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{"title":"BOOK REVIEWS","authors":"Ahmad AbulJobain","doi":"10.1643/CT2020093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CT2020093","url":null,"abstract":"Dragon Lizards of Australia: Evolution, Ecology and a Comprehensive Field Guide. Jane Melville and Steve K. Wilson. 2019. Museums Victoria Publishing. ISBN 9781921833496. 416 p. AU$49.95/US$35.00 (softcover).— Dragon lizards are iconic reptiles of Australia. Frill-necked Lizards. Thorny Devils. Bearded Dragons. These are some of the well-known stars of the Aussie dragon world, but there is much more to this diverse group than these large or bizarre famous species. Authors Jane Melville and Steve Wilson are well positioned to produce this book on Australian dragons. Melville has focused her research almost exclusively on agamids over the last 20 years, and her research has greatly enhanced our systematic knowledge of these animals. At the time of this volume’s publication, her group had described 20 dragon species (now 25, over half of which are Tympanocryptis), and raised many more from subspecies to full species or revalidated species or genera in synonymy. Her first-hand knowledge of dragons comes through decades of fieldwork that has taken her nearly over the entire continent, searching for new species and collecting specimens and tissue samples for genetic analyses. Steve Wilson is Australia’s most prolific—and arguably the best—reptile photographer. His series with Gerry Swan, A Complete Guide to the Reptiles of Australia (Wilson and Swan, 2017), is about to be published in a 6 edition, and he has other quality publications such as Australian Lizards: A Natural History (Wilson, 2012). With Wilson’s name on the cover, you immediately know you are in for a visual feast. His photographs not only sparkle with clarity and excellent color balance, but they are well-composed aesthetically. Owing to his knowledge of the animals, images have been picked to tell a story and show insightful angles, not just the standard portrait. Even within pages, images seem to have been chosen to show dragons in different postures from different perspectives. Dragon Lizards of Australia is best described as an intermediate-level book that is probably more comfortable on a coffee table than in a rucksack when heading to the field. At just over 400 pages long, it is a bit heavy for only one group of Australian reptiles—after all, where would the room in your bags be for the gecko, skink, and snake books if each were covered in as much detail? The book is available as a paperback only, with a nearly square shape of 19 3 21 cm, and just over 2 cm thick. The size and heavy paper cover function well, as the pages open—and stay open—quite nicely, making it easy to flip back and forth among sections. The burnt-orange color of the frontispiece and leading page of the sections is pleasing to the eye, and it evokes the arid zone where dragons are plentiful. The orange also mirrors the background of the stunning front cover featuring a Thorny Devil (Moloch horridus). Even the little rectangle of orange in the upper corners of the pages was a nice touch, although perhaps differe","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"701 - 708"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47073397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"EDITORIAL NOTES AND NEWS","authors":"","doi":"10.1643/ct2020113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/ct2020113","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"709 - 709"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41481726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Leslie William Knapp (1929–2017)","authors":"B. Collette","doi":"10.1643/CT2020030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CT2020030","url":null,"abstract":"L ESLIE WILLIAM KNAPP was born in Auburn, New York on November 17, 1929 and died May 17, 2017 in Maryland. He graduated from Port Byron Central School, Port Byron, New York in 1947. Les is survived by his wife Betty who runs a greenhouse business, Loch Less Farm, and their two sons. Les entered the College of Agriculture of Cornell University in September 1948 and received his B.S. degree in 1952. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and served from 1952 to 1954. He entered the University of Missouri in February 1955 and completed his master’s degree in August 1958, ‘‘A distributional study of the fishes of the upper White River, Missouri,’’ studying under Arthur Witt, Jr. In September 1958 he began his ichthyological studies under Edward C. Raney at Cornell University and received his Ph.D. degree in February 1964 studying the systematics of the Rainbow Darter, Etheostoma caeruleum. This was a busy time for darter studies at Cornell with Robert V. Miller, William Richards, and me all studying different groups of darters under the guidance of Edward Raney. From Cornell, Les was hired by the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center in Washington, D.C., which was just getting started, to process material collected by expeditions such as the International Oceanographic Campaign. Les published seven studies on darters from 1963 to 1976, including joining me to produce a catalog of all type specimens of all the darters (Collette and Knapp, 1967). Les then turned his efforts to studying two families of marine fishes, the flatheads, Platycephalidae and Bembridae, publishing 24 papers from 1973 to 2012, seven with Hisashi Imamura from Japan. He also completed the sections on Bembridae and Platycephalidae which are still in press in the long-delayed volumes of Fishes of the Western Indian Ocean (Table 1).","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"698 - 700"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45230961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A New Sisorid Catfish of the