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FEATURE ARTICLES A .NewlyChasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis Discovered catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Population of the On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: Cuban Ameiva,A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Ameiva auberi (Sauria:Robert W. Henderson Teiidae),198 from RESEARCHCayo ARTICLES Galindo in the Sabana Archipelago . 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 Florida1 2 1 ...... JavierBrian Torres J. Camposano,, Yasel Kenneth U. Alfonso L. Krysko, Kevin, and M. Enge,Orlando Ellen M. J. Donlan, Torres and Michael Granatosky 212 1Biología de Vertebrados, Departamento de Biología Animal y Humana, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de la Habana, CONSERVATION ALERT CP 10400, La Habana, Cuba ([email protected]) . 2Division of Herpetology,World’s MammalsFlorida Museumin Crisis ...... of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA ([email protected]) 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226 he Cuban Ameiva ( ) occurs in the Bahamas northwestern Matanzas Province, from north- PROFILEAmeiva auberi A. a. gemmea and the Cuban Archipelago, where it is common in open western Villa Clara Province, and an undescribed subspe- T . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 areas (Henderson and Powell 2009). This polytypic species cur- rently comprises fortyCOMMENTARY subspecies (12 Bahamian and 28 Cuban) . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 and some populations have not been assigned to any subspe- cific taxon (Gali andBOOK Garrido REVIEW 1986). The species is widely dis- tributed in Cuba (Schwartz. Threatened 1970, Amphibians Schwartz of the World and edited Henderson by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243 1991, Estrada 2012, Rodríguez et al. 2013) but some areas, including many cays, CONSERVATIONhave not been surveyed.RESEARCH REPORTS:Herein we Summaries report of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 a newly discovered populationNATURAL HISTORY of A. auberi RESEARCH on Cayo REPORTS Galindo: Summaries in of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 the Sabana Archipelago EDITORIAL of northwestern INFORMATION Cuba...... 251 On 9 August 2012, FOCUS we ON collected CONSERVATION five adult: A AmeivaProject You auberi Can Support ...... 252 (all males) during midday on Cayo Galindo (23.254631 N, 80.872544 W, WGS84; Fig. 1). All were active on intensely insolated rocky soil in an area of isolated herbaceous vegeta- tion. We captured lizards with nooses.Front Cover. Voucher Shannon specimensPlummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo (MFP 12574–12578) preserved in 70%estibus ethanolinveliquo velique are deposited rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil in the Museum of Natural History erspienimus,“Felipe Poey” quos accullabo. (Faculty Ilibus of erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum Biology, University of Havana). fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque Color and pattern of animals frommoditia Cayo erere nonsedisGalindo ma sectiatur(Fig. 2) moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as differ in at least some respects fromaccullabo. other described subspecies in northwestern Cuba (Schwartz 1970; Table 1): Ameiva Fig. 1. Map showing the location of Cayo Galindo (arrow), Sabana auberi abducta from the Hicacos Peninsula, A. a. pullata from Archipelago, in northwestern Cuba.

Table 1. Comparisons of color and pattern of the newly discovered population on Cayo Galindo (*) and subspecies of Ameiva auberi from northwestern Cuba (from Schwartz 1970).

Taxon Character A. a. abducta A. a. pullata A. a. gemmea A. auberi* Throat yellow to orange with black median spot yellow to orange peach Dorsolateral lines yes yes yes no Lateral fields usually inconspicuous, black restricted to series prominent dark bands not black black restricted to discrete of vertical bars extensively black continuous vertical bars or blotches often absent anteriorly or absent

Fig. 2. Dorsal, lateral, and ventral view of an individual from the newly discovered population of Cuban Ameiva (Ameiva auberi) on Cayo Galindo, Sabana Archipelago. Photographs by the senior author. cies from Cayos de las Cinco Leguas that apparently is very lateral coloration is gray or greenish, much lighter than the similar to A. a. gemmea (Gali and Garrido 1986). The brown dorsal ground color but similar to that of the middorsal stripe. head dorsally matches the dorsal ground color but the neck The lateral-most ventral scutes are light blue, median ven- is slightly reddish. Rostral and mental scales are red, fading trals are whitish. Dorsal and ventral colors extend onto the to light orange in the posterior labials. The throat is peach, extremities. The underside of the tail is pale bluish, but much contrasting strongly with the whitish chest. The body bears lighter than the blue lateral ventrals. a thin light middorsal stripe that fades posteriorly and disap- Because of the differences in color, we refrain from assign- pears before reaching the hindlimbs. Vaguely defined dark ing the newly discovered population from Cayo Galindo to dorsolateral bands extend between fore- and hindlimbs. The subspecies. 106 TORRES ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 21(3):105–107 • SEP 2014

Acknowledgements Gali, F. and O.H. Garrido. 1986. Two new subspecies of Ameiva auberi (Reptilia: We thank Vicente Berovides for organizing the expedition Teiidae) from Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 22: 165–173. Henderson, R.W. and R. Powell. 2009. Natural History of West Indian Reptiles and and Jesús Pascua for his assistance during fieldwork. We Amphibians. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. appreciate the hospitality and assistance of Cayo Galindo’s Rodríguez Schettino, L., C.A. Mancina, and V. Rivalta González. 2013. Reptiles personnel. The Empresa Nacional para la Protección de la of Cuba: Checklist and geographic distributions. Smithsonian Herpetological Flora y la Fauna provided logistical support. Information Service 144: 1–96. Schwartz, A. 1970. A systematic review of Ameiva auberi Cocteau (Reptilia, Teiidae) in Cuba and the Bahamas. I. The Cuban subspecies. III. Discussion. Annals of Literature Cited Carnegie Museum 41:45–117 + 152–168. Estrada, A.R. 2012. The Cuban Archipelago, pp. 113–125. In: R. Powell and R.W. Schwartz, A. and R.W. Henderson. 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Henderson (eds.), Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Bulletin Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. University of Florida of the Florida Museum of Natural History 51:87–168. Press, Gainesville.

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