WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF & IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 18919(3):217–218 • SEPT 2012

IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCED SPECIES FEATURE ARTICLES . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The SharedThe History of Treeboas Gold (Corallus grenadensis )Dust and Humans on Grenada: Day , A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198

RESEARCHPhelsuma ARTICLES laticauda (Boettger 1880) . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 (:. The Knight Anole (Anolis ), equestris) in Florida in the Florida Keys ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1 2 CONSERVATION ALERTKenneth L. Krysko and Andrew P. Borgia 1Florida. World’s Museum Mammals of in Natural Crisis ...... History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA ([email protected]) 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 2P.O. Box 4346, Key West, Florida 33041, USA ([email protected]) 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY Photographs by the senior author. . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226 he Gold DustPROFILE Day Gecko, laticauda (Boettger is characterized by being a non-gluer (its eggs are not adhered T1880), is indigenous. Kraig Adler:to northernA Lifetime Promoting Madagascar Herpetology ...... and sev- to a substrate) with smooth Michael ventral L. Treglia and 234 subcaudal scales, three eral Indian Ocean COMMENTARYislands (Henkel and Schmidt 2000, Lever nasalia, no nostril to rostral contact, and a bright green dor- 2003, Glaw and Vences. The 2007, Turtles Have Rocha Been Watching et al. 2010).Me ...... It has been sum that lacks dorsal or lateral Eric Gangloff stripes 238 (Rocha et al. 2010). introduced in the Comoros,BOOK REVIEW French Polynesia, and the United It is edificarian and inhabits fences, walls, gardens, and tall States in the Hawaiian. Threatened Islands Amphibiansand Florida of the World (McKeown edited by S.N. 1996, Stuart, M. Hoffmann,growing J.S. plants Chanson, such N.A. Cox,as palms (Henkel and Schmidt 2000). Ota and Ineich 2006, KrausR. Berridge, 2009, P. Ramani, Krysko and B.E. et Youngal. 2011a)...... This On 15 August 2012 atRobert 945 Powell h, 243we observed two adult diurnal and arboreal species reaches 58 mm SVL and 130 Phelsuma laticauda (Fig. 1) on Stock Island, Monroe County,  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 mm TL (Henkel and NATURAL Schmidt HISTORY 2000, RESEARCHRocha et REPORTSal. 2010): Summaries and of PublishedFlorida Reports (24.5725°N, on Natural History 81.7406°W, ...... datum 247 WGS84, elev. < 1  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252

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Fig. 1. Gold Dust Day , Phelsuma laticauda (in situ; UF photographic vouchers 168519, left, and 168520, right, respectively), found on Stock Island, Monroe County, Florida, on 15 August 2012.

Copyright © 2012. Kenneth L. Krysko. All rights reserved. 217 INTRODUCED SPECIES IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 19(3):126–218 • SEPT 2012 m). These geckos were observed near a building feeding on Literature Cited ants (Hymenoptera) next to multiple native Green (Anolis Colautti, R.I. and H.J. MacIsaac. 2004. A neutral terminology to define ‘invasive’ carolinensis) and non-native Brown Anoles (A. sagrei). We species. Diversity and Distributions 10:135–141. Glaw, F. and M. Vences. 2007. A Field Guide to the Reptiles and Amphibians were unable to determine the sexes of these two geckos and of Madagascar. Third Edition. M. Vences & F. Glaw Verlags GbR, Köln the extent of this potential population because they were (Cologne), Germany. in a dense stand of vegetation consisting of a mixture of Henkel, F.W. and W. Schmidt. 2000. Amphibians and Reptiles of Madagascar and the Mascarene, Seychelles, and Comoro Islands. Krieger Publishing Company, non-native Screw Pine (Pandanus sp.), native Buttonwood Malabar, Florida, USA. (Conocarpus erectus) and White Mangrove (Laguncularia Kraus, F. 2009. Alien Reptiles and Amphibians: A Scientific Compendium and Analysis. racemosa) trees, of which we were able to search only about Invading Nature: Springer Series in Invasion Biology 4. Springer, New York. 3 m of the margin. This species likely was released or had Krysko, K.L., J.P. Burgess, M.R. Rochford, C.R. Gillette, D. Cueva, K.M. Enge, L.A. Somma, J.L. Stabile, D.C. Smith, J.A. Wasilewski, G.N. Kieckhefer III, escaped (i.e., introduced; stage 2 following Colautti and M.C. Granatosky, and S.V. Nielsen. 2011. Verified non-indigenous amphib- MacIsaac 2004). Although P. laticauda has been introduced ians and reptiles in Florida from 1863 through 2010: Outlining the invasion (with no current evidence of establishment) to other areas on process and identifying invasion pathways and stages. Zootaxa 3028:1–64. Krysko, K.L., K.M. Enge, and P.E. Moler. 2011. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles the Florida mainland (see Krysko et al. 2011a), our observa- in Florida. Final Report, Project Agreement 08013, Florida Fish and Wildlife tions represent the first known vouchers for this species in Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, USA. the Florida Keys. Twenty-four known species of geckos have Lever, C. 2003. Naturalized Reptiles and Amphibians of the World. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. been introduced into Florida (Krysko et al. 2011a), of which McKeown, S. 1996. A Field Guide to Reptiles and Amphibians in the Hawaiian at least 14 are believed to be established (Krysko et al. 2011a, Islands. Diamond Head Publishing, Inc., Los Osos, California, USA. 2011b; Meshaka 2011). Meshaka, W.E., Jr. 2011. A runaway train in the making: The exotic amphibians, reptiles, turtles, and crocodilians of Florida. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 6:1–101. Acknowledgments Ota, H. and I. Ineich. 2006. Colonization of the Gold Dust Day Gecko, Phelsuma We thank Max A. Nickerson for species confirmation; Louis laticauda (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), in Moorea of the Society Archipelago, A. Somma for geographic distributions and assistance with French Polynesia. Current Herpetology 25:97–99. Rocha, S., H. Rosler, P.-S. Gehring, F. Glaw, D. Posada, D. J. Harris, and M. Vences. references; and Gad Perry, Robert Powell, and Walter E. 2010. Phylogenetic systematics of day geckos, genus Phelsuma, based on molec- Meshaka, Jr. for helpful comments on this paper. ular and morphological data (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 2429:1–28.

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