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===Wildlife=== [[File:Cuban Tree Frog (Osteopilus septentrionalis).jpg|thumb|The Cuban tree frog can be found on the island.]] Anguilla has habitat for the [[Cuban tree frog]]s (''Osteopilus septentrionalis'').<ref name="Townsend et al. 2000">{{cite journal |last1=Townsend |first1=JH |last2=Eaton |first2=JM |last3=Parmlee |first3=JS |year=2000 |title=Cuban treefrogs (Osteopilus septentrionalis) in Anguilla, Lesser Antilles |url=https://www.fws.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Ecological-Risk-Screening-Summary-Cuban-Treefrog.pdf |journal=Caribbean Journal of Science |volume=36 |issue=3/4 |pages=326β328 |issn=0008-6452 |access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref> The [[red-footed tortoise]] (''Chelonoidis carbonaria'') is a species of tortoise found here, which originally came from South America.<ref name="Hailey et al. 2011"/> Hurricanes in the mid-90s led to over-water dispersal of the [[green iguana]]s (''Iguana iguana'') to Anguilla.<ref name="Censky et al. 1998">{{cite journal|last1=Censky|first1=Ellen J.|last2=Hodge|first2=Karim|last3=Dudley|first3=Judy|title=Over-water dispersal of lizards due to hurricanes|journal=Nature|year=1998|volume=395|issue=556|pages=556|doi=10.1038/26886|bibcode=1998Natur.395..556C|s2cid=4360916|doi-access=free}}</ref> All three animals are introductions.<ref name="Hailey et al. 2011"/> Five species of bats are known in the literature from Anguilla β the threatened [[insular single leaf bat]] (''Monophyllus plethodon''), the [[Antillean fruit-eating bat]] (''Brachyphylla cavernarum''), the [[Jamaican fruit bat]] (''Artibeus jamaicensis''), the [[Mexican funnel-eared bat]] (''Natalus stramineus''), and the [[velvety free-tailed bat]] (''Molossus molossus'').<ref name="Genoways et al.n2007">{{cite journal|last1=Genoways|first1=Hugh H.|last2=Phillips|first2=Carleton J.|last3=Pedersen|first3=Scott C.|last4=Gordon|first4=Linda|title=Bats of Anguilla, Northern Lesser Antilles|journal=Occasional Papers, Museum of Texas Tech|series=Occasional papers |date=24 October 2007|volume=270|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.156960 |s2cid=14279221 |url=http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museummammalogy/104/|access-date=12 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160530045943/http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/museummammalogy/104/|archive-date=30 May 2016|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref>
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