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Mona and Monito as seen from the International Space Station. Mona is the third largest island in the archipelago of Puerto Rico and the largest in the Mona Passage. It has an area of 22 square miles (57 km 2) and is located 41 miles (66 km) from the main island of Puerto Rico, and 38 miles (61 km) east of the Dominican Republic.
The Mona ground iguana (Cyclura stejnegeri) is a critically endangered species of rock iguana, endemic to Mona Island, Puerto Rico.It is one of the island’s few large land animals, and it is the largest endemic terrestrial lizard in the US territory, and one of the biggest rock iguanas within the Antilles.
Mona Island (Spanish: Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques. It is the largest of three islands in the Mona Passage, the strait between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico, with the others being Monito Island and Desecheo Island. It measures about 7 miles by 4 miles ...
The Mona ground iguana is endemic to dry forest on the island of Mona. Puerto Rican dry forest support a diverse avifauna; 185 bird species have been recorded in Guánica Forest including 15 endemic species. [9] The endangered Puerto Rican nightjar is restricted to dry and moist forests in southwestern Puerto Rico. [10]
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Mona Island, Puerto Rico Size: Habitat: Diet: ... which at the time was the most critically endangered of all the species of Cyclura. [18]
When first described, the Monito gecko was thought to be closely related to either the Mona least gecko (Sphaerodactylus monensis), a species endemic to the island of Mona located approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) southeast of Monito or to the Desecheo least gecko (Sphaerodactylus levinsi) a species endemic to Desecheo Island.
Chilabothrus granti, also known commonly as the Virgin Islands boa, is a species of snake in the family Boidae. The species is native to the Caribbean . Etymology