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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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FEATURE ARTICLES . AChasing ClutchBullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer ofsayi) in Wisconsin: the False Tree Coral, On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Rhinobothryum. The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis bovallii) and Humans on Grenada: Anderson 1916 A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES(Squamata: Colubridae), . 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 ...... in theBrian Colombian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge,Caribbean Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212
CONSERVATION AnibalALERT J. Barreto-Martínez1 and Julián A. Rojas-Morales2 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 1 . More Than Manu Mammals Adventures-Manu ...... National Park, Calle Plateros 356, Cusco, Perú ([email protected])...... 223 2 Facultad de Ciencias Básicas,. The “Dow Corporación Jones Index” Universitaria of Biodiversity Santa ...... Rosa de Cabal (UNISARC), Campus Universitario “El Jazmín”...... Km 4225 Vía Santa Rosa de Cabal – Chinchiná, Caldas, Colombia ([email protected]) HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226
viparous snakesPROFILE lay eggs under logs and rocks, in On 17 July 2012, we found a nest with three . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 Othe nests of ants, termites, and alligators, or in exposed eggs near Miraflores Village (09°55'27.7926"N, underground chambersCOMMENTARY excavated by other animals (e.g., 75°05'37.3344"W; elev. 167 m asl), Municipality of San Velásquez-Múnera et. Theal. Turtles2008; Have Baer Been Watchinget al. 2009;Me ...... Nagy et al. Juan de Nepomuceno, Department Eric Gangloff 238 of Bolívar, Colombia 2017). However, suchBOOK basic REVIEW aspects of reproductive biology (Fig. 1). The eggs were 4 m from the edge of a small stream are unknown for many. Threatened of the Amphibians 886 Neotropical of the World edited species by S.N. Stuart, of M. Hoffmann,inside a J.S. tropical Chanson, dryN.A. Cox,forest fragment (sensu Holdridge 1967). snakes (Guedes et al. 2017).R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... One of the eggs had already Robert hatched. Powell 243 One of the remaining
The False Tree CoralCONSERVATION (Rhinobothryum RESEARCH bovallii REPORTS:) has Summaries a dis- of Publishedeggs Conservation (56 x 22 Research mm) Reports was ...... collected and 245 placed in a plastic box junct distribution across NATURAL the lowland HISTORY humid RESEARCH and REPORTS pre-montane: Summaries of Publishedwith vermiculite Reports on Natural substrate, History ...... humidity around247 50%, and a tem- NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 forests from Honduras EDITORIAL to Ecuador INFORMATION (Savage ...... 2002; Solórzano perature of 30 °C. Ten days...... later (27 251 July 2012), a hatchling 2004; Rojas-Morales FOCUS 2012; ON CONSERVATIONNatera-Numaw: A Projectet al. You 2015; Can Support ...... with a prominent yolk and coloration 252 like that of adults (Fig. Pazmiño-Otamendi 2017). Nests of this oviparous snake have 2) emerged from the egg. It measured 200 mm snout-vent been described only in captivity (Solórzano 2004; Hammack length, 37 mm tail length, and weighed 18 g. We released the and Brinker 2008). Ecomorphologically, R. bovallii is an arbo- hatchling at the original site of collection. real species (following the definition Frontof Harrington Cover. Shannon et Plummer. al. 2018) ThisBack Cover. record, Michael in Kern addition to other recent observations Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo because it has an elongated and compressedestibus inveliquo body; velique rerchilit also is (seeestibus Table inveliquo A1 velique in Martínez-Fonseca rerchil et al. 2019), confirms the nocturnal, oviparous, and feeds on reptiles.erspienimus, As quos many accullabo. as six Ilibus eggs erspienimus,presence quos of accullabo.R. bovallii Ilibus in the dry forests of the Colombian aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum laid in January, February, and June fugiatistake maionsequatmore than eumque 120 days Caribbean,fugiatis maionsequat indicating eumque that it is not restricted to lowland to hatch (Solórzano 2004; Hammackmoditia and erere Brinker nonsedis 2008). ma sectiatur We humidmoditia erere and nonsedis pre-montane ma sectia- forests. Also, this record, the ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as herein present, to the best of our knowledge,accullabo. the first record of first for the Department of Bolívar, fills a gap between the a nest in the wild in the South American Caribbean. northeastern Colombian locality (Arimaca, Santa Marta,
Fig. 1. Habitat of the False Tree Coral (Rhinobothryum bovalli) in the Municipality of San Juan Nepomuceno, Department of Bolívar, Colombia. Note the extended deforestation in the area. Photograph by Aníbal Barreto-Martínez.
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Fig. 2. Hatching sequence of a newborn False Tree Coral (Rhinobothryum bovallii) in captivity. Photographs by Aníbal Barreto-Martínez.
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