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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FirstFEATURE Record ARTICLES of the Laudankia Vinesnake, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: AhaetullaOn the Road to Understanding laudankia the Ecology and Conservation ofDeepak, the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Narayanan, Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: Sarkar,A Hypothetical Excursion Dutta, ...... and MohapatraRobert W.2019, Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned in Centralfrom and Western TexasAssam, ...... 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 Jayaditya Purkayastha1, Sanath Chandra Bohra1, Chitra B. Tamang2, and Milu Medhi2 CONSERVATION ALERT 1Help Earth, Raghunath Choudhury Path, Lachitnagar, Guwahati 781007, Assam, India ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 2Azara, Guwahati 781017, Assam, India...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY inesnakes in the. Captive Care Ahaetulla of the Central (LinkNetted Dragon 1807) ...... are widely (all in India) for the Shannon are Plummer in Bangriposi, 226 Mayurbhanj distributed throughout southern and southeastern . District; Nilagiri, Balasore District; Madhapur, Boudh District V PROFILE The genus comprises. Kraig 19Adler: currently A Lifetime Promoting recognized Herpetology species, ...... of in Odisha; Mount Abu, Rajputana, Michael L. Treglia Sariska 234 Tiger Reserve, in which 14 are known to occur in India (Uetz et al. 2021). The Rajasthan; and Junagadh, Chhota Udaipur, and Vadodara in recently describedCOMMENTARY Laudankia Vinesnake (Ahaetulla laudankia) Gujarat (Deepak et al. 2019; Patel et. al 2019; Sengupta and is diagnosed by the. presenceThe Turtles Haveof a Been dermal Watching appendage, Me ...... 192–202 Chandramouli 2020). Herein, Eric we Gangloff report 238 the first record of A. ventrals, 154–185BOOK divided REVIEW subcaudals, dorsal scale rows 15-15- laudankia from Assam in Northeast India. 13 or 15-15-11, dorsum. Threatened ochre Amphibians /chestnut of the World edited brown by S.N. withStuart, M. Hoffmann, On J.S. 7 Chanson,September N.A. Cox, 2020, we rescued two individuals (a black spots, venter lightR. Berridge, /brick P. Ramani, andred B.E. with Young a ...... pair of mid- male and a female) at around Robert 1300 Powell h243 from nearby human ventral whitish lines (Deepak et al. 2019). Known localities settlements in the Bishnupur area of Guwahati, Assam  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252

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Fig. 1. Laudankia Vinesnakes (Ahaetulla laudankia) from Guwhati, Assam, India. Photographs by Jayaditya Purkayastha.

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376/389 mm, dorsal scale rows 15/15/13, ventrals 206/207, subcaudals 161/153, supralabials 8/8 (5th touching the ), infralabials 9/9, preocular 1/1, postoculars 2/2, presuboculars 2/2, temporals 2+2 in the male and 1+2/2+2 in the female, and cloacal scute divided. A photographic voucher of the male was deposited at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore (ZRC(IMG) 2.561). The identity of the species was confirmed from pho- tographs by H.T. Lalremsanga. This record from Assam is the easternmost record for the species and it extends the range by 685 km northeastward from the previous easternmost record in Bangriposi, Orissa (Fig. 2). Ahaetulla laudankia becomes the thirtieth species of recorded from the urban landscape of Guwahati (Purkayastha 2018).

Acknowledgement We are indebted to the Forest Department of Assam and the local people of Bishnupur, Guwahati, for their help and support.

Literature Cited Deepak, V., S. Narayanan, V. Sarkar, S.K. Dutta, and P.P. Mohapatra. 2019. A Fig. 2. Map of India showing previously known localities of the Laudankia new species of Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Serpentes: : Ahaetullinae) Vinesnake (Ahaetulla laudankia) in green: Junagadh (1), Vadodara (2), and from India. Journal of Natural History 53: 497–516. https://doi.org/10.1080 Chhota Udaipur (3) in Gujarat; Mount Abu (4) and the Sariska Tiger /00222933.2019.1589591. Reserve (5) in Rajasthan; Madhapur (6), Nilagiri (7), and Bangriposi (8) Patel, H., R. Vyas, and P. Vaghashiya. 2019. On the distribution of Ahaetulla lau- in Odisha; and the new locality in red: Guwahati (9) in Assam. dankia Deepak, Narayanan, Sarkar, Dutta & Mohapatra, 2019 and Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome, 1870) (, Colubridae) from Gujarat, India. Check List 15: 1045–1050. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.6.1045. Purkayastha, J. 2018. Urban biodiversity: an insight into the terrestrial vertebrate diversity of Guwahati, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 10: 12299–12316. https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.3721.10.10.12299-12316. (26°09'32.60"N, 91°44'34.80"E). Both (Fig. 1) agree Sengupta, D. and S.R. Chandramouli. 2020. A new locality record for the recently with the original description of the species. The morphomet- described Laudankia Vinesnake (Ahaetulla laudankia). Reptiles & Amphibians 27: 304–305. ric and meristic data for the two individuals are as follows Uetz, P., P. Freed, P. Aguilar, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2021. The Database. (male/female): Snout-vent length 757/771 mm, tail length .

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