Range Extension of the Black-Banded Trinket Snake, Oreocryptophis

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FEATURE ARTICLES Range. Chasing Bullsnakes Extension (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: of the Black-banded On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Trinket. The Shared Snake, History of Treeboas (Corallus Oreocryptophisgrenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: porphyraceus A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 (CantorRESEARCH 1839) ARTICLES in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam . 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 Sebastian Hoefer ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Department of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

he Black-bandedHUSBANDRY Trinket Snake (Oreocryptophis por- Tphyraceus) is a medium-sized. Captive Care of the Centralcolubrid Netted Dragonfound ...... in China, Shannon Plummer 226 Taiwan, India, Nepal, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, PROFILE Malaysia, Indonesia, .andKraig Adler:Vietnam A Lifetime (Nguyen Promoting Herpetology et al. 2009)...... In Michael L. Treglia 234 Vietnam the known distribution of O. porphyraceus has been limited to the northernCOMMENTARY provinces where it often inhabits . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 montane forests with elevations exceeding 800 m (Ziegler et al. 2004; Nguyen BOOKet al. 2009; REVIEW Son and Truong 2014; Das 2016; Van Tan and Truong. Threatened 2016; Amphibians Le ofet the al. World 2018). edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243 On 2 March 2019 at 2211h, colleagues and I found a Black-banded Trinket CONSERVATION Snake crossing RESEARCH a stream REPORTS: (Fig. Summaries 1) in of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 the western highlands NATURAL of Lam HISTORY Dong RESEARCHProvince REPORTS (11.4475°N,: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... Fig. 2. Visible damage...... to the left eye of a Black-banded248 Trinket Snake 108.0648°E; WGS 84;EDITORIAL 1,281 INFORMATIONm asl). The landscape ...... of this ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... (Oreocryptophis porphyraceus) found on 2 252March 2019 in Lam Dong area is dominated by tropical montane evergreen forest. Based Province, Vietnam. Photograph by the author. on criteria listed by Das (2016), we assigned this snake to the subspecies O. p. vaillanti. Snout-vent length (SVL) was 61.5 cm and total length (TL) 76 cm. Some damage to the left eye The most southerly previously published record of O. was evident (Fig. 2). Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. porphyraceusBack Cover. in Michael Vietnam Kern was from Quang Binh Province (Fig. Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. 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. A Black-banded Trinket Snake (Oreocryptophis porphyraceus) found on 2 March 2019 in Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, and habitat at the site where the snake was encountered. Photographs by the author (left) and Khoa Nguyen (right).

3; Ziegler et al. 2004). This record extends the distribution to Lam Dong Province and is the first report of the species in southern Vietnam.

Acknowledgements Nguyen Huy, Nguyen Linh, and Hieu Pham Minh provided company and hospitality during my stay in Phan Thiet and helped find some information for this note.

Literature Cited Das, I. 2016. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia. New Holland Publishers, London, United Kingdom. Le, D.T., A.N. Dao, D.T. Pham, T. Ziegler, and T.Q. Nguyen. 2018. New records and an updated list of snakes from Yen Bai Province, Vietnam. Herpetology Notes 11: 101–108. Nguyen, V., T. Ho, and Q. Nguyen. 2009. Herpetofauna of Vietnam. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Son, N.L.H. and N.Q. Truong. 2014. New records of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Dien Dien Province. Tap chi Sinh hoc 36: 460–470. Van Tan, N. and N.Q. Truong. 2016. New records and an updated list of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Xuan Lien Nature Reserve, Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam. Academia Journal of Biology 38: 324–332. Ziegler, T., H.-W. Herrmann, V.N. Thanh, L.K. Quyet, N. Hie, C.X. Chinh, L.M. Thanh, and D.H. Tri. 2004. The amphibians and reptiles of the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Quang Binh Province, Vietnam. Hamadryad 28: 19–42.

Fig. 3. Map of Vietnam (http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/mapsonline/base- maps/vietnam-provinces) showing the previously known distribution of the Black-banded Trinket Snake (Oreocryptophis porphyraceus) in gray and the range extension in Lam Dong Province in red.

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