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And African Rainbow Lizard, Agama WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS IRCF REPTILES • VOL15, & NAMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 20(3):149–151 • SEP 2013 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 ofRecords Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis ) andFor Humans on Grenada:The Northern Curlytail A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198 Lizard,RESEARCH ARTICLESLeiocephalus carinatus Gray 1827 . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 (Leiocephalidae),. The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida and African Rainbow Lizard, .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 AgamaCONSERVATION agama ALERT complex (Agamidae), in Florida . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 Laurence. MoreL. Connor Than Mammals1, Kenneth ...................................................................................................................................................................... L. Krysko2, Timothy Bourdreau3, Jamie S. Roselius4, and Richard 223 A. Coon5 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 1Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 601 West Woodward Avenue, Eustis, Florida 32726, USA ([email protected]) HUSBANDRY2Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA ([email protected]) . Captive Care of32791 the Central Oyster Netted Creek Dragon Drive, ....................................................................................................... Grove City, Florida 34224, USA ([email protected]) Shannon Plummer 226 4621 Kentia Road, Casselberry, Florida 32707, USA ([email protected]) PROFILE 54718 Dovehill Dr, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33418, USA ([email protected]) . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 he Northern CurlytailCOMMENTARY Lizard, Leiocephalus carinatus Gray . T1827, is indigenousThe Turtles to the Have Bahamas, Been Watching MeCuba, ........................................................................................................................ and other Eric Gangloff 238 northern CaribbeanBOOK islands REVIEW (Schwartz 1959a, b; Schwartz and Thomas 1975; Schwartz. Threatened and Henderson Amphibians of the 1991). World edited In the by S.N. 1940s, Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243 this species was intentionally introduced in Palm Beach County, Florida, USA, CONSERVATION to control RESEARCHinsect pests REPORTS: in sugar Summaries cane of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 fields, and it was later NATURAL introduced HISTORY to many RESEARCH other REPORTS areas, :which Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 likely resulted in establishedEDITORIAL INFORMATIONpopulations .....................................................................................................................................................in all directions 251 (King 1960, Weigl etFOCUS al. 1969, ON CONSERVATION Crowder 1974).: A Project The You African Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 Rainbow Lizard (Agama agama complex) is indigenous to a broad area of Africa from Mauritania east to Sudan and south to Angola and Tanzania (Spawls et al. 2002). African Rainbow Lizards initially were introducedFront Cover. inShannon Miami Plummer. in the Fig. 2.Back In Cover. situ photograph Michael Kern of a Northern Curlytail Lizard, Leiocephalus Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo 1970s; however, this population was extirpated during exten- carinatus (UF-Herpetology 170992) in Grove City, Charlotte County, estibus inveliquo velique rerchil Florida,estibus inveliquo on 25 July velique 2013. rerchil Photograph by Timothy Bourdreau. sive demolition and construction erspienimus,in the area quos (Wilsonaccullabo. Ilibus and erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum Porras 1983). Subsequent illegal introductionsfugiatis maionsequat haveeumque led to fugiatis maionsequat eumque established populations in Monroe,moditia Miami-Dade, erere nonsedis Charlotte,ma sectiatur etmoditia al. 2011).erere nonsedis Although ma sectia- this species in Florida was previously ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as Martin, St. Lucie, Lee, Seminole, andaccullabo. Duval counties (Krysko identified as A. a. africana using morphology and color pat- tern (Enge et al. 2004), DNA analyses will be necessary to determine the genetic identity of these introduced popula- tions following the recent taxonomic revision proposed by Mediannikov et al. (2012), in which they elevated A. a. afri- cana to full-species status. Herein, we document new county records and possible range expansions for these species. On 24 July 2013 at 1509 h, TB photographed a Leiocephalus carinatus (photographic voucher UF-Herpetology 170991; Fig. 1) on a concrete driveway at 2791 Oyster Creek Drive, Grove City, Charlotte County, Florida (26.91641°N, 82.32152°W, Datum WGS84, 3 m elevation). On 25 July 2013 at 1208 h, TB photographed a second L. carinatus Fig. 1. In situ photograph of a Northern Curlytail Lizard, Leiocephalus carinatus (UF-Herpetology 170991) in Grove City, Charlotte County, (photographic voucher UF-Herpetology 170992; Fig. 2) at Florida, on 24 July 2013. Photograph by Timothy Bourdreau. the same location. These are the first vouchered records for Copyright © 2013. Lawrence L. Conner. All rights reserved. 149 INTRODUCED SPECIES IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 20(3):149–151 • SEP 2013 Charlotte County and are 46.9 km northwest of the closest Fig. 4. In situ photograph of a male known voucher (UF-Herpetology 153370) south of Charlotte African Rainbow Lizard, Agama agama africana (UF-Herpetology Harbor in Lee County (Krysko et al. 2011). On 26 July 2013 170960) in Palm Beach Gardens, at 957 h, JSR photographed a L. carinatus (photographic Palm Beach County, Florida, on voucher UF-Herpetology 170737; Fig. 3) at 621 Kentia 19 June 2013. Photograph by Road, Casselberry, Seminole County, Florida (28.65509°N, Richard A. Coon. 81.32216°W, 22 m elevation). This is the first vouchered record from Seminole County and is 29.6 km northeast of the closest known voucher (UF-Herpetology 140495) in Orange County (Krysko et al. 2011). On 19 June 2013, RAC photographed an adult male of the Agama agama complex (photographic voucher UF-Herpetology 170960; Fig. 4) at 4718 Dovehill Drive, Palm Beach Gardens, Palm Beach County, Florida (26.86917°N, 80.10678°W, 4 m elevation). This is the first vouchered record for Palm Beach County and is 21.7 km south of the closest known voucher (UF-Herpetology no reports from areas between the Orange and Seminole 165583) in Martin County (Krysko et al. 2011). Previously, county records. The Grove City location is separated from the LLC received two reports of African Rainbow Lizards in Palm closest known location by close to 50 km and a major estu- Beach County. The first was on 22 August 2011 in Lake ary. Although other sources cannot be ruled out, these records Worth (26.61772°N, 80.10938°W), 27.9 km south of the might be detections of new established populations. Dovehill Drive location. The second was on 31 May 2013 at Because of the striking coloration of adult male African the Pratt & Whitney facility on State Road 710 (26.90483°N, Rainbow Lizards, this species is less likely to escape detec- 80.30599°W), 20.2 km west of the Dovehill Drive location. tion. The FWC and FLMNH receive numerous reports of Neither report was documented or confirmed; however, in these lizards from areas where they are already known to be both cases the reporters provided extremely accurate descrip- established. The area between the Dovehill Drive and Pratt tions of adult male African Rainbow Lizards in typical vivid & Whitney locations and the Martin County population is breeding coloration. relatively lightly developed by southern Florida standards and Whether these new county records represent new intro- has large tracts of conservation lands. This could reduce the ductions, initial discoveries of existing populations, or range likelihood
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