Cfreptiles & Amphibians

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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES New . LocalityChasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer and sayi) in Wisconsin: Elevational Record of the On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Yellow-striped. The Shared History of Treeboas (CorallusGlass grenadensis) and HumansFrog, on Grenada: Hyalinobatrachium A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 vireovittatumRESEARCH ARTICLES (Starrett and Savage 1973) . 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 (Anura: ...... Centrolenidae),Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge,from Ellen M. Donlan, andCoto Michael Granatosky Brus, 212 CONSERVATIONPuntarenas, ALERT Costa Rica . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 1 3 4 2 Jorge. Campos-VillalobosThe “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity, Gerald ...... Pereira-Castillo , Andrey Solís-Mora , Víctor Serrano-Hernández...... 225 , Henry Sandi-Amador5, and Ruddy Fallas-Zuñiga6 HUSBANDRY 1 Carrera de Ingeniería. Captive en Care Gestión of the Central Ambiental, Netted SedeDragon San ...... Carlos, Universidad Técnica Nacional, Alajuela, Costa Shannon Rica (jorgepittasomaPlummer 226 @gmail.com) 2Técnico Medio en Turismo Ecológico, Colegio Técnico Profesional de la Fortuna, La Fortuna, Costa Rica ([email protected]) PROFILE 3La Fortuna, San Carlos, Alajuela, Costa Rica ([email protected]) 4 . Kraig Adler: A LifetimeFrogs Promoting Heaven, Herpetology Horquetas, ...... Sarapiquí, Costa Rica ([email protected]) Michael L. Treglia 234 5San Vito de Coto Brus, Puntarenas, Costa Rica ([email protected]) COMMENTARY 6La Lucha de Sabalito, Puntarenas, Costa Rica ([email protected]) . 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, even of the 27 speciesR. Berridge, of P. Ramani,glass andfrogs B.E. Young in ...... the genus tions between 250 and 1,100 Robert Powellm from 243 the Carara National SHyalinobatrachium are found in Costa Rica (Leenders Park to Talamanca in the central and southern Pacific  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 2016). Male frogs of NATURALthis genus HISTORY usually RESEARCH call at night REPORTS from: Summaries the of Publishedfoothills Reports (Savage on Natural History2002; ...... Kubicki 2007), 247 where only three undersides of leaves inNEWBRIEFS vegetation ...... overhanging streams (Köhler sites (Alfombra...... and the foothills above 248 Quepos in Costa 2011). The Yellow-striped EDITORIAL Glass INFORMATION Frog (Hyalinobatrachium ...... Rica and El Valle in Panama)...... have 251been recorded (Kubicki  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252 vireovittatum) is distinguished from other Costa Rican centro- 2007). Frogs identified as H. vireovittatum from the Tilarán lenids by the presence of a green middorsal stripe bordered on Mountains in Costa Rica and el Copé in Panama actually are both sides by yellow lines (Starrett and Savage 1973; Savage Talamanca Glass Frogs (H. talamancae) (Kubicki 2007). 2002; Kubicki 2007). Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. OnBack Cover.5 September Michael Kern 2020, we encountered a previously Principal habitat of Yellow-stripedTotat et vellesequeGlass Frogs audant mois near unknownTotat et velleseque population audant mo of Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil wet walls, seepages, and small streamserspienimus, in mature quos accullabo. primary Ilibus and erspienimus,(Fig. 1) quosin theaccullabo. Canton Ilibus of Coto Brus, Puntarenas Province, secondary forests (Kubicki 2007). autThe dolor known apicto invere distribution pe dolum Costaaut dolor Ricaapicto invere(8°56'30.8"N, pe dolum 82°43'39.0"W; WGS 84; elev. of the species in Costa Rica coversfugiatis a narrow maionsequat strip eumque at eleva- 1,957fugiatis m maionsequat asl; Fig. eumque2), where several individuals were observed moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo.

Fig.1. Yellow-striped Glass Frogs (Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum) from the Las Tablas Protected Area, Coto Brus, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Photographs by Henry Sandi (left) and Jorge Gabriel Campos(right).

and heard along the Coton River in the Las Tablas Protected Area. This new locality is 122 km straightline distance from the nearest previously known locality at Alfombra and extends the elevational range of the species by over 850 m.

Acknowledgement We thank the Fonseca Víquez family, owners of the Changuinolita Farm in the las Tablas area, who allowed us access to their property.

Literature Cited Köhler G. 2011. Amphibians of Central America. Herpeton Verlag Elke Köhler, Offenbach, Germany. Kubicki, B. 2007. Ranas de Vidrio Costa Rica/Glass Frogs of Costa Rica. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio), Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica. Leenders, T. 2016. Amphibians of Costa Rica. A Field Guide. Zona Tropical Publications, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna Between Two Continents, Between Two Seas. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. Starrett, P.H. and J.M. Savage. 1973. The systematic status and distribution of Fig. 2. Map of Costa Rica. Previously documented localities for Yellow- Costa Rican glass-frogs, genus Centrolenella (Family Centrolenidae), with striped Glass Frogs (Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum) are indicated by description of a new species. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of black dots. The new record reported herein is marked with a blue dot. Sciences 72: 57–78.

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