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TABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • REPTILES
VOL15, NO 4 & AMPHIBIANS
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REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS
IRCF
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 Predation on a
FEATURE ARTICLES
Red-tailed Coralsnake (Micrurus mipartitus)
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:
by an Antioquian Coralsnake
A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198
(Micrurus dumerilii antioquensis)
RESEARCH ARTICLES
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
............................................. Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212
Felipe Barrera-Ocampo1 and Ronald A. Díaz-Flórez2
C O N S1 E R V A T I O N A L E R T
Grupo Herpetológico de Antioquia (GHA), Instituto de Biología, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia
World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220
(
[email protected] [corresponding author])
More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223
2Independent researcher, Fómeque, Cundinamarca, Colombia (
[email protected])
The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225
HUSBANDRY
Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226
T he Capuchin Coralsnake (Micrurus dumerilii) ranges
PROFILE
from northwestern Venezuela through northern and
No specimens were collected, the event was documented only
with photographs.
Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234
central Colombia to the Pacific Coast from southeastern Closely related Micrurus dumerilii and M. mipartitus are
Panama to northern
C O M Ecuador
M E N T A R(Campbell
Y and Lamar 2004), sympatric throughout almost all of their ranges (Campbell
where it occurs in lowlands
The Turtles and
Have Beenmontane Watching forests at elevations and Lamar 2004) and are ecologically
Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 similar (Vera-Pérez et
of 0–2,600 m asl (Roze
BOOK REVIEW
1996). The Antioquian Coralsnake al. 2019). The only known predators of M. mipartitus are
(Micrurus d. antioquensis) is endemic to Colombia, where
Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, birds (Ayerbe et al. 1990), but mammals (Gómez-Martínez
it ranges from the Cauca Valley
R. Berridge, P. Ramani, at the and B.E. end Young of ..............................................................................................................
the Central et al. 2008; Carrillo and Fuller Robert2018),
Powell 243 frogs (Campbell and
Cordillera to the Middle Magdalena Valley at the western Lamar 2004), and other snakes (Zúñiga-Baos and Vera-Pérez
CONSERVATION
end of the Eastern Cordillera (Schmidt RESEARCH 1955; REPORTS:Campbell Summariesandof Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245
NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247
Lamar 2004). The natural history
NEWBRIEFS of M. d. antioquensis has
...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248
been poorly studied, and only
EDITORIAL one instance.....................................................................................................................................................
INFORMATION of predation (on 251
FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252
a Thompson’s Caecilian, Caecilia thompsoni) has been docu-
mented (Herrera-Lopera et al. 2018). However, other sub-
species of M. dumerilii are known to eat snakes (Vera-Pérez
et al. 2019), and small vertebrates such as swamp eels, lizards
Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern
(Roze 1996), and caecilians (Fernández-Roldán and Gómez-
Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo
Sánchez 2021). estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil
The Red-tailed Coralsnake (Micrurus erspienimus, mipartitus)
quos accullabo. Ilibus ranges erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus
from northern and northwestern aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum
Venezuela
fugiatis maionsequat eumque
through north- aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum
fugiatis maionsequat eumque
ern and central Colombia to eastern Panama
moditia and south
erere nonsedis ma sectiatur along moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia-
the Pacific slope (including Gorgona ma derrovitae Island) voluptam, intoas western
quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as
accullabo.
Ecuador and northern Peru at elevations from sea level to
2,700 m asl; in addition, a puzzling record exists from the
Amazon Basin of Rondônia, Brazil (Roze 1996; Campbell
and Lamar 2004).
At 1530 h on 3 September 2022, on a road in the munic-
ipality of Nariño, Colombia (5.645139°N, 75.199333°W,
WGS 84; 1,737 m elev.), an adult female Micrurus dumer-
ilii antioquensis was encountered while ingesting a juvenile
Fig 1. An adult female Antioquian Coralsnake (Micrurus dumerilii antio-
Micrurus mipartitus headfirst (Fig. 1). The snakes were moved quensis) ingesting a juvenile Red-tailed Coralsnake (Micrurus mipartitus) in
to the side of the road and observed for about 5 minutes. Nariño, Antioquia, Colombia. Photograph by José Ramiro Lopéz.
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2020) are known predators of coralsnakes. Reports of preda- Ithaca, New York, USA.
tion by coralsnakes on congeners, which Roze (1996) called Carrillo, E. and T. Fuller. 2018. Predation of a Central American coral snake
(Micrurus nigrocinctus) by a nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in
interspecific cannibalism, are rare, with records limited to M. Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica. Edentata 19: 67–69.
diutius feeding on M. circinalis, M. obscurus feeding on M. Fernández-Roldán, J.D. and D. Gómez-Sánchez. 2021. Primer registro de
a. annellatus (Roze 1996), and M. albicinctus feeding on M. un comportamiento defensivo en Microcaecilia nicefori (Gymnophiona:
Siphonopidae) provocado por la mordedura de Micrurus dumerilii (Serpentes:
hemprichii (Masseli et al. 2018). In this note, we report the Elapidae). Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetología 4: 144–149. https://doi.
first record of predation of Micrurus dumerilii on another cor- org/10.22201/fc.25942158e.2021.02.277.
alsnake, which is also the first record of congeneric predation Gómez-Martínez, M.J., A. Gutierrez, and F. Declerck. 2008. Four-eyed opos-
sum (Philander opossum) predation on a coral snake (Micrurus nigrocinctus).
in coralsnakes in Colombia. Mammalia 72: 350–351. https://doi.org/10.1515/MAMM.2008.031.
Herrera-Lopera, J.M., V.A. Ramírez-Castaño, and F.A. Garcia-Oviedo. 2018.
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We thank José Ramiro Lopéz, for allowing us to use his
Masseli, G.S., F.A.G. Cunha, and J.G. Dos Santos. 2018. Micrurus albicinc-
photograph, Oscar Manuel Galeano and Claudia Marcela tus (White-banded Coralsnake) and Micrurus hemprichii (Hemprich’s
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