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Herpetological Review Herpetological Review Volume 41, Number 2 — June 2010 SSAR Offi cers (2010) HERPETOLOGICAL REVIEW President The Quarterly News-Journal of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles BRIAN CROTHER Department of Biological Sciences Editor Southeastern Louisiana University ROBERT W. HANSEN Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA 16333 Deer Path Lane e-mail: [email protected] Clovis, California 93619-9735, USA [email protected] President-elect JOSEPH MENDLELSON, III Zoo Atlanta, 800 Cherokee Avenue, SE Associate Editors Atlanta, Georgia 30315, USA e-mail: [email protected] ROBERT E. ESPINOZA KERRY GRIFFIS-KYLE DEANNA H. OLSON California State University, Northridge Texas Tech University USDA Forestry Science Lab Secretary MARION R. PREEST ROBERT N. REED MICHAEL S. GRACE PETER V. LINDEMAN USGS Fort Collins Science Center Florida Institute of Technology Edinboro University Joint Science Department The Claremont Colleges EMILY N. TAYLOR GUNTHER KÖHLER JESSE L. BRUNNER Claremont, California 91711, USA California Polytechnic State University Forschungsinstitut und State University of New York at e-mail: [email protected] Naturmuseum Senckenberg Syracuse MICHAEL F. BENARD Treasurer Case Western Reserve University KIRSTEN E. NICHOLSON Department of Biology, Brooks 217 Section Editors Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859, USA Book Reviews Current Research Current Research e-mail: [email protected] AARON M. BAUER JOSHUA M. HALE BEN LOWE Department of Biology Department of Sciences Department of EEB Publications Secretary Villanova University MuseumVictoria, GPO Box 666 University of Minnesota BRECK BARTHOLOMEW Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia St Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA P.O. Box 58517 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Salt Lake City, Utah 84158, USA e-mail: [email protected] Geographic Distribution Geographic Distribution Geographic Distribution Immediate Past President ALAN M. RICHMOND INDRANEIL DAS JERRY D. JOHNSON ROY MCDIARMID Biology Department, Morrill IV South Institute of Biodiversity & Department of Biological Sciences USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center University of Massachusetts Environmental Conservation The University of Texas at El Paso Smithsonian Institution 611 North Pleasant Street Universiti Malaysia Sarawak El Paso, Texas 79968, USA P.O. Box 37012 Amherst, Massachusetts 01003-9297, USA 94300, Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia [email protected] Washington, DC 20113-7012, USA [email protected] [email protected] Directors Geographic Distribution Zoo View Herpetological Husbandry PAUL CHIPPINDALE (2010) GUSTAVO J. SCROCCHI JAMES B. MURPHY BRAD LOCK TIFFANY DOAN (2010) Instituto de Herpetología Department of Herpetology Department of Herpetology Fundación Miguel Lillo, Miguel Lillo 251 National Zoological Park Zoo Atlanta TRAVIS LADUC (2010) STEPHEN RICHTER (2010) 4000 Tucumán, Argentina 3001 Connecticut Ave., NW 800 Cherokee Ave., S.E. DAVID CUNDALL (2012) [email protected] Washington, D.C. 20008, USA Atlanta, Georgia 30315, USA [email protected] [email protected] KEVIN DE QUEIROZ (2012) PATRICK GREGORY (2012) ANN PATERSON (2012) Natural History Notes Natural History Notes Natural History Notes CHARLES W. PAINTER JAMES H. HARDING JOHN D. WILLSON Trustee New Mexico Dept. of Game & Fish MSU Museum University of Georgia GEORGE R. PISANI P.O. Box 25112 Michigan State University Savannah River Ecology Lab University of Kansas, USA Santa Fe, New Mexico 87504, USA East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA Drawer E [email protected] [email protected] Aiken, South Carolina 29802, USA SSAR Editors [email protected] Journal of Herpetology Copy Editors Natural History Notes ERIN MUTHS, Co-Editor RAUL DIAZ JACKSON D. SHEDD U.S. Geological Survey KYLE MILLER HESED 699 Eaton Street #34 Fort Collins, Colorado 80526, USA DANIEL PORTIK Oceanside, California 92054, USA ELIZABETH TIMPE [email protected] GAD PERRY, Co-Editor Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA Contributions to Herpetology KRAIG ADLER, Editor SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES Department of Neurobiology & Behavior www.ssarherps.org Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853, USA The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, the largest international herpetological society, Facsimile Reprints in Herpetology is a not-for-profi t organization established to advance research, conservation, and education concern- AARON M. BAUER, Editor ing amphibians and reptiles. Founded in 1958, SSAR is widely recognized today as having the most Department of Biology diverse society-sponsored program of services and publications for herpetologists. Membership is open Villanova University to