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WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES &IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 189 26(2):121–122 • AUG 2019 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Mating. Chasing Bullsnakes ( Pituophisof catenifer Argentine sayi) in Wisconsin: Black-and-white On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared HistoryTegus of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis(Salvator) and Humans on Grenada: merianae ) A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198 inRESEARCH Miami-Dade ARTICLES County, Florida, USA . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (AnolisJenna equestris M.) in FloridaCole, Cassidy Klovanish, and Frank J. Mazzotti .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314 ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 lorida, especiallyHUSBANDRY the southern part of the state, has door allows for the capture of multiple animals. We could not Fbecome a hotspot. forCaptive established Care of the Central nonnative Netted Dragon herpetofaunal ....................................................................................................... determine whether the maleShannon orPlummer female 226 entered the trap first species. Of 63 established exotic reptilian and amphibian spe- but speculate that the female entered the trap for the bait and PROFILE cies, 48 are lizards (Krysko et al. 2016). The Argentine Black- was followed by the male, which entered the trap to copulate . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 and-white Tegu, Salvator merianae (Fig. 1) is an omnivorous with the female. lizard with a broadCOMMENTARY diet (e.g., Mercolli and Yanosky 1994; Behaviors observed included the male biting the hindleg, . Kiefer and Sazima 2002)The Turtles that Have is established Been Watching Me and ........................................................................................................................ breeding in neck, and tail of the female Eric and Gangloff positioning 238 himself over her southern Florida (EngeBOOK 2006; REVIEW Pernas et al. 2012; Krysko et with hemipenes exposed. These corresponded to tegu court- al. 2016). Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,ship behavior J.S. Chanson, described N.A. Cox, by Sazima (2015) and Lopes and Abe R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243 On 29 March 2019, JC and CK observed a mating pair (1999). This event also fell within the time frame for mating of tegus confined in CONSERVATIONa Tomahawk RESEARCHmodel S50 REPORTS: live trap Summaries used of Publishedby captive Conservation tegus Research held Reports in .................................outdoor cages 245 in Florida (Enge 2006). for tegu removal in southernNATURAL Florida HISTORY (Fig. RESEARCH 2). This REPORTS trap,: made Summaries of PublishedThis is Reports the first on Natural observation History ................................. of mating 247by wild tegus in Florida. NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 of 16-gauge wire with EDITORIAL a ½ x 1” INFORMATION mesh size, is ............................................................................................................................... equipped with ...................... 251 a flush-mounted repeating FOCUS ON trap CONSERVATION door and has: A dimensions Project You Can Supportof ...............................................................................................Literature Cited 252 24 x 5 x 5”. It was baited with a chicken egg. The repeating Enge, K.M. 2006. FWC Bioprofile for the Argentine Black and White Tegu (Tupinambis merianae). Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida. Kiefer, M.C. and I. Sazima. 2002. Diet of juvenile tegu lizard Tupinambis merianae Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. (Teiidae)Back Cover. in Michaelsoutheastern Kern Brazil. Amphibia-Reptilia 23: 105–108. Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo Krysko, K.L., L.A. Somma, D.C. Smith, C.R. Gillette, D. Cueva, J.A. Wasilewski, estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil K.M. Enge, S.A. Johnson, T.S. Campbell, J.R. Edwards, M.R. Rochford, erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus R. Tompkins, J.F. Fobb, S. Mullin, C.J. Lechowicz, D. Hazelton, and A. aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum Warren. 2016. New verified nonindigenous amphibians and reptiles in fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditiaFlorida erere nonsedis through ma 2015, sectia with- a summary of over 152 years of introductions. ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur Reptilesma derrovitae & Amphibians voluptam, 23:as 110–143. accullabo. Lopes, H.R. and A.S. Abe. 1999. Biologia reprodutivo e comportamento do teiú, Tupinambis merianae, em cativeiro (Reptilia, Teiidae), pp. 259–272. In: T.G. Fang, O.L. Montenegro, and R.E. Bodmer (eds.), Manejo y Conservación de Fauna Silvestre en América Latina. Instituto de Ecología, La Paz, Bolivia. Mercolli, C. and A. Yanosky. 1994. The diet of adult Tupinambis teguixin (Sauria, Teiidae) in the eastern Chaco of Argentina. The Herpetological Journal 4: 15–19. Pernas, T., D.J. Giardina, A. McKinley, A. Parns, and F.J. Mazzotti. 2012. First observations of nesting by the Argentine Black and White Tegu, Tupinambis merianae, in south Florida. Southeastern Naturalist 11: 765–771. Fig. 1. An adult Argentine Black-and-white Tegu (Salvator merianae) Sazima, I. 2015. Corpse bride irresistible: A dead female tegu lizard (Salvator meri- in the Southern Glades Wildlife and Environmental Area, Miami-Dade anae) courted by males for two days at an urban park in south-eastern Brazil. County, Florida. Photograph by Nicholas Scobel. Herpetology Notes 8: 15–18. Copyright © 2019. Jenna M. Cole. All rights reserved. 121 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 COLE ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 26(2):121–122 • AUG 2019 Fig. 2. Male and female Argentine Black-and-white Tegus (S. merianae) engaging in courtship behavior: (A) male (top) mounting the female (bottom); (B) male biting the hindleg of the female; (C) male biting the tail of the female; (D) male biting the hindleg of the female (arrow indicates exposed hemipenes); (E) male alongside the female (arrow indicates exposed hemipenes). Photographs by Jenna Cole. 122.