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Amphibians and Reptiles from Cloud Forest at Cumbre De Tonalixco in the Central Veracruz Highlands of Mexico HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 27(3):501–505189 • DEC 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS AmphibiansFEATURE ARTICLES and Reptiles from Cloud Forest . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: at OnCumbre the Road to Understanding the de Ecology andTonalixco Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpentin ......................the Joshua Central M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A HypotheticalVeracruz Excursion ............................................................................................................................ Highlands of MexicoRobert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES Rafael. The Peralta-Hernández Texas Horned Lizard in1 ,Central Raúl and Osvaldo Western TexasPeralta-Hernández ....................... Emily2 Henry,, Gabriela Jason Brewer, Parra-Olea Krista Mougey,3, Aldo and Gad López-Velázquez Perry 204 3, . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida and Mirna G. García-Castillo4,5 .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1Museo de Zoología, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Iztapalapa, Mexico City, Mexico CONSERVATION2Universidad ALERT Autónoma de Baja California Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico 3 Departamento. World’s de Zoología, Mammals Instituto in Crisis de ............................................................................................................................... Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria,.............................. Coyoacán, México220 City, Mexico 4 . More Than Mammals ...............................................................................................................................Universidad Politécnica de Huatusco, Huatusco, Veracruz, Mexico....................................... 223 5Universidad Veracruzana,. The “Dow FacultadJones Index” de ofCiencias Biodiversity Biológicas ............................................................................................................................... y Agropecuarias, Campus Peñuela, Amatlán de los Reyes, Veracruz,............ Mexic 225o ([email protected]) HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 eracruz hasPROFILE many geographical and geological elements Pigmy Salamander, Thorius pennatulus Cope 1869; and the Vthat produce. wideKraig Adler: environmental A Lifetime Promoting variation Herpetology and ................................................................................................ promote Coffee Grove Salamander, Michael Aquiloeurycea L. Treglia 234 cafetalera (Parra- high biodiversity (Soto-Esparza and Geissert-Kientz 2011). Olea, Rovito, Márquez-Valdelmar, Cruz, Murrieta-Galindo, This wide biodiversityCOMMENTARY is reflected in several biological groups and Wake 2010) (Contreras-Calvario et al. 2019). Another . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 such as seed plants (Rzedowski 1991, 1993), birds (Navarro- species, the Greater Bromeliad Treefrog, Bromeliohyla den- Sigüenza et al. BOOK2014), REVIEWand herpetofauna (Flores-Villela and droscarta (Taylor 1940), was rediscovered at its type locality in García-Vázquez 2014;. Threatened Parra-Olea Amphibians et of al. the World2014). edited The by S.N.amphib Stuart,- M. Hoffmann,Cuautlapan J.S. Chanson, after N.A. 47 Cox,years (García-Bañuelos et al. 2017), and ian richness of VeracruzR. Berridge, ranks P. Ramani, third and among B.E. Young Mexican .............................................................................................................. states the Granite-colored Salamander, Robert Powell Pseudoeuroeurycea 243 granitum with a total of 96 CONSERVATIONspecies, 55 of them RESEARCH endemic REPORTS: (Parra-Olea Summaries et of PublishedGarcía-Bañuelos, Conservation Research Aguilar-López,Reports ................................. Kelly-Hernandez, 245 Vásquez- al. 2014). The reptilianNATURAL diversity HISTORY of RESEARCH Veracruz REPORTSalso ranks: Summaries third of PublishedCruz, ReportsPineda-Arredondo, on Natural History ................................. and Rovito 2472020, newly described. with 200 species (Flores-VillelaNEWBRIEFS ............................................................................................................................... and García-Vázquez 2014). Finally, Rafael....................................................... Delgado also claims the248 first records of the EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 Floral biodiversity FOCUS ONin Veracruz CONSERVATION is also: Anotable, Project You with Can Support18 ............................................................................................... 