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FirstFEATURE Record ARTICLES of the Collared Pygmy . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the Road (to TrimetoponUnderstanding the Ecology and Conservation pliolepis of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent) ...... from Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: Athe Hypothetical Peninsula Excursion ...... de Osa, CostaRobert RicaW. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES Raby Nuñez. The Texas Escalante Horned Lizard1, Luis in CentralAcuña and Obando Western Texas2, Yeudi ...... Salgera Emily García Henry,3 ,Jason Henry Brewer, Sandi Krista Mougey,Amador and 4Gad, and Perry Robin 204 Gloor5 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 ...... Sierpe de Osa,Brian Puntarenas, J. Camposano, Costa Kenneth Rica L. ([email protected] Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen [corresponding M. Donlan, and author]) Michael Granatosky 212 2Bahía Drake, Puntarenas, Costa Rica ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT3Bahía Drake, Puntarenas, Costa Rica ([email protected]) 4 . World’s Mammals in Crisis San ...... Vito de Coto Brus, Puntarenas, Costa Rica ([email protected]) ...... 220 5 . More Than Mammals ...... Territet, Vaud, Switzerland ([email protected]) ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY he Trimetopon. Captive Care ofis the endemic Central Netted to Dragon lower ...... Central specimens (S. Lotzkat, pers. Shannon comm. Plummer in226 Uetz et al. 2020). In TAmerica (SavagePROFILE 2002; Köhler 2008). With the recent Costa Rica, it is known from isolated locations in the Atlantic discovery of Barbour’s. Kraig Pygmy Adler: A Lifetime Snake Promoting (Trimetopon Herpetology barbouri ...... ) at Lowlands, the Central Valley, Michael L.and Treglia the 234Tilarán, Central, and Bahía Drake on the Peninsula de Osa (Gómez et al. 2020), all Talamanca Mountain Ranges at elevations from 60–1,550 m COMMENTARY six currently recognized occur in Costa Rica. asl (Leenders 2019). . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 The Collared Pygmy Snake (Trimetopon pliolepis) (Fig. At 1831 h on 16 November 2020, LAO encountered 1) is a nocturnalBOOK semi-fossorial REVIEW species with the broadest dis- a Collared Pygmy Snake on a trail in Rancho Quemado, tribution in the genus;. Threatened it is knownAmphibians to of theoccur World from edited bysoutheast S.N. Stuart,- M. Hoffmann,Puntarenas, J.S. Chanson, Costa N.A. Rico Cox, (8°41'46.58"N, 83°35'32.36"W; R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243 ern Nicaragua through Costa Rica to southwestern Panama elev. 426 m asl). At first we believed it was a Barbour’s

(Savage 2002; Köhler CONSERVATION 2008; Gutiérrez RESEARCH Rodríguez REPORTS: and SummariesSunyer of PublishedPygmy Conservation Snake, Research but Reports a closer ...... examination 245 revealed that its 2016). It is rare in Panama,NATURAL HISTORYwhere it isRESEARCH known fromREPORTS only: aSummaries few of Publishedprefrontals Reports wereon Natural fused History into ...... a single plate 247 (Fig. 2), a feature  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252

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Fig. 1. Adult Collared Pygmy Snake (Trimetopon pliolepis) from Rancho Quemado, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Photograph by Raby Nuñez Escalante.

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Fig. 2. Details of an adult Collared Pygmy Snake (Trimetopon pliolepis) from Rancho Quemado, Puntarenas, Costa Rica: Yellow collar (left), prefrontals fused into a single plate (center), and white venter (right). Photographs by Raby Nuñez Escalante. found in Collared Pygmy , Günther’s Pygmy Snakes Research Center, Department of Biology, The University of (Trimetopon gracile), and Dunn’s Pygmy Snakes (T. simile), Texas at Arlington, for facilitating the provision of the pho- but not in T. barbouri (Leenders 2019). Other characteristics tographic voucher. that distinguish the Collared Pygmy Snake from its congeners are the distinct yellow collar interrupted middorsally by a dark Literature Cited stripe (Fig. 3) and the white venter (Fig. 4), which is yellow Gómez, G., T.L. Stice, A. Solórzano, and M. Sasa. 2020. Geographic distribution. in T. barbouri. Photographic vouchers have been deposited at Trimetopon barbouri (Barbour’s Pygmy Snake). Herpetological Review 51: 83. Gutiérrez Rodríguez, A.A. and J. Sunyer. 2016. First record of Trimetopon pliolepis the University of Texas at Arlington (UTADC 9680a–e). The Cope, 1894 (Reptilia: : Dipsadidae) from Nicaragua. Mesoamerican identity of this snake was confirmed by Alejandro Solórzano. Herpetology 3: 517–518. To the best of our knowledge, this is only the second species Köhler, G. 2008. Reptiles of Central America. 2nd ed. Herpeton Verlag, Offenbach, of Trimetopon known to occur on the Peninsula de Osa. Germany. Leenders, T. 2016. Amphibians of Costa Rica: A Field Guide. Zona Tropical Publications, Comstock Publishing Associates, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, USA. Acknowledgements Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica. A Herpetofauna We thank Alejandro Solórzano for confirming the identity between Two Continents, between Two Seas. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA. of the species and Gregory Pandelis, Collection Manager/ Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2020. The Database. https://reptile- Biological Curator, Amphibian and Reptile Diversity database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Trimetopon&species=pliolepis.

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