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FEATURE ARTICLES Giri’s. Chasing Bullsnakes Geckoella, (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Cyrtodactylus varadgirii On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Agarwal,. The Shared History of Treeboas Mirza, (Corallus grenadensis ) andPal, Humans on Grenada:Maddock, Mishra, A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 andRESEARCH Bauer ARTICLES 2016 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida from ...... the SinghoriBrian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko,Wildlife Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, Sanctuary, and Michael Granatosky 212 CONSERVATIONMadhya ALERT Pradesh, India . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... Khan Ashaharraza ...... 225

DepartmentHUSBANDRY of Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation, North Orissa University, Baripada, Orissa – 757003, India ([email protected]) . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226

PROFILE he Kollegal Ground. Kraig Adler: Gecko, A Lifetime PromotingCyrtodactylus Herpetology ...... collega- (2016) subsequently recognized Michael L. Treglia north234 and south Indian Tlensis (BeddomeCOMMENTARY 1870), was originally described as forms and the populations from Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Gymnodactylus collegalensis. The Turtles from Have BalarangansBeen Watching Me ...... (in the former and Maharashtra are now Eric assignedGangloff 238 to Giri’s Geckoella Kolegal State), Yelandur,BOOK REVIEWKarnataka. Sekar (1994) recorded (Cyrtodactylus varadgirii). the northernmost extent. Threatened of the Amphibians species’ of the range World editedin the by S.N. Sanjay Stuart, M. Hoffmann, The J.S. Singhori Chanson, N.A. Wildlife Cox, Sanctuary was established in July Gandhi National Park, R.Maharashtra. Berridge, P. Ramani, Vyasand B.E. (1998)Young ...... reported 1976 in Bari Tehsil, Raisen Robert District, Powell 243 Madhya Pradesh. The the species from the Gir National Park, and additional sanctuary spans over 288 km2 (22°45’–22°55’N, 77°15’–  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 records exists from Dhule,NATURAL Chandrapur HISTORY RESEARCH (Mirza REPORTS et al. 2010),: Summaries of Published78°00’E). Reports The on Natural topography History ...... is hilly and 247 most of the streams in and Little Rann of KutchNEWBRIEFS (Walmiki ...... 2013). Agarwal et al. the sanctuary are...... seasonal (Patil 2013). 248 According to Dwivedi  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252

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Fig. 1. Dorsal and ventral views of a Giri’s Geckoella, Cyrtodactylus varadgirii (CZRC-ZSI, V-6353), collected in the Singhori Wildlife Sanctuary, Raisen District, Madhya Pradesh. Scale bar = 10 mm. Photograph by Khan Ashaharraza.

Fig. 2. Map of India showing the type locality (black square), other documented localities (solid circles), and the new locality record in the Singhori Wildlife Sanctuary in Madhya Pradesh (red triangle) for Giri’s Geckoella (Cyrtodactylus varadgirii).

(2003), the sanctuary contains two principal forest types, al. 2016). Further comparative data were based on materials Teak forests and mixed deciduous forests with Teak as the (BNHS 1427, BNHS 1848, and BNHS 1849) in the collec- main tree crop. In either case, Teak (Tectona grandis) is the tion of the Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai, and dominant species; other floral elements include Anogeis suslat- (CES09/1536 and CES09/1537) in the Centre for Ecological ifolia, Pterocarpus marsupium, Boswellia serrata, Terminalia Sciences, Bangalore. alata, and Dendrocalamus strictus (Chandra and Kushwaha This new central Indian locality for Cyrtodactylus varad- 2013). girii represents the northeasternmost locality for the species. While examining museum specimens at the Central Zone It is 293 km east of Ujjain, the only previously documented Regional Center of the Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur; I locality in Madhya Pradesh, and 387 km north of Amravati, discovered a male gekkonid (CZRC-ZSI V-6353; Fig. 1) that where I collected paratypes (CES09/1536 and CES09/1537) had been collected by J. Tilak on 20 February 2010 in the for the original description of the species. Singhori Wildlife Sanctuary (23.268658°N, 78.250514°E), Raisen District, Madhya Pradesh (Fig. 2). Measurements, Acknowledgements taken with a Mitutoyo digital caliper to the nearest 0.01 I thank Anil Khaire (Indian Herpetological Society, Pune) for mm and following Bauer (2003), were: SVL (snout-to-vent encouraging this publication, Swamikkanu Sambath (CZRC, length) = 36.60 mm; TRL (trunk length) = 15.03 mm; TL Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur) for permission to exam- (regenerated tail length; in poor condition) = 23.34 mm; HL ine material in the collection, Ishan Agarwal (Villanova (head length) = 11 mm; HW (head width) = 8.23 mm; FL University) for reviewing an earlier draft of this manuscript, (forearm length) = 6.45 mm; ED (eye diameter) = 2.61 mm; Pratyush Mohapatra and Saipari Sailo for curatorial assistance NE (nostril-to-eye distance) = 2.89 mm; SE (snout-to-eye dis- during my museum visit, and Varad Giri and Rahul Khot tance) = 4.31 mm; and EE (eye-to-ear distance) = 2.98 mm. for permission to examine material in the National Centre All measurements and appearance corresponded with those for Biological Science, Banglore, and the Bombay Natural of the recently described Cyrtodactylus varadgirii (Agarwal et History Society, Mumbai, respectively.

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