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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial Board, Taxonomic Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Social Media Team, Country Representatives, Layout and Design, Our Cover Image. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
ARTICLES
Introductory Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Everything is not lost: recent records, rediscoveries, and range extensions of Mexican hylid frogs.
Itzue W. Caviedes-Solis, Luis F. Vázquez-Vega, Israel Solano-Zavaleta, Edmundo Pérez-Ramos,
Sean M. Rovito, Tom J. Devitt, Peter Heimes, Oscar A. Flores-Villela, Jonathan A. Campbell,
and Adrián Nieto Montes de Oca. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Introductory Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
The distribution of Crotalus totonacus in Nuevo León, Mexico.
William L. Farr, Manuel Nevárez de los Reyes, Javier Banda-Leal, and David Lazcano. . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Introductory Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Dumeril’s Coralsnake (Micrurus dumerilii Jan, 1858) in Panama.
Aaron Prairie, Kathryn Chandler, Patty Ruback, and Julie M. Ray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Introductory Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Morphology and ecology of the Mexican cave anole Anolis alvarezdeltoroi.
Simon Scarpetta, Levi Gray, Adrian Nieto Montes de Oca, María del Rosario Castañeda,
Anthony Herrel, Jonathan Losos, Roberto Luna-Reyes, Noé Jiménez Lang, and Steven Poe . . . . . . . . . . 261
Introductory Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
The Herpetofauna of Chiapas, Mexico: composition, distribution, and conservation.
Jerry D. Johnson, Vicente Mata-Silva, Elí García Padilla, and Larry David Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
Nature Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Incilius melanochlorus and Craugastor mimus. Body gigantism.
Branko Hilje and Natalie V. Sánchez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Smilisca baudinii. Cannibalism.
Arístides G. Vinalay, José Luis Aguilar-López, Ricardo Luría-Manzano, and Eduardo Pineda . . . . . . . . 332
Triprion petasatus. Longevity.
Gunther Köhler and J. Rogelio Cedeño Vázquez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
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Anolis (Norops) compressicauda and Craugastor berkenbuschii. Predator-prey interaction.
José Luis Aguilar-López, Eduardo Pineda, Ricardo Luría-Manzano, and Arístides G. Vinalay. . . . . . . . . 336
Gerrhonotus ophiurus. Reproduction.
Ismael Reaño-Hernández, Larry David Wilson, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista,
and Ferdinand Torres-Angeles. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Phyllodactylus muralis. Reproduction.
Stephen R. Goldberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Phrynosoma orbiculare. Aberrant (highly-reduced) cranial horn development.
Aníbal H. Díaz de la Vega-Pérez, Ixchel Saavedra-Valero, Rafael A. Lara-Resendiz,
Hibraim Pérez, Wade C. Sherbrooke, and Amando Bautista-Ortega. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Sphaerodactylus graptolaemus. Habitat.
Daniel F. Hughes, Jaclyn M. Adams, Thomas Crosse, Jake W. Hearron, Sammi Gilbert,
Hugh J. McCaffrey, and Juliet E. Wright. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
Bothriechis schlegelii. Diet.
Ray Morgan and César Barrio-Amorós. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Drymobius margaritiferus. Mating behavior.
Elí García-Padilla and Vicente Mata-Silva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Imantodes cenchoa. Coloration.
Raby Núñez Escalante and César Barrio-Amorós. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Porthidium nasutum. Diet.
Rafael Paredes-Montesinos, Elí García-Padilla, and Vicente Mata-Silva. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Thamnophis proximus. Reproduction.
Stephen R. Goldberg. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Distribution Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Leptodactylus fragilis (Brocchi, 1877).
Vicente Mata-Silva, Dominic DeSantis, Elí García-Padilla, and Larry David Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Lithobates warszewitschii (Schmidt, 1857).
José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca, Marlon Francisco Chávez-Velásquez, and Javier Sunyer . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Phrynosoma modestum Girard, 1852.
Gustavo E. Quintero-Díaz, Armando Cardona-Arceo, and Rubén Alonso Carbajal-Márquez. . . . . . . . . 355
Sceloporus aurantius Grummer and Bryson, Jr., 2014.
Rubén Alonso Carbajal-Márquez and Gustavo E. Quintero-Díaz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Masticophis flagellum (Shaw, 1802).
Ismael Reaño-Hernández, Larry David Wilson, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista, Raciel Cruz-Elizalde,
and Juan Alfonso Hernández-Melo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
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Scolecophis atrocinctus (Schlegel, 1837).
Amaru Ruiz Alemán and Javier Sunyer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Thamnophis proximus (Say, 1823).
Vicente Mata-Silva, Dominic DeSantis, Elí García-Padilla, and Larry David Wilson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
First record of Norops humilis from Nicaragua.
John G. Phillips, Javier Sunyer, and Kirsten E. Nicholson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
New herpetofaunal records for the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Luis Canseco-Márquez and Cynthia Grisell Ramírez-Gonzalez. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Additional distributional records for the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Carlos Castañeda-Hernández, Luis Canseco-Márquez, and Manuel Ernesto Vargas-Orrego. . . . . . . . . 368
Agkistrodon bilineatus Günther, 1863 (Squamata: Viperidae): confirmation of an inland locality
for central Jalisco, Mexico.
