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SecondFEATURE ARTICLESReport of Ophiophagy in a Cat-eyed . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: SnakeOn the Road to Understanding (Leptodeira the Ecology and Conservation of thesp.) Midwest’s Giantin Serpent Costa ...... Joshua M.Rica Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 Raby Nuñez Escalante1, Cinthia Alvarado Acuña2, and Alex Alvarado Acuña3 RESEARCH ARTICLES 1Sierpe de Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica ([email protected] [corresponding author]) . The Texas Horned Lizard2Bahía in Central Drake, and Puntarenas, Western Texas Costa ...... Rica ([email protected]) Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris3Bahía) in Drake, Florida Puntarenas, Costa Rica ([email protected]) ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 he Northern .Cat-eyedMore Than MammalsSnake, ...... Leptodeira septentrionalis lis) (TL 61.3 cm) regurgitated...... a live female 223 Red Coffee Snake T(Kennicott 1859),. The “Dow as traditionally Jones Index” of Biodiversity known, ...... ranged from (Ninia sebae) (TL 25.9 cm) (McKelvy...... et225 al. 2013). the southern United States through Mexico and Central Herein we document a second instance of ophiophagy in HUSBANDRY America to northern South America (Uetz et al. 2020). sp. at 0915 h on 12 September 2020 in Los Planes, . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Leptodeira Shannon Plummer 226 However, recent taxonomic revisions (Barrio-Amorós 2019; Puntarenas, Costa Rica (8°39'44.4"N, 83°40'40.2"W). CAA Torres-Carvajal PROFILEet al. 2020) left Costa Rica with one or more discovered a Leptodeira sp. (TL 41 cm) with a bulge in its undescribed species,. Kraig a clade Adler: referredA Lifetime Promoting to Leptodeira Herpetology sp...... (Fig. 1). body on the ground near Michaela chicken L. Treglia coop 234 (Fig. 2). After being These nocturnalCOMMENTARY semi-arboreal snakes feed primarily placed in a plastic container, the snake regurgitated its prey, on lizards, frogs, and. The frogTurtles eggsHave Been (Savage Watching 2002). Me ...... Cantor and which was a young partially digested Eric Gangloff Sipo 238 (Chironius flavopic- Pizzatto (2008) reported ophiophagy in this genus in what tus) (TL 52.5 cm) (Fig. 3). BOOK REVIEW was most likely a captive situation. The first confirmed report The Sipo is a fast-moving strictly diurnal snake that sleeps . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, of ophiophagy in natureR. Berridge, occurred P. Ramani, in and Tortuguero, B.E. Young ...... Limón, coiled on branches of small Roberttrees Powell at night243 (Leenders 2019). Costa Rica, in which a male Leptodeira sp. (as L. septentriona- We believe that this predation event most likely occurred at  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 cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira sp.) on vegetation at Sierpe, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Photograph by Raby Nuñez Escalante.

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Fig. 2. A cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira sp.) from Los Planes, Puntarenas, Fig. 3. A cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira sp.) regurgitated a Sipo (Chironius Costa Rica, with a bulge in its body. Photograph by Cinthia Alvarado flavopictus) in Los Planes, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Photograph by Alex Acuña. Alvarado Acuña. night while the Sipo was sleeping. After ingesting its dispro- McKelvy, A.D., A. Figureoa, and T.R. Lewis. 2013. First record of ophiophagy in the widely distributed snake Leptodeira septentrionalis (Kennicott, 1859) portionately large prey, the cat-eyed snake sought a refugium (Ophidia, Colubridae). Herpetology Notes 6: 177–178. in which to digest its meal. Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna between Two Continents, between Two Seas. The University of Chicago Press, Literature Cited Chicago, Illinois, USA. Torres-Carvajal, O., J. Sánchez-Nivicela, V. Posse, E. Celi, and C. Koch. 2020. Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2019. On the taxonomy of snakes in the genus Leptodeira, A new species of cat-eyed snake (Serpentes: Dipsadinae: Leptodeirini) with an emphasis on Costa Rican species. Reptiles & Amphibians 26: 1–15. from the Andes of southern Ecuador. Zootaxa 4895: 357–380. https://doi. Cantor, M. and L. Pizzatto. 2008. Leptodeira annulata (Banded Cat-Eyed Snake). org/10.11646/zootaxa.4895.3.3. Diet. Herpetological Review 39: 470–471. Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2020. The Reptile Database. https:// Leenders, T. 2019. Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Field Guide. Zona Tropical Publications, reptile-database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Leptodeira&species=septentri Comstock Publishing Assoc., Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, onalis&search_param=%28%28search%3D%27Leptodeira+septentriona USA. lis%27%29%29.

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