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WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSIRCF •REPTILES VOL15, NO 4& • AMPHIBIANS DEC 2008 189 • 26(1):42 • APR 2019

IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES First. Chasing Record Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer of sayi) in Wisconsin:an Indian Roofed Turtle, On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The SharedPangshura History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis )tecta and Humans on Grenada:(Gray 1830), A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLESfrom Delhi, India . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) inGaurav Florida Barhadiya and Faiyaz A. Khudsar ...... Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems, School of Environmental Studies, CONSERVATIONUniversity ALERT of Delhi, Delhi - 110 007, India ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

ndian Roofed TurtlesHUSBANDRY (Pangshura tecta) are fully aquatic Baruah, C., P. Devi, and D.K. Sharma. 2016. Comparative morphometry and . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... biogeography of the freshwater Shannon Plummerturtles of226 genus Pangshura (Testudines: Iand inhabit freshwater with plenty of aquatic vegetation, on Geoemydidae: Pangshura). International Journal of Pure and Applied Zoology which these herbivorousPROFILE turtles feed (Baruah et al. 2016). It is 4: 107–123. a less active species and. Kraig comparatively Adler: A Lifetime Promoting a poor Herpetology swimmer...... Little Hossain, M.L., S.U. Sarker, and N.J.Michael Sarker. L. Treglia 2013. 234 Morphometry of Indian Roofed Turtle, Pangshura tecta (Gray 1831) in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of is known about thisCOMMENTARY relatively weak swimmer’s breeding hab- Zoology 41: 207–215. its other than clutches. Thetypically Turtles Have consist Been Watching of 4–10 Me ...... eggs (Baruah Husain, A. 1997. Reptilia, pp. 665–698. Eric Gangloff In: J.R.B. 238 Alfred (ed.), Fauna of Delhi. Zoological Survey of India, Dehradun. et. al 2016). The BOOKspecies REVIEWis widely distributed in northern Smith, M.A. 1933. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the India, but has not been. reported from Delhi (Husain 1997). Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,Whole J.S. of Chanson, the Indo-Chinese N.A. Cox, Sub-region. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. I.–Loricata In September 2018,R. we Berridge, encountered P. Ramani, and a B.E. turtle Young with ...... charac- and Testudines. Taylor and Francis, Robert London. Powell 243 ters of P. tecta (Fig. 1) in Serpentine Lake of the Kamla Nehru  CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 Ridge, Delhi (28°40’50’’ NATURALN, 77°13’01’’E HISTORY RESEARCH). Vegetation REPORTS on: Summaries the of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 Kamla Nehru Ridge NEWBRIEFS is a combination ...... of dry thorny scrub ...... 248  EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... 251 dominated by species FOCUS of Acacia ON CONSERVATION and moist :deciduous A Project You forestCan Support ...... 252 (Barhadiya 2016). We recorded morphological characters as follows: plastron length = 8.2cm; head moderately small and pointed; carapace elevated and oval with a distinct red vertebral keel that was spiked on vertebralFront Cover. III; Shannon neck Plummer. with dis- Back Cover. Michael Kern tinct yellow stripes, reddish crescent-shapedTotat et velleseque markings audant mobehind Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil the eyes; fore- and hindlimbs spotted;erspienimus, digits quos webbed. accullabo. IlibusBased erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus on descriptions in Smith (1933), Hossainaut dolor apicto et al. invere (2013), pe dolum and aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum fugiatis maionsequat eumque fugiatis maionsequat eumque Baruah et al. (2016), we confirmedmoditia the identity erere nonsedis of mathe sectiatur turtle moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- as P. tecta. This is the first record ofma the derrovitae species voluptam, from as Delhi. quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Acknowledgements We are extremely thankful to Prof. C.R. Babu, the principal investigator of the Biodiversity Parks Programme for his con- tinuous support, encouragement, and guidance. The authors specially thank Dr. Debanik Mukherjee, Field Biologist, Aravalli Biodiversity Park for confirming the identity of the turtle. We also thank Dr. A.K Singh, Scientist in charge, and Mr. Harmeek Singh, Supervisor, of Kamla Nehru Ridge, CEMDE for their help and support.

Literature Cited Barhadiya, G. 2016. Biodiversity Assessment of Kamla Nehru Ridge. Unpublished M.Sc. dissertation, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Fig. 1. Indian Roofed Turtle (Pangshura tecta) found in Serpentine Lake, Delhi, Delhi, India. Kamla Nehru Ridge, Delhi, India. Photographs by Gaurav Barhadiya.