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FEATUREComments ARTICLES on the Type Locality of the . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: MarbledOn the Road to Understanding Toad, the Ecology and ConservationDuttaphrynus of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... stomaticus Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: (LütkenA Hypothetical Excursion1864) ...... (Anura: Bufonidae)Robert W. Henderson and 198 the RESEARCH ARTICLES First. The RecordTexas Horned Lizard in Central from and Western Texas the ...... Southern Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, Bank and Gad Perry 204of the . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida Brahmaputra ...... Brian J. Camposano, KennethRiver L. Krysko, Kevin in M. Enge, Assam,Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael IndiaGranatosky 212 CONSERVATION ALERT . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... Sanath Chandra Bohra and Jayaditya Purkayastha ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “DowHelp Jones Earth, Index” 16,of Biodiversity RNC Path, ...... Lachitnagar, Guwahati 781 007, Assam, India ([email protected])...... 225
HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226
he genus DuttaphrynusPROFILE is represented by 27 species of Twhich 19 are. Kraigrecorded Adler: A Lifetimefrom Promoting India Herpetology(Frost 2020)...... The Michael L. Treglia 234 Marbled Toad (Duttaphrynus stomaticus) is widely distrib- uted throughoutCOMMENTARY India and is recorded from West Bengal, . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Orissa, Bihar Karnataka, JammuBOOK and REVIEW Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan, Manipur, Haryana,. Threatened Assam, TamilAmphibians Nadu, of the World and editedSikkim by S.N. (Sharma Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, 1997; Choudhury etR. al. Berridge, 2001; P. Ramani,Frost and 2020). B.E. Young The ...... species was Robert Powell 243 described by Lütken CONSERVATION (1864) without RESEARCH mention REPORTS: of a type Summaries local of- Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 ity. Boulenger (1891:NATURAL 462) HISTORY noted RESEARCHthat the specimensREPORTS: Summaries were of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 procured by G. WestermannNEWBRIEFS ...... and that “The exact locality ...... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 where these specimens FOCUS were ON CONSERVATION procured is not: Aknown, Project You but Can they Support ...... Fig. 2. A map of Assam showing known localities 252 for the Marbled Toad are believed to be from Assam; they are perhaps from Bengal.” (Duttaphrynus stomaticus). (1) Balipara Reserve Forest, Sonitpur District; Boulenger (1891: 463) also stated that of the five specimens (2) Orang National Park, Darrang District; (3) Choon Sali, Guwahati, Kamrup Metropolitan District; (4) Kuriahmari, Nalbari District; (5) sent to him by Professor Lütken, two were from Calcutta (= Baghbor, Barpeta District. The Choon Sali site (3), reported herein, is the Kolkata) and one from Hughly (=Front Hooghly) Cover. Shannon in the Plummer.present-day only Backrecord Cover. from Michael the southern Kern bank of the Brahmaputra River. 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 autstate dolor of apicto West invere Bengal pe dolum and that the type series consisting of a fugiatis maionsequat eumque malefugiatis and maionsequat a female eumque were believed to be from Assam, but with- moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur moditiaout providing erere nonsedis any ma sectiajustification.- Because G. Westermann also ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. discovered the Indian Egg-eating Snake, Boiga westermanni (Reinhardt 1863) in Rangpur, Bengal (now the Rangpur Division of Bangladesh), and three of the five specimens of D. stomaticus have confirmed locality records in the state of West Bengal, we believe that all of the specimens likely originated in Bengal (perhaps present-day West Bengal). According to Choudhury et al. (2001), Duttaphrynus sto- maticus is known only from a few localities in Assam: Orang National Park in Darrang District, Kuriahmari in Nalbari District, Baghbor in Barpeta District, and the Balipara Fig. 1. A Marbled Toad (Duttaphrynus stomaticus) from the Choon Sali Reserve Forest in Sonitpur District. All of those records in Area of Guwahati, Assam, India. Photograph by Jayaditya Purkayastha. Assam are on the northern bank of the Brahmaputra River,
Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 430 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. BOHRA AND PURKAYASTHA REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3): 430–431 • DEC 2020 which Choudhury et al. (2001) believed was a barrier to Literature Cited dispersal of the species. Herein we report D. stomaticus for Boulenger, G.A. 1891. Descriptions of new Oriental reptiles and batrachians. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 7: 279–283. the first time from the southern bank of the Brahmaputra Choudhury, N.K., M.F. Ahmed, and S. Sengupta. 2001. Distribution of Bufo River. At ca. 1930 h on 22 September 2018, we recorded stomaticus Lütken, Amphibia: Family Bufonidae, in Assam, northeast India. three Marbled Toads (Fig. 1) from the Choon Sali Area of Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 98: 457–459. Frost, D.R. 2020. Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version 6.1. Guwahati, Assam, India (26°12'27.7"N, 91°48'28.2"E; elev. American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA.
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