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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCED SPECIES FEATURE ARTICLES . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: First RecordOn the Road to Understanding of athe Ecology Green and Conservation of theIguana Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... (Iguana Joshua M. Kapfer 190iguana) . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198

on AndrosRESEARCH ARTICLES (Bahamas): A Potential Threat to . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 Endemic. The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris ) inBahamian Florida Rock Iguanas ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATION ALERT Scott Johnson . World’s BahamasMammals inNational Crisis ...... Trust, East Bay Street P.O. Box N-4105, Nassau, Bahamas ([email protected])...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225 n 26 September 2019, a business owner on Andros Green Iguanas are native across much of South and Ocontacted meHUSBANDRY about a Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) Central American and several islands in the southern Lesser that had been caught. Captive in Care the of the areaCentral Nettedof Morgan’sDragon ...... Bluff Antilles (Krysko et al. 2007).Shannon Plummer They 226 were first observed in (25°10’20.77”N, 78°01’46.06”W)PROFILE on North Andros. The The Bahamas in 1992 on Great Stirrup Cay in the Berry workers who caught .theKraig animalAdler: A Lifetime asserted Promoting that Herpetology it had ...... arrived Islands (Knapp et al. 2011) Michael and L. Treglia also 234 have been recorded on on a barge carryingCOMMENTARY containers shipped from Florida. The Great Exuma (Buckner et al. 2012). Green Iguanas have iguana is being held in. Thecaptivity Turtles Have at Been the Watching business Me ...... owner’s estab- been observed on New Providence, Eric Gangloff Grand238 Bahama, Cat Cay lishment, where LehronBOOK Rolle, REVIEW an Education Officer at The (Bimini), and Eleuthera (Knapp et al. 2011; Buckner et al. Bahamas National Trust,. Threatened photographed Amphibians of the itWorld (Fig. edited 1). by S.N.Robert Stuart, M. Hoffmann,2012; Lindy J.S. Chanson, Knowles, N.A. Cox, pers. comm.). Powell confirmed the identityR. Berridge, of P. theRamani, species and B.E. fromYoung ...... the photo- The movement of plants Robert and Powell other 243 products from Florida graphs and a photographic voucher has been deposited in the to Bahamian islands like Andros has been implicated in the  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 Milwaukee Public MuseumNATURAL (MPM HISTORY VZP RESEARCH 936). REPORTS: Summaries of Publishedarrival Reports and on establishment Natural History ...... of several 247 species of non-native The business ownerNEWBRIEFS also informed ...... me of reports from reptiles including...... the Tropical House 248 Gecko (Hemidactylus  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 residents in the settlement FOCUS ON CONSERVATIONof Lowe Sound: A Project about You Can sev Support- ...... mabouia) and the Red Corn Snake 252 (Pantherophis gutattus) eral Green Iguanas that have been seen in the area since (Johnson and Woods 2016). However, the presence of Green Hurricane Matthew in 2016. According to those reports, a Iguanas on Andros is likely to have serious implications. resident tried to catch one of the animals, but it jumped into Andros Island is home to the Andros Rock Iguana (Cyclura the ocean and swam away. To date,Front no Cover.photographs Shannon Plummer. of igua- cychluraBack Cover.cychlura Michael), an Kern endemic and endangered subspecies of nas in the Lowe Sound settlementTotat are etavailable velleseque audant to confirm mo theTotat Northern et velleseque Bahamas audant mo Rock Iguana, which also includes the estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil their presence there. erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,critically quos endangered accullabo. Ilibus Exuma Rock Iguana (C. c. figginsi) and 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. Male Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) captured in Morgan’s Bluff, North Andros. Photograph by Lehron Rolle.

Copyright © 2020. Scott Johnson. All rights reserved. 255 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 JOHNSON IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 26(3):255–256 • JAN 2020 the endangered Allan’s Cay Iguana (C. c. inornata) (Knapp Literature Cited and Owens 2005). Research by Moss et al. (2018) asserted Buckner, S.D., R. Franz, and R.G. Reynolds. 2012. Bahama Islands and Turks & Caicos Islands, pp. 93–110. In: R. Powell and R.W. Henderson (eds.), Island that Green Iguanas have been observed to hybridize with lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Rock Iguanas, potentially leading to the genetic extinction of Natural History 51: 131–137. unique endemic taxa. Without proper enforcement of bios- Knapp, C.R. and A.K. Owens. 2005. Home range and habitat associations of a Bahamian iguana: Implications for conservation. Animal Conservation 8: 269–278. ecurity protocols at container ports and thorough inspection Knapp, C.R., J.B. Iverson, S.D. Buckner, and S.V. Cant. .2011. Conservation of of containers, yachts, and other vessels from foreign countries, amphibians and reptiles in the Bahamas, pp. 53–87. In: A. Hailey, B.S. Wilson, and J.A. Horrocks (eds.), Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas. Volume The Bahamas continues to be vulnerable to the establishment 2: Regional Accounts of the West Indies. Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. of additional invasive species and the expansion of ranges of Krysko K.L., K.M. Enge, E.M. Donlan, J.C. Seitz, and E.A. Golden. 2007. previously established non-native and invasive species. Distribution, natural history, and impacts of the introduced Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) in Florida. Iguana 3: 2–17. Johnson, S. and D. Woods. 2016. First record of Red Cornsnakes (Pantherophis Acknowledgements guttatus) on Andros Island, The Bahamas. Reptiles & Amphibians 23: 187. I thank Lehron Rolle, who provided photographs of the Moss, J.B., M.E. Welch, F.J. Burton, M.V. Vallee, E.W. Houlcroft, T. Laaser, and G.P. Gerber. 2018. First evidence for crossbreeding between invasive Iguana Green Iguana, and business owner, Mr. Eugene Campbell, iguana and the native rock iguana (genus Cyclura) on Little Cayman Island. for information on Green Iguanas on North Andros. Biological Invasions 20: 817–823.

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