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WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES &IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 189 26(2):159–160 • AUG 2019

IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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

(PhelsumaRESEARCH ARTICLESgrandis) Established in Homestead, . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 Miami-Dade. The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida County, Florida, USA ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1 2 CONSERVATION ALERTThomas W. Fieldsend and Kenneth L. Krysko 1Department. World’s of Biological Mammals inSciences, Crisis ...... Florida International University, Miami, Florida 33199, USA ([email protected]...... 220 ) 2Florida Museum. More of Natural Than Mammals History, ...... Division of Herpetology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida...... 32611, USA (langaha01@y 223 ahoo.com) . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

he MadagascarHUSBANDRY Giant Day Gecko (Phelsuma grandis) is Torch Key in 1997 (Krysko et al. 2019) and by 2002 was also Tnative to northern. Captive Madagascar, Care of the Central but Nettedis an Dragon established ...... non- established on Grassy Key, Shannon Big Plummer Pine Key,226 and Plantation Key native species in Mauritius,PROFILE Reunion (Dubos 2013), Florida (Krysko et al. 2003). Breeding populations were known only (Krysko et al. 2019),. andKraig Adler:Hawaii A Lifetime (Kraus Promoting 2002). Herpetology In ...... Florida, from Monroe County in Michael the L.Florida Treglia 234 Keys until 2017, when P. grandis was first introduced via the pet trade on Little a population was reported from the Glenvar Heights area of 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. Adult nonnative Madagascar Giant Day Gecko (Phelsuma grandis) in Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA on 22 April 2019. Photograph by Thomas Fieldsend.

Miami, Miami-Dade County (Thawley and Stroud 2017). of Florida than might have been assumed a priori, given the Herein, we report a second breeding population of P. grandis species’ wholly tropical native range (Raxworthy et al. 2007). from Miami-Dade County, approximately 38 km (23.6 mi) southwest of the Glenvar Heights population. Acknowledgments On 22 April 2019 at 1035 h, four Phelsuma grandis were We thank the property owner for allowing us to survey his observed on private property near the corner of SW 348 property and for information on the introduction history of Street and SW 212 Avenue in Homestead (25.44389°N, Phelsuma grandis. 80.53387°W). One adult and two subadults were observed on a single coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), and a second Literature Cited adult was observed on a nearby Philodendron (Philodendron Dubos, N. 2013. New locality record for Phelsuma grandis (Sauria: Gekkonidae) sp.). Photographic vouchers were deposited in the Florida in Reunion, in sympatry with the critically endangered Phelsuma inexpecta. 6: 309–311. Museum of Natural History (UF-Herpetology 185566– Herpetology Notes Kraus, F. 2002. New records of alien reptiles in Hawaii. Bishop Museum Occasional 185569). Coleman M. Sheehy III confirmed the identity of Papers 69: 48–52. the species from photographs. Krysko, K.L., A.N. Hooper, and C.M. Sheehy III. 2003. The Madagascar Giant Day This population was introduced via the pet trade dur- Gecko Phelsuma madagascariensis grandis Gray 1870 (Sauria: Gekkonidae): A ing the 2000s. The property owner stated that the population new established species in Florida. Florida Scientist 66:222–225. Krysko, K.L., K.M. Enge, and P.E. Moler. 2019. Amphibians and Reptiles of Florida. survived the prolonged cold weather of 2010, during which University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. lows of –1.1 °C (30 °F) and –0.55 °C (31 °F) were recorded Raxworthy, C.J., C.M. Ingram, N. Rabibisoa, and R.G. Pearson. 2007. Applications on consecutive days (11–12 January; National Oceanic and of ecological niche modeling for species delimitation: A review and empirical evaluation using day geckos (Phelsuma) from Madagascar. Systematic Biology Atmospheric Administration records). The apparent survival 56: 907–923. of this population at temperatures below freezing suggests Thawley, C.J. and J.T. Stroud. 2017. Phelsuma grandis (Madagascan Day Gecko). that P. grandis might be able to colonize more-northerly areas Herpetological Review 48: 812–812.

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