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CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians of the Canopy Lodge & Environs (also useful for the Canopy Tower) Compiled by Mario L. Urriola Hernández designed/editedcompiled by Mario by JerryL. Urriola Harrison Hernández Pug-nosed Treefrog Smilisca sila Pug-nosed Treefrog (Smilisca sila) Helmeted Basilisk (Corytophanes cristatus Linda) Harrison Photos: Linda Harrison CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians Mario L. Urriola Hernández page 1 Part 1: Reptiles Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Amphisbaenia/ 1. Spotted Worm Lizard Amphisbaenidae Amphisbaena fuliginosa Crocodylia/ 2. Spectacled Caiman Alligatoridae Caiman crocodilus Squamata/ 3. Coral Scorpion Lizard Anguidae Diploglossus monotropsis Arthur Morris Coral Scorpion Lizard Boidae 4. Boa Constrictor Boa constrictor 5. Rainbow Boa Epicrates cencria Colubridae 6. Rustyhead Snake Amastridium veliferum 7. Machete Savane Chironius carinatus 8. Common Whipsnake Chironius exoletus Doug Weschler Boa Constrictor 9. Shiny Whipsnake Chironius grandisquamis 10. Mussurana Clelia clelia 11. Yellowbelly Snake Coniophanes fissidens 12. Peters’ Forest Racer Dendrophidion nuchale CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 2 Reptiles/Notes Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Colubridae 13. Brown Forest Racer (continued) Dendrophidion percarinatum 14. Barred Forest Racer Dendrophidion vinitor 15. American Snail-eater Dipsas articulata 16. Temporal Snail-eater new species 2004 Dipsas temporalis 17. Plee’s Tropical Racer Dryadophis pleei 18. Black-tailed Cribo (Indigo) Drymarchon melanurus 19. Speckled Racer Drymobius margaritiferus 20. Esmarald Racer Drymobius rhombifer 21. Pacific Longtail Snake Enulius flavitorques 22. Colombian Longtail Snake Enulius sclateri 23. False Coral Snake Erythrolamprus bizona 24. Earth Snake Geophis bellus 25. Hoffmann’s Earth Snake Geophis hoffmanni 26. Central American Water Snake Hydromorphus concolor CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 3 Reptiles/Notes Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Colubridae 27. Blunt-headed Tree Snake (continued) Imantodes cenchoa 28.Central American Tree Snake Imantodes gemmistratus 29. Western Tree Snake Imantodes inornatus 30. Milk Snake Lampropeltis triangulum 31. Banded Cat-eyed Snake Leptodeira annulata 32. Cat-eyed Snake Leptodeira septentrionalis 33. Parrot Snake Leptophis ahaetulla 34. Short-nosed Parrot Snake Leptophis depressirostris 35. Night Ground Snake Liophis epinephelus 36. Neotropical Whipsnake Masticophis mentovarius 37. Salmon-bellied Racer Mastigodryas melanolomus 38. Spotted Coffee Snake Ninia maculata 39. Coffee Snake new species 2010 Ninia sp. 40. Rough Coffee Snake Nothopsis rugosus CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 4 Reptiles/Notes Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Colubridae 41. Brown Vine Snake (continued) Oxybelis aeneus 42. Cope’s Vine Snake Oxybelis brevirostris 43. Green Vine Snake Oxybelis fulgidus 44. Calico Snake Oxyrhopus petolarius 45. Ratonel Pseudoboa neuwiedii 46. Elegant Littersnake Rhadinaea decorata 47. Vermiculate Graceful Brown Snake Rhadinaea vermiculaticeps 48. Northern Ringed Snake Rhinobothryum bovallii 49. Snail-eating Snake Sibon argus 50. Clouded Snail-sucker Snake Sibon nebulatus 51. Tiger Rat Snake Spilotes pullatus 52. Scorpion-eating Snake Stenorrhina degenhardtii 53. Freminville's Scorpion-eating Snake Stenorrhina freminvillei (very rare?) 54. Black-headed Snake Tantilla melanocephala CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 5 Reptiles/Notes Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Colubridae 55. Lined Crown Snake (continued) Tantilla reticulata 56. Striped Crown Snake Tantilla ruficepss 57. Halloween Snake Urotheca euryzona 58. Orange-bellied Littersnake Urotheca guentheri 59. False Fer-de-lance Xenodon rabdocephalus Corytophanidae 60. Common Basilisk Basiliscus basiliscus 61. Helmeted Basilisk (Iguana) Corytophanes cristatus Elapidae 62. Clark’s Coral Snake Micrurus clarki 63. Redtail Coral Snake Micrurus mipartitus 64. Many-banded Coral Snake Micrurus multifasciatus 65. Central American Coral Snake Micrurus nigrocinctus Gekkonidae 66. Yellow-headed Gecko Gonatodes albogularis 67. Common House Gecko Hemidactylus frenatus 68. Litter Leaf Gecko Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 6 Reptiles Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Gekkonidae 69. Mourning (Common Smooth-scaled) Gecko (continued) Lepidodactylus lugubris 70. Caribbean Least Gecko Sphaerodactylus homolepis 71. Panama Least Gecko Sphaerodactylus lineolatus 72. Turnip-tailed Gecko Thecadactylus rapicauda Gymnophthalmidae 73. Bromeliad Lizard (Ocellated Anadia) Anadia ocellata 74. Panamanian Spined Tegu Echinosaura panamensis 75. Golden-spectacled Tegu Gymnopthalmus speciosus 76. Northern Spectacled Lizard (Tegu) Leposoma