Hemidactylus Frenatus)

HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 27(3):479–484189 • DEC 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLESThe Asian House Gecko . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: (HemidactylusOn the Road to Understanding the Ecology and frenatusConservation of the Midwest’s) Giant Established Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 in . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: NaturalA Hypothetical Excursion Vegetation ............................................................................................................................ of Oaxaca,Robert MexicoW. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central andJ. Western Lindley Texas McKay .......................1 and Emily Olga Henry, Milenkaya Jason Brewer,2 Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 .............................................15 Avondale Road,Brian J.Asheville, Camposano, North Kenneth Carolina L. Krysko, 28803, Kevin USAM. Enge, ([email protected]) Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 2Biology Department, Warren Wilson College, Swannanoa, North Carolina 28778, USA CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 he Asian House. The “DowGecko Jones Index”(Hemidactylus of Biodiversity ...............................................................................................................................frenatus) is the cessful long-distance dispersal............ (Norval 225 et al. 2012). Other Tmost widelyHUSBANDRY introduced gecko in the world (Weterings traits that contribute to its success in establishing new colo- and Vetter 2018).. Captive While Care ofnative the Central to Netted tropical Dragon Asia....................................................................................................... and the nies include the ability of Shannon females Plummer to store226 viable sperm for as Indian Subcontinent (Bansal and Karanth 2010), the current long as 54 weeks (Yamamoto and Ota 2006), tolerance of the PROFILE extent of its distribution also includes the Neotropics between eggs to saltwater, year-round reproduction in tropical zones . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 Mexico and Ecuador, coastal East Africa, Madagascar, and (Ramírez-Bautista et al. 2006; McKay and Phillips 2012), northern and easternCOMMENTARY Australia (Fig. 1). This species is also and females laying as many as three clutches of 1–2 eggs per a highly successful. Thecolonizer Turtles Have of Been islands Watching and Me ........................................................................................................................is established on year (Yamamoto and Ota 2006). Eric Gangloff 238 many islands inBOOK the Pacific, REVIEW Indian, and Atlantic Oceans. The Establishment of H. frenatus in areas outside Asia is of range is still expanding. Threatened and Amphibians new distributional of the World edited recordsby S.N. Stuart, are M. Hoffmann,conservation J.S. Chanson, concern. N.A. Cox, In much of its non-native range, H. published every year.R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ..............................................................................................................frenatus is the only lizard occupying Robert Powell buildings243 and thus fill- Outside Asia, H. frenatus is still largely confined to arti- ing a previously unoccupied niche. However, in places where CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 ficial environments NATURAL associated HISTORY with RESEARCH human settlement, REPORTS: Summaries espe- of Publishedother Reportsgeckos on Natural occupy History artificial ................................. structures, 247 H. frenatus may cially buildings, butNEWBRIEFS also vehicles ............................................................................................................................... and piles of hard materi- outcompete and....................................................... displace prior residents, 248 as has been seen als or rubbish (McKay EDITORIAL et al. INFORMATION 2009; Norval ............................................................................................................................... et al. 2012). The with Lepidodactylus lugubris...................... in Hawai’i 251 (Case et al. 1994), FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 willingness of the species to rapidly take up residence in a Phyllodactylus palmeus on Utila in the Honduran Bay Islands newly arrived refuge has been an important factor in its suc- (Powell 2003), and H. turcicus in northern Mexico (Farr et al. Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil 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. Global distribution records of the Asian House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus). Red dots mark records derived from GBIF (2019). Predicted range (pink) was redrawn from Rödder et al. (2008) and Weterings and Vetter (2018). Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 479 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. MCKAY AND MILENKAYA REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):479–484 • DEC 2020 Fig. 2. Records of the Asian House Gecko (Hemidactylus frenatus) from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Orange dots mark locations from GBIF (2019), black dots indicate the authors’ opportunistic records from artificial structures, and green stars denote authors’ records from natural vegetation communities. Terrestrial elevational zones are mapped in white (sea level–500 m asl), pale gray (501–1,000 m asl), gray (1,001–2,000 m asl), dark gray (2,001–3,000 m asl), and very dark gray (above 3,001 m asl). 2009). Where H. frenatus has invaded natural habitats, it also in monsoon forests, are far from any point of regular human can exert a negative impact on native geckos. For example, contact. Cogger et al. (2005) mentioned a record of H. fre- H. frenatus was responsible for the decline of native species natus from “a natural area” on Norfolk Island, but provided of Nactus in the Mascarene Islands (Cole et al. 2005) and no further details. The species is also a common resident of has been implicated in declines of Phelsuma guimbeaui and low coastal shrubs on West Island of Ashmore Reef, Western P. ornata on Mauritius (McKeown 1983; Cole and Harris Australia (Somaweera et al. 2020). In the Mariana Islands, 2011). Additionally, H. frenatus may serve as a vector of para- H. frenatus has been recorded from coconut palms lining a sites (Barnett et al. 2018; Norval et al. 2018), and its impact beach on the island of Tinian (Wiles et al. 1989) and from on native biodiversity via predation or other interspecific native tropical forest on the island of Aguiguan (Esselstyn et interactions is largely unknown. The potential for harmful al. 2002). Werner (1990) described H. frenatus as the most impact, both on other geckos and more broadly on ecosys- conspicuous reptile in natural habitats on Oahu, Hawai’i. In tems, is higher where H. frenatus becomes established in natu- Mexico, Hardy and McDiarmid (1969) listed H. frenatus from ral vegetation communities. tropical thorn forest in the vicinity of Los Mochis, Sinaloa. In Despite its enormous range, few examples of H. frenatus Tamaulipas, Farr et al. (2009) recorded the species from an occupying natural vegetation exist outside Asia. The majority area of tropical deciduous and gallery forests at Poza Madre of these are from northern Australia, where H. frenatus is estab- (11 km SE of Ocampo), where individuals were found inside lished in eucalyptus woodland, riparian vegetation communi- logs and in abandoned palapas, and from beneath the bark of a ties, mangrove, coastal forests dominated by Casuarina spp., dead tree in a park, about 0.5 km from any artificial structure, and monsoon forests in the Northern Territory (Kikkawa and in the city of Tampico. In Jalisco, Cruz-Sáenz et al. (2013) Monteith 1980; Woinarski et al. 1999; Keim 2002; McKay et recorded these geckos from Estero El Salado, a small nature al. 2009) and in coastal Casuarina woodland and vine scrub in reserve within the urban bounds of Puerto Vallarta, where it northern Queensland (Clarke 2006). Many of these locations inhabits semi-deciduous forest and thorn forest. Herein we

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