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Bat Predation by a Cuban Treefrog WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS IRCF REPTILES • VOL15, & N OAMPHIBIANS 4 • DEC 2008 189 • 23(2):95–98 • AUG 2016 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Bat. Chasing Bullsnakes Predation (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: by a Cuban Treefrog On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: (OsteopilusA Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................ septentrionalis, Hylidae)Robert W. Henderson 198 andRESEARCH a ARTICLES Summary of Bat Predation by . 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 West ............................................. IndianBrian J. Camposano,Amphibians Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M.and Donlan, and MichaelReptiles Granatosky 212 CONSERVATIONCarlos A. Mancina ALERT1, Leticia Mas Castellanos2, and Tomás M. Rodríguez-Cabrera3 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . 1MoreDivisión Than deMammals Zoología, ...................................................................................................................................................................... Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, La Habana, CP 11900, Cuba ([email protected]) 223 . The “Dow2Centro Jones Index”de Estudios of Biodiversity y Servicios ........................................................................................................................................... Ambientales de Villa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba ([email protected]) 225 3Jardín Botánico de Cienfuegos, Cienfuegos, CP 59290, Cuba ([email protected]) HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 PROFILE he West Indian treefrog. Kraig Adler: genus A Lifetime Osteopilus Promoting Herpetology comprises ................................................................................................ eight Pallas’s Mastiff Bats Michael (Fig. L. Treglia3), like 234 most molossids, have Tspecies native to some Bahamian islands, Cuba, Jamaica, narrow wings and a high wing load (Norberg and Rayner COMMENTARY and Hispaniola (Meshaka 2001; Henderson and Powell 1987), limiting their capacity to lift off from the ground, . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 2009). These frogs are opportunistic predators, consum- ing a high diversityBOOK of invertebrates REVIEW and smaller vertebrates . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, (Henderson and Powell 2009;R. Berridge, Kaiser P. Ramani, et andal. B.E. 2016). Young ..............................................................................................................The Cuban Robert Powell 243 Treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis Duméril and Bibron 1841; Fig. 1) is native to CONSERVATIONthe Bahamas, RESEARCHthe Cuban REPORTS: Archipelago, Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 and the Cayman Islands,NEWBRIEFS but ......................................................................................................................................................................................has been widely introduced 248 to several Lesser Antillean EDITORIAL islands, INFORMATION Puerto Rico, ..................................................................................................................................................... Hawaii, and 251 mainland Florida (Henderson FOCUS ON CONSERVATION and Breuil 2012;: A Project Frost You 2015), Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 where it has become an invasive species (Meshaka 2001). In Cuba, this species is widely distributed and occupies a wide range of habitats (Díaz and Cádiz 2008; Rivalta et al. 2014). Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Its diet comprises a variety of invertebrates,Totat et velleseque including audant moinsects, Totat et velleseque audant mo arachnids, crustaceans, and gastropods,estibus inveliquobut it veliquealso is rerchil known estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus to consume conspecifics, other speciesaut dolor of apicto frogs, invere and pe dolum lizards aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum (Meshaka 1996; Henderson and Powellfugiatis maionsequat2009; Armas eumque 2014; fugiatis maionsequat eumque Kaiser et al. 2016). moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as Compared to non-volant mammalsaccullabo. of similar size, bats face few predators (Altringham 1996; Lima and O’Keefe 2013). Furthermore, predation on bats by amphibians is rare and infrequently documented in the literature (Mikula 2015). Herein, we report an event of bat predation by a Cuban Treefrog. In January 2016, we observed a large adult female Cuban Treefrog (nearly 130 mm SVL) eating a bat at dusk in a house at “Reparto Universitario” (22°26'00.05"N, -79°54'28.00"W; reference datum: WGS84), Santa Clara, Villa Clara Province, in central Cuba. The frog was on a concrete floor swallow- ing a bat headfirst (Fig. 2A); induced regurgitation (Fig. 2B) revealed an adult male Pallas’s Mastiff Bat (Molossus molossus, Molossidae; 12 g body mass). The lack of rigor mortis suggested Fig. 1. Adult female Cuban Treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis). that the bat probably was alive when captured by the frog. Photograph © C.A. Mancina. Copyright © 2016. Carlos A. Mancina. All rights reserved. 95 MANCINA ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 23(2):95–98 • AUG 2016 which increases their vulnerability to predation by frogs occur throughout Cuba and frequently use buildings as for- (or other opportunistic predators such as cats) when on the aging sites and diurnal retreats (Silva 1979; Díaz and Cádiz ground (or floor). Both O. septentrionalis and M. molossus 2008). The fact that both are most frequently encountered Fig. 2. Adult female Cuban Treefrog (Osteopilus septentrionalis; Hylidae) eating a Pallas’s Mastiff Bat (Molossus Molossus; Molossidae). Photographs © Leticia Mas Castellanos. Table 1. Amphibians and reptiles reported as bat predators in the West Indies. References marked with an asterisk (*) were not examined but were cited in Henderson and Powell (2009). Predator Bat species Island Sources AMPHIBIA: ANURA Leptodactylus fallax (Leptodactylidae) Unidentified Dominica Lescure (1979)* Lithobates catesbeianus (Ranidae) Unidentified (bones in stomach) Cuba Vogel (1965)* Osteopilus septentrionalis (Hylidae) Eptesicus fuscus Cuba Silva (1979) Molossus molossus Cuba This paper REPTILIA: SQUAMATA Gekko gekko (Gekkonidae) Molossus molossus, Tadarida brasiliensis Martinique Breuil (2009)* Boa orophias (Boidae) Brachyphylla cavernarum Saint Lucia Arendt and Anthony (1986) Boa nebulosa (Boidae) Brachyphylla cavernarum Dominica Angin (2014) Chilabothrus angulifer (Boidae) Brachyphylla nana, Mormoops blainvillei, Cuba Hardy (1957b), Sheplan and Phyllonycteris poeyi, Erophylla sezekorni, Schwartz (1974) Mancina (2011), unidentified species Rodríguez-Cabrera et al. (2015) Chilabothrus inornatus (Boidae) Brachyphylla cavernarum, Erophylla Puerto Rico Rodríguez and Reagan (1984), sezekorni, Monophyllus redmani, Rodríguez-Durán (1996), Wiley Pteronotus quadridens, Mormoops (2003), Puente-Rolón and Bird- blainvillei Picó (2004), Puente-Rolón (2012) Chilabothrus subflavus (Boidae) Artibeus jamaicensis, unidentified Jamaica Prior and Gibson (1997), Koenig species and Schwartz (2003), Dávalos and Eriksson (2004) Cubophis cantherigerus (Dipsadidae) Phyllonycteris poeyi, unidentified Cuba Hardy (1957a), Henderson and species Sajdak (1996) Bothrops lanceolatus (Viperidae) Unidentified Martinique Pinchon (1967)* 96 MANCINA ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 23(2):95–98 • AUG 2016 Fig. 3. Flying Pallas’s Mastiff Bats (Molossus molossus; left) and a cluster of individuals roosting in a building crevice (right). Photographs © C.A. Mancina. in urban environments suggests that similar events may be Literature Cited relatively frequent although rarely observed and documented. Angin, B. 2014. Bat predation by the Dominica Boa (Boa nebulosa). Caribbean In a recent review paper, Mikula (2015) compiled 37 Herpetology 51: 1–2. Altringham, J.D. 1996. Bats: Biology and Behaviour. Oxford University Press, cases of bat predation by amphibians, listing 14 frog species Oxford, UK. preying on bats and 16 bat species as prey. Mikula (2015) Arendt, W.J. and D. Anthony. 1986. Bat predation by the St. Lucia Boa (Boa con- did not include any frogs in the genus Osteopilus, although strictor orophias).
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