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Virginia Herpetological VHS Newsleffer Society Virginia Herpetological VHS Newsleffer Society VolumeI, No. 4 April 1991 Virginia HerpetologicalSociety 5608 Parkland Court Virginia Beach,Virginia 23464 *,1*,f **:t(*,t*,|***r({.*****{.tt*tl.*'l*{<f(*,i*.****,t****{.ti**:1.*******t}*t *:t****{'*tF{'{'***l'*******'l'*{'* **** OFFICER.S Editor: Douglas W. Eggleston President: Joseph C. Mitchell Newsletter Vice-President: Kurt A. Buhlmann Catesbeiana Co-Editor: Paul W. Sattler EDITOP.S COMMENT Ah, Spring is here! The true herping season has activities and keep us infitrmed on what you're doing. begun and I know you folks are busy at it. Finally, many of our members have responded HERP IIAPPENINGS with articles for publication in the newsletter. So many, in fact, that I now have a small backlog. Pleasebe patient *6th ANNUAL MEETING of the SOCIETY for the about seeing your piece in print. I will publish all PRESERVATION OF NATURAL HISTORY submitted material that is ficund suitable, as soon as COLLECTIONS, 6-ll May, 1991. Ottawa, Canada. possible and as space permits. Contact: G.R. Fitzgerald, Canadian Museum of Nature, In order to keep the costsof princing and mailing P.O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, our newsletter at the present low level, I can not increase KIP6P4. its size. We do hope that we can offer many different articles and information that you will enjoy. We are *CONFERENCE ONREPTILIAN CHEMICAL SENSES uying to print a little something in each issue of interest combined with CHEMICAL SIGNALS in to all our members. VERTEBRATES meeting. 15-22 June, 1991. Penn Keep your articles, erc. coming in. The backlog Towers Hotel, Philadelphia. For more infonnalion, of material won't last forever. If you don't feel that you contact: Dr. Mimi Halpern, Dept. of Anatomy and Cell can write an article or offer a skerch, there's another way Biology, Box 5, SUNY Health Science Center at you can help out. Sell advertisements for the newsleffer. Brooklyn, NY 11203; (7rg) 270-2958, FAX (7r8) 27o' The rates are $10.00 per issue or $25.00 for a full year 3378. run, (4 issues). This is fcr a business card size ad. Each ad sold helps cover the printing and mailing costs of our *INTERNATIONAL HERPETOLOGICAL newsletter. This may enable us to increase the length SYMPOSIUM: 2O-23June, l99l - Seatde,Washington. and/or quality of the newsletter in the future. Most Contact: Brian Backner, M.D., l7 Margaret Rd., Sharon, importantly, it will keep the V.H.S. fiom raising the NrA 02067. (617) 784-7264. membership dues to cover these costs. Hope you enjoy this issue. Send your comments *JOINT SSAR-HL MEETING, SYMPOSIUM to Honor' to VHS NEWSLETTER, P.O. Box727, Brookneal, VA Roger Couant: 6-10 August, 1991 at Penn SLltc 24528. Now get back to those herping tJniversity, University Park, PA 16802; Lit.rda Maxson, Chair. THE SOCIETY COLUMN **This symposiurnwas incorrectly listed 25 July in our Scott Kenney, the Vice presideng last issue,sorry! (and Treasurer, newsletter editor, and program chairrnan), of the *1991 NORTHERN SHENANDOAH VALLEY NATIONALREPTILE BREEDER'S EXpO: l6_18 HERPETOLOGICAL SOCI ETy recenrly wrote ro savhis August, 1991 - Sponsoredby the Central Florida Herp. group was alive and well. Scott reports tllat the NSVHS Sociery. To register sent g10.00 ro: CFFIS, p.O. Box is a little over a year and a half old now and has as their 3277,WinterHaven, FL 33ggl. For Hotel reservations: goals: Education, assisting hobbyiss with maintaining Twin TowersHotel; I-800-THE TOWERS/oI (4Oj\ 3St- their herps and studying the narive R&A 1000. $65.00single/$7b.00 double. of the Shenandoah- Valley. The group meers monrlly at the *SOCIETAS Handley Library in Winchestir, VA. A variety of EUROPAEA HERPETOLOGICA programs are offered at these meetings. TIte iUooct MEETING: l9-23 Augusr"1991, Budapest. Contact Dr. Turtleis the NSVHS Newslener. Annual dues are $5.00. Z. I(orsos,Hungarian Natural History M,lr",rrr,, H-l0gg, For more infiormation or to join, conL?ct Budapest,Barossu. 13, Hungary. Scott: 1302 WhittierAve., Winchester, VA 2260l . *EASTERN HERP SWAPMEET & FLEA MARKET: 3I For those of you t_hat like 'ent TIor', August 1991. Write to G. I.eonard Knapp, TIte Zl5 Lawn VENOMOUS SNAKE SOCIETY rnight Ave.,Sellersville, PA 18960. be for you. The VSS is devoted to the study, conservation, captive xTHE propagarion and understanding of venornous repriles. tt HIGHLANDS CONFERENCE on is an international organization that welcomes borlr PLETHODONTID SAI_AMANDERS: 1992. June professionals and anlateurs. Regular inclivich.ral Highlands, NC. Conracr: Dr. R. Jaeger, Univ. of memberships are $15.00 per year, but Sour,lrwcsternLou isiana, g) as a special offer Lafayerte,UA,7 A iO+; (3I 23I _ to members of this 5235. association, you can join ntw for only $10.00! As a member of the VSS, yori