José Carlos Arenas-Monroy and Iván Trinidad Ahumada-Carrillo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Miscellaneous Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Distribution notes and comments on the predation of the Mourning Gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris
(Duméril & Bibron, 1836), in Panama.
Ángel Sosa-Bartuano and Karla Ramos-Reyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
Predation event and a distributional record for Atropoides occiduus (Hoge, 1966).
Elí García-Padilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Peripheral and elevational distribution, and a novel prey item for Drymarchon melanurus in Sonora, Mexico.
Robert A. Villa, Thomas R. Van Devender, Carlos Manuel Valdéz-Coronel,
and Timothy R. Burkhardt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
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Volume 2, Number 3, September 2015
EditorIaL Board
MANAGING EDITOR
Louis W. Porras
Eagle Mountain Publishing, LC
UNITED STATES
E-mail: [email protected]
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Manuel E. Acevedo
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
GUATEMALA
Javier Alvarado-Díaz
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
MEXICO
Jerry D. Johnson
The University of Texas at El Paso
UNITED STATES
Gunther Köhler
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitute und Naturmuseen
GERMANY
Pablo A. Lavín Murcio
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez
MEXICO
Kirsten Nicholson
Central Michigan University
UNITED STATES
Gabriela Parra Olea
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
MEXICO
Mahmood Sasa
Instituto Clodomiro Picado/Universidad de Costa Rica
COSTA RICA
Javier Sunyer
Bogotá, COLOMBIA
Larry David Wilson
Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad
HONDURAS
SECTION EDITORS
Nature Notes, Mexico
Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
MEXICO
E-mail: [email protected]
Distribution Notes, Mexico
Vicente Mata-Silva
University of Texas at El Paso
UNITED STATES
E-mail: [email protected]
Nature Notes, Central America
William W. Lamar
The University of Texas at Tyler
UNITED STATES
E-mail: [email protected]
Distribution Notes, Central America
Javier Sunyer
Grupo HerpetoNica (Herpetólogos de Nicaragua), Nicaragua.
Bogotá, COLOMBIA
E-mail: [email protected]
TAXONOMIC BOARD
Jerry D. Johnson, Co-chair
The University of Texas at El Paso
UNITED STATES
Email: [email protected]
Larry David Wilson, Co-chair
Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad
HONDURAS
Email: [email protected]
Robert W. Bryson, Jr.
University of Washington
UNITED STATES
Mesoamerican Herpetology
Gunther Köhler
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
GERMANY
Kirsten Nicholson
Central Michigan University
UNITED STATES
Gordon W. Schuett
Georgia State University/The Copperhead Institute
UNITED STATES
Josiah H. Townsend
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
UNITED STATES
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SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM
Josiah H. Townsend
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, Pennsylvania 15705
UNITED STATES
E-mail: [email protected]
Victor Acosta Chaves
Scientific Representative in Costa Rica for RedMesoherp
COSTA RICA
E-mail: [email protected]
Julie M. Ray
La Mica Biological Station
PANAMA
E-mail: [email protected]
John Fannon
Camosun College
CANADA
E-Mail: [email protected]
country representatives
Mexico
Ireri Suazo-Ortuño
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás
de Hidalgo
Costa Rica
Mahmood Sasa
Instituto Clodomiro Picado/Universidad
de Costa Rica
Belize
Paul Walker
Wildtracks
Oscar Flores-Villela
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Honduras
Josiah Townsend
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Guillermo Alfonso Woolrich-Piña
ESIA Ticomán “Ciencias de la Tierra” IPN
Mario Espinal
M & K Consultores, Comayaguela
Guatemala
Manuel Acevedo
Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala
Nicaragua
Javier Sunyer
Bogotá, Colombia
Alejandro Solórzano
Universidad de Costa Rica
Panama
Abel Batista
Neotropical Panama
César Jaramillo
Círculo Herpetológico de Panamá
Julie M. Ray
La Mica Biological Station
Daniel Ariano-Sánchez
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala
LAYOUT AND DESIGN
Francine Eden Platt
Eden Graphics, Inc.
E-mail: [email protected]
OUR COVER IMAGE
Adam G. Clause earned his bachelor’s degree in 2010 at the University
of California, Davis. Post-graduation, he worked for several years as a
technician in H. Bradley Shaffer’s laboratory at UC Davis (now at UCLA),
and now is a Ph.D. student advised by John C. Maerz at the University of
Georgia. Adam’s dissertation research centers on the spatial ecology and
conservation biology of gerrhonotine anguid lizards, with a particular focus
on California’s Elgaria panamintina and the Latin American genus Abronia.
He maintains broad interests in Neotropical herpetology, social perceptions
of herpetofauna, and natural history. The cover image illustrates an adult
Bolitoglossa platydactyla, collected from Las Porfiadas, Municipio de
Soledad Atzompa, Veracruz, Mexico, at 1,350 m elevation. As as currently
' © Flora Luo recognized, this taxon is widely distributed across eastern Mexico from
southern San Luis Potosi to western Chiapas. The individual shown was captured by a young boy under a stone at
the base of a banana plant, among houses in a rural town bordering tropical scrub forest.
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