WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSIRCF REPTILES • VOL 15,& NAMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 26(3):253–254 • JAN 2020
IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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FEATURE ARTICLES . ChasingPredation Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: on a Slender Anole On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 (Anolis. The Shared Historyfuscoauratus of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans) onby Grenada: a Whip Scorpion A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES(Order Amblypygi) . 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 Oliver Thomas ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Swansea, SA2 8PP, UK ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225 he Slender Anole (Anolis fuscoauratus D’Orbingy 1837) is an arboreal, diurnallyHUSBANDRY active species of lizard that attains T . a snout-to-vent lengthCaptive of about Care of the 50 Central mm Netted (Carvajal-Campos Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226 and Ayala-Varela PROFILE2019). This species is distributed east of the Andes throughout. Kraig northern Adler: A Lifetime South Promoting America Herpetology (Ecuador, ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 Colombia, Peru, Bolivia,COMMENTARY Brazil, and the Guyanas). In the Ecuadorean Amazon,. itThe is Turtles most Have frequently Been Watching encountered Me ...... in the Eric Gangloff 238 understory of primaryBOOK rainforests, REVIEW although it also exploits more disturbed areas,. Threatenedbasking Amphibians or displaying of the World in edited tree by S.N.falls Stuart, or M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, patches of open forest orR. Berridge, sleeping P. Ramani, at theand B.E. edges Young ...... of trails on Robert Powell 243 small branches and leaves 1–2 m above the ground (Vitt et CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 al. 2003). NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 Amblypygids, orNEWBRIEFS whip scorpions, ...... are members of the ...... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 class Arachnida, order FOCUS Amblypygi. ON CONSERVATION They are: Agenerally Project You Can noc Support- ...... 252 turnal and considered to be sit-and-wait predators that take a variety of prey, rather than active foragers seeking spe- cific targets. Amblypygids prey primarily on invertebrates (Chapin and Hebets 2016), but reportsFront Cover. document Shannon Plummer.predation Back Cover. Michael Kern on small vertebrates such as lizards,Totat frogs, et velleseque and audant even mo birds Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil (Weygoldt 2000; Owen and Cokendolphererspienimus, quos 2006; accullabo. Chapin Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus and Hebets 2016). aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque On 27 July 2019 I was conductingmoditia ererea night-time nonsedis ma sectiatur visual moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- encounter survey with student volunteersma derrovitae on voluptam, the “Mystery as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as Trail” located in the camping areaaccullabo. of the Sani Reserve, Sucumbios, Ecuador. At 2046 h, we encountered an ambly- pygid (Heterophrynus sp.) low on the trunk of a small tree next to the trail (-0.440251°, -76.310325°) with a captured adult male A. fuscoauratus in its pedipalps (Fig. 1). The arachnid appeared to have killed its prey by pushing its head back and using its fang-like chelicerae to bite into the throat Fig. 1. An amblypygid (Heterophrynus sp.) eating a Slender Anole (Anolis of the anole. We found no other puncture marks on the fuscoauratus) on 27 July 2019 in the Sani Reserve, Sucumbios, Ecuador. anole. Based on the time of the encounter, the portion of Photograph by the author.
Copyright © 2020. Oliver Thomas. All rights reserved. 253 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 THOMAS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 26(3):253–254 • JAN 2020 the lizard that had been consumed, and the fact that these Thanks to Giselle Mangini for help with an earlier draft of lizards tend to search for sleeping locations in the early eve- this manuscript. ning (pers. obs.), the amblypygid probably encountered and captured the anole while it was asleep. Although records exist Literature Cited of predation on lizards by whip scorpions, this observation Carvajal-Campos, A. and F. Ayala-Varela. 2019. Anolis fuscoauratus. In: O. Torres- definitively adds amblypygids to the list of known predators Carvajal and D. Salazar-Valenzuela, 2017. Reptiles del Ecuador. Version 2019.0. Museo de Zoología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador.
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