Presence
Recorded on | Aruba |
Presence status | Introduced (2) - Aruba |
Natural distribution | |
Distribution description | Tropical parts of South America, southern Texas, Mexico and Middle America. Introduced in many tropical areas as a biological control agent against insect pests on Sugarcane, amongst others Martinique, Hawai'i, the Philippines, Australia and New Guinea. |
Notes on presence status | Introduced in early 1960s on Aruba from Colombia (van Buurt, 2001). |
Publications
- Brongersma, L.D. 1948. Frogs from the Leeward group, Venezuela and eastern Colombia. Studies on the fauna of Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire and the Venezuelan Islands 3: 89-96.
- Buurt, G. van 2001. De amfibieën en reptielen van Aruba, Curaçao en Bonaire. 119 pp. Gerard van Buurt, Curaçao.
- Buurt, G. van 2023. Amphibians of Aruba, Curaçao, and Bonaire. In: The Conservation and Biogeography of Amphibians in the Caribbean. 524-537.
- Buurt, G. van, & Debrot, A.O. 2012. Exotic and invasive terrestrial and freshwater animal species in the Dutch Caribbean. 1-37. IMARES, Wageningen.