southi 77. Taylor’s Large-scale Lizard Linda Harrison Ptychoglossus plicatus Green Iguana (Iguana iguana) Hoplocercidae 78. Wood Lizard Enyalioides heterolepis 79. Dunn’s Spiny-tail Lizard Morunasaurus groi Iguanidae 80. Green Iguana Iguana iguana Polychrotidae 81. Neotropical Green Anole Anolis (Norops) biporcatus 82. Big-headed Anole Anolis (Norops) capito CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 7 Reptiles Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Polychrotidae 83. Bridled Anole (continued) Anolis (Dactyloa) frenatus 84. Ground Anole Anolis (Norops) humilis 85. Decorated Anole Anolis (Dactyloa) insignis 86. Ghost Anole Anolis (Norops) lemurinus 87. Slender Anole Anolis (Norops) limifrons 88. Lion Anole Anolis (Norops) lionotus 89. Stream Anole Anolis (Norops) oxylophus Linda Harrison Central American Whiptail (Ameiva festiva) 90. Lichen Anole Anolis (Norops) pentaprion 91. Canopy Lizard (Berthold’s Bush Anole) Polychrus gutturosus Scincidae 92. Bronze-backed Climbing Skink Mabuya unimarginata Teiidae 93. Giant Ameiva (Jungle Runner) Ameiva ameiva 94. Central Am. Whiptail (Tiger Ameiva) Ameiva festiva 95. Delicate Ameiva Ameiva leptophrys Tropidophiidae 96. Panamanian Dwarf Boa Ungaliophis panamensis CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 8 Reptiles/Notes Order/ Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Viperidae 97. Eyelash Viper Bothriechis schlegelii 98. Fer-de-lance (Terciopelo) Bothrops asper 99. Lansberg’s Hog-nosed Pitviper Porthidium lansbergii 100. Central American Bushmaster Lachesis stenophrys Testudines/ 101. Red-eared Slider Emydidae Trachemys scripta Kinosternidae 102. Scorpion Mud Turtle Kinosternon scorpioides CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 9 Part 2: Amphibians Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Anura/ 1. Panamanian Golden Frog Bufonidae Atelopus zeteki 2. Climbing Toad Incilius coniferus 3. Litter Toad Rhaebo haematiticus David Tipling Panamanian Golden Frog (Atelopus zeteki) 4. GranularToad Rhinella granulosa 5. Marine Toad Rhinella marina Centrolenidae 6. Ghost Glass Frog Centrolene ilex 7. Emerald Glass Frog Centrolene prosoblepon 8. Yellow-flecked Glass Frog Cochranella albomaculata Doug Weschler 9. San José Cochran Frog Yellow-flecked Glass Frog (Cochranella albomaculata) Cochranella euknemos 10. Fleischmann’s Glass Frog Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni 11. Starrett’s Glass Frog Hyalinobatrachium vireovittatum Dendrobatidae 12. Common Rocket Frog Colostethus panamensis 13. Rainforest Rocket Frog Silverstoneia flotator 14. Striped Rocket Frog Allobates talamancae CHECKLIST Reptiles & Amphibians page 10 Part 2: Amphibians Order/Family Common/Scientific name days 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Dendrobatidae 15. Green-and-black Poison-dart Frog (continued) Dendrobates auratus 16. Vicente’s Poison Frog Dendrobates vicentei 17. Blue-bellied Poison-dart Frog Ranitomeya minuta Hylidae 18. 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    lb BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SCIENTIFIC NAME INDEX TO AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES IN THE PUBLICATIONS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON BULLETIN 1-8, 1918-1988 AND PROCEEDINGS 1-100, 1882-1987 fi pp ERNEST A. LINER Houma, Louisiana SMITHSONIAN HERPETOLOGICAL INFORMATION SERVICE NO. 92 1992 SMITHSONIAN HERPETOLOGICAL INFORMATION SERVICE The SHIS series publishes and distributes translations, bibliographies, indices, and similar items judged useful to individuals interested in the biology of amphibians and reptiles, but unlikely to be published in the normal technical journals. Single copies are distributed free to interested individuals. Libraries, herpetological associations, and research laboratories are invited to exchange their publications with the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles. We wish to encourage individuals to share their bibliographies, translations, etc. with other herpetologists through the SHIS series. If you have such items please contact George Zug for instructions on preparation and submission. Contributors receive 50 free copies. Please address all requests for copies and inquiries to George Zug, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 20560 USA. Please include a self-addressed mailing label with requests. INTRODUCTION The present alphabetical listing by author (s) covers all papers bearing on herpetology that have appeared in Volume 1-100, 1882-1987, of the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington and the four numbers of the Bulletin series concerning reference to amphibians and reptiles. From Volume 1 through 82 (in part) , the articles were issued as separates with only the volume number, page numbers and year printed on each. Articles in Volume 82 (in part) through 89 were issued with volume number, article number, page numbers and year.