Genus Exostoma Blyth from the Chindwin-Irrawaddy Drainage in Northeastern India (Teleostei: Siluriformes)","authors":"B. Shangningam, L. Kosygin","doi":"10.1643/CI-19-248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-19-248","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of glyptosternine catfish of the genus Exostoma is described from the Chakpi River, a tributary of the Chindwin-Irrawaddy drainage in northeastern India. The new species can be distinguished from congeners of the Chindwin-Irrawaddy drainage except E. chaudhurii and E. vinciguerrae in having an adipose fin confluent (vs. separate) with the upper procurrent caudal-fin rays. It differs from E. chaudhurii in having anastomosing, rounded (vs. parallel) striae on the anterolateral surfaces of the lips and from E. vinciguerrae in having shorter adipose-fin base (29.1–32.3% SL vs. 35.4–39.4). This is the sixth species of Exostoma known from the Chindwin-Irrawaddy drainage.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"545 - 550"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45227885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Egg Clutch Survival under Prolonged Paternal Care in a Glass Frog, Hyalinobatrachium talamancae","authors":"Wagner Chaves-Acuña, José Andrés Salazar-Zúñiga, G. Chaves","doi":"10.1643/CE-19-322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CE-19-322","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have reported egg attendance as the most common protective behavior among the Neotropical frog family Centrolenidae. However, research on the effect of parental care and other factors thought to affect offspring survival is still missing for a great number of species. Here, we performed field observations during day and night to associate male-only care, habitat characteristics, and environmental variables with egg clutch survival in the understudied glass frog, Hyalinobatrachium talamancae. We conducted 34 nest survival models for 39 egg clutches considering constant daily survival rates, temporal variation in the survival probability, and other biotic and abiotic variables thought to affect the survival of embryos. We found that egg attendance was strongly associated with egg clutch survival in H. talamancae. Our results showed similar degrees of parental investment during day and night, accounting for extensive caring periods over one or multiple clutches as paternal care did not hinder re-mating in this species. Egg clutches exhibited daily survival rates of 0.93±0.02, often reaching pre-hatching stages when attended by males. Our results may thus suggest that egg attendance is a major, if not predominant, determining factor of embryo survival in H. talamancae. This study contributes to the understanding of the natural history associated with paternal care in H. talamancae and provides insight into the evolution of prolonged male-only care in the family Centrolenidae.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"514 - 521"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47575637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two New Species of Pseudojuloides from Western Australia and Southern Japan, with a Redescription of Pseudojuloides elongatus (Teleostei: Labridae)","authors":"Yi-Kai Tea, A. C. Gill, H. Senou","doi":"10.1643/CI-19-316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-19-316","url":null,"abstract":"The anti-equatorial labrid Pseudojuloides elongatus has a wide but disjunct distribution across the Western Pacific and Eastern Indian Oceans, with populations occurring in Western Australia, southern Japan, and the southwest Pacific Ocean. Principal component analysis of morphological characters and coalescent-based species-tree estimates of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA markers suggest that these populations are under incipient stages of divergence. The three allopatric populations differ strongly in coloration patterns of both sexes, particularly in terminal males, suggestive of reproductive isolation. We redescribe Pseudojuloides elongatus on the basis of nine paratypes and two additional specimens from eastern Australia and Norfolk Island, and describe two new species, Pseudojuloides crux, new species, from Western Australia, and P. paradiseus, new species, from southern Japan. The complex is distinguished from other members of the genus in sharing the following combination of characters: body elongate; dorsal-fin rays IX,12; pectoral-fin rays 12; no median predorsal scales; and usually 27 lateral-line scales. We briefly comment on anti-equatorial biogeographical patterns and Pseudojuloides argyreogaster from the Western Indian Ocean.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"551 - 569"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45895952","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Two New Species of Pencil Wrasses (Teleostei: Labridae: Pseudojuloides) from Micronesia and the Marquesan Islands","authors":"Yi-Kai Tea, Brian D. Greene, J. Earle, A. C. Gill","doi":"10.1643/CI-19-327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CI-19-327","url":null,"abstract":"Pseudojuloides pluto, new species, is described on the basis of the holotype and 11 paratypes from Wake Island, northeastern Micronesia, and nine paratypes from the Maug Islands, Northern Mariana Islands. The new species has previously been confused with Pseudojuloides atavai, but molecular analysis of mitochondrial COI reveals a difference of 6.8% in sequence data between both species, in addition to differences in meristic, morphometric, and coloration details. A second new species, Pseudojuloides proserpina, is described from Fatu Hiva, Marquesan Islands on the basis of the male holotype. The two new species are closely allied to Pseudojuloides atavai, and together form a species complex that differs from other members of the genus in having males that