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Plica Plica, Although Additional  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 18919(3):215–216 • 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 Shared HistoryThe of Treeboas (CollaredCorallus grenadensis) and Humans onTree Grenada: Lizard, A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198 PlicaRESEARCH plica ARTICLES (Tropiduridae), on Grenada . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 1 2 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestrisRobert) in Florida W. Henderson and John C. Murphy .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233, USA ([email protected]) 2 CONSERVATIONField Museum ALERT of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 he tropidurid lizard. The “DowPlica Jones plica Index” has of Biodiversity a broad ........................................................................................................................................... distribution 67.5.4.1–2 (an adult and juvenile; 225Fig. 1) and 67.5.4.3 (a Ton the South American mainland east of the Andes and single adult or subadult). Although exact collecting dates are throughout most HUSBANDRYof Amazonia, the Guianas, and eastern unknown, the specimens have been in the museum since at . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 Venezuela, as well as on Trinidad (Avila-Pires 1995). It is a least 1867. The only data associated with the specimens are diurnal inhabitant PROFILEof primary and secondary forests (includ- “island of Granada estuaries” (note misspelling of Grenada) ing forest edges) and. Kraigusually Adler: Ais Lifetime found Promoting on large Herpetology tree ................................................................................................ trunks, and that they were purchased Michael L. Treglia from 234 “Mr. Higgins” (P. often with smoothCOMMENTARY bark and larger than 0.5 m in diameter Campbell, in litt., 18 July 2012). If not for the “island of” (Vitt 1991), at heights. The from Turtles close Have Been to Watchingground Me level ........................................................................................................................ to 13.0 m designation, we might attribute Eric Gangloff the specimens238 to having origi- (Vitt 1991, Avila-PiresBOOK 1995). REVIEW Its diet consists largely of ants nated in Colombia, but we are unaware of any island named (Vitt 1991), but a wide. Threatened variety Amphibians of other of the insects World edited also by isS.N. taken Stuart, M. Hoffmann,Granada, J.S. Chanson,and certainly N.A. Cox, not in the American tropics. (Avila-Pires 1995). R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Only the Grand Etang RobertForest Powell Reserve 243 retains what would One of us (JCM) recently encountered specimens of P. likely be suitable habitat for Plica plica, although additional CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 plica in the British MuseumNATURAL HISTORY of Natural RESEARCH History REPORTS (BMNH): Summaries of Publishedareas of Reports the on island Natural History historically ................................. would 247 have supported forest that were ostensibly NEWBRIEFScollected on ...................................................................................................................................................................................... the West Indian island of with trees of suitable size. One of us248 (RWH) and his col- EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 Grenada. As no previous FOCUS records ON CONSERVATION documented: Athe Project presence You Can Supportof ...............................................................................................leagues have cumulatively spent hundreds 252 of hours in the this relatively large lizard (males to 177 mm SVL, females to Grand Etang Reserve and elsewhere on the island by day 151 mm SVL; Vitt 1991) on Grenada, we were surprised at and night and have not encountered Plica. Furthermore, we this discovery. The BMNH lizards occur in two lots: BMNH have found no early references to suggest that Plica occurred Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. on Grenada.Back Cover. MichaelScale Kerncounts on BMNH 67.5.4.1 suggest the Totat et velleseque audant mo specimenTotat et velleseque is most audant similar mo to material from the Guiana Shield estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,(Murphy, quos in accullabo. prep.), Ilibus not from more geographically proximal aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum Trinidad.aut dolor apicto A invere similar pe dolum situation was found within the treeboa fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur genusmoditia erereCorallus nonsedis. ma Utilizing sectia- molecular data, Henderson and ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos Hedgestur ma derrovitae (1995) voluptam, found as that samples from St. Vincent and accullabo. Grenada clustered more closely with a sample from Guyana rather than one from Trinidad. As the specimens were collected in an estuarine habitat, we cannot rule out the possibility of several Plica occurring on Grenada for an ephemeral span of time (i.e., waifs), per- haps the result of an overwater dispersal under hurricane or hurricane-like conditions, or as hitchhikers on a boat or ship traveling from South America. Nevertheless, we think that the presence of a reproducing population of P. plica currently or formerly on Grenada is unlikely. As suitable habitat still exists on Grenada and since P. plica is neither rare nor incon- Fig. 1. Specimens of Plica plica (BMNH 67.5.4.1–2) supposedly collected spicuous where it does occur, we suspect that these specimens on Grenada. Photograph courtesy of Patrick Campbell. arrived at the BMNH with erroneous locality data. Copyright © 2012. Robert W. Henderson. All rights reserved. 215 INTRODUCED SPECIES IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 19(3):215–216 • SEPT 2012 Acknowledgement Henderson, R.W. and S.B. Hedges. 1995. Origin of West Indian populations of the geographically widespread boa Corallus enydris inferred from mitochondrial We are grateful to Patrick Campbell for providing information DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 4:88–92. on the Grenada Plica and for the accompanying photograph. Murphy, J.C. In preparation. The cryptic lizards of the Plica plica Group (Squamata, Sauria, Tropiduridae) in northern South America, with the description of new species. Literature Cited Vitt, L.J. 1991. Ecology and life history of the scansorial arboreal lizard Plica Avila-Pires, T.C.S. 1995. Lizards of Brazilian Amazonia (Reptilia: Squamata). plica (Iguanidae) in Amazonian Brazil. Canadian Journal of Zoology Zoologische Verhandelingen 299:1–706. 69:504–511. 216.
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