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The Cuban Treefrog, Osteopilus septentrionalis(Dumériland Bibron 1841) (Fig. 1), is native to Cuba, the

Bahamas,andtheCaymanIslands,andiswellknownforitsinvasivecapabilities(Meshakaetal.2001).Barbour(1931)wasthefirsttoreportthepresenceofthisspeciesintheUnited

States(MonroeCounty,Florida),andthisinvasiveamphibiansubsequentlyhasspreadrapidlythroughouttheextremesouth-easternUnitedStates(Welker2004).Thesuccessfulexpan-sionofthespecies’introducedrangelikelycanbeattributedtohighfecundity,anabilitytoout-competenativeanurans

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F E A T U R E A R T I C L E S

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

R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E S

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

C O N S E R V A T I O N A L E R T

World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225

H U S B A N D R Y

Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226

P R O F I L E

Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234

C O M M E N T A R Y

The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238

B O O K R E V I E W

Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243

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

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A New State Record of the Cuban Treefrog, Osteopilus septentrionalis (Duméril and

Bibron 1841) (Hylidae), in North CarolinaMichaelC.Granatosky1andKennethL.Krysko2

1DepartmentofEvolutionaryAnthropology,DukeUniversity,Durham,NorthCarolina27708,USA(michael.granatosky@duke.edu)2DivisionofHerpetology,FloridaMuseumofNaturalHistory,UniversityofFlorida,Gainesville,Florida32611,USA(kenneyk@ufl.edu)

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Fig. 1.ACubanTreefrog(Osteopilus septentrionalis)fromGainesville,AlachuaCo.,Florida.MotorvehicletransportofcargoandornamentalplantshasbeeninstrumentalinthespreadofthisspeciesinFloridaandisthelikelyintroductionpathwayforthesefrogsintoNorthCarolina.PhotographbyKennethL.Krysko.

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andtoleratecoldweather,andthecapacitytopreyuponanarrayofnativespecies(Austin1973;AshtonandAshton1988;Meshaka1994,1996;Campbell1999;VargasSalinas2006;GranatoskyandKrysko2011;Granatoskyetal.2011).Thespreadofthespeciesappearstorelylargelyonanthropogenictransportviamotorvehiclesorpottedlandscapingvegetation(Lever2003,Kraus2009,Kryskoetal.2011,Meshaka2011). AlthoughsightingsandcapturesofO. septentrionalisinNorthCarolinahaveoccurred(J.C.Beane,pers.comm.),novoucherspecimensorpublishedverificationscurrentlyexist.Therefore,wereportthefirstvoucherspecimenofO. septentrionalisfromasinglelocationinChapelHill,NorthCarolina.ThisrepresentsthefirstrecordedsightingofO. septentrionalisinthestateandlikelyrepresentsarecentandisolatedintroduction. On04January2014,MCGcollectedanOsteopilus sep-tentrionalis (UF-Herpetology 172200) fromTownhouseApartments of Chapel Hill, 425 Hillsborough Street,ChapelHill,OrangeCounty,NorthCarolina(35.919372,-79.052568;DatumWGS84).The frogwas in a lethar-gicstatecrawlingonasidewalk.Noadditionalindividualswereobserved.Thejuvenile(<44mmSVL;Meshaka2001)wasdepositedintheDivisionofHerpetologyattheFloridaMuseumofNaturalHistory.PaulE.Moler(pers.comm.)confirmedouridentification. Becauseonlyasinglejuvenileindividualwasfoundatthecollectionsite,webelievethatthisobservationrepresentsasin-gleintroductionevent.ThefactthatthespecimenwascollectedinanapartmentcomplexincloseproximitytotheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatChapelHillduringearlyJanuarywhenstudentswerereturningfromwinterbreaksuggeststhatthelikelyintroductionpathwaywasviamotorvehicletransportfromanareawithestablishedpopulationsofCubanTreefrogs.Theintroductionofnonnativeamphibiansandreptilesbymeansofcargoorornamentalplanttransfer,atleastinFlorida,isrecognizedasamajorintroductionpathwaysecondonlytothepettrade(Kryskoetal.2011).Also,NorthCarolinaclearlyisanareaatpotentialriskofcontinuingecologicalinvasionsbyexoticherpetofauna(BeaneandCorey2010,Beane2013,GranatoskyandKrysko2013).The scientific communityshouldpromoteearlydetectionandfosterpublicknowledgeabouttheecologicaldangersofinvasivespecies.

AcknowledgmentsWethankJefferyBeaneforinformationonournewstaterecordandPaulE.Molerforconfirmingtheidentificationofthespecimen.

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