suggests T. tau has a prolonged testicular cycle similar to its congener Trimorphodon biscutatus. Males of T. biscutatus from Arizona were undergoing spermiogenesis in January and March–October (Goldberg 1995. Southwest. Nat. 40:334–335). I thank G. Bradley (UAZ), A. Holycross (ASU), D. Kizirian (LACM), and A. Resetar (FMNH) for permission to examine specimens. Submitted by STEPHEN R. GOLDBERG, Department of Biology, Whittier College, Whittier, California 90608, USA; e-mail:
[email protected].
TROPIDOPHIS PILSBRYI (NCN). SIZE RECORD. On 19 September 1980 Orlando H. Garrido and José F. Milera collected a female Tropidophis pilsbryi from the grounds of the Asunción Hotel, Maisí, Guantánamo Province, Cuba. This specimen (CZACC 4.12076; Colecciones Zoológicas del Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Havana City Province, Cuba) measures 371 mm snout–vent length and 47 mm tail length. A second female T. pilsbryi (CTR 27; “Charles T. Ramsden” Collection, deposited at the Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática) collected from Babiney, Hoyo del Río Guaso, Monte Líbano, Guantánamo Province, Cuba by Charles T. Ramsden on 17 February 1931, was erroneously identified as Tropidophis maculatus by the collector and later by Orlando H. Garrido and measures 307 mm snout–vent length and 41 mm tail length. The first specimen has 175 ventrals and 36 subcaudals, while the second specimen has 166 ventrals and 28 subcaudals. The previously reported maximum length for this species is 295 mm SVL (Hedges and Garrido 2002. J. Herpetol. 36:157–161). These specimens present external pelvic spurs and also extend the previously reported range of variation in both ventral and subcaudal counts from 160–169 to 160–175 ventrals and from 29–35 to 28–36 subcaudals (Hedges and Garrido 2002, op. cit.). We thank Elier Fonseca and Lourdes Rodríguez Schettino for suggestions on the manuscript. Submitted by MICHEL DOMÍNGUEZ (e-mail:
[email protected]) and LUIS V. MORENO, División de Colecciones Zoológicas, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Carretera de Varona km 3, Capdevila, Boyeros, A.P. 8029, C.P. 10800, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.
TROPIDOPHIS WRIGHTI (NCN). REPRODUCTION. Tropidophis wrighti is endemic to Cuba and ranges from Northern Sancti Spiritus Province to Guantanamo Province (Schwartz and Henderson 1991. Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Florida Univ. Press, Gainesville. 720 pp.). On October 2001 a gravid female Tropidophis wrighti (335.5 mm total length) was discovered under a stone in an ecotone between pine forest and xeromorphic sub-thorny thicket on the Pinares de Mayari Plateau, in Sierra de Nipe (645 m elev.), Holguín, Cuba. This female contained a 154.0 mm (TL) neonate. Both specimens are deposited in the herpetological collection at the Institute of Ecology and Systematics (CZACC 4.9479-480). To the best of our knowledge, the only other record of clutch size or neonatal morphometrics in the genus 330
Tropidophis is Petzold’s (1969. Salamandra 5:124–140) report of a neonate T. semicintus (160 mm and 1.5 g, respectively). Submitted by ALEJANDRO FERNÁNDEZ VELÁZQUEZ, Centro de Investigaciones y Servicios Ambientales y Tecnológicos, Grupo de Recursos Naturales, Holguín, Cuba (e-mail:
[email protected]); and ROBERTO ALONSO, Divisón de Zoología de Vertebrados, Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Carretera de Varona km 3, Capdevila, Boyeros, AP 8029, CP 10800, Ciudad de la Habana, Cuba (e-mail:
[email protected]).
GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION Instructions for contributors to Geographic Distribution appear in Volume 36, Number 1 (March 2005). Please note that the responsibility for checking literature for previously documented range extensions lies with authors. Do not submit range extension reports unless a thorough literature review has been completed.
