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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES . ChasingA Bullsnakes New (Pituophis catenifer Item sayi) in Wisconsin: in the Diet of the On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Kashmir. The Shared HistoryRock of Treeboas (Corallus Agama grenadensis) and Humans on( Grenada:Laudakia tuberculata) A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 1 2 3 RESEARCH ARTICLESSwati Nawani , Abhijit Das , and Indraneil Das . The Texas Horned Lizard inWildlife Central andInstitute Western of Texas India, ...... Dehradun, Emily Uttarakhand Henry, Jason 248 Brewer, 001, Krista India Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in(1 [email protected];Florida [email protected]) 3Institute of Biodiversity ...... and Environmental Conservation,Brian J. Camposano, Universiti Kenneth Malaysia L. Krysko, KevinSarawak, M. Enge, 94300 Ellen Kota M. Donlan, Samarahan, and Michael Sarawak, Granatosky Malaysia 212 ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 he Kashmir Rock. TheAgama “Dow Jones (Laudakia Index” of Biodiversity tuberculata ...... ) is a saxi- Mulberry), and Ficus carica (Common...... 225 Fig). Additionally, Tcolus lizard withHUSBANDRY a distribution that ranges from eastern Lal (1991) noted that the species, presumably around culti- Afghanistan across northern. Captive Care Pakistan of the Central and Netted India Dragon to ...... Nepal and vated areas, would feed on Shannon “tender Plummer leaves 226 of pumpkin, squash, the Tibetan Plateau at elevations of 310 m to at least 5,000 bottle gourd, brinjal, tomato, Zinnia, Dahlia and some forest PROFILE m in the western Himalayas. Kraig Adler: (Minton A Lifetime Promoting 1966; Herpetology Khan 2006)...... Its plants in nurseries”; and MichaelVishwakarma L. Treglia 234 et al. (2019) described diet has been reported to include both plant and animal mat- individuals of this species feeding on flowers of the natural- ter (Waltner 1991;COMMENTARY Eremchenko and Kästle 2002). Minton ized Madagascar Periwinkle (Catheranthus roseus) in a tropical . (1966) reported insectsThe taken Turtles by Have juveniles, Been Watching which Me ...... is suggestive moist dry deciduous forest. Eric Gangloff 238 of an ontogenetic dietaryBOOK REVIEWshift as has been reported in many At around 1430 h on 29 July 2019, we videographed ecologically similar large. Threatened herbivorous Amphibians lizards,of the World including edited by S.N. con Stuart,- M. Hoffmann,an adult J.S. KashmirChanson, N.A. Rock Cox, Agama on a rock at the edge of a R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243 geners (see Waltner 1991). road (Fig. 1) surrounded by Eupatorium sp. (Asteraceae) and Bashir et al. (2009)CONSERVATION examined RESEARCH the natural REPORTS: diet Summaries and of PublishedPanicled Conservation Foldwing Research Reports (Dicliptera ...... aff. paniculata 245 ) (Acanthaceae). reported both animals NATURAL and plants HISTORY in RESEARCHthe diet of REPORTS the species;: Summaries of PublishedThe lizard Reports onwas Natural feeding History ...... on leaves of 247the latter, a species that  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 plants included Brassica EDITORIAL oleracea INFORMATION var. acephala ...... (Kale), B. olera- had not been recorded in ...... the diet 251of L. tuberculata. The cea var. capitata (Cabbage), FOCUS ON Solanum CONSERVATION lycopersicum: A Project (Tomato), You Can Support ...... locality is adjacent to human habitations 252 outside Benog Lactuca serriola (Prickly Lettuce), Cynodon dactylon (Bermuda Wildlife Sanctuary (30.480126°N, 78.036475°E; WGS84), Grass), Trifolium repens (White Clover), Morus alba (White Uttarakhand, India. The video footage was accessioned into the Zoology Research Collection (ZRC) of the National Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. MuseumBack Cover. of Singapore Michael Kern as ZRC [IMG] 2.462. 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. IlibusAcknowledgements aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque Wefugiatis thank maionsequat the Uttarakhand eumque Forest Department for permis- moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur sionmoditia to erere conduct nonsedis maour sectia study- (permit letter no 1236/5-6 [WII] ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. dated 16 November 2017); WII Grant in Aid Research for funding, and G.S Rawat for identifying the food plant. Kelvin K.P. Lim provided the accession number for the video foot- age of the incident.

Literature Cited Bashir, M., S.G. Mustafa, and J. Ulfat. 2009. Diet and diet choice in the com- mon Kashmir lizard, Laudakia tuberculata: Gray. Ecology Environment and Conservation 15(2): 397–402. Eremchenko, V. and W. Kästle. 2002. Agamidae, pp. 574–783. In: H.-H. Schleich and W. Kästle (eds.), Amphibians and reptiles of Nepal. Biology, Systematics, Field Guide. Koeltz Scientific Books, Koenigstein. Khan, M.S. 2006. Amphibians and Reptiles of Pakistan. Krieger Publishing Fig. 1. An adult Kashmir Rock Agama (Laudakia tuberculata) feeding on Company, Malabar, Florida. the leaves of Panicled Foldwing (Dicliptera aff. paniculata) (Acanthaceae) Lal, O.P. 1991. Distribution, habits, habitats and feeding behaviour of common rock outside the Benog Wildlife Sanctuary, Uttarakhand, India. Photograph by lizard, Agama tuberculata Gray (Reptilia: Agamidae) in Kullu Valley, western Swati Nawani. Himalayas. Journal of Entomological Research, New Delhi 15(4): 248–250.

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