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Oligodona Hypothetical Excursionkheriensis HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL15, & N AMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 28(1):91–93 • APR 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS ConnectingFEATURE ARTICLES the Dots: New Distribution . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: RecordsOn the Road of to Understanding the the EcologyRare and Conservation Coral of the Midwest’s GiantRed Serpent ...................... Kukri Joshua M. Kapfer Snake, 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: OligodonA Hypothetical Excursionkheriensis ............................................................................................................................ Acharjee andRobert Ray W. Henderson 1936, 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texasin ....................... India Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Anukul Nath1, Vivek Sarkar1, Pathik Saha2, Pushpal Goswami3, Sanjoy Sutradhar4, Sanjeev Ray4, Kingshuk Das Chaudhuri4, CONSERVATION ALERT Biswajit Chakdar5, and Abhijit Das1 . World’s Mammals1Wildlife in Institute Crisis ............................................................................................................................... of India, Chandrabani-248001, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India ([email protected]).............................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 2C/o Late Pradip Kumar Saha, V.I.P More, 1 no. Kalighat Road, Coochbehar-736101, West Bengal, India . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 3Netaji Road Bylane, Newtown, Coochbehar-736101, West Bengal, India 4 HUSBANDRY Nature’s Foster, Bongaigaon-783380, Assam, India. 5Bombay Natural History Society, Hornbill House, Shaheed Bhagat Singh road, Mumbai-400001, Maharashtra, India . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 PROFILE . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 ukri snakes in the genus Oligodon are characterized by but was recognized as a valid species by Schleich and Kästle Kbroad hindCOMMENTARY teeth shaped like a kukri (a large knife with a (2002) and Whitaker and Captain (2004). This was veri- recurved blade), hence. The Turtlesthe name Have Been (Smith Watching 1943). Me ........................................................................................................................ These snakes fied by David et al. (2011: 6), Eric who Gangloff distinguished 238 O. kherien- also have a largeBOOK rostral REVIEWextending onto the upper surface of sis “from O. cyclurus by the following characters: (1) higher the snout, elongated. Threatened nostrils, Amphibians a cylindrical of the World body, edited and by S.N.smooth Stuart, M. Hoffmann,number J.S. of Chanson, ventral N.A. scales, Cox, 196 vs. 159–178 in O. cyclurus; (2) scales (Smith 1943; DasR. Berridge, et al. P.2016). Ramani, andEighty B.E. Young currently .............................................................................................................. recog- uniform dorsum vs. reticulated Robert or Powell blotched 243 (or blotched and nized species, 21 of them known to occur in India, are assigned striped) in O. cyclurus, and (3) the absence of the large, arrow- CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 to the genus (Uetz NATURAL et al. 2020). HISTORY The RESEARCH Coral Red REPORTS Kukri: Snake Summaries of Publishedlike cephalic Reports on and Natural nape History marking ................................. in O. kheriensis. 247 ” (Oligodon kheriensis NEWBRIEFS Acharjee ............................................................................................................................... and Ray 1936) was described The Coral Red....................................................... Kukri Snake was thought 248 to be very rare from North Kheri EDITORIALDivision, Eastern INFORMATION Circle, ...............................................................................................................................Kheri-Lakhimpur and known only from the holotype....................... 251However, in the last FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 of the United Provinces of colonial India, presently the state twenty years, the species has been reported from several locali- of Uttar Pradesh. This taxon was regarded as a synonym of ties in India (Uttarakhand: Haldwani; Uttar Pradesh: North Cantor’s Kukri Snake (Oligodon cyclurus) by Smith (1943) Lakhimpur, Katerniaghat Wildife Sactuary; West Bengal: 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 tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Fig. 1. A Coral Red Kukri Snake (Oligodon kheriensis): Dorsal (A) and lateral (B) views of the head and a threat display in response to being stressed (C). Photographs by Anukul Nath (A) and Sanjoy Sutradhar (B, C). Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 91 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. NATH ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(1):91–93 • APR 2021 Shirishtala, Jalpaiguri; Assam: Kachugaon, Kokrajhar) and Like Sutradhar and Nath (2013) and Pandey et al. Nepal (Mahendranagar in western Nepal; Pithuwa, Sauraha, (2016), who noted that these snakes often occur in human- and Saktikhor in Chitwan District in central Nepal; Damak- dominated landscapes, all our observations were from either Jhapa in southeastern Nepal) (Acharjee and Ray 1936; human-dominated habitats (agricultural areas, home gardens, Schleich and Kästle 2002; Pandey 2012; Sutradhar and Nath fallow land) or areas adjacent to forested edges (Fig. 3). We 2013; Pandey et al. 2016; Das et al. 2016; Maurya et al. 2019). encountered road-killed snakes in Bongaigaon (Assam) and In the present note, we confirm additional locality reports of Coochbehar (West Bengal) Districts. In 2017, a specimen the species from West Bengal and Assam from 2010 to 2019. was rescued from a shop in the Chilarai market, one of the In Assam, we found individuals (Fig. 1) in the Bongaigaon busiest areas in Coochbehar District. This unlikely locality (Salbagan, Palpara, Bageswari Hill, Sannashi Pahar, Kakoijana, probably is attributable to the fact that most of the aban- Manikpur), Chirang (Dhaligaon, Basugaon, Bangaljhora- doned areas with vegetation were inundated by heavy rain Bijni, Panbari), Baksa (Manas National Park), and Kokrajhar in July and August of that year, causing that individual to (Jharbari, Titaguri, Shantinagar) Districts. In West Bengal, the seek shelter on higher ground. Coral Red Kukri Snakes also species was locally common in the Coochbehar (Kochbihar) were rescued from other crowded settlements and townships District (Puratan Post Office Para, Badur Bagan, Chilarai in Coochbehar (mostly in July and August). In Bangaljhora Bazar, near Rambhola High School, adjacent to Coochbehar Village of Bijni in Chirang District (Assam), three individuals College, Chakchaka area-Moratorsha, Gopalpur, Pundibari were killed in 2017–2019 by local residents who, disturbed By-pass Road, Rasamati, Chilapata, near the Tufanganj Police by recent snakebite incidents in surrounding areas (Nath et al. Station, Lambapara-Tufanganj, Jiranpur-Balarampur, and 2019), feared that these bright red snakes were venomous. Mathbhanga) and we documented one report in the Kholta We recorded Light-barred Kukri Snakes (O. albocinctus) and Ecopark of Alipurduar District. These new records fill in gaps O. cyclurus in sympatry with O. kheriensis. The geographic dis- in the previously documented distribution of the species (Fig. tribution of the genus Oligodon is complex; several species have 2). Photographic vouchers have been deposited in the zoo- overlapping ranges and others have been reported from highly logical reference collection of the Lee Kong Chian Natural fragmented habitats (Green 2010). Nevertheless, our observa- History Museum at the National University of Singapore tions confirm that Oligodon kheriensis is distributed throughout (ZRC(IMG) 2.562a–b). The identity of the species was con- the entire Terai Region of India and Nepal where it appears to be firmed by Indraneil Das of the Universiti Malaysia, Sarawak. far more
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