WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS IRCF REPTILES • VOL15, & NAMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 20(3):152–154 • SEP 2013 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCED SPECIES FEATURE ARTICLES . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 New Island. The Shared History Records of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis for) and Humans Amphibians on Grenada: and Reptiles A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCHon ARTICLES the Little Bahama Bank, . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . TheCommonwealth Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida of The Bahamas .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1 2 3 4 1 3 Kenneth L. KryskoCONSERVATION, David W. Steadman ALERT, Jim I. Mead , Nancy A. Albury , Claudia A. MacKenzie-Krysko , and Sandra L. Swift 1Florida Museum of Natural. World’s History, Mammals Division in Crisis of ............................................................................................................................................................. Herpetology, 1659 Museum Road, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611 220 USA ([email protected]) 2Florida Museum of Natural. More History, Than Mammals Division ...................................................................................................................................................................... of Ornithology, 1659 Museum Road, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 32611 223 USA ([email protected]) . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 3Department of Geosciences and Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, 37614 USA HUSBANDRY ([email protected]) 4The National Museum of The Bahamas ([email protected]) . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 uckner et al. (2012)PROFILE compiled an exhaustive list of both native Southeastern Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon inexpectatus Bnative and non-native. Kraig Adler: amphibians A Lifetime Promoting and Herpetology reptiles ................................................................................................ in The Taylor 1932) on Grand Michael Bahama L. Treglia Island, 234 and Giery (2013) Bahamas, and TurksCOMMENTARY and Caicos Islands. Subsequently, added the non-native Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus Krysko et al. (2012) confirmed. The Turtles Have the Been identification Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ of the non- (Linnaeus 1766)) as likely established Eric Gangloff 238 on Great Abaco Island. BOOK REVIEW . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243 CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil 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 moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Fig. 1. Non-native Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) in situ at Owanta’s Pond, Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco Island, on 11 November 2012. Photograph by Kenneth L. Krysko. Copyright © 2013. Kenneth L. Krysko. All rights reserved. 152 INTRODUCED SPECIES IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 20(3):152–154 • SEP 2013 Fig. 2. Non-native Jamaican Slider (Trachemys terrapen) in situ at Owanta’s Pond, Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco Island, on 11 November 2012. Photograph by Kenneth L. Krysko. In this paper, we document eight additional new island Slider, T. terrapen (Bonnaterre 1789)(UF-Herpetology records and provide a nomenclatural correction for amphib- 168893; Fig. 2), at Owanta’s Pond, Marsh Harbour ians and reptiles on Great Abaco and its satellite islands. (26.52365°N, 77.06645°W). Our records are the first for Hemidactylus mabouia, Trachemys scripta elegans, and T. terrapen from the Little Elbow Cay.—On 15 October 2010, Olivia Patterson col- Bahamas Bank, although these and all other species men- lected a presumably native Brown Blind Snake, Typhlops lum- tioned are known from other islands in the Bahamas. bricalis (Linnaeus 1758) (UF-Herpetology 169218), in Hope Town (26.52745°N, 76.96507°W). Great Abaco Island.—On 6 November 2012, KLK, DWS, JIM, and SLS collected two Tropical House Man-O-War Cay.—On 11 November 2012, NAA collected Geckos, Hemidactylus mabouia (Moreau de Jonnès 1818) four native Cuban Treefrog tadpoles, Osteopilus septentriona- (UF-Herpetology 168826 and 168830), at Friends of lis (Duméril and Bibron 1841)(UF-Herpetology 169068), the Environment, 1 Conservation Way, Marsh Harbour and a native Northern Curly-tailed Lizard, Leiocephalus cari- (26.53154°N, 77.05847°W; Datum WGS84). On 7 natus Gray 1827 (UF-Herpetology 169220), on Ball Field November 2012, KLK, DWS, JIM, and SLS collected four Road (26.59733°N, 77.0034°W). On 9 and 11 November H. mabouia (UF-Herpetology 168846–168849) at Cherokee 2012, KLK, NAA, and CAMK, collected three and one Sound (26.28418°N, 77.05377°W), and one H. mabouia Hemidactylus mabouia (UF-Herpetology 168871–168873, (UF-Herpetology 168844) at Little Harbour (26.32356°N, and 169219, respectively) on Ball Field Road (26.59733°N, 77.00368°W). On 11 November 2012, KLK, DWS, JIM, 77.0034°W). On 8 August 2006, Mamie Albury collected and SLS collected a non-native Red-eared Slider, Trachemys a presumably native Brown Blindsnake, Typhlops lumbricalis scripta elegans (Wied-Neuwied 1838)(UF-Herpetology (UF-Herpetology 156842), on Ball Field Road (26.59733°N, 168894; Fig. 1), and a presumably non-native Jamaican 77.0034°W). 153 INTRODUCED SPECIES IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 20(3):152–154 • SEP 2013 Sandy Cay.—On 1 December 2010, Lloyd Williams photo- and Goin 1944 (photographic voucher UF-Herpetology graphed a native Abaco Island Boa, Chilabothrus exsul Netting 163248; Fig. 3), on Sandy Cay (26.58366°N, 77.00708°W). The generic name was changed recently from Epicrates based on molecular analyses (Reynolds et al. 2013). Buckner et al. (2012) reported the fossil Chilabothrus striatus from Great Abaco Island; the species epithet should be cor- rected to C. exsul. Acknowledgments We are extremely thankful to Olivia Patterson and Lloyd Williams for help with field work; David L. Reed, Luceta Hanna, and Simeon Pinder for The Bahamas Department of Agriculture (Permit #4/2012); Stacy Lubin-Gray and Philip S. Weech for The Bahamas Environment, Science & Technology (BEST) permit; Robert Powell for reviewing a draft of this article; and the National Science Foundation (grant BCS-1118369 to DWS) for funding. Literature Cited Buckner, S.D., R. Franz, and R.G. Reynolds. 2012. Bahama Islands and Turks & Caicos Islands, pp. 93–110. In: R. Powell and R.W. Henderson (eds.), Island Lists of West Indian Amphibians and Reptiles. Florida Museum of Natural History Bulletin 51:85–166. Giery, S.T. 2013. First records of Red Cornsnakes (Pantherophis guttatus) from Abaco Island, The Bahamas, and notes on their current distribution in the greater Caribbean region. Reptiles & Amphibians 20:36–39. Krysko, K.L., N.A. Albury, and D.W. Steadman. 2012. Confirmation of the Southeastern Five-lined Skink, Plestiodon inexpectatus Taylor 1932 (Scincidae), on Grand Bahamas Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Reptiles & Amphibians 19:126–127. Reynolds, R.G., M.L. Niemiller, S.B. Hedges, A. Dornburg, A.R. Puente-Rolón, Fig. 3. Native Abaco Island Boa (Chilabothrus exsul; UF-Herpetology and L.J. Revell. 2013. Molecular phylogeny and historical biogeography of 163248) in situ on Sandy Cay, Great Abaco Island, on 1 December 2010. West Indian boid snakes (Chilabothrus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution Photograph by Lloyd Williams. 68:461–470. 154.