Author(s)

Marcelo Tardelli Rodrigues^1*, Rodrigo Cumplido¹, David Steinwender², David Braga Quintanilha¹, Ubirajara Gonçalves de Melo Junior¹, Patricia de Oliveira Paiva Quintanilha¹, Luisa Maria Diele-Viegas³

¹Programa Associado de Pós-Graduacao em Biotecnologia Marinha (PPGBM), Instituto de Estudos do Mar Almirante Paulo Moreira (IEAPM) and Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Arraial do Cabo-RJ, Brazil.
²Posto Avancado da área de Protecao Ambiental da Serra da Sapiatiba (APA da Serra da Sapiatiba), área de Protecao Ambiental do Pau Brasil (APA do Pau Brasil), and Parque Estadual da Costa do Sol (PECS), Superintendência Regional Lagos Sao Joao, Instituto Estadual do Ambiente (INEA), Cabo Frio-RJ, Brazil.
³Programa de Pós-Graduacao em Ecologia e Evolucao, Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil.

The tropical house gecko is an exotic and invasive lizard that has a wide distribution in the New World. Throughout its area of occurrence, the species is predated by several native predators, such as spiders, lizards, snakes, birds, and mammals. The guira cuckoo is a widely distributed bird in South America, usually found in man-impacted regions. The species feeds mainly on arthropods, small vertebrates, and reptiles, such as lizards. This note presents a documented record of predation of a tropical house gecko by a guira cuckoo in the region of Arraial do Cabo, east coast of Rio de Janeiro State, on December 22, 2017. This is one of the few documented records of predation of Hemidactylus mabouia by Guira guira in southeastern Brazil.

Predation, Tropical House Gecko, Guira Cuckoo

Rodrigues, M. , Cumplido, R. , Steinwender, D. , Quintanilha, D. , Melo Junior, U. , Quintanilha, P. and Diele-Viegas, L. (2019) Predation Record of Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) by Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira) (Aves: Cuculiformes: Cuculidae) in the Region of Arraial do Cabo, East Coast of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. Open Access Library Journal, 6, 1-5. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1105289.