HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL15, & N AMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 28(1):13–14 • APR 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLESArboreal Behavior in the . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the Road to UnderstandingLusitanian the Ecology and Conservation Wallof the Midwest’s Giant Lizard, Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: PodarcisA Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................ guadarramae (BoscáRobert 1916) W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in CentralCesar and Western Ayres Texas1 and ....................... Miguel Domínguez-Costas Emily Henry, Jason Brewer,2 Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 .............................................AHE-Galicia, BarcelonaBrian J. Camposano, 86 6C, 36211,Kenneth Vigo,L. Krysko, Pontevedra, Kevin M. Enge, Spain Ellen ([email protected]) M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 2Bajada a la Salgueira 21, 36204, Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 he Lusitanian. WallThe “Dow Lizard Jones Index” (Podarcis of Biodiversity guadarramae ...............................................................................................................................) is a ............ 225 Trupicolous HUSBANDRYspecies endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Usually found in rocky. Captive areas Care of and the Central on walls,Netted Dragon these ....................................................................................................... lizards also Shannon Plummer 226 are terrestrial in sandy areas in Maritime Pine ( PROFILE Pinus pin- aster) forests (Geniez. Kraig et Adler: al. A2014). Lifetime PromotingIn the Herpetologycoastal study ................................................................................................ area Michael L. Treglia 234 in Baiona, Pontevedra, Spain (UTM 29TNG06, ETRS89; 13 m asl), the speciesCOMMENTARY inhabits the rocky shore dominated by granite stones, .butThe Turtlesalso Haveoccurs Been Watchingon human Me ........................................................................................................................ constructions Eric Gangloff 238 (Ayres, pers. obs.).BOOK REVIEW During a visit. Threatenedto the study Amphibians area of theon World 11 editedJanuary by S.N. 2020, Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, we observed several R.Lusitanian Berridge, P. Ramani, Wall and B.E.Lizards Young ..............................................................................................................basking on Robert Powell 243 Common Olive Trees (Olea europaea) in a gardened area. CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 This human-altered NATURAL area HISTORYappears RESEARCHto function REPORTS as an: Summariesedge of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 between rocky habitat NEWBRIEFS occupied ............................................................................................................................... by P. guadarramae and bushy ....................................................... 248 habitat occupied byEDITORIAL the Northwestern INFORMATION Iberian ............................................................................................................................... Wall Lizard ...................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 (P. bocagei). One male and one juvenile were basking 1.5 m above the ground (Fig. 1). When disturbed, the lizards hid in the regrowth at the base of the tree but reappeared to bask after a few minutes. The use of these trees as basking sites and Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Fig. 2.Back After Cover. seeking Michael shelter Kern in the dense regrowth at the base of a Common Totat et velleseque audant mo OliveTotat Tree et velleseque (Olea europaea audant), mo a Lusitanian Wall Lizard (Podarcis guadarramae) estibus inveliquo velique rerchil emergedestibus inveliquo after a few velique minutes rerchil to bask on the trunk. Photograph by Cesar Ayres. erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur refugia,moditia erere as nonsedis has been ma sectia reported- for P. bocagei in the same area ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos (Ayrestur ma 2020),derrovitae could voluptam, be as a strategy to reduce the risk of preda- accullabo. tion from feral cats, gulls, or other predators. Arboreal behavior has been reported for other species of the P. hispanica complex in northern Africa (Kaliontzopoulou et al. 2009), Portugal (Malkmus 2004), and southern Spain (González de la Vega 1988). In northern Africa, lizards used Cork Oaks (Quercus suber) to forage, bask, and seek refuge, presumably due to the lack of rocks in the area. In Portugal, Cork Oaks also were used as hibernacula. In southern Spain, lizards used Common Olive Trees, Spanish Chestnuts Fig. 1. An adult and a juvenile Lusitanian Wall Lizard (Podarcis guadarra- (Castanea sativa), and various species of palms as refuges. mae) on a Common Olive Tree (Olea europaea). Photograph by Cesar Ayres. Northwestern Iberian Wall Lizards also are known to engage Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 13 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. AYRES AND DOMÍNGUEZ-COSTAS REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(1):13–14 • APR 2021 in arboreal behavior on Common Oaks (Quercus robur), intro- Geniez, P., P. Sa-Sousa, C.P. Guillaume, A. Cluchier, and P.A. Crochet. 2014. Systematics of the Podarcis hispanicus complex (Sauria, Lacertidae) III: Valid duced Southern Blue Gums (Eucalyptus globulus), and Black nomina of the western and central Iberian forms. Zootaxa 3794: 1–51. DOI: Alders (Alnus glutinosa) (Galán 2011) in northwestern Spain. 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.1.1. González de la Vega, J.P. 1988. 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