Isla Cedros

Isla Cedros, Mexico
Surveyed by Capt. H. Kellett, R.N. and the Officers of H.M.S. Herald and Pandora, 1846. Kellett & Dewey Channels, the San Benito Islands & South Bay by the Officers of the U.S.S. Naragansett & Ranger, 1873 & 1889

ISLA CEDROS, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO

• ISLA CEDROS COLLECTORS
• ISLA CEDROS FLORA
• ISLA CEDROS FAUNA
• ISLA CEDROS HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPHS
• ISLA CEDROS PLACE NAMES
• ISLA CEDROS SHIPWRECKS
• ISLA CEDROS: DEATHS
• ISLA CEDROS THROUGH TIME
• ISLA CEDROS HAM RADIO OPERATIONS
• ISLA CEDROS BIBLIOGRAPHY

• You Tube Video: Isla Cedros (in spanish) on the Island's fishing cooperative

Mammals

• Donkey (Equus asinus)
• Cedros Island Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus cerrosensis)
• Goat (Capra hircus)
• Striped Skunk (Mephitis mephitis holzneri)
• Cedros Brush Rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani cerrosensis)
• Bryant's Woodrat (Neotoma bryanti)
• San Diego Pocket Mouse (Chaetodipus fallax) (pic)
• Anthony's Pocket Mouse (Perognathus anthonyi)
• Cactus Mouse (Peromyscus eremicus cedrocensis)
• Pocket Mouse (Peromyscus eremicus avius)
• House Mouse (Mus musculus) (pic)

Herps

• Pacific Tree Frog (Pseudacris regilla)
• Baja California Spiny Lizard (Sceloporus zosteromus)
• Side-blotched Lizard (Uta stansburiana)

The 1905-1906 California Academy of Sciences expedition to the Galapagos aboard the schooner Academy, stopped at Isla Cedros on July 18, 1905. Expedition participants included:

• Rollo Howard Beck (1870-1950), vessel master and ornithologist
• Edward Winslow Gifford (1887-1959
• Joseph Slayton Hunter (1879-1972 ), mammalogist
• Ernest Samuel King (1886-1948), herpetology assistant
• Frederick Nelson
• Washington Henry Ochsner (1882-1927), geologist and conchologist
• J. J. Parker, navigator (didn't return with the vessel, having left over accusations of incompetence.)
• J. R. Slevin (1881-1957), assistant herpetologist
• Alban Stewart (1875-1940), botanist
• James White, cook
• Francis Xavier Williams (1882-1967), entomologist