CAUDATA AMBYSTOMA MACULATUM (Spotted Salamander). USA: NORTH CAROLINA: HENDERSON CO: 5.6 km SW Tuxedo. 28 March 1997. David A. Pike. Verified by Jeffrey C. Beane. North Carolina State Museum (NCSM slide DAP 97-385). First vouchered county specimen (NCSM files). Egg masses were also observed in a breeding pond at the same locality on 29 March 1997. Submitted by DAVID A. PIKE, Glatting Jackson, Inc., Environmental Services Group, Orlando, Florida 32801,USA (e-mail:
[email protected]); DAVID G. COOPER, North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27601, USA; and DALE A. JACKAN, 311 Merrick Road, Tryon, North Carolina 28782, USA. ENSATINA ESCHSCHOLTZII KLAUBERI (Large-blotched Ensatina). MEXICO: BAJA CALIFORNIA: Sierra de Juárez, ca. 19 km airline S of Laguna Hanson. Two specimens were recorded. The first specimen was seen at Rancho Las Cuevitas, 0.7 km E of, 31˚53.021'N, 115˚55.780'W, 1540 m elev., in pine-oak forest. 8 May 2005. C. D. Heim, B. Alexander. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ 249145, photo voucher). The second specimen was located at Rancho Baja Largo del Sur, 2.0 km NW of, 31˚52.304'N, 115˚55.850'W, 1602 m elev., in pine-oak forest, on NE-facing slope, during a rainy day. 29 July 2005. J. H. Valdez-Villavicencio, B. D. Hollingsworth, T. J. Devitt, C. R. Mahrdt, J. A. Soto-Centeno. Universidad Autónoma de Baja California (UABC 1433). Verified by D. B. Wake. First records from the Sierra de Juárez and represents an isolated population that fills a 240 km distributional gap between the Sierra San Pedro Mártir, B.C. (Mahrdt et al. 1998. Herpetol. Nat. Hist. 6[1]:73–76; MVZ 229220–1) and Alpine, San Diego Co., California (Stebbins 1949. Univ. California Publ. Zool. 48[6]:377–526; SDSNH 32525–7). The two Sierra de Juárez localities are 1.5 km from each other in a north–south direction. Unconfirmed reports also exist from the vicinity of Laguna Hanson in the Sierra de Juárez (see overview in Grismer 2002. Amphib-
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ians and Reptiles of Baja California Including its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés. Univ. California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, California. p. 61). Submitted by CHARLES D. HEIM, P.O. Box 528, Kernville, California 93238, USA; BRAD ALEXANDER, P.O. Box 1734, Kernville, California 93238, USA (e-mail:
[email protected]); ROBERT W. HANSEN, 16333 Deer Path Lane, Clovis, California 93619, USA (e-mail:
[email protected]); JORGE H. VALDEZ-VILLAVICENCIO, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Km. 103 Carretera TijuanaEnsenada, A.P. 1653, C.P. 22800, Ensenada, B.C. (e-mail:
[email protected]); THOMAS J. DEVITT, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA (e-mail:
[email protected]); BRADFORD D. HOLLINGSWORTH, J. ANGEL SOTO-CENTENO, and CLARK R. MAHRDT, Department of Herpetology, San Diego Natural History Museum, P.O. Box 121390, San Diego, California 92112-1390, USA (e-mails:
[email protected] [BDH];
[email protected] [JASC]; and
[email protected] [CRM]). ANURA ANDINOPHRYNE OLALLAI (Tandayapa Andes Toad). COLOMBIA: NARIÑO: Municipio de Barbacoas: Corregimiento Ortiz y Zamora: Vereda El Barro. Reserva Natural Río Ñambi (1°18'N, 78°05'W), 1500 m elev. Highway Pasto-Tumaco Km 130. 13 October 2001 and 29 March 2002. Colección Zoológica. Universidad de Nariño. Pasto. (PSO 0055–57) and Instituto Ciencias Naturales. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogota (ICN 47711). Verified by J. Lynch. Species previously known only from the type locality, Tandayapa, Pichincha Province, NW Ecuador (0°1'S, 78°46'W) (Hoogmoed 1985. Zool. Med. 59: 251– 273). First country record, extends known distribution 160 km NW from the type locality. Submitted by JOHANNA MURILLO PACHECO Corporación Llanera de Ornitología KOTSALA, Calle 8 # 41125, Villavicencio, Colombia (e-mail:
[email protected]); BELISARIO CEPEDA QUILINDO, Universidad de Nariño, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Matemáticas, Departamento de Biología. Sede Torobajo. Calle 16 # 30-07 Apart. 202, Pasto, Colombia (e-mail:
[email protected]); and CRISTIAN FLOREZ PAI, Fundación Ecológica Los Colibríes de Altaquer FELCA. A.A 384 Pasto, Colombia (e-mail:
