;
Groombridge, 1982;
Hoogmoed & Crumly,
1984; Ernst & Barbour,
1989; Iskandar, 2000
N
Native
Iverson et al., 2001
Lissemys punctata
Singapore
Yong, 1990; Ng et al., 1993;
Iskandar, 2000
N
Misidentification
I. Das, personal communication, 1999
Malaclemys
terrapin
Bermuda
Lever, 2003; Davenport et
al., 2005
?
Native
Lever, 2003; Davenport et al., 2005;
Bacon et al., 2006b; Parham et al.,
2008
Pelodiscus sinensis
Japan: Ogasawara
Islands
Ernst & Barbour, 1989;
McKeown, 1996
N
Species not present in
islands
M. Toda, personal communication, 2007
Pseudemys
floridana
US: Maryland
Nemuras, 1964
N
Misidentification
Harris, 1968, 1969
Testudo hermanni
Mediterranean
France
Fretey, 1975, 1986; Geniez
& Cheylan, 1987
Y
Reintroductions or escapees
in native range from
which it was exterminated
Cheylan, 1984, 2001
