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Cfreptiles & Amphibians HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 27(3):541–542189 • DEC 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY INTRODUCEDTABLE OF CONTENTS SPECIES FEATURE ARTICLES . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the RoadNew to Understanding Cuban the Ecology and Conservation Locality of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent Records ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypotheticalfor Excursion the ............................................................................................................................ Smooth-scaled Tegulet,Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES Gymnophthalmus. The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas underwoodi ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, KristaGrant Mougey, and Gad Perry 1958 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida .............................................Brian J. Camposano, KennethDiego L. Krysko, Salas Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Calle MáximoCONSERVATION Gómez # 4 entre H ALERT y Final, Guanabacoa, La Habana 12500, Cuba (orcid.org/0000-0003-3038-0334) ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 he Smooth-scaled. More Than Tegulet Mammals ( ...............................................................................................................................Gymnophthalmus under- Barbuda, Barbados, .......................................Dominican Republic, 223 the Grenadines . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 Twoodi Grant 1958), is a unisexual parthenogenetic liz- (including Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Grenada ard (Hardy et al.HUSBANDRY 1989; Avila-Pires 1995) native to northern (including Hog Island), Guadeloupe (including Grande- South America (Ávila-Pires. Captive Care of 1995; the Central Williamson Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... and Powell Terre), Marie-Galante, Martinique, Shannon Plummer Saint 226 Kitts, Saint Martin/ 2004). FacilitatedPROFILE by the fact that only a single individual St. Maarten, U.S. Virgin Islands (St. Thomas), Trinidad and is necessary to establish. Kraig Adler: a new A Lifetime population, Promoting Herpetology this species ................................................................................................ has Tobago (Lever 2003; Williamson Michael L. Treglia and 234 Powell 2004; Powell become widely distributed in the Caribbean (Henderson and et al. 2013). The species was first recorded in the Cuban Powell 2009), whereCOMMENTARY it has been recorded from Antigua and Archipelago by Alfonso et al. (2012) in Santiago de Cuba . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 BOOK REVIEW . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243 CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Fig. 1. Smooth-scaled Tegulets (Gymnophthalmus underwoodi) from Holguín Province, Cuba (A) and from La Lisa, La Habana, Cuba (B–D). Photographs by Félix Javier Batista del Valle (A) and Diego Salas (B–D). Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 541 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. SALAS REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):541–542 • DEC 2020 Lisa in particular is suggestive of an independent introduction from a source outside of Cuba. Acknowledgements I thank Félix Javier Batista del Valle, Claudia Arias Espinosa, Alejandro Hernández Gómez, and Ricardo Santovenia Marrero for providing information and the specimen; Samuel Hernández Borroto for valuable suggestions on early drafts of Fig. 2. Updated distribution of the Smooth-scaled Tegulet this manuscript; Luis M. Díaz for confirming the identity of (Gymnophthalmus underwoodi) in Cuba. Previously documented records the species and for useful comments on the manuscript; and by Alfonso et al. (2012) and Alfonso and Hernandez (2017) are indicated by yellow dots; new locality records are marked by orange dots. José Miguel Acuña for help with photographs. Literature Cited Province and later by Alfonso and Hernández (2017) in Alfonso, Y.U. and Z. Hernandez. 2017. New records for Gymnophthalmus under- Guantánamo Province. woodi (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) suggest another entry pathway on I herein report two new Cuban localities for G. under- eastern Cuba. Revista Cubana de Ciencias Biológicas 5: 1–4. Alfonso, Y.U., A.C. Casenave-Cambet, A. Fong, and L.M. Diaz. 2012. First woodi that considerably extend the distribution of this intro- record of the unisexual lizard Gymnophthalmus underwoodi (Squamata: duced species. At 1000 h on 10 April 2020, Félix Javier Batista Gymnophthalmidae) in Cuba. Reptiles & Amphibians 19: 57–59. del Valle and Claudia Arias Espinosa collected an adult (Fig. Ávila-Pires, T.C.S. 1995. Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata). Zoologische Verhandelingen 299: 1–706. 1) on the patio of their home in Reparto Harlem, Barrio el Grant, C. 1958. A new Gymnophthalmus (Reptilia, Teiidae) from Barbados, B.W.I. Pití, Holquín Province (20°52'41.0"N, 76°16'19.9"W). It Herpetologica 14: 227–228. was subsequently released in the same place. At 1100 h on Hardy, L.M., C.J. Cole, and C.R. Townsend. 1989. Parthenogenetic reproduction 28 May 2020, Ricardo Santovenia Marrero collected an adult in the Neotropical unisexual lizard, Gymnophthalmus underwoodi (Reptilia: Teiidae). Journal of Morphology 201: 215–234. (author private collection, catalogue number DSP-31; SVL Henderson, R.W. and R. Powell. 2009. Natural History of West Indian Reptiles and = 33 mm) (Fig. 1) that was basking on the campus of the Amphibians. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. University of Informatic Sciences (UCI), Municipality La Lever, C. 2003. Naturalized Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. Oxford Lisa, La Habana Province (22°59'25"N, 82°27'57"W). The University Press, New York, New York, USA. Powell, R., R.W. Henderson, G. Perry, M. Breuil, and C.M. Romagosa. 2013. collector observed several additional individuals at the same Introduced amphibians and reptiles in the Lesser Antilles, pp. 74–107. In: time. Luis M. Díaz (Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de J.-L. Vernier and M. Burac (eds.), Biodiversité Insulaire: la Flore, la Faune et l’Homme dans les Petites Antilles. Actes du Colloque international, Schoelcher, Cuba) confirmed the identification based on the photograph 8–10 Novembre 2010. Direction de l’Environment, de l’Aménagement et of the individual from Holquín Province and examination of du Logement de Martinique and Université de Antilles et de la Guyana, the specimen collected in La Habana Province. Schoelcher, Martinique. Scantlebury, D., J. Ng, M. Landestoy, and R.E. Glor. 2010. Hemidactylus frena- The new localities (Fig. 2) extend the distribution of tus and Gymnophthalmus underwoodi in the Dominican Republic. Reptiles & the species 102–148 km to the northwest in eastern Cuba Amphibians 17: 180–181. and 825 km into western Cuba from localities recorded by Schwartz, A. and R.W. Henderson. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. University of Florida Alfonso and Hernandez (2017). Because of the distance from Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA the previous Cuban records and the extensive movement of Williamson, K.E. and R. Powell. 2004. Gymnophthalmus underwoodi. Catalogue of people and goods into nearby La Habana, the record from La American Amphibians and Reptiles 793: 1–5. 542.
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