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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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FirstFEATURE Locality ARTICLES Record for the Ladakh Cliff . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Racer,On thePlatyceps Road to Understanding the Ecology ladacensis and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant (Anderson Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 1871)190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypotheticalfrom Excursion ...... Kargil, Ladakh, IndiaRobert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central andAmjad Western HussainTexas ...... 1 and V.T. Emily TantarpaleHenry, Jason Brewer,2 Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 Kargil ...... Campus, University of Ladakh,Brian J. Camposano,Saliskote, Kargil,Kenneth Ladakh, L. Krysko, India Kevin ([email protected]. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael [corresponding Granatosky author])212 2Department of Zoology, Vidya Bharti Mahavidyalaya, Amravati, Maharashtra, India ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... Photographs by the senior author...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225
HUSBANDRY he Ladakh Cliff Racer (Platyceps ladacensis) ranges from west- Herein we document the first records of Platyceps . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226 Tern India through Pakistan and Afghanistan to eastern Iran ladacensis from Kargil District, Ladakh, India. On 7 May and north to southernPROFILE Turkmenistan, southern Uzbekistan, and 2020, we found a dead female (SVL 812 mm, TL 259 western Tajikistan (Ananjeva. Kraig Adler: Aet Lifetime al. 2006; Promoting Uetz Herpetology et al. 2020) ...... with mm) (Fig. 1) near an agricultural Michael L. Treglia field 234 in Gongma Minji an elevational rangeCOMMENTARY of 350–3,700 m asl (Whitaker and Captain Village (Kargil) (34°29'01.7"N, 76°05'01.3"E). On 25 May 2004; Schätti et al. 2014).. The Turtles These Have snakes Been Watching are diurnal Me ...... or crepuscular 2020, a second female (SVL Eric 825 Gangloff mm, 238 TL 275 mm) (Fig. and inhabit extremely dry and rocky areas (Amr and Disi 2011). 2), also dead, was near the main road of the same village BOOK REVIEW . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243
CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252
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Fig. 1. Details of a female Ladakh Cliff Racer (Platyceps ladacensis) from an agricultural field near Gongma Minji Village, Kargil District, Ladakh, India. Photographs by Amjad Hussain.
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Fig. 2. Details of a female Ladakh Cliff Racer (Platyceps ladacensis) from the highway of Gongma Minji Village, Kargil District, Ladakh, India. Photographs by Amjad Hussain.
(34°28'42.3"N, 76°05'13.8"E). We recorded morphologi- Literature Cited cal data and identified the snakes based on descriptions and Amr, Z.S. and A.M. Disi. 2011. Systematics, distribution and ecology of the snakes keys in Smith (1943), Whitaker and Captain (2004), and of Jordan. Vertebrate Zoology 61: 179–266. Ananjeva, N.B., N.L. Orlov, R.G. Khalikov, I.S. Darevsky, S.A. Ryabov, and A.V. Schätti et al. (2014). Photographic vouchers were submitted Barabanov. 2006. The Reptiles of Northern Eurasia: Taxonomic Diversity, to the Museum of Science Lab, Kargil Campus, University Distribution, Conservation Status. Series Faunistica No. 47. Pensoft Publishers, of Ladakh, Kargil, Ladakh, India (IMG-UOLK-1.01–2). Sofia, Bulgaria. IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). 2021. The IUCN Red List The identity of the species was confirmed by Dr Pratyush of Threatened Species. Version 2020-3. https://www.iucnredlist.org. P. Mohapatra, Zoological Survey of India, Central Zone Manhas, A., R. Raina, and A. Wanganeo. 2018. Reptilian diversity and dis- Regional Centre, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India. tributions in the Doda District of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Reptiles & The closest previously documented records of Platyceps Amphibians 25: 164–169. Murthy, T.S.N. and B.D. Sharma. 1976. A contribution to the herpetology of ladacensis are at Khalsi in Leh District of Ladakh, 122 km Jammu and Kashmir. British Journal of Herpetology 5: 533–538. to the northeast (Murthy and Sharma 1976; Murthy et al. Murthy, T.S.N., B.D. Sharma, and T. Sharma. 1979. Second report on the herpe- 1979; Sahi 1979), and Doda in Doda District, Jammu and tofauna of Jammu and Kashmir. The Snake 11: 234–241. Kashmir, 430 km to the southwest (Manhas et al. 2018). Sahi, D.N. 1979. A Contribution to the Herpetology of Jammu and Kashmir. Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of Jammu, Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Schätti, B., F. Tillack, and C. Kucharzewski. 2014. Platyceps rhodorachis (Jan, 1863) Acknowledgements – a study of the racer genus Platyceps Blyth, 1860 east of the Tigris (Reptilia: We thank Mr. Raza Ali, Warden of the Wildlife Department, Squamata: Colubridae). Vertebrate Zoology 64: 297–405. Kargil (Ladakh), and the Wildlife Department, Ladakh, for Smith, M.A. 1943. Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Volume III.-Serpentes. their cooperation and support; Dr. Pratyush Mohopatra, Taylor and Francis, London, UK. Museum-in-Charge, Zoological Survey of India, Central Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2020. The Reptile Database. https://reptile- Zone Regional Centre, Jabalpur, for confirming the identity database.reptarium.cz/species?genus=Platyceps&species=ladacensis&search_ param=%28%28search%3D%27Platyceps+ladacensis%27%29%29. of the species; and Rahul Deshmukh and Dr. Ajaz Hussain Whitaker, R. and A. Captain. 2004. Snakes of India, The Field Guide. Draco Books, Spengkupa, Wildlife Institute of India, for guidance. Chennai, India.
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