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TABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
• VOL15, NO 4 • DEC 2008• 28(1):102–103
189 • APR 2021

REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS

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Second Report of Ophiophagy in a Cat-eyed

FEATURE ARTICLES

Snake (Leptodeira sp.) in Costa Rica

 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:
A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198
Raby Nuñez Escalante1, Cinthia Alvarado Acuña2, and Alex Alvarado Acuña3
RESEARCH AR TICLES
1Sierpe de Osa, Puntarenas, Costa Rica (sierpefrogs@gmail.com [corresponding author])
 The Texas Horned Lizard in Central
2Bahía andPuntarenas,
Drake, Western Texas .......................
Costa Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204
Rica (Vanessa_alvarado_1999@gmail.com)
 The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris)
3Bahíain FloridaPuntarenas, Costa Rica (alexalvarado026@gmail.com)
Drake,
............................................. Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATION ALERT
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 World’s Mammals in Crisis .............................................................................................................................................................
he Northern Cat-eyed Snake,......................................................................................................................................................................
More Than Mammals Leptodeira septentrionalis lis) (TL 61.3 cm) regurgitated a live female 223 Red Coffee Snake
(Kennicott 1859), as traditionally
 The “Dow known,
Jones Index” of Biodiversity ranged from (Ninia sebae) (TL 25.9 cm) (McKelvy et
........................................................................................................................................... 225al. 2013).
the southern United
HUSBANDRY
States through Mexico and Central Herein we document a second instance of ophiophagy in
America to northern South America (Uetz et al. 2020). Leptodeira sp. at 0915 h on 12
 Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226
September 2020 in Los Planes,
However, recent taxonomic revisions (Barrio-Amorós 2019; Puntarenas, Costa Rica (8°39'44.4"N, 83°40'40.2"W). CAA
Torres-Carvajal PetRal.
O F2020)
I L E left Costa Rica with one or more discovered a Leptodeira sp. (TL 41 cm) with a bulge in its
 Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234
undescribed species, a clade referred to Leptodeira sp. (Fig. 1). body on the ground near a chicken coop (Fig. 2). After being
These nocturnal
C O M Msemi-arboreal
ENTARY snakes feed primarily placed in a plastic container, the snake regurgitated its prey,
on lizards, frogs, and
 The frog
Turtles eggs (Savage
Have Been Watching2002). Cantor and which was a young partially digested
Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric GangloffSipo 238 (Chironius flavopic-
Pizzatto (2008)Breported
OOK REVIEW
ophiophagy in this genus in what tus) (TL 52.5 cm) (Fig. 3).
was most likely a captive situation. The first confirmed report
 Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox,
The Sipo is a fast-moving strictly diurnal snake that sleeps
of ophiophagy in nature occurred
R. Berridge, P. Ramani,in
andTortuguero, Limón, coiled on branches of small Robert
B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. treesPowell at night
243 (Leenders 2019).
Costa Rica, in which a male Leptodeira sp. (as L. septentriona- We believe that this predation event most likely occurred at
 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

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Fig. 1. A cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira sp.) on vegetation at Sierpe, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Photograph by Raby Nuñez Escalante.

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Fig. 2. A cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira sp.) from Los Planes, Puntarenas,
Costa Rica, with a bulge in its body. Photograph by Cinthia Alvarado
Acuña.
night while the Sipo was sleeping. After ingesting its dispro-
portionately large prey, the cat-eyed snake sought a refugium
in which to digest its meal.
Literature Cited
Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2019. On the taxonomy of snakes in the genus Leptodeira,
with an emphasis on Costa Rican species. Reptiles & Amphibians 26: 1–15.
Cantor, M. and L. Pizzatto. 2008. Leptodeira annulata (Banded Cat-Eyed Snake).
Diet. Herpetological Review 39: 470–471.
Leenders, T. 2019. Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Field Guide. Zona Tropical Publications,
Comstock Publishing Assoc., Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York,
USA.
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Fig. 3. A cat-eyed snake (Leptodeira sp.) regurgitated a Sipo (Chironius
flavopictus) in Los Planes, Puntarenas, Costa Rica. Photograph by Alex
Alvarado Acuña.
McKelvy, A.D., A. Figureoa, and T.R. Lewis. 2013. First record of ophiophagy
in the widely distributed snake Leptodeira septentrionalis (Kennicott, 1859)
(Ophidia, Colubridae). Herpetology Notes 6: 177–178.
Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna
between Two Continents, between Two Seas. The University of Chicago Press,
Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Torres-Carvajal, O., J. Sánchez-Nivicela, V. Posse, E. Celi, and C. Koch. 2020.
A new species of cat-eyed snake (Serpentes: Dipsadinae: Leptodeirini)
from the Andes of southern Ecuador. Zootaxa 4895: 357–380. https://doi.
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