A Not-So-Rare Species: Sightings of Mandarin Ratsnakes, Euprepiophis

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FEATURE ARTICLES A. Chasing Not-so-rare Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Species: Sightings of On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Mandarin. The Shared HistoryRatsnakes, of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and HumansEuprepiophis on Grenada: mandarinus A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 (CantorRESEARCH ARTICLES1842), in the Zunheboto 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 ...... ofBrian J. Nagaland,Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge,India Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATIONYatish ALERT Lele1, Vihoto Kiba2, Pia Sethi1, and Siddharth Edake1 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 1 . More ThanThe Mammals Energy ...... and Resources Institute (TERI), New Delhi – 110003, India ([email protected])...... 223 . The “Dow Jones2Kivikhu Index” of Village, Biodiversity B.P.O...... Sataka Town, Zunheboto District, Nagaland – 798629, India ...... 225

HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226

he MandarinPROFILE Ratsnake (Euprepiophis mandarinus) is At 1209 h on 14 June 2017, four years after the most Ta non-venomous. Kraig colubrid Adler: A Lifetime native Promoting to China Herpetology (including ...... recent previous sighting, Michael a faunal L. Treglia survey 234 recorded a Mandarin Taiwan), Laos, Myanmar,COMMENTARY Vietnam, and a few localities in Ratsnake (Fig. 1A) in the village of Kivikhu, Zunheboto India (Ji et al. 2012).. TheThe Turtles species Have Been occurs Watching in Me subtropical ...... and District, Nagaland (25°50’32.61”N, Eric Gangloff 238 94°30’0.72”E, elev. montane forests and agricultural areas, where these constric- 1,155 m). The senior author found a dead individual (Fig. BOOK REVIEW tors feed largely on small. Threatened mammals Amphibians (Whitaker of the World edited and by Captain S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,1B) at J.S.0800 Chanson, h onN.A. 27Cox, November 2017 on the Sataka-to- 2004). R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Kivikhu road, also in the Zunheboto Robert Powell 243 District. More recently, The species’ distribution has been well studied in China at 0822 h on 9 May 2018, a juvenile (Fig. 1C) was recorded but these snakes are observedCONSERVATION infrequently RESEARCH elsewhere REPORTS: in Summaries their of Publishedin the Conservation village Research of Kivikhu. Reports ...... 245  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 range (Ji et al. 2012). NEWBRIEFS One recent ...... sighting (Zeigler et al. These multiple...... sightings in a relatively 248 small area are 2014) documented theEDITORIAL presence INFORMATION of the species ...... in northern suggestive of a potentially healthy...... population 251 of Mandarin  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252 Vietnam. In India, Whitaker and Captain (2004) presented Ratsnakes in the Zunheboto District of Nagaland. Especially records from the eastern parts of Arunachal Pradesh, Matthew in light of population declines in China (Wang and Xie (2005) recorded the species for the first time in the state of 2009), the need for additional surveys to better understand Nagaland, and Bhupathy et al. (2013)Front documented Cover. Shannon Plummer. it for the the distributionBack Cover. Michael of Kernthe species in Nagaland and neighboring second time in Nagaland. Totat et velleseque audant mo statesTotat of et vellesequenortheastern audant mo India is critical. 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. New records of Mandarin Ratsnakes (Euprepiophis mandarinus) from the Zunheboto District, Nagaland, India. (A) An individual from Kivikhu Village. (B) A dead snake encountered on the Satakha-to-Kivikhu road. (C) A juvenile from Kivikhu Village. Photographs by Vihoto Kiba (A & C) and Yatish Lele (B).

Acknowledgements (MIPOGRASS), Sikulpuikawn, Aizawl 796001, India. We thank Conservation International, Japan and the GEF- Ji, X., Y. Wang, and P. Guo. 2012. Euprepiophis mandarinus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T192138A2045703 (http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/ Satoyama Initiative for funding our community conserva- IUCN.UK.2012-1.RLTS.T192138A2045703.en). tion project in the Zunheboto District of Nagaland. We also Matthew, R. 2005. Record of Mandarin Trinket Snake (Euprepiophis mandarinus) (Cantor) and Assam Snail Eater (Pareas monticola) (Cantor) (Colubridae: thank the communites of Sukhai, Ghukhuyi, and Kivikhu for Serpentes) from Nagaland, India. Cobra 62: 23–24. an excellent job in documenting the fauna of the area and Mr. Wang, S. and Y. Xie (eds.). 2009. China Species Red List Vol. II – Vertebrates Part Sushil Chikane for input during the preparation of this note. 2. Biodiversity Working Group of the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development, Beijing, China. Whitaker, R. and A. Captain. 2004. Snakes of India – The Field Guide. Draco Literature Cited Books, Chennai, India. Bhupathy, S., S.R. Kumar, J. Paramanandham, P.T. Nathan, and S. P. Kumar. Ziegler, T., D.T.A. Tran, T.Q. Nguyen, R.G.B. Perl, L. Wirk, M. Kulisch, T. 2013. Conservation of reptiles in Nagaland, India, pp. 181–186. In: K.K. Lehmann, A. Rauhaus, T.T. Nguyen, Q.K. Le, and T.N. Vu. 2014. New Singh, K.C. Das, and H. Lalruatsanga (eds.), Bioresources and Traditional amphibian and reptile records from Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam. Knowledge of Northeast India. Mizo Post Graduate Science Society Herpetology Notes 7: 185–201.

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