[email protected]). BARYCHOLOS PULCHER (NCN). ECUADOR: PROVINCIA DE AZUAY: Tamarindo (79°33'W, 02°47'S, 400 m). 04 August 1996. J.-M. Touzet et al. Universidad San Francisco de Quito & Fund. Herpetológica Orcés, Quito (FHGO-USFQ 623, 748, collected in the leaf litter). Verified by W. Ron Heyer. This endemic frog is known from western lowlands of Ecuador along the transition zone between rainforest and dry seasonal forest from 30 to 600 m; with previous records in the provinces of Esmeraldas, Manabí, Guayas, Los Ríos, and Pichincha (Heyer 1969. Contrib. Sci. Los Angeles Co. Mus. Nat. Hist. 155:1–14). First province record, extends its range ca. 70 km NE from the nearest known locality (7 km SE Buenavista, province of Oro; Heyer, op. cit.). Submitted by DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA, College of
Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ave. Interoceánica y calle Diego de Robles, Campus Cumbayá, Edif. Maxwell. Casilla Postal 17-12-841, Quito, Ecuador; e-mail:
[email protected]. BUFO GUTTATUS (Spotted Toad, Smooth-sided Toad): ECUADOR: PROVINCIA SUCUMBÍOS, Reserva de Producción Faunística Cuyabeno: Puerto Bolívar, (00°05'19"S, 76°08'31"W, 240 m elev.) 05, 07 and 14 August 2003. M. Guerrero, P.A.Menéndez and M.R.Bustamante. Museo de Zoología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador (QCAZ 26013–4, 26414). 4 km N of Tarapoa (00°07'24"S, 76°20'24"W, 230 m elev.). 20 July 2000. D. F. Cisneros Heredia, M. Brandt, A. León, and C. Ponce. Laboratorio de Anfibios y Reptiles FHGO-USFQ Universidad San Francisco de Quito (DFCHUSFQ 0715). PROVINCIA ORELLANA: Parque Nacional Yasuní: Tiputini Biodiversity Station (00°37'05"S, 76°10'19"W, 215 m). 23 November 1996. D. Romo. (QCAZ 10211). 11 August and 23 November 1999. D. F. Cisneros Heredia and K. Swing. (DFCH-USFQ 0270, DFCH-USFQ 0710). Estación Científica Yasuní (00°40'16.7"S, 77°24'01.8"W, 250 m). 20 February 2002. I. Tapia and G. Carotti. (QCAZ 19247). All verified by L. A. Coloma. Frost (1985. Amphibian Species of the World. A Taxonomic and Geographical Reference. Allen Press and the Association of Systematics Collections, Lawrence, Kansas; and 2002. Amphibian Species of the World. [on line]. V2.21 [15 July 2002]). Museum of Natural History. New York, http://research.amnh.org/ herpetology/amphibia/index.html) reports this species from Colombia, Guyanas, Venezuela, Amazonian and central Brazil and Ecuador, although no published records with associated voucher specimens were available for Ecuador. Because no vouchers existed, Coloma and Quiguango-Ubillús (2000–2004. Anfibios de Ecuador: Lista de Especies y Distribución Altitudinal [online]. Ver. 1.3 [2 April 2001]). Museo de Zoología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Quito, Ecuador. « http://www.puce.edu.ec/ zoologia/vertebrados/amphibiawebec/index.html) did not include B. guttatus in the list of Ecuadorian amphibians. These specimens represent the first vouchered records from Ecuador. Estación Científica Yasuní extends the range of the species ca. 990 km to the west from the nearest known locality “east of Departamento de Vichada” in Colombian Amazonia (Ruíz-Carranza et al. 1996. Rev. Acad. Colomb. Cienc. 20[77]:366–415). Submitted by MARTÍN R. BUSTAMANTE and PABLO A. MENÉNDEZ, Museo de Zoología, Centro de Biodiversidad y Ambiente, Escuela de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Av. 12 de Octubre y Roca, Aptdo. 17-01-2184, Quito, Ecuador (e-mail:
[email protected]); and DIEGO F. CISNEROS-HEREDIA, Laboratorio de Anfibios y Reptiles FHGO-USFQ, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Av. Interoceánica y calle Diego de Robles, edif. Newton Plaza, of. NP004, Casilla Postal 17-12-841, Quito, Ecuador (e-mail:
[email protected]). BUFO MARINUS (Cane Toad). LESSER ANTILLES: ST. VINCENT: THE GRENADINES: Mustique Island, northern part of island by pond at Buttercup House on eastern side of the north end of airstrip, at about sea level. 9 February 2004. M. R. Paice. MPM - P718 (photograph). Verified by Robert W. Henderson. First record
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