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Dactyloa Savagei) Was Described As Anolis CBA Examined the Specimen from Ballena (BMNH Ssavagei by Poe And WWW.IRCF.ORG TABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES &IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 189 27(2):225–227 • AUG 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES . ChasingDistribution Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: of Savage’s Anole, On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Dactyloa. The Shared History of Treeboas savagei (Corallus grenadensis) and (Poe Humans on Grenada: and Ryan 2017) A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198 (Squamata:RESEARCH ARTICLES Dactyloidae), in Costa Rica . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestrisCesar) in Florida L. Barrio-Amoros 1 and Dionisio Paniagua2 .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1Doc Frog Expeditions/CRWild, Uvita, Costa Rica ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT 2498302 Puerto Jiménez, Puntarenas, Costa Rica . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 avage’s Anole (HUSBANDRYDactyloa savagei) was described as Anolis CBA examined the specimen from Ballena (BMNH Ssavagei by Poe and. Captive Ryan Care (2017) of the Central when Netted they Dragon realized ....................................................................................................... that 1909.7.10.20) from photographs Shannon Plummer sent 226 by Patrick Campbell, the large anoles fromPROFILE southern Costa Rica were distinct from Reptile Curator at the British Museum. This locality is the similar and closely. Kraig related Adler: A Lifetime Decorated Promoting HerpetologyAnole ( ................................................................................................Dactyloa not precise (Ballena is a Michael beach L. Treglia 8 km 234 SE Uvita, Puntarenas insignis). Nicholson et al. (2018) subsequently elevated an Province, and also is an alternative name of the town of Bahía COMMENTARY anoline clade to the genus. The Turtles Dactyloa Have Been, Watchingto which Me ........................................................................................................................ they assigned Ballena, also in Uvita. The Ericlocality Gangloff is238 represented in maps in these species. Savage and Talbot (1978), Savage (2002), and Poe and Ryan BOOK REVIEW Savage’s Anole has a limited and relatively unknown dis- (2017) as in Uvita. Both are close to the sea, and the elevation . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, tribution in the southernR. Pacific Berridge, P. area Ramani, of and Costa B.E. Young Rica .............................................................................................................. that coin- of 4 m asl is correct. However, Robert Powell the specimen243 is not Dactyloa cides with the Isthmian Pacific moist forest region of Leenders savagei, as it lacks a postorbital dark blotch, instead bearing (2016, 2019). Little CONSERVATION is known about RESEARCH this species REPORTS: due Summaries to its of Publishedthe Conservationlarge pale-centered, Research Reports ................................. dark-outlined 245 blotch between the NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 secretive life in the forestNEWBRIEFS canopy. ............................................................................................................................... Only three photographs of ....................................................... 248 living individuals have EDITORIAL been published, INFORMATION an ...............................................................................................................................adult male from ...................... 251 the type locality in theFOCUS Las ONCruces CONSERVATION Reserve near: A Project San You Vito Can deSupport ............................................................................................... 252 Coto Brus in Puntarenas Province (Poe and Ryan 2017), and two individuals photographed by Rick Stanley in cloud forest at an elevation of 1,690 m asl near Cerro Chirripó Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern (09°28'21.18"N, 83°43'15"W; R.Totat Stanley, et velleseque pers. audant comm.). mo Totat et velleseque audant mo Four of Stanley’s photographs wereestibus posted inveliquo by veliqueLosos rerchil (2013) estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus and two are in Leenders (2019). Noaut new dolor locality apicto invere records pe dolum have aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum been reported until now. fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- Only a few localities have beenma derrovitae mentioned voluptam, foras quos large tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as anoles in the southern Pacific area. Twoaccullabo. specimens are known from the type locality (Poe and Ryan 2017). Savage and Talbot (1978) and Savage (2002) mentioned the presence of the Decorated Anole (Dactyloa insignis) in at least in two localities near sea level, Ballena, 4 m asl (British Museum of Natural History: BMNH 1909.7.10.20) and Rincon de Osa (Colección de la Universidad de Costa Rica: UCR 4387) on the Península de Osa. However, these two localities were not confirmed by Poe and Ryan (2017), so the actual identity of those specimens was unclear. We herein provide clarification of the identity of those two specimens. We also describe two Fig. 1. Distribution of Savage’s Anole (Dactyloa savagei) in southern new localities on the Peninsula de Osa that, in addition to Costa Rica. The yellow dot marks the type locality and red dots indicate confirmed and new localities for the species. The elevational distribution the corroboration of the identity of UCR 4387, confirm the ranges from about 224 m in La Tarde on the Peninsula de Osa to 1,690 m presence of the species on the peninsula (Fig. 1). at the Cloudbridge Reserve near Cerro Chirripó. Copyright © 2020. Cesar L. Barrio-Amoros. All rights reserved. 225 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 BARRIO-AMOROS AND PANIAGUA IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(2):225–227 • AUG 2020 Fig. 2. A Decorated Anole (Dactyloa insignis; BMNH 1909.7.10.20) from Ballena in Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica (elev. 4 m asl). We herein corroborate the identity of this specimen but suggest that the locality is in error as it lies well outside the known range of the species. Photographs by Patrick Campbell. shoulder and tympanum typical of D. insignis (Fig. 2). The but the dark-bordered postorbital spot can be distinguished. latter, however, is not known to occur in the southern Pacific This individual’s dark-outlined golden diagonal bars on a area (Savage 2002; Leenders 2019). We suggest that the col- lime-green ground color is a novel pattern that was not men- lection locality is in error. tioned by either Poe and Ryan (2017) or Leenders (2019). CBA also examined the specimen UCR 4387 (Fig. 3), Steven Poe and Gunther Köhler confirmed the identity of the originally identified as Dactyloa insignis, that had been col- specimens and living individuals from the photographs. lected in 1973 from Rincón de Osa on the Osa Peninsula (UCR 4387). This individual is clearly an adult male D. sav- Acknowledgements agei with the prominent postorbital dark blotch typical of the We thank John Muller and Rick Stanley and also the tourist species and absent in D. insignis. guides Edward Montiel and Neftalí Chavarría for data and Two additional reliably identified adult males from two photographs. Gunther Köhler and Steven Poe identified the new localities corroborate the presence of Dactyloa savagei on species from photographs. the Peninsula de Osa, Puntarenas Province. The first indi- vidual (Fig. 4A & 4B), with the large black-outlined post- Literature Cited orbital spot characteristic of the species, was observed by Leenders, T. 2016. Amphibians of Costa Rica. A Field Guide. A Zona Tropical Publication. Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University Press, DP and tourists on 15 March 2019 at Ecoturismo La Tarde Ithaca, New York. Reserve (08°34'49"N, 83°29'13"W; elev. 224 m asl), only Leenders, T. 2019. Reptiles of Costa Rica. A Field Guide. A Zona Tropical Publication. 14.2 km south of Rincon de Osa. It was about 2 m above Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. the ground and moving slowly toward the canopy. A sec- Losos, J. 2013. Name that big Costa Rican anole. Anole Annals. <https://www. anoleannals.org/?s=big+Costa+Rican+anole>. ond individual (Fig.
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