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WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSIRCF REPTILES • VOL15, N &O 4AMPHIBIANS • DEC 2008 189 • 21(3):98–99 • SEP 2014 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Predation. Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer on sayi) in Wisconsin:a Cuban Brown Anole, 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: AnolisA Hypothetical sagrei Excursion ............................................................................................................................ (Dactyloidae), by Roberta W.Spider, Henderson 198 CupienniusRESEARCH ARTICLES cubae (Ctenidae), in the Cienfuegos . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida Botanical ............................................. Garden,Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko,South-central Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky Cuba 212 CONSERVATIONElier ALERT Fonseca Hernández1 and Tomás M. Rodríguez-Cabrera2 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 1Departamento de .BiologíaMore Than Animal Mammals y Humana, ...................................................................................................................................................................... Facultad de Biología, Universidad de la Habana, La Habana, CP 10400, Cuba ([email protected]) 223 . The “Dow2Jardín Jones Botánico Index” of Biodiversityde Cienfuegos, ........................................................................................................................................... Cienfuegos, PC 59290, Cuba ([email protected]) 225 HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 rthropods, includingPROFILE arachnids (scorpions, spiders, On 25 January 2014, at 2250 h, an adult female Asun spiders, whip. Kraig spiders, Adler: A Lifetime whip Promoting scorpions), Herpetology ................................................................................................ insects Cupiennius cf. cubae (8.6 Michael mmL. Treglia carapace 234 length, 0.94 g) (water bugs, ants,COMMENTARY beetles, dragonfly, caddisfly and stone- was found devouring an immature male A. sagrei (31 mm fly nymphs), crustaceans. The Turtles (crabs, Have Been shrimps), Watching Me and ........................................................................................................................ centipedes SVL, 0.72 g) (Fig. 1). Both Eric Gangloffanimals 238 were on a bromeliad (Scolopendra spp.),BOOK are known REVIEW predators of small vertebrates (Tillandsia valenzuelana) 210 cm above ground level in a (e.g., McCormick and. ThreatenedPolis 1982, Amphibians Menin of the etWorld al. edited 2005, by S.N.Toledo Stuart, M. Hoffmann,tree at J.S.the Chanson, Cienfuegos N.A. Cox, Botanical Garden (22°07’31.5”N, 2005, Henderson and PowellR. Berridge, 2009),P. Ramani, andbut B.E. spiders Young .............................................................................................................. are by far -80°19’20.2”W; 50 m a.s.l.), Robert Cienfuegos Powell 243 Province; air tem- the most frequently reported vertebrate predators of anurans CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 and lizards. Wandering NATURAL Spiders HISTORY (Ctenidae) RESEARCH are knownREPORTS to: Summariesprey of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 on amphibians and reptilesNEWBRIEFS in the ...................................................................................................................................................................................... Neotropics (e.g., Menin et 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 al. 2005, Barbo et al.FOCUS 2009, ON Barej CONSERVATION et al. 2009,: A ProjectLosos You 2009). Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 However, West Indian records are scarce. Ctenus ottleyi (= Oligoctenus ottleyi; Platnick 2009) from Puerto Rico preys on Eleutherodactylus coqui (Falls and Woolbright in Formanowicz et al. 1981, Joglar 2005) and AnolisFront gundlachi Cover. Shannon (Clark Plummer. and Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo Gillingham 1990); and Ohvida vernalis (= Ctenus vernalis; estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil Platnick 2009) from Cuba was observederspienimus, preying quos accullabo. on E. Ilibus zugi erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus (Novo et al. 1985). aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque Although the Cuban Brown Anolemoditia (Anolis erere nonsedis sagrei ma Cocteau sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- in Duméril and Bibron 1837) is onema derrovitaeof the most voluptam, widely as quos dis- tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as tributed West Indian lizards, it isaccullabo. native to the Bahamas, the Cuban Archipelago, and Little Cayman (Henderson and Powell 2009). A great variety of vertebrates are known predators of this anole in nature, including frogs (Osteopilus), snakes (Caraiba, Cubophis, Tropidophis), lizards (Anolis, Leiocephalus), and birds (Dives, Falco, Ferminia, Quiscalus, Mimus) (for a review see Henderson and Powell 2009, Losos 2009). However, only one report of an arthropod prey- ing on this lizard involved an Orbweaver, Argiope trifasciata (Armas 2001). Herein we report predation on Anolis sagrei by Cupiennius cf. cubae Strand 1909, in south-central Cuba. To the best of our knowledge this constitutes the first record of a ctenid spider preying on lizards in the Cuban Archipelago, Fig. 1. Predation on Anolis sagrei by Cupiennius cf. cubae in the Cienfuegos and only the second case reported in the West Indies. Botanical Garden, Cuba. Scale bars = 5 mm. Copyright © 2014. Elier Fonseca Hernández. All rights reserved. 