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Cfreptiles & Amphibians WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES &IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 189 24(3):197–200 • DEC 2017 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES New. Chasing Bullsnakes Distributional (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Records for the On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: HimalayanA Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................ White-lipped Pitviper,Robert W. Henderson 198 TrimeresurusRESEARCH ARTICLES septentrionalis Kramer 1977 . 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 (Reptilia: ............................................. Viperidae)Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevinfrom M. Enge, Ellen M. theDonlan, and MichaelGarhwal Granatosky 212 CONSERVATION ALERT . World’sHimalaya Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................... in Northwestern ..............................India 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of BiodiversityAbhishek ............................................................................................................................... Singh1, Kanchan Puri2, and Ritesh Joshi2,3 ............ 225 1EndangeredHUSBANDRY Flora and Fauna on Earth Conservation Team, Vasant Vihar, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India ([email protected]) 2Environment. Captive Education Care of Division, the Central Ministry Netted Dragon of Environment, ....................................................................................................... Forest & Climate Change, New Delhi, India Shannon ([email protected]) Plummer 226 3Conservation & Survey Division, Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, New Delhi, India ([email protected]) PROFILE . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 COMMENTARY he Himalayan White-lipped Pitviper (Trimeresurus sep- . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 Ttentrionalis), also known as the Northern White-lipped Pitviper and sometimesBOOK assignedREVIEW to the genus Cryptelytrops . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, (e.g., Malhotra and ThorpeR. Berridge, 2004; P. Ramani, Malhotra and B.E. Younget al. .............................................................................................................. 2011), has Robert Powell 243 previously been recorded from Nepal (Giannasi et al. 2001; Leviton et al. 2003; CONSERVATIONSharma et al. RESEARCH2013), Bangladesh REPORTS: Summaries (Uetz of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 et al. 2017), and northwestern NEWBRIEFS India, ............................................................................................................................... where it is known from ....................................................... 248 only a few localities inEDITORIAL Uttarakhand INFORMATION State (Theophilus ............................................................................................................................... et al. ...................... 251 2008), although Leviton FOCUS et ONal. (2003)CONSERVATION reported: Athe Project presence You Can Supportof ............................................................................................... 252 “Trimeresurus albolabris septentrionalis” in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. Chandna (2007) and Theophilus et al. (2008) listed the elevational range in India as ~1,000–1,150 m, and Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Sharma et al. (2013) listed it as 900–3,050Totat et velleseque m in audantNepal. mo Fig.Totat 1. Himalayanet velleseque audant White-lipped mo Pitviper photographed from Munsyari Chandna (2007), in his notes estibuson a inveliquocase of velique snakebite rerchil in areaestibus of Pithoragarhinveliquo velique district, rerchil Uttarakhand. Photograph by Ritesh Joshi. erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus the Mori area in the Uttarkashi Districtaut dolor of apictoUttarakhand invere pe dolum State, aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum stated that he found two snakes, whichfugiatis maionsequat had been eumque killed by pers.fugiatis comm.). maionsequat Photographic eumque evidence (Fig. 1) suggests that locals, that probably were Himalayanmoditia White-lipped erere nonsedis ma Pitvipers. sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos thetur Himalayanma derrovitae voluptam, White-lipped as Pitviper occurs in that area. Romulus Whitaker visited the site accullabo.with him and supported Theophilus et al. (2008) pointed out that most snakebites the contention that the species was likely there. Theophilus in the Bungapani area in the subtropical belt along the Gori et al. (2008) indicated that the Himalayan White-lipped River were caused by Himalayan White-lipped Pitvipers, so Pitviper also had been found in the Gori River Valley in far apparently without cases of fatal envenomation. Dharchula Tehsil of the Pithoragarh District at an elevation At 0310 h on 28 September 2015, we found a of nearly 1,000 m. However, Whitaker and Captain (2004) Himalayan White-lipped Pitviper (sex unknown; Fig. 2) and Vasudevan and Sondhi (2010) included the Himalayan along the Dehradun–Sahastra Dhara road in the Mussoorie White-lipped Pitviper only in the checklists of snakes in India Forest Range of the protected forest of the Mussoorie Forest and Uttarakhand, respectively, without providing descrip- Division near Dehradun (30°23'06.4"N, 78°07'27.9"E, tions or locality records. 832.3 m). At 1340 h on 24 July 2016, we found another During the last few years, reports of human fatalities due Himalayan White-lipped Pitviper of unknown sex (Fig. 3) to snakebites sustained in forested areas were received from on the Dehradun–Maldevta-Dhaunalti road (30°21'39.3"N, the Pithoragarh District in Uttarakhand State. However, 78°08'24.2"E, 784.5 m) nearly 20 kilometers from the few of the deaths in the area were attributed to green-col- location where the first snake was encountered. This site ored snakes, locally called “green pitvipers” (Bhupesh Pant, also lies in the Mussoorie Forest Range of the Mussoorie Copyright © 2017. Abhishek Singh. All rights reserved. 197 SINGH ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 24(3):197–200 • DEC 2017 Fig. 2. Himalayan White-lipped Pitviper (Trimeresurus septentrionalis) at an elevation of 832.3 m in the Mussoorie Forest Division, near Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Photograph by Abhishek Singh. Forest Division, and both localities are in the Himalaya scattered. Even authenticated information on the geographic Biogeographic Zone and the West Himalaya Province distribution of many threatened species is lacking, mainly (Rodgers et al. 2002). The largest portion of this area is in due to a paucity of herpetological surveys. Consequently, reli- Shivalik’s Biogeographic Subdivision, which constitutes an able data are rare because of the difficulty in sampling these important repository of reptilian fauna. Plant species in the patchily distributed, cryptic, and largely nocturnal species. areas where the snakes were seen included Flemingia chap- Considerable work remains before the distribution and sta- par (Charchara), Albizia spp. (siris), Bombax ceiba (Semal), tus of the pitvipers of the Himalayan Region and northeastern Murraya koenigii (Curry Tree), Lantana camara (Lantana), India in general is understood. In addition, Anita Malhotra Carissa carandas (Karonda), Colebrookea oppositifolia (Indian (pers. comm.) suggested that some new species remain uniden- Squirrel Tail), Datura stramonium (Jimson Weed), and tified. Nevertheless, these new records confirm the occurrence Parthenium hysterophorus (Congress Grass). Both sightings of T. septentrionalis in the Garhwal Himalaya, and provide the occurred during the monsoon season. We photographed the lowest known elevational record for the species. snakes and identified them based on descriptions in Sharma The Himalayan White-lipped Pitviper has not been et al. (2013) and Uetz et al. (2017). The identities were con- assessed for the IUCN Red List. Increasing development and firmed from photographs by Romulus Whitaker, Ashok anthropogenic activities along perennial streams, shrinkage of Captain, and Anita Malhotra. natural water sources inside protected areas, expansion of the The Himalayan White-lipped Pitviper has sometimes road network through the chain of protected habitats, and been confused with the White-lipped Pitviper (Trimeresurus
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