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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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RemarksFEATURE ARTICLES on Coloration and Shedding in a . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Hart’sOn Glass the Road to Understanding Lizard, the Ecology and Conservation Dopasia of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent harti ...... Joshua(Anguidae) M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 Daniel Jablonski and Martina Lawson RESEARCH ARTICLES Department of Zoology, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovic˘ova 6, Mlynská dolina, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia ([email protected]) . 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 ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212
art’s GlassCONSERVATION Lizard, Dopasia hartiALERT (Boulenger 1899), During a photographic survey on 13 September 2015, Hhas been reported. World’s from Mammals southern in Crisis ...... China, Taiwan, and Dash Huang encountered...... an adult female 220 Hart’s Glass Lizard Vietnam (Müller and. More Hellmich Than Mammals 1940; ...... Zhong 1993; Nguyen protecting seven round...... white eggs in 223 a rotting log on the . et al. 2011; Uetz et al.The 2020). “Dow Jones Adults Index” ofand Biodiversity juveniles ...... differ in col- Dahan Forest Road, Taiwan (22°24'38.0"N...... 225 120°44'19.1"E) oration and patternHUSBANDRY (Boulenger 1899; Brygoo 1988 [“1987”]); (Fig. 1). The individual was unusually pale with only a hint of juveniles are white. withCaptive darkCare of thedorsolateral Central Netted Dragonsaw-toothed ...... lines the usual pale olive-green Shannoncolor Plummeron the head226 and dorsum; eyes running from behindPROFILE the nostril and continuing onto the were clear and dark. tail; whereas adults. areKraig sexually Adler: A Lifetime dichromatic Promoting Herpetology (Lin et ...... al. 2003). We suggested that this Michael might L. Treglia be the234 first known case of Most males have a pale olive-green dorsum with irregular blue leucism (an aberration resulting in the partial loss of pigmen- markings fadingCOMMENTARY ventrally to white (Boulenger 1899; Lin et tation; Bechtel 1995) in the genus Dopasia. Records of leu- . al. 2003). Females areThe Turtlesdarker, Have sometimes Been Watching withMe ...... dark irregular cistic individuals are rare in Ericanguids Gangloff (Jablonski238 and Purkart dorsal markings BOOKthat are REVIEWnever blue (Lin et al. 2003). 2018; Harkness and Allain 2020). However, while discussing . 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
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Fig. 1. A Hart’s Glass Lizard (Dopasia harti) from Pingtung, Taiwan. Photograph by Dash Huang.
Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 452 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. JABLONSKI AND LAWSON REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):452–453 • DEC 2020 the possibility of leucism with Dash Huang, the photogra- Acknowledgements pher, he stated that pale color is typical of individuals before We thank Dash Huang for providing the photograph; Si-Min shedding, cited a published photograph of such an individual Lin, Andreas Danier, Thom Jetter, and Jürgen Griessmeyer (Shang 2001: 153), and quoted Dr. Si-Min Lin (Department for valuable information on the husbandry and behavior of of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Tchaj- Dopasia; and Michael Kenneth Lawson for helping to prepare pej, Taiwan), who maintained a few individuals (including this manuscript. two hatchlings) in captivity for many years and confirmed that the color of the lizard in the photograph resembled indi- Literature Cited viduals close to shedding and that the paleness might indicate Bechtel, H.B. 1995. Reptile and Amphibian Variants: Colors, Patterns, and Scales. that the female had been protecting the eggs for an extensive Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida, USA. period. Boulenger, G.A. 1899. On a collection of reptiles and batrachians made by Mr. J.D. La Touche in N.W. Fokien, China. Proceedings of the Zoological Society Consequently, we contacted three persons who we knew London 1899: 159–172. had kept captive Dopasia harti for their opinion of the liz- Brygoo, E.R. 1988 (“1987”). Les Ophisaurus (Sauria: Anguidae) d’Asie orientale. ard in the photograph. All agreed that the individual prob- Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, ser. 4, 9: 727–752. Harkness, H. and S.J.R. Allain. 2020. A case of leucism in the slow worm (Anguis ably was leucistic. One of the three, Andreas Danier (in litt., fragilis). The Herpetological Bulletin 152: 43. 2020), stated that individuals of this genus normally shed Jablonski, D. and A. Purkart. 2018. First report of leucism in Anguis fragilis. The three to four times per year; however, individuals are never Herpetological Bulletin 145: 35–36. as pale as the lizard in the photograph before shedding their Lin, S., W. Chang, S. Chen, G. Shang, and K. Lue. 2003. Taxonomic status of the skin. Instead, the pre-shed skin of Danier’s wild-caught liz- legless lizard. Zoological Studies 42: 411–419. Müller, L. and W. Hellmich. 1940. Über die von Herrn Klapperich in der Provinz ards was grayish and the colored cross-bars were always fully Fukien (China) gesammelten Amphibien und Reptilien. II. Reptilien. visible through the old skin. Moreover, the eyes were cloudy Zoologischer Anzeiger 131: 257–271. five to seven days before shedding. The other two keepers Nguyen, T.Q., W. Böhme, T.T. Nguyen, Q.K. Le, K.R. Pahl, T. Haus, and T. Ziegler. 2011. Review of the genus Dopasia Gray, 1853 (Squamata: Anguidae) provided similar observations based on their own experiences. in the Indochina subregion. Zootaxa 2894: 58–68. We never personally saw the lizard in the photograph Shang G. 2001. Natural Portraits of Lizards of Taiwan. Bigtrees Press, Taipei, and can only speculate as to the reason for its lack of color. Taiwan. Although we cannot rule out the possibility that the pale color Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2020. The Reptile Database.
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