98 HERNÁNDEZ AND RODRÍGUEZ-CABRERA IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 21(3):98–99 • SEP 2014 perature 21 °C. At the time of the observation, soft tissues (Araneae: Ctenidae) in Cameroon. Herpetology Notes 2:137–139. of the lizard’s head and anterior body were partially digested. Barbo, F.E., M.G. Rodrigues, F.M. Couto, and R.J. Sawaya. 2009. Predation on Leptodactylus marmoratus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) by the spider The spider was hanging in an inverted position from the leaf Ctenus medius (Araneae: Ctenidae) in the Atlantic Forest, southeast Brazil. of a bromeliad, holding the lizard with the first pair of legs Herpetology Notes 2:99–100. and the chelicera. Another four individuals of A. sagrei were Clark, D.L. and J.C. Gillingham. 1990. Sleep-site fidelity in two Puerto Rican lizards. Animal Behavior 39:1138–1148. sleeping in the same bromeliad and adjacent twigs. After col- Formanowicz, D.R., Jr., M.M. Steward, F.H. Pough, and P.F. Brussard. 1981. lection, the spider persisted in holding the prey despite con- Predation by Giant Crab Spiders on the Puerto Rican frog Eleutherodactylus siderable disturbance. coqui. Herpetologica 37:125–129. The spider was tentatively referred to Cupiennius cubae Henderson, R.W. and R. Powell. 2009. Natural History of West Indian Reptiles and Amphibians. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. because this is the only species of this genus known to occur in Joglar, R.L. 2005. Anfibios, pp. 39–96. In: R.L. Joglar (ed.), Biodiversidad de Puerto Cuba. Both spider and lizard were deposited in the herpetologi- Rico. Vertebrados Terrestres y Ecosistemas. Serie de Historia Natural. Editorial cal collection of the Museo de Historia Natural “Felipe Poey,” Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña, San Juan. Losos, J.B. 2009. Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree. Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Faculty of Biology, University of Havana (MFP 12516). Anoles. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. McCormick, S. and G.A. Polis. 1982. Arthropods that prey on vertebrates. Biological Acknowledgements Review 57:29–58. We thank Ansel Fong, Javier Torres, and Ruben Marrero for Menin, M., D. de Jesus Rodrigues, and C.S. de Azevedo. 2005. Predation on help with the literature. J. Torres also made useful comments amphibians by spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) in the Neotropical region. Phyllomedusa 4:39–47. that improved the manuscript. Novo Rodríguez, J., A.R. Estrada, and G. Alayón. 1985. Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) depredado por un aranéido. Miscelánea Zoológica 28:1–2. Literature Cited Platnick, N.I. 2009. The World Spider Catalog, Version 10.0. The American Armas, L.F. de. 2001. Frogs and lizards as prey of some Greater Antillean arachnids. Museum of Natural History (http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/ Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 3:87–88. catalog/index.html). Barej, M.F., J.A.M. Wurstner, and W. Böhme. 2009. Predation on the tree- Toledo, L.F. 2005. Predation of juvenile and adult anurans by invertebrates: frog Leptopelis brevirostris (Anura: Arthroleptidae) by a Wandering Spider Current knowledge and perspectives. Herpetological Review 36:395–400. 99.
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    Biota Neotrop., vol. 10, no. 3 Predation on young treefrog (Osteocephalus taurinus) by arthropods (Insecta, Mantodea and Arachnida, Araneae) in Central Brazil Raul Costa-Pereira1,5, Fernando Ibanez Martins2, Eurico Antonio Sczesny-Moraes3 & Antonio Brescovit4 1Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde – CCBS, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul – UFMS, Cidade Universitária s/n, CEP 79070-900,Campo Grande, MS, Brasil 2Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Conservação, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde – CCBS, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul – UFMS, Cidade Universitária, s/n, CEP 79070-900, Campo Grande, MS, Brasil 3Departamento de Patologia, Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde – CCBS, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul – UFMS, Cidade Universitária, s/n, CEP 79070-900, Campo Grande, MS, Brasil 4Laboratório de Artrópodes, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, CEP 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brasil 5Autor para correspondência: Raul Costa-Pereira, e-mail: [email protected] COSTA-PEREIRA, R., MARTINS, F.I., SCZESNY-MORAES, E.A. & BRASCOVIT, A. Predation on young treefrogs (Osteocephalus taurinus) by arthropods (Insecta, Mantodea and Arachnida, Araneae) in Central Brazil. Biota Neotrop. 10(3): http://www.biotaneotropica.org.br/v10n3/en/abstract?short- communication+bn04310032010. Abstract: Praying mantis and spider species are common food items in the diet of several anuran species. Nevertheless, in this study we report the predation of young treefrogs Osteocephalus taurinus by two spider species, a Pisauridae and a Trechaleidae (Neoctenus sp.) and by the praying mantis Eumusonia sp. in Mato Grosso, Central Brazil. The great abundance of this treefrog in the region, combined with its small body size during the juvenil stage, favor its predation by generalists predators.