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FEATURENew ARTICLES Records of Castoe’s Coralsnake . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: (CalliophisOn the Road to Understanding castoe the Ecology and) Conservation from of the Midwest’s Kolhapur Giant Serpent ...... Joshua District, M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Maharashtra, Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES Mayur. The Texas Jadhav Horned1, LizardSwapnil in Central Asode and 2Western, Saurabh Texas ...... Kininge3, Shubham Emily Henry, JasonKurundwadkar Brewer, Krista Mougey,2, and and Omkar Gad Perry Yadav 204 4 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 ...... Department of Botany,Brian J.ShivajiUniversity, Camposano, Kenneth Kolhapur, L. Krysko, KevinMaharashtra, M. Enge, EllenIndia M. ([email protected]) Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 2Department of Environmental Science, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India ([email protected]; [email protected]) 3DepartmentCONSERVATION of Agrochemical ALERTand Pest Management, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India ([email protected]) 4 Department of. Zoology,World’s Mammals Amdar Shashikantin Crisis ...... Shinde Mahavidyalaya, Medha, Satara, Maharashtra, India ([email protected]...... [correspon 220 ding author]) . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

he Family ElapidaeHUSBANDRY comprises a large and diverse group of we provide new records of Calliophis castoe from Madilge and . Tterrestrial and marineCaptive Care of the Central of highly Netted Dragonvenomous ...... , Honewadi, Ajra, Kolhapur Shannon District, Plummer Maharashtra, 226 India. with over 60 generaPROFILE and nearly 400 currently recognized spe- At 1700 h on 23 January 2021, we received a call for a cies (Uetz et al. 2020).. Kraig More Adler: A than Lifetime one-third Promoting Herpetology of the taxonomic ...... rescue from Madilge Michael (16.16878°N, L. Treglia 234 74.22730°E; 685 m diversity in the familyCOMMENTARY is comprised of coralsnakes, six genera asl). We identified the snake as C. castoe and and released it in of which are distributed. The Turtles in Asia Have andBeen Watchingthe Americas Me ...... (Golay et al. natural habitat after taking photographs. Eric Gangloff 238Photographs were sent 1993). The Calliophis is among the least known venom- to Varad Giri, who confirmed the identity of the snake. We ous snakes in AsiaBOOK (Deepak REVIEW et al. 2010; Ganesh and Ramanujam deposited a photographic voucher (Fig. 1) in the Zoological . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, 2014). Calliophis castoeR. wasBerridge, recently P. Ramani, described and B.E. Young by ...... Smith et al. Reference Collection in the Lee Robert Kong Powell Chian243 Natural History (2012) from Amboli, Sindhudurg District, Maharashtra, India Museum at the National University of (ZRC(IMG) (15.958790°N, 73.994686°E;CONSERVATION 715 RESEARCH m asl). TheREPORTS: other Summariesknown of Published2.564). Conservation At 1100 Research h on Reports 28 August ...... 2020, we 245 collected a dead spec- localities for this speciesNATURAL are HISTORYAmbe Ghat, RESEARCH South REPORTS Goa District,: Summaries of Publishedimen of Reports the sameon Natural species History near...... the residential 247 area of Honewadi  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 Goa, Dicholi, Goa EDITORIAL and Karwar, INFORMATION Uttar Kannada ...... District, (16.11712°N, 74.24222°E; 706...... m asl). 251 We extracted tissue Karnataka. This speciesFOCUS ONinhabits CONSERVATION areas like: those A Project at You the Can type Support ...... for molecular analysis from the tip of the 252 tail before fixing the locality with tropical wet evergreen forest as well as locations specimen in 4% formalin and preserving it in 70% alcohol. like Goa, which have high human population densities. Herein These records extend the range of C. castoe by about 35 km

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Fig. 1. A Castoe’s Coralsnake (Calliophis castoe) from Madilge, Ajra, Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India. Photograph by Mayur Jadhav.

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to the northeast of the closest known locality in Amboli Ghat, Sindhudurg (Fig. 2), suggesting that this species could occur in other parts of the northern Western Ghats.

Acknowledgements We are grateful to Varad Giri for confirming the identity of the species. We also thank Amrut Bhosale for providing the map and Mahesh Patil and Hemant Todkar for assistance in field.

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