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HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL & AMPHIBIANS15, NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 28(2):189 242–244 • AUG 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS AFEATURE Range ARTICLES Extension and Natural History . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Notes onOn the Road the to Understanding Painted the Ecology and Conservation Globular of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ......................Frog, Joshua M.Uperodon Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: taprobanicusA Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................ (Parker 1934), in BangladeshRobert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in CentralAshis and Western Kumar Texas Datta .......................1 and Md. Emily KamrulHenry, Jason Hasan Brewer, 2Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 Independent ............................................. Researcher (Wildlife BrianEcology J. Camposano, & Conservation), Kenneth L. Dhaka, Krysko, KevinBangladesh M. Enge, ([email protected] Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael [corresponding Granatosky 212 author]) 2Department of Zoology, Wildlife Biology Branch, Jahangirnagar University CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 he Painted Globular. The “Dow Frog Jones Index” (Uperodon of Biodiversity taprobanicus ...............................................................................................................................) is a 90°38'51.1"E; elev. 18 m asl;............ Fig. 2252). A photographic Tlargely fossorialHUSBANDRY species inhabiting a wide range of habi- voucher was deposited in the Wildlife Biology Museum at tats that include forests,. Captive Care plantations, of the Central Netted wetlands, Dragon ....................................................................................................... cultivated the Department of Zoology Shannon of Plummer Jahangirnagar 226 University, lands, and areas close to human habitations, where they often Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh (JUHG 0378), and the identity PROFILE occupy wall crevices and tree holes (Sengupta et al. 2009; Inger of the frog was confirmed by Dr. Abhijit Das of the Wildlife . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 et al. 2016; Garg 2018). Although considered to be of Least Institute of India, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. The frog Concern (LC) globallyCOMMENTARY (Inger et al. 2016), few records docu- probably was attracted by insects (ants, termites, moths, ment the species’ presence. The Turtles in Have Bangladesh Been Watching (RezaMe ........................................................................................................................ and Mahony crickets) aggregating near light Eric Gangloffsources. 238 Of the 13 individu- 2007; Hasan andBOOK Sumida REVIEW 2012; Reza and Perry 2015), where als found during a subsequent visual-encounter survey at it is considered Vulnerable. Threatened (VU) Amphibians (IUCN of the World Bangladesh edited by S.N. 2015). Stuart, M. Hoffmann,2100–2345 J.S. Chanson, h, six N.A. were Cox, collected from a single site (approx. No previous study in R.Bangladesh Berridge, P. Ramani, addresses and B.E. Young morphometrics, .............................................................................................................. 30-m radius) with a clogged, Robert non-functional Powell 243 drainage system life history, or habitat utilization. in front of an abandoned medical center and a nearby paved CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 During a heavy NATURAL rain shower HISTORY at RESEARCH 2030 h REPORTSon 14 August: Summaries of Publishedroad. The Reports site on Natural was coveredHistory ................................. with dead leaves 247 (leaf litter depth 2020, we opportunistically NEWBRIEFS encountered ............................................................................................................................... a single individual ~1.5 cm) and tree....................................................... branches. Four individuals 248 were found at Uperodon taprobanicus EDITORIAL (Fig. 1) INFORMATION in a rest house ............................................................................................................................... at the Ghorashal the road or in adjacent vegetation,...................... two 251were on the trunk of a FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 Polash Urea Fertilizer Project (GPUFP) (23°59'13.4"N, Coconut Tree (Cocos nucifera), and one was on a Mahogany 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. Painted Globular Frogs (Uperodon taprobanicus) from the Ghorashal Polash Urea Fertilizer Project (GPUFP). Photograph by Md. Kamrul Hasan. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 242 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. DATTA AND HASAN REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(2): 242–244 • AUG 2021 Table 1. Morphometric data of Painted Globular Frogs (Uperodon taprobanicus) (n = 14; sexes unknown) from the Ghorashal Polash Urea Fertilizer Project (GPUFP) in Bangladesh. Measurements are presented ± one SD (range in parentheses). Characters Measurements Snout-vent length (mm) 34.8 ± 3.4 (26.6–39.1) Head length (mm) 10.9 ± 1.3 (7.8–13.2) Head width (mm) 13.7 ± 1.7 (11.1–16.2) Internarial distance (mm) 3.3 ± 0.1 (3.1–3.5) Interorbital distance (mm) 5.1 ± 0.6 (3.4–5.7) Eye diameter (mm) 4.3 ± 0.5 (2.3–4.7) Distance from eye to nostril (mm) 3.3 ± 0.2 (2.4–3.5) Length of forelimb (mm) 15.7 ± 1.3 (12.0–17.5) Length of 1st finger (mm) 4.8 ± 0.7 (3.2–5.8) Length of 2nd finger (mm) 5.8 ± 0.8 (4.2–7.2) Length of hindlimb (mm) 31.9 ± 2.1 (26.2–34.4) Length of femur (mm) 13.0 ± 0.8 (10.2–13.6) Length of tibia (mm) 11.7 ± 0.8 (9.8–12.9) Length of tarsus (mm) 7.1 ± 0.6 (6.2–8.3) Morphometric and meristic data of 14 measured frogs (Table 1) conformed to descriptions of U. taprobanicus in the Fig. 2. Map of Bangladesh showing current and previous distribution records of the Painted Globular Frog (Uperodon taprobanicus). Open stars published literature (Sengupta et al. 2009; Hasan et al. 2014; indicate previously published records and the solid star marks the new Garg et al. 2018; Jena and Palita 2020). However, maximum record reported herein. snout-vent length (SVL) (34.8 mm) of our frogs was consid- erably less than the size of typical adults (59.4 mm) (Sengupta Tree (Swietenia mahagoni). We also observed a considerable et al. 2009), although our data are very similar to those of number of Assam Forest Frogs (Hydrophylax leptoglossa) at samples collected near Santinagar, Kokrajhar District, Assam, the site. The habitat was once part of a dry deciduous forest India, where the maximum SVL was 35.5 mm (Sengupta et dominated by Sal Trees (Shorea robusta), most of which have al. 2009). The distance between Santinagar and GPUFP is been replaced by exotics such as Rain Tree (Albizia saman), ~270 km, but both populations might be part of the sub- Acacia (Acacia auriculiformis), Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus sp.), population of the species to which Sengupta et al. (2009) palms, and other ornamental and fruit trees. The GPUFP is assigned the specimens from Assam. Sengupta et al. (2009) currently abandoned except for localized construction work also reported that U. taprobanicus is restricted to north of renovating the country’s oldest urea fertilizer-producing fac- the Brahmaputra River, which apparently acts as a barrier. tory. We encountered no Painted Globular Frogs during a Although this might be valid for the species’ distribution in second survey on 9–11 October 2020. India, in Bangladesh it has been reported from both east and In Bangladesh, U. taprobanicus has been recorded from west of the river. Our population at 90°38'E appears to repre- deciduous and degraded deciduous forests, in human-occu- sent the eastern limit of the species’ distribution, which previ- pied habitats, and from near mangroves (Reza and Mahony ously was thought to be 90°25'E (Sengupta et al. 2009). 2007; Hasan and Sumida 2012; Reza and Perry 2015). Throughout its range, U. taprobanicus is largely associ- Acknowledgements ated with arboreal habitats,