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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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FEATURE ARTICLES A. ChasingRange Bullsnakes (Pituophis Extensioncatenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: of the Karnataka On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Bronzeback,. The Shared History of Treeboas (DendrelaphisCorallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: chairecacos (Boie A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 1827),RESEARCH from ARTICLES the Northern Western Ghats, India . 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 P. Karthik1 and S.K. Dutta2 ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology & Natural History, Anaikatti, Coimbatore-641305, Tamil Nadu, India ([email protected]) CONSERVATION2Nature Environment ALERT and Wildlife Society (NEWS), Nature House, Gaudasahi, Angul-759132, Odisha, India . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225
he ahaetuliid HUSBANDRYgenus Dendrelaphis contains 45 currently Trecognized species. Captive(Uetz Care et ofal. the 2019), Central Netted 11 ofDragon which ...... occur in Shannon Plummer 226 India (Aengals et al.PROFILE 2018). The taxonomy of these species was unresolved until clarified. Kraig byAdler: Van A Lifetime Rooijen Promoting and Herpetology Vogel ...... (2009) Michael L. Treglia 234 and Vogel and VanCOMMENTARY Rooijen (2011a, 2011b), the former resur- recting D. chairecacos .fromThe Turtles the Havesynonymy Been Watching of MeD...... tristis. Eric Gangloff 238 Little is known about Dendrelaphis chairecacos, which is assessed on the IUCNBOOK Red REVIEW List as Data Deficient (Deepak et . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, al. 2019). During a herpetofaunalR. Berridge, P. Ramani, survey and conductedB.E. Young ...... between Robert Powell 243 November 2016 and July 2017 in the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve (17°04’00’’–17°19’54’’N, CONSERVATION 73°40’43’’–73 RESEARCH°53’09’’E), REPORTS: Summariesnorth- of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 ern Western Ghats, NEWBRIEFSIndia, we ...... encountered an adult female ...... 248 at about 1130 h on EDITORIAL26 February INFORMATION 2017 (Figs...... 1 & 2). We ...... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION recorded environmental and morphometric data: A Project and You released Can Support ...... 252 the snake at the site of capture. We confirmed the identity of the species using informa- tion in Van Rooijen and Vogel (2009)Front Cover. and Shannon Chandramouli Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern and Ganesh (2012). The snake wasTotat at et avelleseque height audant of ~1.8mo m Totat et velleseque audant mo in a tree in tropical deciduous forestestibus habitat inveliquo (Karthik velique rerchil et al. 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. An adult female Karnataka Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis chaireca- Fig. 2. Lateral, dorsal, and ventral views of the head of an adult female cos) from the Sahyadri Tiger Reserve, northern Western Ghats, India. Karnataka Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis chairecacos) from the Sahyadri Tiger Photograph by P. Karthik. Reserve, northern Western Ghats, India. Photographs by P. Karthik.
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Fig. 3. Reported localities for the Karnataka Bronzeback (Dendrelaphis chairecacos) in peninsular India. The new locality reported herein is indicated by the red symbol; previously reported sites are marked by yellow symbols, including the only locality in the Eastern Ghats (Ganesh and Arumugam 2015). The Western Ghats are indicated by the green outline.
2019) at an elevation of 850 m asl. This location, 378 km Acknowledgements north-northwest of the nearest previous location recorded by We thank Clement Ben (Chief Conservator of Forest) for Chandramouli and Ganesh (2012), is only the fifth reported granting permission and funding for this project; supervi- locality for the species and the first from the Northern sors N.M. Ishwar, Nagarajan Baskaran, and S.R. Ganesh for Western Ghats (Fig. 2). Noteworthy is that this female had a encouragement and support; Orvill Jude Nazareth and other snout-vent length of 830 mm, exceeding the previous max- Sahyadri research mates from the Wildlife Institute of India ima of 480 mm reported by Van Rooijen and Vogel (2009) for companionship in the field; and all Kolhapur Wildlife and 780 mm recorded by Chandramouli and Ganesh (2012). Division staff and biologists for support and accommodations. In addition, the elevation where this snake was encountered (850 m asl) dramatically exceeds the maximum elevation (400 Literature Cited m asl) listed by Deepak et al. (2019). Aengals, R., V.M. Sathish Kumar, M.J. Palot, and S.R. Ganesh. 2018. A Checklist 238 KARTHIK AND DUTTA IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 26(3):237–239 • JAN 2020
of Reptiles of India. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India. northern Western Ghats, India. Sauria 41(2): 70–76. Chandramouli, S.R. and S.R. Ganesh. 2012. New records of Bronzeback Snakes Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2019. The Reptile Database.
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