  • The Reptile Collection of the Museu De Zoologia, Pecies

    The Reptile Collection of the Museu De Zoologia, Pecies

    Check List 9(2): 257–262, 2013 © 2013 Check List and Authors Chec List ISSN 1809-127X (available at www.checklist.org.br) Journal of species lists and distribution The Reptile Collection of the Museu de Zoologia, PECIES S Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil OF Breno Hamdan 1,2*, Daniela Pinto Coelho 1 1, Eduardo José dos Reis Dias3 ISTS 1 L and Rejâne Maria Lira-da-Silva , Annelise Batista D’Angiolella 40170-115, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 1 Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Zoologia, Núcleo Regional de Ofiologia e Animais Peçonhentos. CEP Sala A0-92 (subsolo), Laboratório de Répteis, Ilha do Fundão, Av. Carlos Chagas Filho, N° 373. CEP 21941-902. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. 2 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, Museu Nacional/UFRJ. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Bloco A, Carvalho. CEP 49500-000. Itabaian, SE, Brazil. * 3 CorrUniversidadeesponding Federal author. de E-mail: Sergipe, [email protected] Departamento de Biociências, Laboratório de Biologia e Ecologia de Vertebrados (LABEV), Campus Alberto de Abstract: to its history. The Reptile Collection of the Museu de Zoologia from Universidade Federal da Bahia (CRMZUFBA) has 5,206 specimens and Brazilian 185 species scientific (13 collections endemic to represent Brazil and an 9important threatened) sample with of one the quarter country’s of biodiversitythe known reptile and are species a testament listed in Brazil, from over 175 municipalities. Although the CRMZUFBA houses species from all Brazilian biomes there is a strong regional presence. Knowledge of the species housed in smaller collections could avoid unrepresentative species descriptions and provide information concerning intraspecific variation, ecological features and geographic coverage.
  • Download (Pdf, 1.84

    Download (Pdf, 1.84

    July 2003 Volume 13, N u1nber 3 ISSN 0268-0130 PubJisbed by the Indexed in BRITISH HERPETOLOGlCAL SOCIETY Current Contents HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL, Vol. 13, pp. 101-111 (2003) TROPHIC ECOLOGY AND REPRODUCTION IN THREE SPECIES OF NEOTROPICAL FOREST RACER (DENDROPHIDION; COLUBRIDAE) PETER J. STAFFORD Th e Na tural HistoryMuseum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK Aspects of ecology are described and compared forthree species of the Neotropical colubrid genus Dendrophidion: D. nuchale, D. percarinatum and D. vinitor. These slender, racer-like snakes of Central American rainforestshave overlapping distributions and similar, relatively specialized diets. Within each species, over 50% of prey items recovered from museum specimens were leptodactylid frogs. Dendrophidion vinitor is a small species that feedsalmost entirely on these anurans (>90% by frequency), whereas D. nuchale and D. percarinatum are larger forms that in addition to frogs also eat lizards, mostly anoles (Polychrotidae). Sample numbers were limited and the dietary data insufficient for conclusive analysis, but niche separation based on this taxonomic difference in food habits - and also prey size (larger mean prey volume in D. nuchale) - may be important for these snakes in areas of co-occurrence. Reproductive data for D. percarinatum and D. vinitor in lower Central America suggest an extended or possibly continuous cycle and the production in individual femalesof more than one clutch per year. The intensity of reproduction in all three species, however, is likely to fluctuate with annual variation in rainfall and prey availability. Dendrophidion percarinatum shows a much higher frequencyof tail breakage than D. nuchale or D. vinitor, suggesting that predation pressure in this species is relatively more intense.