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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATUREMaximum ARTICLES Size Record for the . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Broad-bandedOn the Road to Understanding the Ecology andTrope, Conservation of the Midwest’s Tropidophis Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapferfeicki 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical(Squamata: Excursion ...... Tropidophiidae)Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and WesternAlejandro Texas ...... M. Rodríguez-González Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida Universidad ...... Central “Marta Abreu”Brian de J. las Camposano, Villas, Santa Kenneth Clara, L. Krysko, Villa KevinClara M.50100, Enge, EllenCuba M. ([email protected]) Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 he Broad-banded. More Than MammalsTrope, ...... Tropidophis feicki (Torres López et al. 2016)...... I offered anoles 223 (Anolis spp.) and . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225 T(Tropidophiidae), is endemic to Cuba, where it is dis- frogs (Eleutherodactylus spp.) on a weekly basis but the snake tributed in forestedHUSBANDRY karstic areas in the western and central did not accept food until 107 days (3.5 months) after its cap- regions of the main. Captive island Care (Schwartz of the Central Nettedand DragonHenderson ...... 1991; ture, when it began to regularly Shannon Plummer eat anoles 226 and frogs. Eleven Rodríguez-CabreraPROFILE et al. 2020). It is a slender snake that months after capture, the snake measured 463 mm snout-vent reaches <450 mm snout-vent. Kraig Adler: A lengthLifetime Promoting (Hedges Herpetology 2002)...... Herein I length (SVL), 50 mm tail Michael length, L. Treglia 13 mm234 head length, and report a size record for this species. weighted 34 g. This constitutes a size record for the species, On 8 DecemberCOMMENTARY 2019, Tomas M. Rodríguez-Cabrera exceeding by 15 mm the maximum SVL reported for females . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 encountered an adult male T. feicki (Fig. 1) that was forag- (448 mm) and by 52 mm the maximum SVL reported for ing at night onBOOK limestone REVIEW in a semi-deciduous forest near males (411 mm; Hedges 2002). the Santa Cruz River,. Threatened San Cristóbal Amphibians ofMunicipality, the World edited by Artemisa S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, Although J.S. Chanson, I took N.A. Cox,the measurements eleven months after Province, Cuba (22°44'58"N,R. Berridge, P. Ramani,83°08'59"W; and B.E. Young 160 ...... m asl). I the snake was collected, the fact Robert that Powell it 243did not eat during 3.5 kept the snake in CONSERVATIONcaptivity, providing RESEARCH water REPORTS: ad libitum Summaries in a of Publishedmonths Conservation of that Research period Reports suggests ...... that its 245 increase in size must container sufficiently NATURAL large to HISTORY accommodate RESEARCH the REPORTS whole :animal Summaries of Publishedhave been Reports minimal. on Natural History Therefore, ...... I assume 247 that it already repre-  NEWBRIEFS ...... sented a size record...... when collected. 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252 Acknowledgements I thank Tomas M. Rodríguez-Cabrera, Institute of Ecology and Systematics, Cuba, for providing the snake and data from Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. nature.Back I Cover.also thank Michael Javier Kern Torres, University of Kansas, USA, Totat et velleseque audant mo forTotat reviewing et velleseque earlier audant versions mo of the manuscript. estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolumLiterature Cited fugiatis maionsequat eumque Hedges,fugiatis S.B., maionsequat 2002. Morphological eumque variation and the definition of species in the moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditiasnake erere genus nonsedis Tropidophis ma sectia (Serpentes,- Tropidophiidae). Bulletin of the Natural ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur Historyma derrovitae Museum: voluptam, Zoology asSeries 68: 83–90. accullabo. Rodríguez-Cabrera, T.M., J. Torres, and E. Morell Savall. 2020. Easternmost record of the Cuban Broad-Banded Trope, Tropidophis feicki (Squamata: Tropidophiidae). Caribbean Herpetology 71: 1–3. Schwartz, A. and R.W. Henderson. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. Torres López, J., T.M. Rodríguez-Cabrera, R.M. Romero, O.T. Fundora, and Fig. 1. An adult male Broad-banded Trope (Tropidophis feicki) from the Santa P.G. Macías. 2016. Comments on the critically endangered Canasí Trope Cruz River, Sierra del Rosario Range, Artemisa Province, Cuba, representing (Tropidophis celiae, Tropidophiidae): Neonates, ex situ maintenance, and con- the maximum size recorded for the species. Photograph by the author. servation. Reptiles & Amphibians 23: 82–87.

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