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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES Range. Chasing Bullsnakes Extension (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: of the Copper-headed On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Trinket. The Shared History of TreeboasSnake, (Corallus grenadensis) andCoelognathus Humans on Grenada: radiatus A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 (BoieRESEARCH ARTICLES1827) (: ), . The Texas Horned in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida ...... from HimachalBrian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Pradesh, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATION ALERTVishal Varma and Fergus Mark Anthony . World’s in Crisis ...... 220 . More ThanWildlife Mammals Institute ...... of India, Dehradun, India ([email protected]; [email protected])...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226 he Oriental colubrid Fitzinger 1843 Tis represented PROFILEby seven of largely terrestrial of which three, C. flavolineatus. Kraig Adler: A Lifetime (Schlegel Promoting 1837),Herpetology C...... helena Michael L. Treglia 234 (Daudin 1803), andCOMMENTARY C. radiatus (Boie 1837), occur in India (Schulz 2013). Coelognathus. The Turtles Haveradiatus Been Watching is widely Me ...... distributed Eric Gangloff 238 across southern Asia,BOOK having REVIEW been recorded from Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, .Burma,Threatened Thailand, Amphibians of Cambodia,the World edited byVietnam, S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, (Pandey 2011), BangladeshR. Berridge, P. Ramani, (Mahony and B.E. andYoung Reza ...... 2008), Robert Powell 243 and India. In India, these snakes occur in apparently disjunct  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 populations from UttarakhandNATURAL HISTORY (Joshi RESEARCH 2013) REPORTSto Arunachal: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251  FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252

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 Fig.tur 2.ma A derrovitae road killed voluptam, Copper-headed as Trinket (Coelognathus radia- accullabo. tus) from Naraini Village, Solan District, Himachal Pradesh, India. Photographs by Vishal Varma.

Pradesh (Whitaker and Captain 2008), West Bengal, and Sikkim, and in some parts of Madhya Pradesh (Kanha National Park; Thakur 2011). This species also has been doc- umented from the Ananthagiri Hills in the Eastern Ghats of Telangana (Javed et al. 2010). At 2227 h on 1 October 2018 during a field sur- vey at Naraini Village, Solan District, Himachal Pradesh (30.7761°N, 77.0196°E; 878 m asl; Fig. 1), we found a road-killed juvenile male Copper-headed Fig. 1. Map showing the distribution of the Copper-headed Trinket Snake (Coelognathus radiatus) in India (red) and the range extension (brown and (Coelognathus radiatus) (total length 44.5 cm; Fig. 2). The indicated by the arrow) in Himachal Pradesh. previous northwesternmost record of C. radiatus in India

Copyright © 2020. Vishal Varma. All rights reserved. 312 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 VARMA AND ANTHONY IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(2):312–313 • AUG 2020 was from Dehradun District (Rajaji National Park) in Eastern Ghats, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 2010 2: 1172–1174. Uttarakhand (Bhatnagar 1969; Joshi 2013). The new record Joshi, R. 2013. Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae, radiate (Boie, 1827): new range and habitat notes for Rajaji National Park, northwest India. Journal of reported herein extends the range of this species into the state Biology and Earth Sciences 3: 169–175. of Himachal Pradesh and suggests that the natural distribu- Mahony, S. and A. Reza. 2008. A herpetofaunal collection from the Chittagong tion extends into the northwestern Shivalik Hills of India and Hill tracts, Bangladesh, with two new species records for the country. Hamadryad 32: 45–56. adjacent Nepal. Pandey, D. 2011. Snakes in the vicinity of Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 7: 46−57. Literature Cited Schulz, K.-D. 1996. A Monograph of the Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Elaphe Bhatnagar, R.K. 1969. Extension of range of copperhead snake, Elaphe radiata Fitzinger. Koeltz Scientific Books, Havlícˇku˚v Brod, Czech Republic. Schlegel (Ophidia: Colubridae) to Doon valley and Doon Shiwaliks. Journal Thakur, S. 2011. A note on snakes of Kanha National Park and surrounding areas. of the Bombay Natural History Society 66: 383. Rap 11: 2–4. Javed, S.M.M., F. Tampal, and C. Srinivasulu. 2010. First record of Coelognathus Whitaker, R. and A. Captain. 2008. Snakes of India. The Field Guide. Draco Books, radiatus (Boie, 1827) (Reptilia: Colubridae) from the Ananthagiri Hills, Chennai, India.

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