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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATUREA NewARTICLES Distribution Record of the . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Arrow-headedOn the Road to Understanding the EcologyTrinket and Conservation of the SnakeMidwest’s Giant Serpent ...... (Coelognathus Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: helenaA Hypothetical nigriangularis Excursion ...... ) in ,Robert W. Henderson India198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and WesternAakash Texas Bhushan ...... 1 and Emily Atul Henry, Kumar Jason Brewer,2 Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 Central Landscape, ...... WWF-India, NewBrian Delhi,J. Camposano, India Kenneth([email protected]; L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen [email protected]. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky [corresponding 212 author]) 2Guru Ghasidas University, Koni, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 he recently described. The “Dow Jones Arrow-headed Index” of Biodiversity Trinket ...... Snake (Mohapatra et al. 2016) (Table...... 1). 225However, the snake T(CoelognathusHUSBANDRY helena nigriangularis) usually occurs in dry recorded from southern Chhattisgarh was a personal com- and moist tropical. deciduousCaptive Care of theforests Central andNetted hasDragon been ...... recorded munication (Mohapatra etShannon al. 2016) Plummer and226 lacks photographic inside limestone caves and under boulders (Mohapatra et evidence and a precise location. PROFILE al. 2016). The species has been recorded previously from We herein report a record of Coelognathus helena nigri- . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 (Edake 2011; Kumbhar et al. 2011), angularis from Churcha, Koriya District of Chhattisgarh, parts of OdishaCOMMENTARY (Mohapattra et al. 2016), India (Fig. 1). This individual was rescued from the South (Kantimahanti et al.. The2015), Turtles JharkhandHave Been Watching (Lampe Me ...... and Lindholm Eastern Coal Limited (SECL) Eric Regional Gangloff 238 Hospital in Churcha 1902; SrivastavaBOOK et al. REVIEW2013), Maharashtra (Schulz 2013; (23°20'14.32"N, 82°31'58.09"E) on 4 August 2020 and was Ashaharraza and Bibekar. Threatened 2019), Amphibians West of the Bengal World edited (Chowdhury by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,released J.S. approximately Chanson, N.A. Cox, 50 m from the site of rescue. This sec- et al. 2018), RajasthanR. (Singh Berridge, P.et Ramani, al. 2020), and B.E. andYoung Chhattisgarh ...... ond locality record for this subspecies Robert Powell in243 Chhattisgarh and the

 CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 Table 1. Records of NATURALthe Arrow-headed HISTORY TrinketRESEARCH Snake REPORTS (Coelognathus: Summaries helena of Published nigriangularis Reports on Natural) in India.History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 State  FOCUSLocality ON CONSERVATION : A Project You Can Support ...... Reference 252 Madhya Pradesh Bandhavgarh National Park (23°42'N, 80°57'E) Mohapatra et al. 2016 Pachmarhi range, Saptura Tiger Reserve (22°27'N, 78°22'E) Mohapatra et al. 2016 Gupteswar, (18°49'N, 82°10'E) Mohapatra et al. 2016 Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Kapilas, DhenkanalTotat et vellesequeDistrict audant(20°41'N, mo 85°46'E) Totat et velleseque audant mo Mohapatra et al. 2016 Hadagarh Wildlifeestibus inveliquoSanctuary, velique Keonjhar rerchil District (21°14'N,estibus inveliquo 86°15'E) velique rerchil Mohapatra et al. 2016 erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus Humma, Ganjamaut dolor District apicto invere (19°26'N, pe dolum 85°03'E) aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum Mohapatra et al. 2016 Mahendragiri,fugiatis Gajapati maionsequat District eumque (18°58'N, 84°21'E)fugiatis maionsequat eumque Mohapatra et al. 2016 moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- Tumba, Gajapatima derrovitae District voluptam, (19°01'N, as quos 84°28'E) tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as Mohapatra et al. 2016 , Koraputaccullabo. District (18°40'N, 82°58'E) Mohapatra et al. 2016 Andhra Pradesh Sunkarametta, (18°16'N, 82°58'E) Mohapatra et al. 2016 Simhachalam Range, Visakhapatnam District (17°47'N, 83°13'E) Mohapatra et al. 2016 West Singhbum District (22°28'N, 85°30'E) Mohapatra et al. 2016 Maharashtra Tadoba National Park (20°10'N, 79°24'E) Mahapatra et al. 2016 Melghat Tiger Reserve (21°22'N, 77°20'E) Ashaharraza and Bibekar 2019 Susunia Hills Region, northwestern Bankura District (23° 23'N, 86°59'E) Chowdhury et al. 2018 Rajasthan Ranthambore Tiger Reserve, Sawai Madhopur District (26°00'N, 76°25'E) Singh et al. 2020 Chhattisgarh Kanger Valley National Park, (18°45'N, 82°10'E) Mohapatra, pers. comm. Churcha, Koriya District (23°20'N, 82°31'E) This study

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Fig. 2. A map of India depicting previously published locality records (red dots) and a second locality record (orange diamond) for the Arrow-headed Trinket Snake (Coelognathus helena nigriangularis) in Chhattisgarh.

