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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATUREAn ARTICLES Amelanistic Tadpole of the . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: PurpleOn the Road Frog, to Understanding the Nasikabatrachus Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... sahyadrensis Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical(Anura: Excursion ...... Nasikabatrachidae)Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and WesternSujith Texas V...... Gopalan and Emily D.A. Henry, EvansJason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida Department of Zoology, ...... University College, Trivandrum.Brian J. Camposano, Research Kenneth Centre, L. Krysko, University Kevin M. of Enge,Kerala, Ellen Thiruvananthapuram, M. Donlan, and Michael Kerala, Granatosky India 212([email protected])

CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 he Purple Frog. More (Nasikabatrachus Than Mammals ...... sahyadrensis; Fig. 1) ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225 Tand its congener (N. bhupathi) are the only currently recognized speciesHUSBANDRY in the family Nasikabatrachidae and both are endemic to the. Captive Western Care of Ghatsthe Central (Biju Netted andDragon Bossuyt ...... 2003; Shannon Plummer 226 Janani et al. 2017).PROFILE The rheophilous larvae of the Purple Frog hatch and disperse. Kraigduring Adler: June A Lifetime through Promoting monsoon-intensified Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 streams (Raj et al. 2011; Zachariah et al. 2012). At 1945 h onCOMMENTARY 26 July 2019, we encountered an amelanis- . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 tic tadpole (Fig. 2A–B) attached to an inclined rock in a very shallow steam BOOKat Myladumpara, REVIEW Vazhachal Reserve Forest, Kerala, India (10°17'53.6"N,. Threatened Amphibians 76°41'26.8"E; of the World edited 474 by m S.N. asl). Stuart, Its M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, morphology clearly matchedR. Berridge, descriptionsP. Ramani, and B.E. of Young N. sahyadrensis ...... in Robert Powell 243

Raj et al. (2011) andCONSERVATION Zachariah RESEARCHet al. (2012), REPORTS: differing Summaries from of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 normal cryptic tadpolesNATURAL (Thomas HISTORY RESEARCHet al. 2019; REPORTS Fig. :2C–D) Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 only in abnormal NEWBRIEFScoloration...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 Relatively few records document albinism or amelanism  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... Fig. 2. Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis 252 ) tadpoles in natural in amphibians (Brassaloti and Bertoluci 2008; Toledo 2011) habitat. Dorsal and lateral views of an amelanistic (A–B) and a typically because such abnormalities are rare and individuals with these pigmented individual (C–D). Photographs by S. Harikrishnan (A) and Sujith V. Gopalan (B–D).

Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo colorTotat aberrations et velleseque audant are momore easily seen and caught by predators estibus inveliquo velique rerchil (Bechtelestibus inveliquo 1995). 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 eumqueAcknowledgements moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditiaWe thank erere nonsedis the maKerala sectia- State Biodiversity Board for finan- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. cial support for fieldwork through WWF-India, the Kerala Forest Department for issuing a collection permit, and S. Harikrishnan, Govind Girija, and Vivek Chandran for assis- tance during fieldwork.

Literature Cited Bechtel, H.B. 1995. Reptile and Amphibian Variants: Colors, Patterns and Scales. Krieger Publishing Co., Malabar, Florida, USA. Biju, S.D. and F. Bossuyt. 2003. New frog family from India reveals an ancient biogeographical link with the Seychelles. Nature 425: 711–714. Brassaloti, R.A. and J. Bertoluci. 2008. Albinism in tadpoles of Rhinella ornata Fig. 1. A Purple Frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis) in natural habitat. (Anura, Bufonidae) from southeastern Brazil. Herpetological Bulletin 106: Photograph by Sujith V. Gopalan. 31–33.

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Janani, S.J., K. Vasudevan, E. Prendini, S.K. Dutta, and R.K. Aggarwal. 2017. A Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (Anura: Nasikabatrachidae). Journal of Asia- new species of the genus Nasikabatrachus (Anura, Nasikabatrachidae) from Pacific Biodiversity 12: 144–151. the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats, India. Alytes 34: 1–4. Toledo, L.F. 2011. Albinism in two Amazonian frogs: Elachistocleis carvalhoi Raj, P., V. Deepak, and K. Vasudevan. 2011. Monitoring of breeding in (Microhylidae) and Lithobates palmipes (Ranidae). Herpetology Notes 4: 145–146. Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (Anura: Nasikabatrachidae) in the southern Zachariah, A., R.K. Abraham, S. Das, K.C. Jayan, and R. Altig. 2012. A Western Ghats, India. Herpetology Notes 4: 11–16. detailed account of the reproductive strategy and developmental stages of Thomas, A., S. Das, and K. Manish. 2019. Influence of stream habitat variables Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis (Anura: Nasikabatrachidae), the only extant on distribution and abundance of tadpoles of the endangered Purple frog, member of an archaic frog lineage. Zootaxa 3510: 53–64.

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