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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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FEATURE ARTICLES Occurrence. Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer of sayi ) inthe Wisconsin: Arrow-headed Trinket On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Snake. The (SharedCoelognathus History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans helena on Grenada: nigriangularis) in A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 the MelghatRESEARCH ARTICLES Tiger Reserve: A Second Locality . 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 Record ...... forBrian J.Maharashtra Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen State,M. Donlan, and Michael GranatoskyIndia 212
CONSERVATION ALERT Khan Ashaharraza1 and Ankit Bibekar2 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 1 Department of. WildlifeMore Than and Mammals Biodiversity ...... Conservation, North Orissa University, Baripada- 757003, Odisha,...... India (ashaharrazakhan 223 @gmail.com) . The2 Plot“Dow No. Jones 134, Index” Shastry of Biodiversity Layout, ...... Khamla, Nagpur-440025, Maharashta, India ([email protected])...... 225
HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226 he Arrow-headed Trinket Snake (Coelognathus helena Kantimahanti et al. 2015; Chowdhury et al. 2018; Uetz et al. PROFILE nigriangularis), recently described by Mohapatra et 2019). Herein we document a second locality in Maharashtra T . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 al. (2016), is known to occur in Andhra Pradesh, eastern that also represents the western-most record for the species. Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand,COMMENTARY Odisha, southern Chhattisgarh, During a recent field visit to the Gawilghur (= Gawilgad) . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 West Bengal, and eastern Maharashtra (Lampe and Lindholm Fort (21.3830434°N, 77.3367602°E) in the Melghat Tiger 1902; Edake 2011;BOOK Schulz REVIEW 2013; Srivastava et al. 2013; Reserve, we encountered a snake constricting a Lesser . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243
CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ...... 252
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Fig. 1. An Arrow-headed Trinket Snake (Coelognathus helena nigriangularis) constricting a Lesser Bandicoot (Bandicota bengalensis). Photograph by Ankit Bibekar.
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Bandicoot (Bandicota bengalensis; Fig. 1). Based on descrip- extends the range of the Arrow-headed Trinket Snake nearly tions in Smith (1943) and Whitaker and Captain (2008), 360 km to the west of the nearest known locality, Pachmari, we quickly identified the snake as a ratsnake in the genus Madhya Pradesh (Kumbhar et al. 2011; Fig. 3). Coelognathus and subsequently as an Arrow-headed Trinket Snake, Coelognathus helena nigriangularis (Mohapatra et al. Acknowledgements 2016). We photographed and videotaped the incident using We thank Srinivas Reddy, Field Director of the Melghat a Nikon Coolpix P900™. Tiger Reserve, for allowing us to conduct studies in the The present locality is a historical fort (Fig. 2) in the reserve; Pratyush Mohapatra, Central Zone Regional Center, municipality of Chikhaldara at an elevation of 1,035 m asl. Zoological Survey of India, Jabalpur, for verifying the iden- Chikhaldara and the Pachmari Hill Station are the only tity of the species and for comments on an earlier draft of two localities in a wet zone characterized by moist decidu- this note; Klaus-Dieter Schulz, Würselen, Germany, for help ous forests in the otherwise dry deciduous landscape of the with the literature; Ahsan Sheikh, Studio 99, Amravati, for Satpura Hills. This second locality record for the species in providing the aerial view of the Gawilghur Fort; Cuckoo Maharashtra is the first record for the Amravati District and Mahapatra, North Orissa University, for guidance during the Melghat Tiger Reserve (Nande and Deshmukh 2007) and manuscript preparation; Viraj Jaulkar and Virag Jaulkar for assistance in the field; and Sawan Deshmukh, Yadav Tarte, Dinesh Khate, Abhijeet Dani, Manoj Bind, Vaibhav Dalal, Kiran Bawaskar, Hemanata Behera, Samir Chalan, Sarada Achary, Pranati Naik, and Sunanda Swain for help with the survey and logistical support.
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