anyone with an interest in herpetology—professionals and serious amateurs alike—who wish to join Villanova, Pennsylvania 19085, USA with us to advance the goals of the Society. Herpetological Circulars All members of the SSAR are entitled to vote by mail ballot for Society offi cers, which allows overseas JOHN J. MORIARTY, Editor members to participate in determining the Society's activities; also, many international members attend 3261 Victoria Street the annual meetings and serve on editorial boards and committees. Shoreview, Minnesota 55126, USA All members and institutions receive the Society’s primary technical publication, the Journal of Herpetology, and its news- Catalogue of American Amphibians journal, Herpetological Review; both are published four times per year. Members also receive pre-publication discounts on and Reptiles other Society publications, which are advertised in Herpetological Review. ANDREW H. PRICE, Editor Texas Natural History Collections To join SSAR or to renew your membership, please visit the secure online ZenScientist website via this link: The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78758-4445, USA http://www.ssarherps.org/pages/membership.php Herpetological Conservation Future Annual Meetings JOSEPH C. MITCHELL, Editor Mitchell Ecological Research Services 2010 — Providence, Rhode Island, 7–12 July (with ASIH, HL) P.O. Box 5638 2011 — Minneapolis, Minnesota, dates TBA (with ASIH, HL) Gainesville, Florida 32627-5638, USA 2012 — Vancouver, British Columbia, dates TBA (with ASIH, HL, WCH) About Our Cover: Anotheca spinosa SSAR BUSINESS Middle America, the waist- band of the Western Hemi- sphere, seems to contain all of its features. Land forms, Thomas Beauvais Fund to Support Color climate, soils, vegetation and Photographs in SSAR Publications fauna are more varied in Mex- ico and Central America than most anywhere else on earth. SSAR is pleased to announce the establishment of the Thomas Owing to its contemporary F. Beauvais Fund to support the increased use of color in both the mountain-building, the region Journal of Herpetology and Herpetological Review. The goal of boasts no fewer than four tec- tonic patterns that leave it rich this fund is to encourage the use of high quality color images of in rugged plateaus sundered by amphibians and reptiles for both scientifi c and aesthetic purposes. steep escarpments and dotted This especially applies to new or never-before-illustrated species. with massive volcanic cones. Where authors have appropriate images to accompany their ar- Pristine montane rainforests at low to moderate elevations ticles, they should contact the editor for particulars. from Veracruz, Mexico, south Thomas Beauvais is an amateur herpetologist who lives in Ann into western Panama contain Arbor, Michigan. For several years he has been engaged in an a rarely seen and engrossingly distinctive gargoyle of a frog extensive bibliographic, biogeographic, and distributional mono- called Anotheca spinosa. graph on the Eastern Massasauga (Sistrurus c. catenatus). The It dwells in trees, usually at heights, so the monotypic Anotheca remains accompanying photo shows Tom with an exceptionally large poorly known. Our knowledge of its life history derives mostly from captive ob- servations performed 132 years after Steindachner described Anotheca (Jungfer specimen from Indiana at the Field Museum in Chicago. Tom is a 1996. Herpetologica 52:25–32; Steindachner 1864. Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien. graduate of Eastern Michigan University and recently retired from 14:539–552). Fertilized eggs are deposited just above the water line in fl ooded a research posi- tree holes, bamboo internodes, and other phytotelmata so the larvae must rely on the female for nutrition. She provides them with infertile eggs which often are tion at NSF Inter- ingested whole by the tadpoles. Depending upon need and opportunity, minute national, a public arthropods and fellow tadpoles may also be included in the diet. health and safety William E. Duellman (pers. comm.) relates an amusing encounter between company in Ann two accomplished, but feuding, herpetologists—Edward H. Taylor and Emmett Reid Dunn. Having just acquired strange anuran larvae with egg-fi lled body Arbor. In 2001, he cavities, Taylor rushed back from fi eldwork in Central America and made a won a Conserva- preliminary presentation at the 1953 herpetological meetings. He believed he tion Achievement had stumbled upon a gravid neotenic tadpole about to lay eggs. Dunn, taking a wild guess, openly suggested that Taylor was unable to distinguish between Award from the the reproductive and digestive tracts. Turns out Dunn was correct and the larvae Niagara Peninsula were subsequently found to be Anotheca (Taylor 1954. Univ. Kansas Sci. Bull. Conservation Au- 36[8]:589–595).
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