Sacred Heart University DigitalCommons@SHU Biology Faculty Publications Biology 9-2007 Eleutherodactylus ridens (Pygmy Rainfrog) Predation Tobias Eisenberg Twan Leenders Sacred Heart University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/bio_fac Part of the Population Biology Commons, and the Zoology Commons Recommended Citation Eisenberg, T. & Leenders, T. (2007). Eleutherodactylus ridens (Pygmy Rainfrog) predation. Herpetological Review, 38(3), 323. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Biology at DigitalCommons@SHU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Biology Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@SHU. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. 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MITCHELL, Co-Editor Future Annual Meetings Department of Biology University of Richmond 2008 — Montreal, Canada, 23–28 July (with ASIH, HL) Richmond, Virginia 23173, USA 2009 — Portland, Oregon (with ASIH, HL) About Our Cover: Adenorhinos barbouri NEWSNOTES The Udzungwa Short-Headed Viper, Adenorhinos barbouri, is among the rarest and least known vipers in Africa. Known from only a few locali- ties in the Udzungwa and Ukinga Mountains of southwestern Tanzania, A. USNM Collections Moving barbouri was described in 1930 by Arthur Loveridge (Proc. New England Zoöl. Club 11:107–108), who placed it within the genus Atheris. It has been seen few times since, and until the discovery of this specimen, had yet to be The collections of the Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, photographed alive. The snake remains enigmatic—museum specimens National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) are number fewer than 25 and several of these were obtained as dead speci- scheduled to be moved from the Natural History Building on the mens from local farmers or tea estate workers. National Mall to a new storage wing at the Museum Support Cen- After Loveridge formally described the species from localities in the Udzungwas, he reported on a collection of additional material in 1933 (Bull. ter in Suitland, Maryland beginning about 1 October 2007 and Mus. Comp. Zoöl., Harvard College 74[7]:195–416), extending the range continuing through the first week of April 2008. south to the Ukinga Mountains, which have volcanic origins in the East It is anticipated that the collection management staff will be African Rift rather than the more ancient Eastern Arc orogeny. Remark- devoting significant amounts of time to preparing the collection ably, no specimens of Adenorhinos were reported for nearly 50 years fol- for the move as well as moving the collection. It is realistic to lowing this publication. A few individuals were sporadically collected dur- ing the 1980s and 1990s, in large part because of focused efforts to locate assume that there will be significant periods of time between now the species. Instrumental in these efforts was Jens Rasmussen, the late cu- and when the collection move is complete when