share the following combination of characters: interspinous membrane between the anterior two to three spines of the dorsal fin with a black spot; head extensively reticulate (reduced in P. pluto, new species); dorsal-fin base with a pink stripe; abdominal region behind pectoral and pelvic fins pale lilac to orangey pink (width of this region dependent on species) with a crosshatch or honeycomb pattern; and extensive black coloration over at least posterior half of body. Additionally, females of both P. atavai and P. pluto, new species, are distinctly bicolored (versus unicolored and suffused in all other congeneric species). Although the female form of P. proserpina, new species, is not known, it is likely that it shares this general coloration pattern, which may serve as an additional character uniting members of the Pseudojuloides atavai complex. We briefly discuss the phylogenetic relationships of Pseudojuloides inferred on the basis of mitochondrial DNA.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"679 - 691"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48241146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Acoustic Signal Diversity in the Harlequin Toad Atelopus laetissimus (Anura: Bufonidae)","authors":"L. A. Rueda-Solano, J. L. Pérez-González, M. Rivera-Correa, F. Vargas-Salinas","doi":"10.1643/CE-19-251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CE-19-251","url":null,"abstract":"The acoustic signals in Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae), a Neotropical genus currently composed of 97 species, are poorly known. In this study, we describe for the first time, the advertisement, release, and agonistic calls of Atelopus laetissimus, an endangered species endemic to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, in northern Colombia. The calling behavior of males was associated with reproduction (advertisement calls) and male–male aggression (agonistic and release calls). We also describe, for the first time, calls from female A. laetissimus, constituting the first case of a female's vocalization in the genus, recorded while one male was trying to clasp her. The diverse acoustic signals described here for Atelopus laetissimus suggest the vocal repertoire in the genus Atelopus may be more complex than is currently realized.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"503 - 513"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41970767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sexually Dimorphic Heads of Eurycea bislineata","authors":"D. Siegel, Cody L. Long, J. Waltz, Shelby A. Wren, K. Pereira, Sara J McClelland, Christopher M. Murray, D. Sever","doi":"10.1643/CH2020014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/CH2020014","url":null,"abstract":"Gladwyn Kingsley Noble was the first investigator to collectively examine courtship glands and correlate their function to the tail-straddling walk in plethodontid salamanders. While mental glands and caudal courtship glands have received the majority of attention since Noble's seminal work, Noble described other glands from Eurycea bislineata that were putatively involved in courtship that have received little or no attention (e.g., glands at the temporal regions of the heads of males). Previous studies demonstrated that heads of males enlarge during the mating season and some studies indicated that the enlargement was because of Noble's previously described temporal glands; however, current consensus of male head enlargement is that skeletal muscle hypertrophy is the cause of the head growth. In this study, we examined male and female E. bislineata throughout the year to test Noble's hypothesis that males possess courtship glands in the integument of the temporal regions of their heads and to assess what underlying tissues are involved with male head enlargement during mating. We found that the temporal regions of male heads change dramatically from non-mating to mating months, exemplified by two-dimensional geometric morphometrics. This variation is a result of M. levator mandibulae externus hypertrophy rather than glandular activity underlying the integument. Although no glandular masses isolated at the temporal regions of the heads result in this dynamic shape change, simple alveolar glands that resemble stereotypical courtship glands are found in the integument of only males from the mating season. These putative courtship glands are scattered amongst mucous and serous glands within the integument around the eyelids to at least the posterior termination of the cranium. The function of these glands is unknown but is probably involved with pheromone production, similar to more thoroughly examined courtship glands.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"578 - 592"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41983317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Codes for Natural History Collections in Ichthyology and Herpetology","authors":"M. Sabaj","doi":"10.1643/asihcodons2020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1643/asihcodons2020","url":null,"abstract":"Assembled here is a reasonably complete list of annotated codes for historical and modern natural history collections associated with lost and extant specimens of fossil and Recent fishes, amphibians, and reptiles. A total of 3,845 codes are anchored to about 2,064 distinct collections and/or institutions in 155 countries. At least 633 of those collections are exclusively paleontological or include fossil specimens. The list is primarily derived from the scientific literature and may serve as a resource for plainly citing specimens in publications and for linking such citations to records in online databases.","PeriodicalId":10701,"journal":{"name":"Copeia","volume":"108 1","pages":"593 - 669"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45760831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}