Literature Cited Ashaharraza, K. and A. Bibekar. 2019. Occurrence of the Arrow-headed Trinket Fig. 1. An Arrow-headed Trinket Snake (Coelognathus helena nigriangularis) Snake (Coelognathus helena nigriangularis) in the Melghat Tiger Reserve: A from Churcha, Koriya, Chhattisgarh, India. Photographs by Atul Kumar. second locality record for Maharashtra State, India. Reptiles & Amphibians 26: 113–114. Chowdhury, S., R. Sengupta, S. Mitra, and A. Chaudhuri. 2018. Extension of the known range of the Trinket Snake, Coelognathus helena nigriangularis first for the Koriya District is 494 km north of the previous (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae), in India. Reptiles & Amphibians 25: 129– 131. record in southern Chhattisgarh and 166 km from the nearest Edake, S. 2011. Serpents of Bandhavgarh. Trustees of the Corbett Foundation known locality in Madhya Pradesh (Fig. 2). A photographic Newsletter, October–December 2010 & January–March 2011: 1–8. voucher has been deposited in the Milwaukee Public Museum Kantimahanti, M., K.D. Schulz, and V. Sharma. 2015. New locality records of (MPM VZP 1007). The identity of the species was confirmed Coelognathus helena cf. monticollaris (Schulz, 1992) from Andhra Pradesh, India. Sauria 37(4): 71–74. by Pratyush Mohapatra, Zoological Survey of India, CZRC, Kumbhar A.S., G.C Patwardhan, A.K Pradhan, and N.S Dungriyal. 2011. New Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. locality record of Coelognathus helena monticollaris (Schulz, 1992) from central Other species of snakes rescued from the site are the India. Cobra 5(2): 31–35. Lampe, E. and W.A. Lindholm. 1902. Catalog der Reptilien- und Spectacled Cobra (Naja naja), Indian Rock Python (Python AmphibienSammlung (Schlangen; Frosch-, Schwanz- und Schleichenlurche) molurus), Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus), Common des Naturhistorischen Museums zu Wiesbaden mit Bemerkungen. Jahrbücher Wolfsnake (Lycodon aulicus), Checkered Keelback (Fowlea des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 55: 1–66. Mohapatra, P.P., K.D. Schulz, N. Helfenberger, S. Hofmann, and S.K. Dutta. piscator), Duméril’s Black-headed Snake (Sibynophis sub- 2016. A contribution to the Indian Trinket Snake, Coelognathus helena punctatus), Indian Ratsnake (Ptyas mucosa), Banded Krait (Daudin, 1803), with the description of a new subspecies. Russian Journal of (Bungarus fasciatus), and Russell’s Viper (Daboia russelii). Herpetology 23: 115–144. Schulz, K.D. 2013. An annotated and illustrated checklist of Old World ratsnakes, The Common Trinket Snake (Coelgnathus helena helena) also pp. 17–268. In: K.D. Schulz (ed.), Old World Ratsnakes. A Collection of occurs in this area. Papers. Bushmaster Publications, Berg, Switzerland. Singh, G., A. Moun, and V. Mistry. 2020. Record of the Arrow-headed Trinket Snake (Coelognathus helena nigriangularis) from Ranthambore Tiger Acknowledgements Reserve, Rajasthan, India. Reptiles & Amphibians 27: 308–309. https://doi. We thank Pratyush Mohapatra and Vivek Sharma for iden- org/10.17161/randa.v27i2. tifying the snake, and Abhijit Das, Aniruddha Dhamorikar, Srivastava D.S., P.S Easa, and J.B Jauher. 2013. Integrated Wildlife Management Plan for Singhbhum, Jharkhand. Unpublished Report submitted to the and Soumen Dey for help in reviewing the manuscript and Department of Forest and Environment, Government of Jharkhand, Ranchi, providing valuable suggestions. Jharkhand, India.

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