WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS IRCF REPTILES • VOL15, &NO AMPHIBIANS 4 • DEC 2008 189 • 21(1):16–27 • MAR 2014 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES New. Chasing Bullsnakes Record (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin:of the Leopard Gecko 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: GoniurosaurusA Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................ araneus (Squamata:Robert W. Henderson 198 Eublepharidae)RESEARCH ARTICLES for China and Habitat . 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 Florida Partitioning .............................................Brian between J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, GeographicallyKevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 and CONSERVATION ALERT Phylogenetically. World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. Close Leopard Geckos 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 Tian-Bo Chen.1,The Yuan-Jun “Dow Jones Meng Index” of1 ,Biodiversity Ke Jiang ...........................................................................................................................................2,3, Pi-Peng Li3, Bo-Hao Wen4, Wenhua Lu5, James Lazell 5,225 and Mian Hou3,6 HUSBANDRY 1Nonggang National Natural Reserve, Chongzuo, Guangxi 532412, China 2 State Key Laboratory. ofCaptive Genetic Care Resourcesof the Central and Netted Evolution, Dragon .......................................................................................................Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shannon PlummerKunming, 226 Yunnan 650223, China 3Institute of Herpetology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China PROFILE 4Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden, New Territories, Hong Kong, China 5 . Kraig Adler: A LifetimeThe Conservation Promoting Herpetology Agency, 6 ................................................................................................ Swinburne Street, Jamestown, Rhode Island 02835, Michael USA L. Treglia 234 6Academy of Continuing Education, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610068, China ([email protected]) COMMENTARY . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 BOOK REVIEW Abstract.—Two. specimensThreatened Amphibians of the of Leopardthe World edited Gecko by S.N. Goniurosaurus Stuart, M. Hoffmann, araneus J.S. Chanson, (Squamata: N.A. Cox, Eublepharidae) were collected from Nonggang NationalR. Berridge, Nature P. Ramani, andReserve, B.E. Young Chongzuo .............................................................................................................. Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Ethnicity Robert Powell Autonomous 243 Region, China, in October 2011. This species is a new record for China and this report is a range extension for the species from CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 northern Vietnam NATURAL to southern HISTORY Guangxi. RESEARCH A REPORTSphylogenetic: Summaries study of Published demonstrated Reports on Natural that History Goniurosaurus ................................. araneus 247 and G. luii are a species pair. We NEWBRIEFS show for ......................................................................................................................................................................................the first time that they coexist broadly but are narrowly allopatric in a small 248 area in southern EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 Guangxi, separated FOCUS only ON by CONSERVATION a river, similar: A Projectto what You Canhad Support been ...............................................................................................reported previously for G. yingdeensis 252 and Goniurosaurus indet. from northwestern Guangdong. A river as a geographical barrier, elevation, and aspect may have contributed to habitat partitioning between G. araneus and G. luii. Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Key words: Goniurosaurus luii, distribution,Totat et velleseque separation audant mo by weTotat herein et velleseque assign audant to mo G. araneus Grismer, Viets, and Boyle, river, geographic barrier, elevation, estibusaspect, inveliquo karst, velique Nonggang rerchil 1999,estibus inveliquoand, for velique the rerchil first time, report a range extension of this erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum Leopardaut dolor apicto Gecko invere pefrom dolum northern Vietnam to southern China as Introduction fugiatis maionsequat eumque a newfugiatis record maionsequat for eumqueChina. We also confirm the presence of G. moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- Leopard Geckos of the genus Goniurosaurusma derrovitae voluptam, are distributed as quos luiitur inma Nonggang.derrovitae voluptam, as exclusively in karst and igneous substrateaccullabo. forests in eastern The distributions of G. araneus and G. luii are inter- and southeastern Asia. Areas include the Ryukyu Archipelago, twined with G. hainanensis and G. lichtenfelderi and South China (Hainan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Guizhou rather perplexing, prompting a review of the history of Provinces), and northern Vietnam. Nonggang National Goniurosaurus. Mocquard (1897) described the first species, Nature Reserve (NNR) in southern Guangxi (Fig. 1), a prov- Eublepharis lichtenfelderi, from two specimens from Grande ince designated as the Autonomous Region for the Zhuang Norway Island (Xuy Nong Chao) in the Tonkin Gulf, minority people in China, covers an area of more than 100 northern Vietnam (Fig. 1). Barbour (1908) first established km2, including 73 km2 of primary tropical rainforest, all on the genus Goniurosaurus, based on a new species, G. hain- karst landform. Elevation ranges from 100 to 600 m above anensis, from a single specimen collected from Mt. Wuchi sea level, with a mean annual temperature of 22 °C and mean (Wuzhishan, Five Finger Mountain), central Hainan Island, annual rainfall of 1,350 mm (Qi 1980). Eighty-eight spe- China. Namiye (1912) described Gymnodactylus albofasciatus cies of amphibians and reptiles, including G. luii, have been kuroiwae from the Ryukyu Archipelago; Wermuth (1965) recorded (Yang et al. 2011). During a field trip in October separated them and moved the subspecies to Goniurosaurus 2011, we collected two individual Goniurosaurus, which as G. kuroiwae; the former is now Geckoella albofasciatus Copyright © 2014. Tian-Bo Chen. All rights reserved. 16 CHEN ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 21(1):16–27 • MAR 2014 (Boulenger, 1885). Maki (1931) described Eublepharis ori- Island; Nakamura et al. (1959) described Eublepharis splen- entalis from Tonakishima and Tokashiki Islands; Okada dens from Tokunoshima Island; all three also occur on the (1936) described Gymnodactylus yamashinae from Kumejima Ryukyu Archipelago. Börner (1981) created a new genus Fig. 1. Distribution map of Goniurosaurus species between northern Vietnam and southern Guangxi, with stars for G. araneus, circles for G. catbaensis, pentagons for G. huuliensis, triangles for G. lichtenfelderi, rectangles for G. luii (all type localities in red), and the courses of rivers in sky blue. 17 CHEN ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 21(1):16–27 • MAR 2014 Amamisaurus to include all these four species. Grismer (1987) is the likely source of the record for G. lichtenfelderi from corrected this move and placed all Leopard Geckos from the Guangxi in Zhao and Adler (1993). Because of the close prox- Ryukyu Archipelago, southern China, and northern Vietnam imity of the Vietnamese continental locality to Guangxi, we in Goniurosaurus. have included this single record of G. lichtenfelderi for China The last 20 years have been the most active period in until the specific locality is revisited. However, we herein dis- the discovery of additional species of Goniurosaurus. Grismer regard the record of G. lichtenfelderi from Guangdong in Li et al. (1994) described G. kuroiwae toyamai from Iheyajima et al. (2011) because it was based on Goniurosaurus indet. Island; Dickhoff (2004) elevated that taxon to a species as (Yi et al. 2010), which definitely is a distinct species that is G. toyamai, resulting in a total of five species known from similar to G. yingdeensis in at least the number of body bands. the Ryukyu Archipelago thus far. Grismer et al. (1999) Consequently, the distribution of G. lichtenfelderi is from a described two species, G. araneus and G. luii, from near mainland locality in southern Guangxi, the holotypic island