WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 19(2):130–131189 • JUNE 2012

IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCED SPECIES FEATURE ARTICLES . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 New County. The Shared History ofRecord Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis )For and Humans on TheGrenada: Veiled Chameleon, A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198

ChamaeleoRESEARCH calyptratusARTICLES Duméril and Bibron 1851 . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 (Sauria:. The Knight Anole (Anolis equestrisChamaeleonidae),) in Florida in Florida ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1 2 CONSERVATION ALERTChristopher R. Gillette and Kenneth L. Krysko 1Florida International University,. World’s Department Mammals inof Crisis Environmental ...... Studies, Modesto Maidique Campus, 11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, Florida 220 33199, USA ([email protected]) 2Florida. More MuseumThan Mammals of Natural ...... History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA ([email protected]) 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY Photograph by the senior author. . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226

he Veiled ChameleonPROFILE (Chamaeleo calyptratus Duméril Schmidt 2001). Chamaeleo calyptratus is common in the pet Tand Bibron 1851). Kraig is a Adler: diurnal A Lifetime and Promoting arboreal Herpetology lizard ...... species trade, and has been intentionally Michael L. Treglia and 234 illegally introduced to indigenous to the Asir Province in southwestern Saudi Arabia the United States in Hawaii (Kraus and Duvall 2004, Kraus COMMENTARY to Aden in Yemen, .whereThe Turtles it Havelives Been on Watching high, Me dry ...... plateaus at 2009) and Florida (Krysko Ericet Gangloffal. 2004). 238 In Florida, this spe- elevations to 2,800 m and in foothills, forests, low-elevation cies is known to have been independently introduced to at maize fields, and inlandBOOK river REVIEW valleys (Fritz and Schütte 1987, least four sites, including Alachua, Collier, Hendry, and Lee . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, Meerman and BoomsmaR. Berridge,1987, P. Ramani,Zari 1993,and B.E. Young Showler ...... 1995, counties (Enge 2008; Krysko Robert et Powell al. 2004, 243 2011b). Herein, we

 CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252

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In situ photograph of adult Veiled Chameleon (Chamaeleo calyptratus) sleeping on a Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina) in Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Florida, on 10 April 2012.

Copyright © 2012. Christopher R. Gillette. All rights reserved. 130 INTRODUCED SPECIES IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 19(2):130–131 • JUNE 2012 document a new introduction of this species in Miami-Dade and an anonymous reviewer provided helpful comments on County, Florida. this paper. On 10 April 2012 at 2145 h, CRG found an adult male Chamaeleo calyptratus (photographic voucher UF Literature Cited 166817). The identity of the lizard was confirmed by Max A. Enge, K.M. 2008. Geographic distribution: Chamaeleo calyptratus (Veiled Nickerson, Christopher V. Anderson, and Robert H. Robins. Chameleon). Herpetological Review 39:367. Fritz, J.P. and F. Schütte. 1987. Zur Biologie jemenitischer Chamaeleo calyptratus The chameleon was sleeping in a hedge of Weeping Fig (Ficus Duméril & Duméril, 1851 mit einigen Anmerkungen zum systematischen benjamina) about 1.2 m above the ground on SW 212th Status (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae). Salamandra 23:17–25. Avenue, 0.06 km north of SW 352nd Street, Homestead, Kraus F. 2009. Alien Reptiles and Amphibians: A Scientific Compendium and Analysis. Miami-Dade County, Florida (25.440825°N, 80.533807°W, Springer, New York. Kraus, F. and F. Duvall. 2004. New records of alien reptiles and amphibians in Datum WGS84, 2 m elevation). This individual likely was Hawaii. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers (79):62–64. released or had escaped from an enclosure at a nearby reptile Krysko, K.L., J.P. Burgess, M.R. Rochford, C.R. Gillette, D. Cueva, K.M. Enge, L.A. facility because (1) this species does not have known estab- Somma, J.L. Stabile, D.C. Smith, J.A. Wasilewski, G.N. Kieckhefer III, M.C. Granatosky, and S.V. Nielsen. 2011a. Verified non-indigenous amphibians and lished populations in areas leading to the site; (2) the closest reptiles in Florida from 1863 through 2010: Outlining the invasion process and known specimen locality is ca. 139 km northeast in Golden identifying invasion pathways and stages. Zootaxa (3028):1–64. Gate, Collier County (photographic voucher UF 140472; Krysko, K.L., K.M. Enge, and F.W. King. 2004. The Veiled Chameleon, Chamaeleo calyptratus: A new exotic species in Florida. Florida Scientist 67:249–253. Krysko et al. 2011b); and (3) the pet trade is the most com- Krysko, K.L., K.M. Enge, and P.E. Moler. 2011b. Atlas of Amphibians and Reptiles mon introduction pathway for introduced herpetofauna in in Florida. Final Report, Project Agreement 08013, Florida Fish and Wildlife Florida (Krysko et al. 2011a). Because applicable laws are dif- Conservation Commission, Tallahassee. ficult to enforce and both residents and legal authorities often Meerman, J. and T. Boomsma. 1987. Beobachtungen an Chamaeleo calyptratus calyptratus Duméril & Duméril, 1851 in der Arabischen Republik Jemen are unconcerned, the ever-increasing trend of introduced her- (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae). Salamandra 23:10–16. petofauna in Florida continues. Schmidt, W. 2001. Chamaeleo calyptratus, the Yemen Chameleon. Matthias Schmidt Publications Natur und Tier-Verlag, Berlin. Showler, D. 1995. Reptile observations in Yemen, March–May 1993. British Acknowledgments Herpetological Society Bulletin (53):13–23. Walter S. Judd, Marc S. Frank, and Kent D. Perkins con- Zari, T.A. 1993. Effects of body mass and temperature on standard metabolic rate of the firmed the identity of the plant. Gad Perry, Robert Powell, Desert Chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus. Journal of Arid Environments 24:75–80.

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