will receive the .TFIE *SECOND quarterly newsletter, HOT SHEET\ a special WORLD CONGRESSof HERpETOLOGy: membership card; updates on conservation and legal 1993- 5 Jan., 1994. Hostedby the Universityof ?? ?.::, issues; articles by world renowned authorities; captiie_ Adelaide. Contact: p.. VtJ. Tyler, University of care infirrrnation; and special merchandise and equiprnent Adelaide, Dept. of Zoology, Box a9g, GpO, Adelaide. offers. Please include the name of your South Australia 5001, Ausfralia. society ana senct a check or money-order for $10.00 to: The Venornous Society, P.O. Box 6gl4b4, West Hollywood, CA fnake ** 90069. Please note that the VSS does not endorse the keeping of venomous reptiles by untraiuecl or inexperienced individuals ! The BLUE RIDGE HERP. SOCIETY is now proud to announce that they are one year old ancl Herpe/sMorketploce: growing! A newsletter, the "REpTILE REiORl,, is norv being o TheBJ Pinkie Pumo . published and senr.ro all mernbers. -fhis will be a . 5 sizes-surglcolsloinless Bi-monthly newsletter to begin. Members are steel- probes. remaining sexing active at meetings, . 3 sizes-block.ABS in community programs and heri Dloslic-hideboxes . surveys. The group voted to again have an exhibit at . "Hol . 2 sizes-TheBJ Feeders" Lynchburg's 'Day-In-The-parkn in Sept., l99l . Telescopic and to snokehook sponsor an Vpocketclio . educational program to coincide with the . HerDlDllNFO cords o VHS Fall meeting. For more infonnation or ro ioitr. Books,collecflbles, novelfles . p.O. & llORE. write ro fte B.R.H.S., B,ox 727, Brookneal." VA SendS.A.S.E. (45c po3ro90) tor ilsf 24528. fo: BACXCOU}{TRY HERPS P.O.Box72t Brookncol,Vo.21i?g TEGU TALES report€d to eat carrion as well. (Part I ) by: John Rivera I have not been able to find much literature on potential predatory enemies of tegus in the wild. Using South America is home to one of the new world's baited traps South American Indians capture tegus and largest lizards. Only the green iguana (Iguana iguana) eat their flesh or use the ht for medicinal purposes exceeds it in length, and the caiman lizard (Dncaena (Halliday, et al, p.100). Apart from man, I can only guess nthis guianansis)may rival squamaten in size. "Theyn are that certain South American cats such asjaguars, ocelos called the tegus: lizards of tropical jungles which (for (others);reptiles including caimans, crocodiles,anacondas, lizards) possess intelligence, individual personalities, boa constrictors (others), and birds of prey may interesting behavior, and the great Saurian classicn; occasionally include tegu in their dier I would also running, using it's hind legs only. consider the possibility of young tegus falling prey to Tegus belong to the teiidae lizard family. They large insects,arachnids (tarantulas), and predatory fish, as belong to a family restrict€d to the new world composed well as being victim to larger tegus. of both small and moderately large animals, numbering These lizards also face the mortal dangers of about 200 species in 50 genera (Wynne, p. 25). Teiids habitat destruction as dreir rain forest horne is cut down. vary in their appearance (Wynne, p. 35). Some are Many are also sold in the trade each year, with possibly Iegless and are found beneath the ground's surhce in high mortality rates. which they burrow. Others are aquatic and have However, if you do decide to purchase a tegu and flattened tails used to propel themselves through water. are wondering how to maintain one in captivity; then be Still others are land-dwelling, as are the tegus, and have here next time for part 2 of Tegu Tails. that universal lizardlike appearance comprised of 4 strong legs and a long tail. BIBLIOGRAPHY Of the two species belonging to this genus, rfre black or common tegu (Tupinambis teguixin) is rhe l) Halliday, T., and Adler, K., (1986) The Encyclopedia largest. It may attain a length of about 4 and L/2 feet of Reptiles anclAmphibians, Facts on File Inc., New York. and such an animal is stocky and 'heavily jowled". The smaller red tegu (7. rufescens) may reach 4 feet but 2) Jes, H.(1987) Lizards in the Terrarium, Balrous averafies around 3 to 3 ll2 feet. Educational Series, New York. Actually there are two subspecies of common tegu; the golden tegu (7. teguixin nigtopunctuarus) is 3) Obsr FJ., fuchter, K. and Jacob V. (1988) Tle the smaller of the two subspecies in question. This completely lllustrated Atlas of Reptiles and Amphibians animal may reach a lengtlr of 4 feet but like the red tegu for the Tertarium, T.F.H. Publications, New Jersey, averages around 3 to 3 Ll2 feet. WPC. Tegus do not share with some of it's saurian rela[ives rhe abiliry to change colors but nevertheless they 4) Wynne, R.H., (1981) Lizards In Captivity, T.F.H. are attractive animals. The comrnon tegu is black, clad Publications, New Jersey.
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