WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 189 20(4):203–204 • DEC 2013

IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCED SPECIES FEATURE ARTICLES . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 The Indo-Pacific. The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis House) and Humans on Grenada: Gecko, Hemidactylus A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198

garnotiiRESEARCH Duméril ARTICLES and Bibron 1836, a Newly . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 Documented. The Knight Anole (Anolis Nonindigenousequestris) in Florida Species on Grand ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 CONSERVATIONCayman, ALERT Cayman Islands . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 Rebecca M.. More Reichart Than Mammals1, Elias ...... N. Votzakis1, Michael D. Bainum III1, Michael E. Seidel2, and Kenneth 223 L. Krysko1 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225 1Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA HUSBANDRY([email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]) . Captive Care of2 the4430 Central Richmond Netted Dragon Park Drive, ...... Jacksonville, Florida 32224, USA ([email protected]) Shannon Plummer 226

PROFILE he Indo-Pacific. HouseKraig Adler: Gecko,A Lifetime Promoting Hemidactylus Herpetology ...... garnotii 1994). It has been introduced Michael L. Tregliato many 234 areas, including The TDuméril and COMMENTARYBibron 1836 (Fig. 1), is indigenous to Bahamas, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Samoa, northeastern India, southern. The Turtles China, Have Been the Watching Malay Me ...... Peninsula, the St. Helena, and California, EricFlorida, Gangloff Hawaii,238 and Texas in the Indonesian and Philippine Archipelagos, and Oceana (Welch United States (Kraus 2009). 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. Indo-Pacific House Geckos (Hemidactylus garnotii) have been widely introduced outside their native range in southeastern Asia and Oceana. This individual was photographed in Lee County, Florida. Photograph by Kevin M. Enge.

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This nocturnal species has several characteristics distin- and Daniels 2005). Its semi-transparent skin also allows for guishing it from other Hemidactylus introduced in the United its endolymphatic chalk sacs to be observed on adults of this States and Caribbean. Hemidactylus garnotii has 11–14 sub- parthenogenetic (all-female) species. This species is arboreal digital lamellae on digit IV beginning at the origin of the and in edificarian areas is often found at night around lights digit; 2–3 pairs of chin shields, with the posterior pair sep- on walls of buildings (Krysko and Daniels 2005). arated from the infralabial scales; small tubercles limited to On 29 April 1983, MES collected a juvenile dorsolateral rows; the dorsum in both adults and juveniles is Hemidactylus garnotii (UF-Herpetology 169316) along grayish to yellow-colored; and the underside of the broadly Seven Mile Beach at 1956 West Bay Road, West Bay, Grand flattened tail is garnet colored (Kluge and Eckardt 1969, Cayman (19.36141°N, 81.38887°W, datum WGS84, elev. Köhler 2003, Krysko and Daniels 2005, Powell et al. 2012). 6 m). In May 1983, MES collected an adult H. garnotii Like other Hemidactylus, H. garnotii also has thin, semi- (UF-Herpetology 169320) at the same location. These two transparent skin that can turn white at night (especially on a specimens (Fig. 2) remained unidentified until they were light surface) or almost black when cold or stressed (Krysko deposited and cataloged in the Florida Museum of Natural History in 2013. Therefore, this species was not listed from the Cayman Islands by Franz et al. (1987), Seidel and Franz (1994), Echternacht et al. (2011), or Echternacht (2012). Although this species reproduces via parthenogenesis, which likely assists in it establishing populations where it is intro- duced (Kluge and Eckardt 1969, Wilson and Porras 1983), our specimens represent the only known vouchers from Grand Cayman.

Acknowledgements We thank Aaron M. Bauer for species confirmation; and Gad Perry, Robert Powell, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments on this paper.

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