Cyrtodactylus Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus Grenadensis) and Montanus Humans on Grenada: Agarwal, a Hypothetical Excursion

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FEATURE ARTICLES First Record. Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis of catenifer sayithe) in Wisconsin: Jampui Bent-toed Gecko, On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . TheCyrtodactylus Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and montanus Humans on Grenada: Agarwal, A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 Mahony,RESEARCH ARTICLES Giri, Chaitanya, and Bauer 2018 . 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 (Squamata: ...... Gekkonidae),Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin fromM. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, Mizoram, and Michael Granatosky 212 India

Lal MuansangaCONSERVATION1, Ht Decemson ALERT1, Lal Biakzuala1, Gospel Zothanmawia Hmar1, H.T. Lalremsanga1, Madhurima Das2,3, . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... and Jayaditya Purkayastha3 ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index”1Department of Biodiversity of Zoology, ...... Mizoram University, Aizawl 796004, Mizoram, India ...... 225 2IBT Hub, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati 781016, Assam, India HUSBANDRY3Help Earth, Raghunath Choudhury Path, Lachitnagar, Guwahati 781007, Assam, India ([email protected]) . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226

PROFILE . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 yrtodactylus Gray is the world’s most speciose gekko- cies, eight have been described since 2018. Previously, the nid genus andCOMMENTARY is currently represented by 291 species only species of Cyrtodactylus recognized from northeastern C . (Uetz et al. 2020). TheThe Indo-Burmese Turtles Have Been Watching Region Me ...... is represented Eric Gangloff 238 by about 27 species,BOOK of which REVIEW nine are known from northeastern Indian states:. ThreatenedC. guwahatiensis Amphibians of the (Assam), World edited C.by S.N. jainti Stuart,- M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243 aensis (Meghalaya), C. kazirangaensis (Assam), C. khasiensis

(presumed to be distributed CONSERVATION throughout RESEARCH northeastern REPORTS: SummariesIndia), of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 C. montanus (Tripura), NATURAL C. nagalandensis HISTORY RESEARCH (Nagaland), REPORTS C.: Summaries sep- of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 tentrionalis (Assam), EDITORIALC. tripuraensis INFORMATION (Tripura), ...... and C. urba- ...... 251 nus (Assam) (Purkayastha FOCUS ONet al.CONSERVATION 2020 ). Of: those A Project nine You Can spe Support- ...... 252

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Fig. 2. Map showing the type locality of the Jampui Bent-toed Gecko Fig. 1. A female Jampui Bent-toed Gecko (Cyrtodactylus montanus) (Cyrtodactylus montanus) in the Jampui Hills, Tripura, India (red square) from Pathlawi Lunglen Tlang, Dampa Tiger Reserve, Mizoram, India. and the new locality record at Pathlawi Lunglen Tlang, Dampa Tiger Photograph by H.T. Lalremsanga. Reserve, Mizoram, India (green dot).

Table 1. Uncorrected p-distances between species of Bent-toed Geckos (Cyrtodactylus) known to occur in northeastern India (851 nucleo- tides, ND2). GenBank accession numbers are listed in parentheses after the name of the species.

Cyrtodactylus montanus (MT250544) Cyrtodactylus montanus (KM255200) 0.00 Cyrtodactylus tripuraensis (KM255202) 0.23 0.23 Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis (KM255194) 0.18 0.18 0.11 Cyrtodactylus septentrionalis (MH971164) 0.19 0.19 0.14 0.12 Cyrtodactylus urbanus (MN911174) 0.24 0.24 0.12 0.14 0.12 Cyrtodactylus khasiensis (KM255188) 0.22 0.22 0.21 0.19 0.18 0.17 Cyrtodactylus kazirangaensis (KM255170) 0.27 0.27 0.19 0.21 0.19 0.20 0.21 Cyrtodactylus sp. Mizoram (KM255197) 0.09 0.09 0.23 0.21 0.23 0.23 0.21 0.25 Cyrtodactylus jaintiaensis (KM255195) 0.18 0.18 0.25 0.23 0.23 0.23 0.27 0.29 0.20 Cyrtodactylus nagalandensis (KM255199) 0.19 0.19 0.266 0.23 0.25 0.22 0.21 0.25 0.16 0.18

India was C. khasiensis, and until now that is the only spe- from Mizoram (GenBank No. MT250544) and a female of cies recorded from the state of Mizoram. Herein we report the type series of C. montanus (GenBank No. KM255200). the first record of the Jampui Bent-toed Gecko (C. montanus) from Mizoram, which also is the first record of the species Acknowledgements other than from its type locality in the Jampui Hills, Tripura This work was conducted with financial support from the (23.8225°N, 92.2603°E; elev. 850 m asl), 20.1 km airline National Mission on Himalayan Studies (NMHS) and imple- distance northwest of the new locality. mented by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate On 13 February 2020, during a survey in the Dampa Change (MoEF&CC), New Delhi. We are very grateful to Tiger Reserve, we collected a female Cyrtodactylus (Fig. the Field Director, Beat Officer, and Field guide, Dampa 1) from alongside a trail up a hill called Pathlawi Lunglen Tiger Reserve (DTR), and to Remruatpuii, Saisangpuia, Tlang (23.7051°N, 92.4075°E; elev. 553 m asl) (Fig. 2). Vanlalsiammawii, and V. L. Malsawmhriatzuali, Department We preserved the gecko in 70% ethanol, extracted the liver of Zoology, Mizoram University, for their assistance in the for genetic analysis, and accessioned the specimen in the field. The permit to conduct this study (No: A. 33011/2/2012- Departmental Museum of Zoology, Mizoram University CWLW of 13/12/2019) was issued by the Chief Wildlife (MZMU 1630). Snout-to-vent length was 54.4 mm and Warden, Department of Environment, Forests and Climate meristics were 10/10 supralabials, 9/9 infralabials, 39 lon- Change, Government of Mizoram. MD thanks IBT Hub, gitudinal rows of rounded dorsal tubercles, 23 paravertebral Arya Vidyapeeth College, for help in the laboratory. tubercles, 23 ventral scales between ventrolateral folds, and Literature Cited 16 subdigital lamellae beneath toe IV of the pes. Dorsal col- Kumar, S., G. Stecher, and K. Tamura. 2016. MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary oration consisted of thick dark reticulations enclosing lighter Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets. Molecular Biology and blotches; the tail had alternating dark and lighter bands. Evolution 33: 1870–1874. We generated partial ND2 sequences and used the prim- Macey, J.R., A. Larson, N.B. Ananjeva, Z. Fang, and T.J. Papenfuss. 1997. Two novel gene orders and the role of light-strand replication in rearrangement of the ers MetF1 and H5934 (Macey et al. 1997) for amplifica- vertebrate mitochondrial genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution 14: 91–104. tion in order to compare all of the species currently known Purkayastha, J., M. Das, S.C. Bohra, A.M. Bauer, and I. Agarwal. 2020. Another to occur in northeastern India. Using Mega 7 (Kumar et al. new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Guwahati, Assam, India. Zootaxa 4732: 375–392. 2016), we calculated uncorrected p-distances (Table 1). The Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2019. The Reptile Database. .

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