Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Cuculiformes > Cuculidae > Saurothera > Saurothera vetula

Saurothera vetula (Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo)

Synonyms: Coccyzus vetula (homotypic); Cuculus vetula (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Jamaican lizard cuckoo (Saurothera vetula) is a species of cuckoo in the Cuculidae family.It is endemic to Jamaica.Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
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Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Jamaican dry forests Jamaica Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests
Jamaican moist forests Jamaica Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. Yes

External References

Citations

Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0