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Cfreptiles & Amphibians WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSIRCF REPTILES • VOL 15,& NAMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 26(3):219–220 • JAN 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES An. Chasing Incidence Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in ofWisconsin: Road Mortality in the On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Asian. The Shared HistoryWater of Treeboas (Corallus Monitor grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: (Varanus salvator) A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCHin Kota ARTICLES Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris)Steven in Florida J. R. Allain1 and Mark J. Goodman2 .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 111 Trafalgar Way, Braintree, Essex, CM7 9UX ([email protected]) CONSERVATION2 69ALERT Norfolk Street, Cambridge, CB1 2LD ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 he Asian WaterHUSBANDRY Monitor (Varanus salvator) is a large be quite high (Parasharya and Tere 2007). Herein we present Tlizard distributed. Captive widely Care of throughoutthe Central Netted Dragon Southeast ....................................................................................................... Asia such a case from Sabah, ShannonMalaysia. Plummer 226 (Das 2015). It is a PROFILEstrong semiaquatic swimmer that inhabit On 17 September 2016 at approximately 2120 h, we wetlands, mangrove. swamps,Kraig Adler: A Lifetimeand human-alteredPromoting Herpetology ................................................................................................habitats found a juvenile V. salvator Michael dead L. Treglia by the234 side of the road (Fig. (Gillespie et al. 2005).COMMENTARY Asian Water Monitors, like other 1) half-way down Jalan Pejabat Pos Besar in Kota Kinabalu, species of monitors (.RahmanThe Turtles Haveet al.Been 2015) Watching areMe ........................................................................................................................ highly oppor- Sabah. The road itself is approximately Eric Gangloff 238 180 m in length and tunistic feeders that often exploit any available food source. the lizard was on the northwest-bound side of the road toward Unfortunately, dueBOOK to their REVIEW relatively large size and habitu- the intersection with Jalan Tun Fuad Stephen. The individual . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, ation to people, monitorsR. Berridge,like V. P. Ramani,salvator and B.E.often Young are .............................................................................................................. casualties had a snout-vent length of Robertapproximately Powell 243 25 cm and a total of accidental road mortality (e.g., Jackson and Lemm 2009; length of approximately 60 cm. We estimated that the lizard Karunarathna et al. CONSERVATION2013). In some RESEARCH areas ofREPORTS: Asia, the Summaries fre- of Publishedcould Conservation have onlyResearch been Reports dead................................. for one 245to two hours before its NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 quency and density ofNEWBRIEFS road mortalities ............................................................................................................................... of monitor lizards can discovery. On closer....................................................... examination, we 248 saw no obvious external EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern 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. Dorsal (left) and ventral views of a road-killed Asian Water Monitor (Varanus salvator) found in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. The dorsal view illustrates the position of the lizard when discovered. Copyright © 2020. Steven J. R. Allain. All rights reserved. 219 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 ALLAIN AND GOODMAN IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 26(3):219–220 • JAN 2020 damage and we were unable to determine the severity of any Das, I. 2015. A Field Guide to the Reptiles of South-East Asia. Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK internal injuries. The body was removed from the road and Gillespie, G., S. Howard, D. Lockie, and M. Scroggie. 2005. Herpetofaunal richness deposited in a nearby hedge. and community structure of offshore islands of Sulawesi, Indonesia. Biotropica 37: 279–290. Roads fragment habitats and force animals to cross them Jackson, R. and J.M. Lemm. 2009. Stomach content note for a road-killed Varanus in order to find food or a mate, and road mortality is a leading spenceri. Biawak 3: 18–20. cause of decline for some reptilian species, particularly those Karunarathna, D.M.S., S. Henkanaththegedara, A.A. Amarasinghe, and A. de Silva. that live in close proximity to human habitation (Todd et al. 2013. Impact of vehicular traffic on herpetofaunal mortality in a savanna for- est, eastern Sri Lanka. Taprobanica 5: 111–119. 2010). Previous research conducted in India (Kumara et al. Kumara, H.N., A.K. Sharma, A. Kumar, and M. Singh. 2000. Roadkills of 2000) suggested a positive relationship between the rainy season wild fauna in Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, Western Ghats, India: and the frequency of road-killed reptiles. However, elsewhere Implications for management. Biosphere Conservation 3: 41–47. Parasharya, B.M. and A. Tere. 2007. An observation of Common Indian Monitor in India, Sunder (2004) and Bhupathy et al. (2011) found that Lizard Varanus bengalensis Schneider mortality on Anand-Ahmedabad more reptiles were killed in the dry season. The discrepancies Highway, Gujarat, India. Zoos’ Print Journal 22: 2872. between the various studies are likely due to differences in local Rahman, K.M., M.M.H. Khan, and I.I. Rakhimov. 2015. Scavenging behavior of the Bengal Monitor (Varanus bengalensis) in Jahangirnagar University habitats and reptilian assemblages. More data are needed to Campus, Bangladesh. Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 7: 539–550. evaluate the effects of road mortality of reptiles in Malaysia. Sunder, K.S.G. 2004. Mortality of herpetofauna, birds and mammals due to vehic- ular traffic in Etawah District, Uttah Pradesh, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 101: 392–398. Literature Cited Todd, B.D., J.D. Willson, and J.W. Gibbons. 2010. The global status of rep- Bhupathy, S., G. Srinivas, N.S. Kumar, T. Karthik, and A. Madhivanan. 2011. tiles and causes of their decline, pp. 47–67. In: D.W. Sparling, G. Linder, Herpetofaunal mortality due to vehicular traffic in the Western Ghats, India: S. Bishop, and S. Krest (eds.), Ecotoxicology of Amphibians and Reptiles. 2nd A case study. Herpetotropicos 5: 119–126. Edition. CRC Press, Pensacola, Florida, USA. 220.
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