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Cfreptiles & Amphibians WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS IRCF REPTILES • VOL15, &NO AMPHIBIANS 4 • DEC 2008 189 • 23(1):40–43 • APR 2016 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Using. Chasing BullsnakesAlien (Pituophis catenifer Resources: sayi) in Wisconsin: Caribbean Dwarf On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: Geckos ANesting Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................ Communally in InvasiveRobert W. Henderson 198 Flora RESEARCHJustin M. Bernstein ARTICLES1, Aaron H. Griffing1, Juan D. Daza2, Tony Gamble3, and Aaron M. Bauer1 . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 1Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA ([email protected]) . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 2 .............................................DepartmentBrian of J.Biology, Camposano, Sam Kenneth Houston L. Krysko, State Kevin University, M. Enge, EllenHuntsville, M. Donlan, Texas, and MichaelUSA Granatosky 212 3Department of Biological Sciences, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 ommunal nesting. The “Dowis a Jones widespread Index” of Biodiversity behavior ........................................................................................................................................... among 225 CsphaerodactylidsHUSBANDRY and has been documented in some Neotropical taxa such. Captive as Care Coleodactylus of the Central Netted meridionalisDragon ....................................................................................................... (de Shannon Plummer 226 Oliveira et al. 2015)PROFILE and Gonatodes humeralis (Oda 2004). Field observations of. Kraigsome Adler: species A Lifetime ofPromoting Sphaerodactylus Herpetology ................................................................................................, such Michael L. Treglia 234 as S. armasi and S. elegans, also have revealed both intraspe- cific and interspecificCOMMENTARY communal nesting (Krysko et al. 2003; . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 Alfonso et al. 2012). Sphaerodactylus generally are known to nest under or nearBOOK rocks, REVIEWin leaf litter, and in anthropogenic . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, litter (Henderson and PowellR. Berridge, 2009), P. Ramani, although and B.E. Young Collette .............................................................................................................. (1962) Robert Powell 243 reported arboreal nesting in S. cinereus. Communal nesting within tree stumps orCONSERVATION logs has been RESEARCH reported REPORTS: in other species,Summaries of PublishedFig. Conservation2. An adult Research Inagua Reports Sphaero ................................. (Sphaerodactylus 245 inaguae) from Great such as S. townsendi, S.NATURAL cinereus HISTORY, S. armasi, RESEARCH and S. REPORTS randi (Rivero: Summaries of PublishedInagua ReportsIsland, on Bahamas. Natural History Photograph ................................. by Aaron 247 H. Griffing. NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 1998; Schwartz and EDITORIAL Henderson INFORMATION 1991; Krysko ..................................................................................................................................................... et al. 2003; 251 Alfonso et al. 2012). FOCUS Nonetheless, ON CONSERVATION field-verified: A Project life You history Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 information for many members of the genus remains scarce and García-Berthou 2005; Short and Petren 2011). However, due to their minute size and secretive habits (Regalado 2006). introduced species can have neutral or positive interactions The introduction of alien flora and fauna has been with native species (Schlaepfer et al. 2010; Kuebbing and Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern widely recognized as detrimental toTotat native et velleseque species audant (Clavero mo NuñezTotat et 2015),velleseque audantand such mo counterexamples include the use of estibus inveliquo velique rerchil nonnativeestibus inveliquo flora velique as rerchilnesting substrate (Smith and Finch 2014). erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,We herein quos accullabo.report Ilibuson the use of non-native trees for com- aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque munalfugiatis nesting maionsequat by eumque two Caribbean dwarf geckos, the Puerto moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur Ricanmoditia erereUpland nonsedis Sphaero ma sectia- (S. cf. klauberi; the taxonomy of the S. ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. klauberi group is undergoing revision; Fig. 1) and the Inagua Sphaero (S. inaguae; Fig. 2) on Puerto Rico and Great Inagua Island, Bahamas, respectively. We found a communal nest of S. cf. klauberi at 1630 h on 4 July 2015 in the trunk of a Mango Tree (Mangifera indica) in a shaded area at the edge of Secondary Road 135 between Villa Pérez and Adjuntas, Puerto Rico at 568 AMSL (Fig. 3A). This area is part of a secondary anthropic forest that is highly disturbed by traffic and extends onto the slopes south- west of Cerro Don Quiño and north of Río Guilarte. We found one unhatched egg in addition to three hatched eggs and many eggshells covered by loose bark approximately 1 m Fig. 1. An adult female Puerto Rican Upland Sphaero (Sphaerodactylus cf. klauberi) from the Guilarte State Forest. Photograph by Alejandro J. above the ground (Fig. 3A–B ). The intact egg contained an Sánchez. embryo (approximate embryonic stage 32, using the staging Copyright © 2016. Justin M. Bernstein. All rights reserved. 40 BERNSTEIN ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 23(1):40–43 • APR 2016 Fig. 3. A communal nest of Sphaerodactylus cf. klauberi on the trunk of a Mango Tree. (A) Location on the tree, white rectangle (potato rake measures 1.4 m; also note the proximity to the road); (B) Closer view of the nest; and (C) Embryo inside the intact egg (scale bar = 5 mm). Photographs by Justin M. Bernstein and Juan D. Daza. system derived for S. argus; Werner 1971). Additional bro- example, the Bahía de la Ballena in Guánica, Puerto Rico ken shells on the ground indicated the long-term use of this (Cavalieri and Kohn 2011). Although this is the first recorded nesting spot. Attribution to Sphaerodactylus is based on the use of living Mangoes by Sphaerodactylus, S. omoglaux and presence of an ovoid retinal pigmented epithelium (Fig. 3C; S. streptophorus, both Hispaniolan, and S. vincenti from St. Guerra et al. 2014). The embryo was identified as S. cf. klau- Vincent have been found in leaf litter and under rocks in the beri based on observation of an individual climbing the bark proximity of Mangoes, which were introduced from Asia to (not collected) and mitochondrial DNA sequences obtained Puerto Rico by 1750 (Morton 1987). from the embryo (T. Gamble and J.D. Daza, unpublished We observed communal nests of S. inaguae at 0930 data). In Puerto Rico, communal nests of S. macrolepis mim- h on 15 July 2015 in coastal, xeric scrub on Great Inagua etes, S. gaigae, and S. macrolepis ateles have been found on the Island, Bahamas (20.926059°N, 73.667345°W; WGS 84). ground under anthropogenic trash or leaf litter, and Rivero This locality is approximately 1 km southeast of the Matthew (2006) previously reported a preference by S. klauberi for Town Lighthouse and 27 m from the shore. Communal anthropogenic trash. Similarly, S. macrolepis inhabits the leaf nests of S. inaguae were in She-oaks, also known as Australian litter of introduced coffee and banana trees in the mountains Pines (Casuarina equisetifolia) approximately 0.5–1.2 m from (Schmidt 1928), whereas S. roosevelti uses introduced coco- ground level at the nodes of branches where abscised branch- nut trees in coastal areas (Henderson and Powell 2009), for lets accumulate (Fig. 4A). Attribution to Sphaeroactylus was 41 BERNSTEIN ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 23(1):40–43 • APR 2016 Fig. 4. (A) An Australian Pine in which Sphaerodactylus inaguae nested communally within piles of senesced branchlets; (B) Closeer view of the nest; (C) Pile of senesced branchlets with visible S. inaguae eggs and egg fragments. The majority of the branchlet’s cover was temporarily removed to better expose the eggs. Photographs taken by Aaron H. Griffing. based on egg morphology
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