HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 28(1):163–164189 • APR 2021

IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

INTRODUCEDTABLE OF CONTENTS SPECIES FEATURE ARTICLES . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: OnFirst the Road to Understanding Record the Ecology and Conservation of a of the Brown Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Basilisk Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: (BasiliscusA Hypothetical Excursion ...... vitattus) in The BahamasRobert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned in Central and Western Texas ...... Scott Johnson Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 Bahamas. The Knight National Anole Trust, (Anolis East equestris Bay) St,in P.O. Box N-4105 Nassau, The Bahamas ([email protected]; [email protected]) ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

n 3 FebruaryCONSERVATION 2021, I received ALERT a message via Facebook members that the lizard was a large adult female Ofrom Adam Boorman,. World’s Mammals the in nursery Crisis ...... manager at the Fox (Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann...... 1828). César 220 Luis Barrio Amorós, . More Than Mammals ...... 223 Hill Nursery on New. The Providence, “Dow Jones Index” The of BahamasBiodiversity ...... (25°03'1.26"N, Kenneth L. Krysko, and Coleman ...... Sheehy 225 III confirmed the iden- 77°18'31.46"W), about a strange lizard found in a shipping tity of the species from photographs. A photographic voucher was container carryingHUSBANDRY plant products from Florida. The lizard was deposited in the University of Florida Museum of Natural History found and captured. byCaptive Jerome Care of Mackey, the Central Netteda Fox Dragon Hill ...... Nursery staff (UF-Herpetology 191407). Shannon The lizardPlummer was 226 later euthanized. member who wasPROFILE inspecting the container for possible stowaways. Brown Basilisks range from southern Mexico to Ecuador, Based on photographs. Kraig (Fig. Adler: 1), A LifetimeI informed Promoting the Herpetology manager ...... and staff where they inhabit tropical Michael and L. Treglia subtropical 234 forests (Krysko

COMMENTARY . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238

BOOK REVIEW . 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. An adult female Brown Basilisk (Basiliscus vittatus) captured at the Fox Hill Nursery on New Providence, The Bahamas. Photograph by Scott Johnson.

Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 163 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. JOHNSON REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(1):163–164 • APR 2021 et al. 2006; Stroud and Giery 2016). It was first recorded in ing professional advice when finding novel creatures, Sandra Florida in 1964 by King and Krakauer (1966) and has since Buckner for her assistance with historical information on the become established in peninsular Florida and later in the basilisk found previously on New Providence, and Kenneth Florida Keys (Krysko et al. 2006, 2019; Greene et al. 2012). L. Krysko and Coleman Sheehy III for facilitating the deposi- The first record of a basilisk in The Bahamas was a liz- tion of the photographic voucher. ard captured by Vernard Bain, a staff member of Ardastra Gardens Zoo on New Providence, in 2010 (S.D. Buckner, Literature Cited in litt., 7 February 2021). Bain asserted that it was a Western Buckner, S.D., R. Franz, and R.G. Reynolds. 2012. Bahama Islands and Turks & Basilisk (Basiliscus galeritus) based on personal research but Caicos Islands, pp. 93–110. In: R. Powell and R.W. Henderson (eds.), Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of that identification was never confirmed. Buckner et al. (2012) Natural History 51: 85–166. recorded the as Basiliscus sp. and as a waif. This note Greene, D.U., B. Hille, S. Sprunt, J.G. Duquesnel, and K.L. Krysko. 2012. First represents the first confirmed record of a Brown Basilisk in report of a Brown Basilisk (Basiliscus vittatus) from the Florida Keys. Reptiles & Amphibians 19: 265–266. The Bahamas and in the West Indies. King, F.W. and T. Krakauer. 1966. The exotic herpetofauna of southeast Florida. Shipping containers are known to aid the dispersal of Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 29: 144–154. non-native species (Powell et al. 2011). These containers, Krysko, K.L., J.C. Seitz, J.H. Townsend, and K.M. Enge. 2006. The introduced especially those with ornamental plants, often are not ade- Brown Basilisk, Basiliscus vittatus Wiegmann 1828, in Florida. Iguana 13: 24–30. quately inspected, and non-native could be hiding in, Krysko, K.L., K.M. Enge, and P.E. Moler. 2019. Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. for example, the root balls of plants, plant pots, or even soil. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Fortunately, some companies, like the Fox Hill Nursery, do Powell, R., R.W. Henderson, M.C. Farmer, M. Breuil, A.C. Echternacht, G. van their best to mitigate against the spread of exotic organisms by Buurt, C.M. Romagosa, and G. Perry. 2011. Introduced amphibians and reptiles in the Greater Caribbean: Patterns and conservation implications, pp. checking products in containers before unloading them. 63–143. In: A. Hailey, B.S. Wilson, and J.A. Horrocks (eds.), Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas. Volume 1: Conservation Biology and the Wider Acknowledgements Caribbean. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. Stroud, J.T. and S.T. Giery. 2016. Nesting behavior and egg incubation time of I thank Adam Boorman and the Fox Hill Nursery staff for introduced Brown Basilisks (Basiliscus vittatus) in South Florida. Reptiles & actively inspecting their containers for stowaways and seek- Amphibians 23: 104–107.

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