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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATUREPrey ARTICLES of Many-keeled Grass , . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: EutropisOn the Road to Understanding carinata the Ecology and Conservation (Schneiderof the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... 1801), Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: in A SataraHypothetical Excursion ...... District, ,Robert W. HendersonIndia 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard inVidya Central V. and Patil Western1, V.I.Texas ...... Kalamade1 ,Emily and Henry, Prajakta Jason Brewer, A Chavan Krista Mougey,2 and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 Department of Zoology, ...... Yashwantrao ChavanBrian College J. Camposano, of Science Kenneth , L. Krysko,Satara, Kevin Maharashtra, M. Enge, Ellen M. ([email protected] Donlan, and Michael Granatosky [corresp 212 onding author], [email protected]) CONSERVATION2Msc. Zoology, Lal Bahadur ALERT Shastri College and Wildlife Protection and Research Society, Satara, Maharashtra, India . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

he Many-keeledHUSBANDRY Grass ( carinata) is dis- Eutropis carinata near human habitation at Pimprad, Phaltan Ttributed in India,. Captive , Care of theBangladesh, Central Netted Dragonand the ...... (17°58'56.37"N, 74°31'58.8108"E), Shannon Plummer 226foraging in leaf-litter. (Uetz et al. 2021). Most skinks are opportunistic predators Shortly thereafter, it succeeded in catching a house gecko that capture availablePROFILE prey as it is encountered (Manicom (Hemidactylus sp.) (Fig. 1). We believe that this is the first . and Schwarzkopf 2010).Kraig Adler: For A Lifetimeexample, Promoting the HerpetologySri Lankan ...... Skink report of Eutropis carinata Michael feeding L. Treglia on another234 and the (Eutropis lankae),COMMENTARY until recently considered a subspecies of E. first report of the species active at night. carinata, is known. toThe feed Turtles on Have semi-slugs Been Watching (KarunarathnaMe ...... and Eric Gangloff 238 Acknowledgements Armarsinghe 2009).BOOK REVIEW During fieldwork. Threatened from AmphibiansJanuary toof the April World 2021, edited by we S.N. noted Stuart, M. Hoffmann,We thank J.S. Chanson,the Maharashtra N.A. Cox, State Biodiversity Board, , that Many-keeled GrassR. Berridge, Skinks P. Ramani, are active and B.E. during Young ...... the morn- and the PCCF (Wildlife), Maharashtra,Robert Powell 243 for granting per- ing, evening, and sometimes at night, but less so during the mission to study skinks. We also thank Amit Sayyed for his midday heat. At aboutCONSERVATION 2200 h on RESEARCH 25 February REPORTS: 2021, Summaries while of Publishedsuggestions Conservation and Research the Reports team ...... from the Wildlife 245 Protection and  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 traveling from Satara NEWBRIEFS to Bamnoli, ...... we observed a Many-keeled Research Society...... for helping us with fieldwork. 248 Grass Skink foraging EDITORIAL on the INFORMATIONside of the Kaas-Bamnoli ...... Road ...... 251 (17°43'17.562"N, FOCUS 73°46'5.484"E). ON CONSERVATION Closer: A Project examination You Can Support ...... Literature Cited 252 revealed that it was chasing a cockroach (Blattodea), which Karunarathna, D.M.S.S. and A.A.T. Armarsinghe. 2009. Common Skink Eutropis carinata (Reptilia: Scincidae) feed on endemic semi-slug Ratnadvipia irradians it caught and consumed (Fig. 1). We continued to follow (Limacoidea: Ariophantidae). Taprobanica 1: 135–136. the same individual and observed it catching two more cock- Manicom, C. and L. Schwarzkopf. 2010. Diet and prey selection of sympatric roaches and a grasshopper (Orthoptera)Front Cover. within Shannon an Plummer.hour; after tropicalBack Cover. skinks. Michael Austral Kern Ecology 36: 485–496. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442- Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat9993.2010.02181.x. et velleseque audant mo about two hours of foraging, it retreatedestibus inveliquo beneath velique a rerchilstone. At Uetz,estibus P, inveliquoP. Freed, veliqueR. Aguilar, rerchil and J. Hošek (eds.). 2021. The . about 1000 h on 17 March 2021,erspienimus, we observed quos accullabo. a subadult Ilibus erspienimus,. quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo.

Fig. 1. An adult Many-keeled Grass Skink (Eutropis carinata) capturing a cockroach (Blattodea) while foraging at night (left) and a subadult taking a house gecko (Hemidactylus sp.) in Satara District, Maharashtra, India. Photographs by Prajakta .

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