252 types of primary vegetation (Castillo-Campos et al. 2011). The cloud forest is one of the most complex and diverse vegetative assemblies in the state (Williams-Linera 2007; Williams-Linera et al. 2007; GoyenecheaFront Cover. Shannon and Plummer.Gual-Díaz Back Cover. Michael Kern 2014) with its humid climate coveringTotat et velleseque elevations audant mo of 900– Totat et velleseque audant mo 2,300 m asl across 135–271 haestibus (Castillo-Campos inveliquo velique rerchil et al. estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus 2011). Unfortunately, the cloud forestaut dolor is apicto also invere one peof dolum the most aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum threatened ecosystems in Mexico fugiatisdue to maionsequat exhaustive eumque deforesta - fugiatis maionsequat eumque tion (CONABIO 2010), and itsmoditia area ererehas nonsedis been macontinually sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as reduced over the years in central Veracruz.accullabo. Nevertheless some preserved areas still support unexplored biodiversity. The municipality of Rafael Delgado in central Veracruz is located near some historically important localities, such as Cuautlapan in the municipality of Ixtaczoquitlán (Smith 1939; Taylor 1940; Cerón de la Luz et al. 2016) and Petlalcala in the municipality of San Andrés Tenejapan (de la Torre- Loranca 1999, Kelly-Hernández 2017) (Fig. 1). Recently, several species have been reported for the first time in locali- ties near Rafael Delgado: Townsend’s Salamander, Parvimolge Fig. 1. Map showing the location of the study site at Cumbre de Tonalixco townsendi (Dunn 1922); Firschein’s False Brook Salamander, (red triangle), Municipality of Rafael Delgado (thin outline), Veracruz, Pseudoeurycea firscheini Shannon and Werler 1955; Veracruz and sites of previous herpetofaunal studies (green squares). Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 501 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. PERALTA-HERNÁNDEZ ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):501–505 • DEC 2020 Veracruz Pigmy Salamander, Thorius pennatulus, Gloomy 1). The locality has several streams, cloud forest vegetation Mountain Stream Frog, Ptychohyla zophodes Campbell dominated by oaks (Quercus) and sweetgums (Liquidambar), and Duellman 2000, and Scheide’s Anole, Anolis schiedii and a number of coffee plantations. We conducted five field (Wiegmann 1834), which were recently published (Peralta- trips from September 2019 to January 2020 in an area of Hernández and Perea-Pérez 2019; Peralta-Hernández et al. approximately 5.4 km2 at elevations from 1,350–1,635 m asl. 2019; Taval-Velázquez et al. 2020). The lack of sampling in All surveys were daytime only, with visual searching under areas with probable high biodiversity, such as Rafael Delgado, rocks, logs, leaf litter, and on epiphytic vegetation. highlights the importance of new field surveys and revisions Individuals were identified and photographed; all identi- of herpetofaunal occurrence records. ties were confirmed using Flores-Villela et al. (1995). Due to In this study, we sampled the locality of Cumbre de uncertainty when identifying two salamanders, we collected a Tonalixco (18°47'47.00"N, 97°3'45.00"W; WGS 84; elev. tissue sample (tail fragment) from each specimen for molecu- 1,406 m asl), located in eastern Rafael Delgado, Veracruz (Fig. lar analysis. In the laboratory, we extracted DNA using the Table 1. Amphibians and reptiles from the locality Cumbre de Tonalixco, Municipality of Rafael Delgado, Veracruz, Mexico. Risk catego- ries of the IUCN Red List (CR = Critically Endangered, EN = Endangered, VU = Vulnerable, NT = Near Threatened, LC = Least Concern, DD = Data Deficient, NE = not evaluated) and under Mexican law (NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010) (P = extinction risk, A = threatened, Pr = special protection, NI = not included). For new records for the Municipality of Rafael Delgado, distances to the nearest previously documented record (source) and range extensions according to IUCN Red List polygons (source). IUCN Mexican Taxon Red
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