In North-Central Gujarat, India

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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES Range. Chasing Bullsnakes Extension (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: of Wallace’s Striped On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Racer,. The SharedWallaceophis History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humansgujaratensis on Grenada: (Squamata: A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 Colubridae),RESEARCH ARTICLES in North-central Gujarat, India . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight AnoleJaydeep (Anolis equestris Maheta) in Florida1, Vishal Varma2, Shruti Patel3, and Zala Atulsinh4 ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1Research and Rescue Coordinator, Wildlife Care Center, Ahmedabad Forest Department, Gujarat, India ([email protected]) CONSERVATION 2ALERTWildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India ([email protected]) 3Wildlife Conservation. World’s Mammals and Biology in Crisis Lab, ...... Department of Life Sciences, HNG University. Patan, Gujarat, India...... ([email protected] 220 ) . More Than4At-Vav Mammals Chowkadi, ...... Taluka-Satlasana, Mahesana District, Gujarat, India ([email protected]...... ) 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226

allace’s StripedPROFILE Racer (Wallaceophis gujaratensis) is that more systematic surveys are required to better understand Wa recently described. Kraig Adler: species A Lifetime endemic Promoting Herpetology to the ...... western the distribution of this species. Michael L. Treglia 234 Indian state of Gujarat (Mirza et al. 2016). These diurnally COMMENTARY active snakes occur in arid landscapes, with most reports Acknowledgements . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 (Patel and Vyas 2019) from central Gujarat (Panchmahal, We thank the State Forest Department, Gujarat, the Vadodara, and AhmedabadBOOK REVIEW Districts) and the Saurashtra Conservators of Forest Mahesana and Patan for allowing us . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, Region (Bhavnagar, Surendranagar,R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and and B.E. Amreli Young ...... Districts). to examine the snakes. We Robert thank Powell Harshil 243 Patel for his valu- However, based on a photograph, Vyas et al. (2019) also able guidance and suggestions. We also are thankful to Uday recorded this species CONSERVATIONfrom Bayad, Aravalli RESEARCH District, REPORTS: in Summariesnorth- of PublishedMehta, Conservation Rushi Research Pathak, Reports ...... Ami Shrimali, 245 and Akshita Patel for  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Publishedhelp during Reports on surveys. Natural History ...... 247 ern Gujarat.  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 On 16 June 2019 EDITORIAL and 1 September INFORMATION 2019, ...... we found two ...... 251 individuals during fieldFOCUS surveys ON CONSERVATION in Timba Village,: A Project Mahesana You Can Support ...... Literature Cited 252 District (23.987804°N,72.761972°E; 241 m asl), and Patan Mirza, Z.A., R. Vyas, H. Patel, J. Maheta, and R.V. Sanap. 2016. A new Miocene- divergent lineage of Old World racer snake from India. PLoS ONE 11: District (23.954308°N, 72.347223°E; 127 m asl), respec- e0148380. tively. Both were near agricultural areas and were released Patel, H. and R. Vyas. 2019. Reptiles of Gujarat, India: Updated Checklist, Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Distribution,Back Cover. Michael and Conservation Kern Status. Herpetology Notes 12: 765–777. after taking photographs and morphometricTotat et velleseque measurements. audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo Vyas, R., D. Mori, K. Upadhyay, and H. Patel. 2019. Notes on Wallace’s Racer estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil The species had not been recorded previously from districts in Wallaceophis gujaratensis (Serpentes, Colubrinae): a recently described species erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus endemic to Gujarat, India. The Herpetological Bulletin 148: 29–31. north-central Gujarat. These new distributionaut dolor apicto recordsinvere pe dolum suggest 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. Wallace’s Striped Racers (Wallaceophis gujaratensis) from the Mahesana (left) and Patan (right) Districts of Gujarat, India. Photographs by Jaydeep Maheta.