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Platyceps Bholanathi) Is 79°24'21.8 HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL15, & N AMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 28(1):63–64 • APR 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS NewFEATURE Sightings ARTICLES of Nagarjunasagar Racers, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: PlatycepsOn the Road to Understanding thebholanathi Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s (Sharma Giant Serpent ...................... 1976),Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: fromA Hypothetical Tirupati, Excursion ............................................................................................................................ Andhra Pradesh,Robert W. HendersonIndia 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas .......................Viral Joshi Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida Department ............................................. of Biology, Indian InstitutesBrian of J. ScienceCamposano, Education Kenneth L.and Krysko, Research, Kevin M.Tirupati, Enge, Ellen Andhra M. Donlan, Pradesh, and IndiaMichael (virjoshi892@gmail. Granatosky 212 com) CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 he Nagardunasager. More Than Racer Mammals ( ...............................................................................................................................Platyceps bholanathi) is 79°24'21.8"E). The .......................................specimens have been223 submitted to the . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 Tendemic to southern India. The species’ distribution is Sheshachalam Biodiversity Lab, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, poorly known, withHUSBANDRY few scattered records that include the type India (Voucher Nos. NJS20191225-1 and NJS20191225- locality in the Nagarjuna. Captive Care Hills of the in Central Andhra Netted DragonPradesh ....................................................................................................... (Sharma 2). The identity of the specimens Shannon Plummer was 226confirmed by Harshil 1976), the SheshachalamPROFILE Hills in Andhra Pradesh (Guptha Patel. et al. 2012), Nalgonda. Kraig Adler:in Hyderabad A Lifetime Promoting (Seetharamaraju Herpetology ................................................................................................ and The locality is very Michael near L. a Treglia previous 234 record listed in Srinivasulu 2013), Thally in Tamil Nadu and Devarkonda Guptha et al. (2012). Nevertheless, these new records of the in Hyderabad (GaneshCOMMENTARY et al. 2013), Bellary in Karnataka species after eight years suggest that P. bholanathi might be . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Eric Gangloff 238 (Sharma et al. 2013), the Gingee Hills in Tamil Nadu (Smart more common in suitable habitat than previously thought. et al. 2014), the BOOKRishi Valley REVIEW in Andhra Pradesh (Deshwal and Additional surveys are necessary to better understand the dis- Becker 2017), Sigur. Threatenedin Tamil Amphibians Nadu (Samson of the World et edited al. 2017), by S.N. Stuart, and M. Hoffmann,tribution J.S. of Chanson, this rare N.A. and Cox, endemic species. near the Lakshmi NarasimhaR. Berridge, Temple P. Ramani, and and B.E. in Youngthe Sanyasikundu .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243 foothills in Tamil NaduCONSERVATION (Melvinselvan RESEARCH et al. REPORTS: 2018). Summaries of Published Conservation Research ReportsAcknowledgements ................................. 245 On 25 December NATURAL 2019, HISTORY I encountered RESEARCH two REPORTS road-killed: Summaries of PublishedI thank Reports the on NaturalAndhra History Pradesh................................. Forest 247 Department and Nagardunasager RacersNEWBRIEFS (Fig. 1)............................................................................................................................... near the Alipiri Road, Kapila Seshachalam Lab....................................................... members, Dr. Raju Vyas,248 and Raja Bandi, EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 Thirtham, Tirupati, FOCUS Andhra ON CONSERVATION Pradesh, India: A(13°38'50.1"N, Project You Can Support ...............................................................................................Harsha Kumar, and Dr. Robin VV for 252 their help. 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. Two road-killed Nagardunasager Racers (Platyceps bholanathi) from near the Alipiri Road, Kapila Thirtham, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India. Photographs by the author. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 63 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. JOSHI REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(1):63–64 • APR 2021 Literature Cited 2017. New distribution record of Nagarjunasagar Racer Platyceps bhola- nathi (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae) in Sigur, Nilgiris landscape, India. Deshwal, A. and B. Becker. 2017. New locality record of Nagarjunasagar Racer Journal of Threatened Taxa 9: 10014–10017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11609/ (Coluber bholanathi) (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae) from near Rishi jott.3175.9.3.10014-10017. Valley School, Andhra Pradesh, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology 24: 245–247. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2019-24-3-245-247. Seetharamaraju, M. and C. Srinivasulu. 2013. Discovery and description of male specimen of Coluber bholanathi Sharma, 1976 (Reptilia: Colubridae) from Ganesh, S.R., D. Adimallaiah, and P.K. Kailash. 2013. New locality records of Hyderabad. Taprobonica 5: 32–35. DOI: 10.4038/tapro.v5i1.5659. Nagarjun Sagar racer snake, Coluber bholanathi Sharma, 1976/Nuevos regis- Sharma, R. 1976. Some observation on ecology and systematics of Coluber bhola- tros de localidad para la serpiente corredora Coluber bholanathi Sharma, 1976. nathi, a new species of snake (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae) from India. Herpetotropicos 9: 9–12. Comparative Physiology and Ecology 1: 105–107. Guptha, B., N.V.S. Prasad, and D. Veerappan. 2012. Rediscovery and range exten- Sharma, V., J. Louies, and A. Vattam. 2013. A Contribution to Coluber bholanathi sion of Coluber bholanathi Sharma, 1976 from Seshachalam hills, Andhra Sharma, 1976 (Serpentes: Colubridae). Russian Journal of Herpetology 20: Pradesh, India. 5: 447–448. Herpetology Notes 259–263. https://doi.org/10.30906/1026-2296-2013-20-4-259-263. Melvinselvan, G., D. Nibedita, P. Magesh, and K. Elambharathy. 2018. New local- Smart, U., E.N. Smith, B.H.C.K. Murthy, and A. Mohanty. 2014. Report ity records of Nagarjunsagar Racer, Platyceps bholanathi, Sharma 1976 from of Nagarjunasagar Racer Coluber bholanathi Sharma, 1976 (Squamata: Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Captive & Field Herpetology 2: 29–32. Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Gingee Hills, Tamil Nadu, India. Journal of Samson, A., P. Santhoshkumar, B. Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick, and C. Gnaneswar. Threatened Taxa 6: 5671–5674. DOI: 10.11609/JoTT.o3628.5671-4. 64.
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