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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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NewFEATURE District ARTICLES Records of in . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On the Road to Understanding Rohitthe Ecology Giri and1, ConservationRoshan Giri of the2, Midwest’sand Kamal Giant SerpentDevkota ...... 3 Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: 1 A HypotheticalDepartment Excursion ...... of Zoology, , , ,Robert Nepal W. Henderson 198 2Shree Chhorepatan Higher Secondary School, Pokhara, Nepal RESEARCH ARTICLES3Nepal Toxinology Association, Kawasoti, Nawalpur, Nepal ([email protected]) . The Texas Horned in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 ight of mildly venomous, rear-fanged catsnakes CONSERVATION ALERT in the Boiga have been reported from Nepal (Shah E . World’s in Crisis ...... 220 and Tiwari 2004;. PandeyMore Than Mammalset al. 2018)...... Boiga ceylonensis had ...... 223 been reported from. The , “Dow Jones Index”Makwanpur of Biodiversity District, ...... by Wall ...... 225

(1907), but SmithHUSBANDRY (1943) listed this record as B. nuchalis (see also Shah and Tiwari. Captive 2004). Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226 The Himalayan Catsnake (B. multifasciata) is abundant on low vegetationPROFILE in forested areas of the mid-hill region at . elevations of 610–3,100Kraig Adler: m A (Schleich Lifetime Promoting and HerpetologyKästle 2002; ...... Shah Michael L. Treglia 234 and Tiwari 2004;COMMENTARY Whitaker and Captain 2004). We encoun- tered an adult Himalayan. The Turtles Have Catsnake Been Watching (Fig. Me ...... 1) at 0925 h on Eric Gangloff 238 Fig. 2. Map of Nepal showing known localities of the Black-banded 28 August 2020BOOK in Ganesh REVIEW Tole, Mulpani, District, Trinket (Oreocryptophis porphyraceus). Districts with previously pub- Nepal (28°15'30"N,. Threatened 83°33'49"E; Amphibians ofelev. the World 1,133 edited m by asl). S.N. Stuart,This M. Hoffmann,lished localities J.S. Chanson, are marked N.A. Cox, in yellow and new observations are indicated by is the first record of R.the Berridge, species P. Ramani, from and Baglung B.E. Young District...... The green dots in districts colored light Robert blue. Powell 243 nearest published locality is in , ca. 80 km to the northeast (Shah andCONSERVATION Tiwari 2004). RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... The Black-banded...... Trinket Snake 248 (Oreocryptophis por-  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... phyraceus) inhabits low but dense...... vegetation 251 and agricultural  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... lands near forests in tropical montane 252 forests at elevations of 1,000–2,600 m in , Nepal, , , , the Malaysian Peninsula, and (Schleich and Kästle 2002; Shah and Tiwari 2004; Whitaker and Captain 2004). Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. In Nepal,Back Cover. this Michael species Kern is considered rare and has been reported Totat et velleseque audant mo onlyTotat from et velleseque Kaski audant and mo Illam Districts (Schleich and Kästle estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,2002; Rai quos 2003; accullabo. Shah Ilibus and Tiwari 2004) (Fig. 2). aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolorWe apicto encountered invere pe dolum an adult Black-banded Trinket Snake fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia(Fig. 3A)erere nonsedisat 1700 ma hsectia on- 9 May 2019 near forest in Pakhribas, ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos Dhankutatur ma derrovitae District, voluptam, Nepal as (27°00'44"N, 87°21'29"E; elev. accullabo. 1,230 m asl). At 1734 h on 24 May 2019, local people killed a snake presumed to be a venomous Banded Krait (Bungarus fasciatus) in a village in the same district (27°04'28"N, 87°14'41"E; elev. 1,359 m asl). It was a young O. porphyraceus (Fig. 3B). At 0715 h on 26 August 2020, an adult (Fig. 3C) was found next to a house near the Hospital, Diktel, Khotang District, Nepal (27°12'47"N 86°47'36"E; elev. 1,595 m asl). This snake was released into nearby nat- Fig. 1. A Himalayan Catsnake (Boiga multifasciata) from , ural habitat. These are the first records from Dhankuta and Nepal. Photograph by Sandip Sharma. Khotang Districts. This species is likely to have a wider than

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Fig. 3. An adult (A) and a juvenile (B) Black-banded Trinket Snake (Oreocryptophis porphyraceus) from and an adult (C) from Khotang District, Nepal. Photographs by Binaya Bhusal (A, B) and Nipun Shrestha (C). documented distribution in Nepal but due to its resemblance Literature Cited to the Banded Krait, people often misidentify and kill it. Pandey, D.P., D. Jelic, S. Sapkota, H.M. Lama, B. Lama, K. Pokharel, M. Goode, All snakes were identified based on descriptions in and U. Kuch. 2018. New records of snakes from and vicinity, Central Nepal. Herpetology Notes 11: 679–696. Schleich and Kästle (2002), Shah and Tiwari (2004), and Rai, K.R. 2003. Environmental impact systematic and distribution of herpetofauna Whitaker and Captain (2004). from east Nepal. Ph.D. Thesis, Central Department of Zoology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, . Acknowledgements Schleich, S.H. and W. Kästle (eds.). 2002. Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal: Biology, We thank Sandip Sharma for providing photographs of the Systematics, Field Guide. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag KG, Ruggell, Liechtenstein. Shah, K.B. and S. Tiwari. 2004. Herpetofauna of Nepal: A Conservation Companion. Himalayan Catsnake, Binaya Bhusal and Nipun Shrestha for IUCN Nepal, Patan, Nepal. providing photographs of the Black-banded Trinket Snakes, Whitaker, R. and Captain, A. 2004. Snakes of India. The Field Guide. Draco Books, and Hem Bahadur Katuwal for assistance with the map. Chennai, India.

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