WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & IRCFAMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL 15,& NAMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 27(1):107–108 • APR 2020
IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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FEATURE ARTICLES First .RecordChasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis ofcatenifer sayithe) in Wisconsin: Twin-spotted Wolfsnake, On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared HistoryLycodon of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis jara) and Humans (Shaw on Grenada: 1802), A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLESfrom Bihar, India . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 Shariq Shafi1, Abhishek. The Knight2, Arif Anole Ahmed (Anolis equestris3, Saurabh) in Florida Verma 3, Kamlesh K. Maurya1, Meraj Anwar1, Gaurav Ojha3, Ambarish Mall3, ...... Brian J. Camposano, andKenneth Hemkant L. Krysko, Kevin Roy M.3 Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 CONSERVATION1WWF-India, ALERT 172 B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003, India ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis2 TRAFFIC-India,...... 172 B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003, India ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 3Valmiki Tiger Reserve, West Champaran, Bettiah, Bihar-845438,...... India 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225
HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226
olfsnakes inPROFILE the genus Lycodon are represented by 50 While on routine patrol, forest staff of the Valmiki species distributed throughout southern and southeast- Tiger Reserve found snakes (Fig. 1) on 17 August 2019 in W . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 ern Asia (O’Shea et al. 2018), of which 16 species have been the Valmiki Nagar Range and on 6 October 2019 in the reported from IndiaCOMMENTARY (Chaudhuri et al. 2015). The Twin-spotted Manguraha Range that were subsequently identified as . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 Wolfsnake (Lycodon jara) occurs in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Lycodon jara based on descriptions in Mallik et al. (2014) and Bangladesh, and MyanmarBOOK REVIEW (Mallik et al. 2014; Chaudhuri et Chaudhuri et al. (2015). The closest published locality record . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, al. 2015), where it inhabitsR. Berridge, both P.forested Ramani, and and B.E. openYoung ...... landscapes, for this species is in Hazaribagh, Robert PowellJharkhand 243 (Khan and Sharma including agricultural areas (Captain 2010). In India, the species 2018), which is 377 km from the Manguraha location. has been reported to occurCONSERVATION throughout RESEARCH most of REPORTS:the northern Summaries and of Published ConservationThe first Research sighting Reports ...... took place around245 1415 h on the northeastern states (TalukdarNATURAL HISTORYand Dasgupta RESEARCH 1977; REPORTS Bahuguna: Summaries of PublishedBhalu ReportsThapa on Natural Forest History Road ...... (27.43425 247°N, 83.94708°E; elev. NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 and Bhutia 2010; Captain EDITORIAL 2010; INFORMATION Das et al...... 2012; Khan and 138 m asl) and the second ...... at 0820 251h near a perennial rivu- Sharma 2018). Dasgupta FOCUS and ON Raha CONSERVATION (2004) listed: A Project 37 species You Can Supportof ...... let (27.32670°N, 84.52206°E; elev. 252136 m asl). Both locali- snakes from Bihar; however, we herein report the first records of ties were in moist deciduous forest dominated by Sal (Shorea the Twin-spotted Wolfsnake from the state. robusta) and Indian Laurel (Terminalia elliptica) trees. The
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Fig. 1. Twin-spotted Wolfsnakes (Lycodon jara) from the Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar, India: An individual found on 17 August 2019 in the Valmiki Nagar Range (left) and another found on 6 October 2019 in the Manguraha Range (right); note the absence of a light collar in both snakes. Photographs by Mundrika Prasad (left) and Abdur Rehman (right).
Copyright © 2020. Shariq Shafi. All rights reserved. 107 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 SHAFI ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(1):107–108 • APR 2020 snake from the Valmiki Nagar Range was an adult (total e.T176843A7315760.
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