Boiga Forsteni) Is a Colubrid with a Wide Fbut Disjunct Distributionprofile in Nepal, Sri-Lanka, and India

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FEATURE ARTICLES Range. Chasing Bullsnakes Extension (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: of Forsten’s Catsnake, On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . TheBoiga Shared History of Treeboas forsteni (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans(Duméril, on Grenada: Bibron, A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 andRESEARCH Duméril ARTICLES 1854) in the Damoh District . 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 ...... of MadhyaBrian J. Camposano, Kenneth Pradesh, L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan,India and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATION YogeshALERT H. Vamdev, Vishal Varma, and Akshay Parashar . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than MammalsBombay ...... Natural History Society, Mumbai – 400001, India ([email protected])...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226 orsten’s Catsnake (Boiga forsteni) is a colubrid with a wide Fbut disjunct distributionPROFILE in Nepal, Sri-Lanka, and India. In India, it has been .recordedKraig Adler: Afrom Lifetime Uttarakhand Promoting Herpetology (Dehradun ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 District), southern COMMENTARYRajasthan (Sirohi District), and Jharkhand (Latehar and Palamu. The Districts); Turtles Have Been the Watching Western Me ...... Ghats from Eric Gangloff 238

Dang (Gujarat to Kerala);BOOK REVIEWthe Ganges Plain of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and West Bengal;. Threatened Orissa Amphibians and ofthe the WorldEastern edited byGhats S.N. Stuart, of M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, Andhra Pradesh (NallamalaiR. Berridge, Hills, P. Ramani, Kurnool and B.E. Young District); ...... the Robert Powell 243 Chhatarpur District of Madhya Pradesh; and the Amaravati  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 District of Maharashtra NATURAL (Daniel HISTORY 1963; RESEARCH Husain and REPORTS Ray :1995; Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 Kumar and Daniels 1999;NEWBRIEFS Sharma ...... et al. 2002; Whitaker and ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 Captain 2004; Rao etFOCUS al. 2005; ON CONSERVATION Nande 2007;: A TillackProject You 2008; Can Support ...... 252 Chaudhari 2017; Hussain and Das 2017). At 2140 h on 20 September 2014, during a field survey at the Veerangna Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary (23.548255°N, 79.737871°E; 397 m asl), Damoh District,Front Cover. Madhya Shannon Plummer. Pradesh, Back Cover. Michael Kern we found a road-killed B. forsteni Totat(Fig. et velleseque1). The audant Veerangna mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary has erspienimus,a varied quos landscape accullabo. Ilibus with erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus hills, valleys, and plains; the vegetationaut dolor apicto is predominantly invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque tropical mixed dry deciduous forest.moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- The only published record of B.ma derrovitaeforstenii voluptam, from asMadhya quos Fig.tur 2.ma Map derrovitae of India voluptam, showing as the distribution of Forsten’s Catsnake (Boiga Pradesh is from the Chhatarpur Districtaccullabo. (Tillack 2008). The forstenii; gray shading) and the range extension in the Damoh District, Madhya Pradesh (red). record reported herein extends this portion of the species’ range south into the Damoh District (Fig. 2). Literature Cited Chaudhari, A., M. Sen, and S. Chowdhury. 2017. Geographic distribution: Boiga forsteni (Forsten’s cat snake). Herpetological Review 48: 391. Daniel, J. 1963. Extension of the known range of the Catsnake, Boiga forsteni (Dum. & Bibr.). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 59: 966–967. Hussain, Z. and A. Das. 2017. Distribution of Boiga forsteni (Duméril, Bibron et Duméril, 1854) in northern India. The Indian Forester 143: 1091–1092. Kumar, M. and R. Daniels. 1999. Checklist of reptiles and amphibians of Kolli Hills. Cobra 38: 21–22. Nande, R. and S. Deshmukh. 2007. Snakes of Amravati district including Melghat, Maharashtra, with important records of the Indian Egg-eater, Montane Trinket snake and Indian Smooth snake. Zoos’ Print Journal 22: 2920–2924. Fig. 1. A road-killed Forsten’s Catsnake (Boiga forstenii) found in the Rao, K.T., H.V. Ghate, M. Sudhakar, S.M.M. Javed, and S.R. Krishna. 2005. Veerangna Durgavati Wildlife Sanctuary, Damoh District, Madhya Pradesh. Herpetofauna of Nallamalai Hills with eleven new records from the region

including ten new records for Andhra Pradesh. Zoos’ Print Journal 20: 1737– Tillack, F., A. Hussain, and H. Hussain. 2008. Notes on the distribution of Boiga 1740. forsteni (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) in India, with a new record from Sharma, S.K., K. Chawda, and S. Patel. 2002. Sighting of Forsten’s Cat Snake the Chhatarpur District, Madhya Pradesh. Sauria 30: 49–50. (Boiga forsteni) at Mount Abu Wildlife Sanctuary, Sirohi District, Rajasthan. Whitaker, R. and A. Captain. 2004. Snakes of India. The Field Guide. Draco Books, Cobra 48: 7–9. Chennai.