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REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS

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C O N S E R V AT I O N A N D N AT U R A L H I S T O R Y

T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S

First Record of the Collared Pygmy Snake

FEATURE ARTICLES

(Trimetopon pliolepis) from

 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
 The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada:

the Peninsula de Osa, Costa Rica

A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson

RESEARCH ARTICLES
198

 The Texas
Raby Nuñez Horned Lizard
Escalante 1, Luisin Central
AcuñaandObando
Western Texas .......................
2, Yeudi Salgera Emily Henry,3,Jason
García Brewer,Sandi
Henry Krista Mougey,
Amador and4Gad 204 Gloor5
PerryRobin
, and
 The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida
1Sierpe de Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (sierpefrogs@gmail.com [corresponding author])
............................................. Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212
2Bahía
Drake, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (luisobando23@gmail.com)
3Bahía Drake, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (amigosdelbosquetours@gmail.com)
CONSERVATION A LERT
4
 World’s Mammals in Crisis San Vito de Coto Brus, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (pipra14@yahoo.com)
............................................................................................................................................................. 220
5Territet, Vaud, Switzerland (robin.gloor@gmail.com)
 More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223
 The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225

HUSBANDRY

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 Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226
he genus Trimetopon is endemic to lower Central specimens (S. Lotzkat, pers. comm. in Uetz et al. 2020). In
America (Savage
PROFILE 2002; Köhler 2008). With the recent Costa Rica, it is known from isolated locations in the Atlantic
discovery of Barbour’s
 KraigPygmy SnakePromoting
Adler: A Lifetime (Trimetopon
Herpetologybarbouri) at Lowlands, the Central Valley,
................................................................................................ Michael L. and Tregliathe234 Tilarán, Central, and
Bahía Drake on the Peninsula de Osa (Gómez et al. 2020), all Talamanca Mountain Ranges at elevations from 60–1,550 m
COMMENTARY
six currently recognized species occur in Costa Rica. asl (Leenders 2019).
 The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238
The Collared Pygmy Snake (Trimetopon pliolepis) (Fig. At 1831 h on 16 November 2020, LAO encountered
B O O K R E V I E W
1) is a nocturnal semi-fossorial species with the broadest dis- a Collared Pygmy Snake on a trail in Rancho Quemado,
 Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox,
tribution in the genus; it is known to occur from southeast- Puntarenas, Costa Rico (8°41'46.58"N, 83°35'32.36"W;
R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243
ern Nicaragua through Costa Rica to southwestern Panama elev. 426 m asl). At first we believed it was a Barbour’s
(Savage 2002; Köhler 2008; Gutiérrez Rodríguez and
 CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Sunyer Pygmy Snake,
Conservation ResearchbutReports a closer examination
................................. 245 revealed that its
2016). It is rare in Panama, where it is known from only a few
 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of prefrontals were fused into a single plate
Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 (Fig. 2), a feature
 NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248
 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251
 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252

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Fig. 1. Adult Collared Pygmy Snake (Trimetopon pliolepis) from Rancho Quemado, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Photograph by Raby Nuñez Escalante.

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Fig. 2. Details of an adult Collared Pygmy Snake (Trimetopon pliolepis) from Rancho Quemado, Puntarenas, Costa Rica: Yellow collar (left), prefrontals
fused into a single plate (center), and white venter (right). Photographs by Raby Nuñez Escalante.
found in Collared Pygmy Snakes, Günther’s Pygmy Snakes
(Trimetopon gracile), and Dunn’s Pygmy Snakes (T. simile),
but not in T. barbouri (Leenders 2019). Other characteristics
that distinguish the Collared Pygmy Snake from its congeners
are the distinct yellow collar interrupted middorsally by a dark
stripe (Fig. 3) and the white venter (Fig. 4), which is yellow
in T. barbouri. Photographic vouchers have been deposited at
the University of Texas at Arlington (UTADC 9680a–e). The
identity of this snake was confirmed by Alejandro Solórzano.
To the best of our knowledge, this is only the second species
of Trimetopon known to occur on the Peninsula de Osa.
Acknowledgements
We thank Alejandro Solórzano for confirming the identity
of the species and Gregory Pandelis, Collection Manager/
Biological Curator, Amphibian and Reptile Diversity
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Research Center, Department of Biology, The University of
Texas at Arlington, for facilitating the provision of the pho-
tographic voucher.
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