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Cfreptiles & Amphibians HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL15, N &O AMPHIBIANS4 • DEC 2008 189 • 28(1):8–9 • APR 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATUREFirst ARTICLES Record of Neuwied’s False Boa, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: PseudoboaOn the Road to Understanding theneuwiedii Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s(Duméril, Giant Serpent ...................... JoshuaBibron, M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: andA Hypothetical DumérilExcursion ............................................................................................................................ 1854), in CostaRobert W.Rica Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and WesternJuan G.Texas Abarca .......................1 and EmilyJulie Henry, M. RayJason 2Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 Laboratorio ............................................. de Recursos NaturalesBrian J.y Camposano,Vida Silvestre, Kenneth Universidad L. Krysko, KevinNacional, M. Enge, Heredia, Ellen M. Costa Donlan, Rica and ([email protected]) Michael Granatosky 212 2Department of Biology, University of Nevada–Reno, Reno, Nevada 89557-0325, USA CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 he genus Pseudoboa. The “Dow (Schneider Jones Index” of1801), Biodiversity which ............................................................................................................................... is assigned ity to the Panamanian border. According............ 225 to local residents, Tto the NeotropicalHUSBANDRY clade Pseudoboini, is comprised of six this species has been observed regularly at the site although currently recognized. Captive species Care that of the areCentral distributed Netted Dragon from ....................................................................................................... Panama it had not been properly identified.Shannon Plummer Although 226 P. neuwiedii is to Argentina plus the islands of Trinidad and Tobago (Costa PROFILE et al. 2015). These. Kraigare predominantlyAdler: A Lifetime Promoting nocturnal Herpetology and ................................................................................................ terres- Michael L. Treglia 234 trial rear-fanged snakes that prey mainly on lizards, snakes (including conspecifics),COMMENTARY and small mammals (Köhler 2008; Gaiarsa et al. 2013).. The Only Turtles Haveone Been species, Watching PseudoboaMe ........................................................................................................................ neuwie- Eric Gangloff 238 dii, with a distributionBOOK REVIEWthat covers northern South America south to northern Brazil,. Threatened has Amphibians a range that of the extendsWorld edited into by S.N. Central Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, America (Ray 2017; R.Lozano Berridge, P. and Ramani, Sierra and B.E. 2018). Young .............................................................................................................. Pseudoboa Robert Powell 243 neuwiedii inhabits forested and open areas, including palm CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 plantations and pasturesNATURAL cleared HISTORY for grazingRESEARCH cattle. REPORTS Maximum: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 recorded size is 121.7 NEWBRIEFS cm (Martins ............................................................................................................................... and Oliveira 1998). ....................................................... 248 Herein we report EDITORIAL a new localityINFORMATION for P. neuwiedii............................................................................................................................... near the ...................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica. On 25 December 2020, a red medium-sized snake (ca. 1.2 m) was found dead on the road in an African Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantation near La Palma, La Cuesta District, MunicipalityFront Cover. Shannon of Corredores, Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Puntarenas Province (8.5199°N, Totat82.9014 et velleseque°W; audantWGS mo 84; 40 Totat et velleseque audant mo m asl). Based on the red dorsal coloration,estibus inveliquo black velique head, rerchil white estibus inveliquo velique rerchil ventral scales, and the presence oferspienimus, entire subcaudals quos accullabo. (Fig. Ilibus 1), erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum we identified the snake as Pseudoboafugiatis neuwiediimaionsequat ,eumque which was fugiatis maionsequat eumque confirmed by Harry Greene and Twanmoditia erereLeenders. nonsedis maThe sectiatur snake moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as had consumed an unidentified accullabo.lizard. The specimen was not collected due to the advanced degree of decomposition. Photographic vouchers were deposited in the Biodiversity Collections at the University of Texas at Austin digital collec- tion (TNHC 115040). No previous reports place the species in Costa Rica, with the nearest record in Sortová, Bugaba District, Chiriquí Province, Panama (Ray 2017; Ueda 2020), some 28 km Fig. 1. A Neuwied’s False Boa (Pseudoboa neuwiedii) from La Palma, La west of La Palma (Fig. 2). The La Palma locality is the first Cuesta District, Municipality of Corredores, Puntarenas Province on the record of Neuwied’s False Boa from Puntarenas Province southern Pacific versant of Costa Rica. (A) Specimen found dead on the road (note the unidentified lizard that was exposed when the snake was and first for the species in Costa Rica. The presence of this run over); (B) entire subcaudal scales; (C) dorsal view; (D) ventral view. species in the area was foreseeable due to the close proxim- Photographs by Heriberto Abarca. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 8 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. ABARCA AND RAY REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(1):8–9 • APR 2021 Fig. 2. Distribution of Neuwied’s False Boa (Pseudoboa neuwiedii) in Central America. Black dots indicate records of the species in Panama according to Ray (2017), orange shading represents the distribution according to Ibáñez et al. (2019), and the red dot marked with an arrow denotes the locality in La Palma, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Sources: GBIF (2020) and Ibáñez et al. (2019). Geographic coordinate system WGS84. an adaptable species and is not currently threatened (Ibáñez Gaiarsa, M.P., L.R.V. de Alencar, and M. Martins. 2013. Natural history of pseu- et al. 2019), the area where this snake was found is highly doboine snakes. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 53: 261–283. GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility). 2020. Pseudoboa neuwiedii impacted by African Oil Palm plantations. Further research (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854). In: GBIF Secretariat, GBIG Backbone should explore the impact on wildlife in agricultural areas Taxonomy. https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei. https://www.gbif.org/spe- cies/5223051. where agrochemicals are used. Like other red snakes, P. neu- Ibáñez, R., C. Jaramillo, J. Caicedo, G. Rivas, P. Gutiérrez-Cárdenas, D.F. wiedii often is confused with venomous coralsnakes and is Cisneros-Heredia, C. Nogueira, and J. Murphy. 2019. Pseudoboa neuwiedii. frequently killed when encountered. Campaigns to raise The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2019: e.T203579A2768899. https:// awareness in local communities are needed to recognize the dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2019-3.RLTS.T203579A2768899.en. Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd ed. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, biodiversity that exists in nearby ecosystems. Germany. Lozano, S.A. and T.A. Sierra. 2018. Pseudoboa neuwiedi (Duméril, Bibron y Acknowledgements Duméril, 1854) Candelilla, falsa coral macho, víbora de sangre, mataganado. We thank Heriberto Abarca-Alvarado and Aaron Vargas for Catálogo de Anfibios y Reptiles de Colombia 4: 60–67. Martins, M. and E. Oliveira. 1998. Natural history of snakes in forests of the providing photographs of the snake. Manaus region, central Amazonia. Herpetological Natural History 6: 78–150. Ray, J.M. 2017. Snakes of Panama: A Field Guide to All Species. CreateSpace Literature Cited Independent Publishing Platform, Scotts Valley, California, USA. Costa, H.C., G.A. Cotta, and R.D. MacCulloch. 2015. New easternmost and Ueda, K. 2020. iNaturalist Research-grade Observations. iNaturalist.org. Occurrence southernmost records of Pseudoboa coronata Schneider, 1801 (Serpentes: dataset. https://doi.org/10.15468/ab3s5x. https://www.gbif.org/occur- Dipsadidae: Pseudoboini), with a distribution map. Check List 11(3): 1–7. rence/3005214595. 9.
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