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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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FEATUREPredation ARTICLES of a Plantation Glassfrog, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: OnHyalinobatrachium the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s colymbiphylum Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical(Anura: Excursion ...... Centrolenidae), byRobert W.an Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES Ornate. The Texas Horned Cat-eyed Lizard in Central and Western Texas Snake, ...... Emily Henry, Leptodeira Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perryornata 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida (Squamata: ...... Brian J. Camposano,Dipsadidae), Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen in M. Donlan, Costa and Michael Granatosky Rica 212 CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... Raby Nuñez Escalante and David Garro Acuña ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “DowSierpe Jones de Index” Osa, ofPuntarenas, Biodiversity Costa ...... Rica ([email protected] [corresponding author], [email protected])...... 225
HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226
he genus LeptodeiraPROFILE comprises 15 currently recognized species occur in Costa Rica (Barrio-Amorós 2019; Leenders Tspecies of cat-eyed. Kraig Adler: snakes A Lifetime (although Promoting Herpetology we follow ...... Barrio- 2019). The Ornate Cat-eyed Michael SnakeL. Treglia (L.234 ornata) is distributed Amorós 2019, Uetz et al. 2020 considered L. ornata and in lowlands and adjacent mountain slopes from Honduras COMMENTARY L. larcorum synonyms of L. septentrionalis). Four of the 15 into northern South America (Savage 2002; Barrio-Amorós . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238
BOOK REVIEW . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243
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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Fig. 1. An Ornate Cat-eyed Snake (Leptodeira ornata) ingesting a Plantation Glassfrog (Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum) in Sierpe de Osa, Costa Rica. Photographs by R. Nuñez.
Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 489 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. NUÑEZ ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):489–490 • DEC 2020
2019). In Costa Rica, where it might be one of the most Literature Cited abundant species of snakes in the country, this nocturnally Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2019. On the taxonomy of snakes in the genus Leptodeira, active, semi-arboreal, rear-fanged snake occurs from sea level with an emphasis on Costa Rican species. Reptiles & Amphibians 26: 1–15. Duellman, W.E. 1958. A monographic study of the colubrid snake genus to 1,850 m asl (Leenders 2019). Ornate Cat-eyed Snakes feed Leptodeira. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 114: 1–152. primarily on frogs and toads, including eggs and larvae, as Greene, H.W. 1997. Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature. University of well as small lizards (Duellman 1958; Greene 1997; Stynoski California Press, Berkeley, California, USA. et al. 2014; Platt et al. 2016) and other snakes (McKelvy et Leenders, T. 2019. Reptiles of Costa Rica. A Field Guide. A Zona Tropical Publication. Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University Press, al. 2013). Multiple snakes are frequently encountered feeding Ithaca, New York, USA. during anuran breeding aggregations (Solórzano 2004; Wells McKelvy, A.D., A. Figureoa, and T.R. Lewis. 2013. First record of ophiophagy 2007). in the widely distributed snake Leptodeira septentrionalis (Kennicott, 1859) (Ophidia, Colubridae). Herpetology Notes 6: 177–178. At 2002 h on 27 July 2016, during a nocturnal hike Ortega-Andrade, H.M., O. Rojas-Soto, and C. Paucar. 2013. Novel data on the in Sierpe de Osa, Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica ecology of Cochranella mache (Anura: Centrolenidae) and the importance of (8°8442587”N, 83°4757422”W), we heard a distress call protected areas for this Critically Endangered glassfrog in the Neotropics. PLoS ONE 8: e81837. near the stream and found an Ornate Cat-eyed Snake 1.4 Platt, S.G., T.R. Rainwater, J.C. Meerman, and S.M. Miller. 2016. Notes on the m above the ground holding a male Plantation Glassfrog diet, foraging behavior, and venom of some snakes in Belize. Mesoamerican (Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum) by its legs (Fig. 1). The Herpetology 3: 162–170. snake swallowed its prey leg-first, with complete ingestion Savage, J. M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna between Two Continents, between Two Seas. The University of Chicago Press, lasting about a minute. This male was attending two egg Chicago, Illinois, USA. masses at different developmental stages, but the snake, likely Solórzano, A. 2004. Serpientes de Costa Rica: Distribución, Taxonomía e Historia disturbed by our presence, left the site paying no attention to Natural. Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, San José, Costa Rica. Stynoski, J.L., G. Shelton, and P. Stynoski. 2014. Maternally derived chemi- the eggs. cal defences are an effective deterrent against some predators of poison To the best of our knowledge, this is only the second frog tadpoles (Oophaga pumilio). Biology Letters 10: 20140187. https://doi. documented predation event by a cat-eyed snake on a glass- org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0187. Uetz, P., P.Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2020. The Reptile Database.
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