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Cfreptiles & Amphibians HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL & AMPHIBIANS15, NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 28(2):189 205–212 • AUG 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS OnFEATURE the ARTICLES Phylogenetic Relationships of the . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Indian OnGliding the Road to Understanding theFrog, Ecology and Conservation Pterorana of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ......................khare Joshua M. Kiyasetuo Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: and KhareA Hypothetical Excursion 1986 ............................................................................................................................ (Anura: Ranidae),Robert W.with Henderson 198 New RESEARCH ARTICLES Distributional. The Texas Horned Lizard in Central andRecords Western Texas ....................... from Emily Henry, Jason Brewer,Mizoram, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204India . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Lal Muansanga1, Ht Decemson1, Lal Biakzuala1, LH Laltlanhlui1, Fanai Malsawmdawngliana1, Gospel Zothanmawia Hmar1, CONSERVATIONMathipi Vabeiryureilai ALERT1, Nachimuthu Senthil Kumar2, and Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga1 . 1DevelopmentalWorld’s Biology Mammals and Herpetology in Crisis ............................................................................................................................... Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Mizoram University, Aizawl, ..............................796004, India (htlrsa@yaho 220 o.co.in) . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 2Department of Biotechnology, Mizoram University, Aizawl, 796004, India . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 he Indian Gliding Frog (Pterorana khare Kiyasetuo and PCR amplification using forward (L02510) (Palumbi 1996) PROFILE Khare 1986) was originally described from the Sanuoru and reverse (H03063) (Rassmann 1997) primers, and gener- T . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 and Rukhroma Rivers, Kohima, Nagaland, in northeastern ated partial 16S rRNA sequences from P. khare (MZMU India based on twoCOMMENTARY males. Local people in the state considered 2068; accession number: MW547411) along with those of this species to be an. Theedible Turtles frog Have Been(Kiyasetuo Watching Me and ........................................................................................................................ Khare 1986). five other anuran species that Eric were Gangloff deposited 238 in the GenBank Pterorana was consideredBOOK REVIEW a subgenus of Rana by Dubois repository as follows: Assam Forest Frog (Hydrophylax lep- (1992) but was later. Threatened reassigned Amphibians to the of thegenus World Pterorana edited by S.N. based Stuart, M. Hoffmann,toglossa ;J.S. MZMU Chanson, N.A. 1818; Cox, accession number: MW165470), upon the distinct patagiumR. Berridge, (= P. lateralRamani, and fold B.E. ofYoung skin .............................................................................................................. in gliding Indoburman Stream Frog (Sylvirana Robert Powell lacrima243 ; MZMU 1632; animals) by Chanda et al. (2000). Sen and Mathew (2006) accession number: MW440531), Indoburman Torrent reported a female CONSERVATIONfrom Arunachal RESEARCH Pradesh, REPORTS: and they Summaries noted of PublishedFrog Conservation ( Research Reports .................................; MZMU 245 1753, MZMU NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published ReportsAmolops on Natural indoburmanensis History ................................. 247 that the dermal skinNEWBRIEFS flaps on the............................................................................................................................... sides of the body and thighs 1784; accession....................................................... numbers: MW165450, 248 MW165459), in females are not EDITORIALas distinct INFORMATION as those of males. ............................................................................................................................... The range of Assam Hill Frog (Clinotarsus...................... alticola; 251MZMU 1775; acces- FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 P. khare extends from northeastern India to Myanmar (Frost sion number: MW165453), and Asian Black-spined Toad 2021) and Bangladesh (Khan 2013). In India, it has been (Duttaphrynus melanostictus; MZMU 1821; accession num- recorded from Arunachal Pradesh (Sen and Mathew 2006), ber: MW165455), which we used as an out-group. In our Assam (Dutta, 2004), Nagaland (Kiyasetuo and Khare 1986), dataset, we included the seven sequences generated in addi- Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Manipur (Devi and Shamungou 2006), Meghalaya (Rangad tion to 35 sequences obtained from the NCBI database. All Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo et al. 2007), and Mizoram (Dey andestibus Ramanujam inveliquo velique 2003; rerchil Sen sequencesestibus inveliquo were velique aligned rerchil by using the Muscle algorithm, and and Mathew 2003). Generally nocturnalerspienimus, and quos frequently accullabo. Ilibus asso - erspienimus,uncorrected quos accullabo.p-distances Ilibus were calculated using MEGA X soft- aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum ciated with boulders, they are capablefugiatis of maionsequat gliding considerableeumque warefugiatis (Kumar maionsequat et al. eumque 2018). The Bayesian Inference (BI) phy- distances (Chanda 2002). This speciesmoditia is erere listed nonsedis as Vulnerablema sectiatur logeneticmoditia erere reconstructionnonsedis ma sectia- was carried out in Mr.Bayes 3.2.5 (VU) on the IUCN Red List (Dineshma derrovitae et al. 2020).voluptam, However,as quos usingtur ma the derrovitae GTR+I+G voluptam, asmodel (Ronquist and Huelsenbeck accullabo. relatively little is known about the biology of this species and 2003). The MCMC (one cold and three hot chains) was run no genetic data have been available until now. for 20 million generations, terminating the analysis when the We collected P. khare from different parts of Mizoram standard deviation of split frequencies become less than 0.01, (Fig. 1A) and deposited specimens in the Departmental sampling every 1,000 generations, the burn-in set to 25%, Museum of Zoology, Mizoram University (MZMU). and the remaining trees used to assess Bayesian posterior Individuals were identified using Kiyasetuo and Khare probabilities (BPP) for nodal support. (1986) and Chanda (2002). Measurements to the nearest 0.1 We encountered P. khare most frequently as individuals mm were taken using a dial caliper (MitutoyoTM 505-507). or in small groups of four or five frogs in swift-flowing rivers We extracted genomic DNA from liver tissues using and streams, clefts of rocks, and along riverbeds during the QIAamp DNA Mini Kit (Cat No. ID:51306) following the beginning of the dry season (mid-September to November). standard protocol provided by the manufacturer, performed We heard advertisement calls of males (Fig. 1B) and encoun- Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 205 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. MUANSANGA ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(2): 205–212 • AUG 2021 Fig. 1. Map of northeastern India (A) created using open-source QGIS version 3.16.2. The type locality of the Indian Gliding Frog (Pterorana khare) at the Sanuoru River, Kohima, Nagaland, India (1), is indicated by the blue star. New records of the species at the Teirei Stream, Dampa Tiger Reserve (2), Tuithum Stream (3), Tuipawl Stream (4), Tuirial River (5), Tuirini River (6), Tamdil National Wetland (7), and Tuivawl River (8), Mizoram, India, are marked by blue triangles. (B) An adult male Indian Gliding Frog (Pterorana khare) (MZMU 2257) from Tuithum Stream, Mizoram. (C) A submerged egg mass from Tuithum Stream, Mizoram. (D) A breeding pair of Indian Gliding Frogs (Pterorana khare) from Tuithum Stream m, Mizoram. Photographs by Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga. tered them among bushes, rock crevices, underneath boulders A pair in axillary amplexus was held overnight in a plastic along flowing stream water, and in swift-flowing water from container and the female laid eggs at about 1900 h (Fig. 1D). about 1600 h onward. The calls, an “onkk-onkk-onkk,” resem- The eggs (n = 984) were pigmented, soft, and delicate, with ble a pig grunt and could be heard from a distance of about approximate diameters of 1.0–1.2 mm. After taking measure- 20 m. On 27 October 2015, we found a breeding site with ments (male SVL = 63.1 mm; female = 64.0
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