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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial Board. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Social Media Team, Country Representatives, Our Cover Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
ARTICLES
Introductory Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
The tadpole of Megastomatohyla pellita (Duellman, 1968) (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae).
Gunther Köhler, Raúl Gomez Trejo Pérez, Luis Canseco-Márquez, Fausto Méndez de la Cruz,
and Arne Schulze . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Introductory Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Sexual size dimorphism and acoustical features of the pre-advertisement and advertisement calls of
Rhinophrynus dorsalis Duméril & Bibron, 1841 (Anura: Rhinophrynidae).
Luis Sandoval, Gilbert Barrantes, Diego Ocampo, and Catalina Sánchez-Quirós. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Introductory Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Updated checklists of snakes for the provinces of Panamá and Panamá Oeste, Republic of Panama.
Julie M. Ray and Patty Ruback. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
Nature Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Incilius luetkenii, Smilisca sordida, and Lithobates forreri. Predation by birds.
Luis Sandoval, Emmanuel Rojas, and Diego Ocampo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Ambystoma rosaceum. Antipredator posture.
Rubén Alonso Carbajal-Márquez, Gustavo E. Quintero-Díaz, and Carolina Chávez-Floriano. . . . . . . . 191
Abronia deppii. Reproduction.
Walter Schmidt-Ballardo, Israel Solano-Zavaleta, and Adam G. Clause. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Gonatodes albogularis. Communal egg laying.
Daniel Jablonski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Thecadactylus rapicauda. Preying on large insects.
Víctor J. Acosta-Chaves, Natalia Solís-Miranda, and César L. Barrio-Amorós . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
Bothrops asper. Arboreal behavior.
Jonathan Vega-Coto, Daniel Ramírez-Arce, Wouter Baaijen, Allan Artavia-León,
and Alejandro Zúñiga. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
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Oxybelis fulgidus. Diet.
Alejandro Solórzano and Frank Simms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Tantilla armillata. Predation by a Central American Bark Scorpion (Centruroides edwardsii).
Víctor Acosta-Chaves and David Villalobos-Chaves. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Kinosternon leucostomum. Sexual Dimorphism.
Franklin Enrique Castañeda and José M. Mora…204
Distribution Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Mastigodryas melanolomus (Cope, 1868).
Jorge Armín Escalante-Pasos and Elí García-Padilla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Atropoides nummifer (Rüppell, 1845).
Ciro Rodríguez-Pérez and Elí García-Padilla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Bothriechis bicolor (Bocourt, 1868).
Marcos Serafín Meneses-Millán and Elí García-Padilla. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Crotalus culminatus (Klauber, 1952).
Zabdiel A. Peralta-Fonseca and Elí García-Padilla . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
New records and distributional range extensions for amphibians and reptiles from Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Sergio A. Terán-Juárez, Elí García-Padilla, Francisco E. Leyto-Delgado,
and Leccinum J. García-Morales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Records for the Mourning Gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris) and its expansion in Costa Rica.
Randall R. Jiménez and Juan G. Abarca . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
New locality and elevational record for the snake Sibon anthracops (Cope, 1868) in Honduras.
Mario Espinal and José Mario Solís. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Miscellaneous Notes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
On the occurrence of Caiman crocodilus in Oaxaca, Mexico: a misunderstanding for over 140 years.
Armando H. Escobedo Galván, Gustavo Casas-Andreu, and Gabriel Barrios-Quiroz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
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Volume 2, Number 2, June 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
Josiah H. Townsend
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
UNITED STATES
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
Víctor J. Acosta Chaves is a Costa Rican tropical biologist specializing
in the ecology, taxonomy, and conservation of amphibians, reptiles, and
birds. After receiving a degree in biology from the Universidad Nacional
de Costa Rica (UNA), he recently concluded his post-graduate studies
(Master in Science) in herpetology at the Universidad de Costa Rica
(UCR). Víctor currently is involved with research on the herpetofauna
and birds of the country, such as investigating the ecology of critically
endangered species and evaluating the impact of human structures on
vertebrates. In recent years, he has been working as a scientific advisor
and specialized guide for scientists, students, and professional photographers throughout Costa Rica. The cover image of this issue depicts a
male Dactyloa insignis, which Víctor photographed at Sector Pocosol
del Bosque Eterno de los Niños, Provincia de Alajuela, Costa Rica.
' © Carli Shaun
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