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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATUREConfirmation ARTICLES and Range Extension . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the Roadof to Understanding the the EcologyIsthmian and Conservation of the Midwest’s Dwarf Giant Serpent ...... Boa, Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: UngaliophisA Hypothetical Excursion ...... continentalis (MüllerRobert W. 1880), Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . Thefrom Texas Horned Lizard Western in Central and Western Texas ...... Intibucá, Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Honduras Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 José Mario Solís1,4,5, Leonel Marineros2, Carlos Manuel O’Reilly3,4, and Claudia Mossi4,6 CONSERVATION ALERT 1Facultad de Ciencias, Escuela de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras, Departamento de Francisco Morazán, Tegucigalpa, Honduras . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... ([email protected]) ...... 220 . 2InvestigadorMore Than Mammals Asociado ...... al Instituto de Investigación de la Biodiversidad de Honduras (INCEBIO),...... Tegucigalpa, Honduras 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225 3Calle la Fuente, Edificio Landa Blanco No. 1417 Apto. 11, Tegucigalpa, Honduras 4Grupo de Investigación de Reptiles y Anfibios de Honduras (GIRAH), Tegucigalpa, Honduras HUSBANDRY 5Red Mesoamericana y del Caribe para la Conservación de Anfibios y Reptiles (MesoHERP) . Captive Care of the Central Netted6Naturalista Dragon - ...... Barrio Las Delicias, La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras Shannon Plummer 226 PROFILE . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234

he family CharinaidaeCOMMENTARY Gray 1849 comprises seven spe- (Premontane Wet Forest and Premontane Moist Forest) in Tcies of American. The Turtlessnakes Have with Been Watching a collective Me ...... distribution the Pacific coastal plain and Eric highlands Gangloff 238 of southern Mexico that extends fromBOOK southwestern REVIEW Canada, the western United (southeastern Chiapas), the Pacific coastal plain of south- States, along the Gulf. Threatened of California Amphibians in of thenorthwestern World edited by S.N.Mexico, Stuart, M. Hoffmann,western J.S. Guatemala, Chanson, N.A. southcentral Cox, Honduras, and northcentral the Sierra de Juárez andR. Berridge, near TotontepecP. Ramani, and B.E. in Young the ...... Sierra Mixe, Nicaragua at elevations of 100–2,300 Robert Powell 243m asl) (Köhler 2008; Oaxaca, in southern Mexico, and through Central America Townsend and Wilson 2010; McCranie 2011; Reynolds and south into northwestern CONSERVATION Colombia RESEARCH in REPORTS:South America Summaries of PublishedHenderson Conservation 2018). Research UsingReports ...... IUCN Red List 245 criteria (IUCN SSC  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 (Reynolds and Henderson,NEWBRIEFS 2018)...... The genus Ungaliophis 2012), the Honduran...... Reptile Specialist 248 Group assessed this Müller 1880 contains EDITORIAL two species,INFORMATION U. continentalis ...... Müller species as Data Deficient (DD)...... during 251 a workshop in 2019.  1880 and U. panamensisFOCUS ON Schmidt CONSERVATION 1933 (Pyron: A Project et Youal. Can2014; Support ...... Using the environmental vulnerability 252 measure, this species McCranie 2018; Reynolds and Henderson 2018). was assigned an EVS of 12, which is in the medium vulner- The Isthmian Dwarf Boa (Ungaliophis continentalis) is ability category (Townsend and Wilson 2010; McCranie a small arboreal snake with a relatively short prehensile tail 2011; Reynolds and Henderson 2018). (Villa and Wilson 1990; Köhler 2008;Front Cover.McCranie Shannon 2011). Plummer. This TheBack Cover.distribution Michael Kern of Ungaliophis continentalis in Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo nuclear Mesoamerican species occupiesestibus inveliquo forest velique formations rerchil Hondurasestibus inveliquo is highlyvelique rerchil disjunct, as it has been recorded only erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo.

Fig. 1. Adult (left) and juvenile (right) Isthmian Dwarf Boas (Ungaliophis continentalis) from Las Delicias, La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras. Photographs by Claudia Mossi.

Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 522 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. SOLÍS ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):522–524 • DEC 2020 from four specimens in two departments (Atlántida and Francisco Morazán). Herein, we document the fifth and sixth (Fig. 1) verified records from Honduras and a third local- ity (Fig. 2) for this species. Claudia Mossi encountered an adult (Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center, University of Texas at Arlington, UTADC-9618; Fig. 1) at 2100 h on 30 August 2019 in a yard some 50 m from a house surrounded by Pine-Oak Forest at Barrio Las Delicias, Municipalidad de La Esperanza, Departamento de Intibucá, Honduras (14°19'06.57"N, 88°11'11.22"W; datum WGS 84; elev. 1,709 m) (Fig. 3). The second individual, a juvenile

Fig. 4. An adult Isthmian Dwarf Boa (Ungaliophis continentalis) found in 2016 in Las Delicias, La Esperanza, Intibucá, Honduras. Photograph by Claudia Mossi.

(UTADC-9619; Fig. 1), was observed at the same locality at 2200 h on 17 May 2020. Another adult (UTADC-9620; Fig. 4) had been observed in 2016 (no exact date) in the same area. McCranie, (2011) noted that residents of Chupocay, Intibucá, in the Municipality of La Esperanza, had collected several adults and sold them to an animal dealer, and that the specimens deposited in the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) col- lection might have come from this locality. McCranie (2011) did not consider these specimens as valid records, and did not include them in his distribution map. Given the information we present above, however, we verify the natural occurrence of this species in this area. Nonetheless, based on the level Fig. 2. Map of Honduras showing recorded localities for the Isthmian Dwarf Boa (Ungaliophis continentalis). Previous records are marked by dots of anthropogenic activity in this region, we believe that this and the new locality by a triangle. population, like those throughout the species’ distribution, is in decline.

Acknowledgements We thank Louis Porras for providing comments on an ear- lier draft of this manuscript, Gregory Gabriel Pandelis for cataloguing the photographic vouchers into the University of Texas at Arlington digital collection and providing the cor- responding voucher numbers, and Claudia Mossi (co-author) and her husband for providing information on this species and others on the Facebook page of the Grupo de Investigación de Reptiles y Anfibios de Honduras (GIRAH) and for their efforts to protect the herpetofauna where they live.

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