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FirstFEATURE Record ARTICLES of the Urban Bent-toed Gecko, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: CyrtodactylusOn the Road to Understanding the Ecology urbanus and Conservation of the Midwest’s Purkayastha, Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer Das,190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: Bohra,A Hypothetical Bauer, Excursion ...... and Agarwal 2018Robert (Squamata: W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES .Gekkonidae),The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texasfrom ...... EmilyMeghalaya, Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and GadIndia 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 Jayaditya Purkayastha1, Sanath Chandra Bohra1, and Madhurima Das1,2 CONSERVATION ALERT 1Help Earth, Raghunath Choudhury Path, Lachitnagar, Guwahati 781007, Assam, India ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 2IBT Hub, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati 781016, Assam, India ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225

HUSBANDRY ortheastern .IndiaCaptive is Care home of the Central to nine Netted species Dragon ...... of bent-toed On 14 April 2019, we Shannon encountered Plummer 226 a female Urban Bent- Ngeckos in the genus Cyrtodactylus, eight of which have toed Gecko (SVL 62.4 mm) (Fig. 1) in Nongpoh, Ri-Bhoi been describedPROFILE since 2018 (Purkayastha et al. 2020). The District, Meghalaya (25.9081°N, 91.8543°E; Fig. 2). To . Urban Bent-toed GeckoKraig Adler: ( AC. Lifetime urbanus Promoting) was Herpetology described ...... from confirm the identity of the Michael gecko, L. Treglia we 234generated partial ND2 the type localityCOMMENTARY in Guwahati, Assam, India (26.1063°N, sequences and used the primers MetF1 and H5934 (Macey 91.7872°E) and from. The Turtles the adjacentHave Been Watching Rani-Garbhanga Me ...... Reserve et al. 1997) for amplification Eric inGangloff order 238 to compare all of the

Forest in and aroundBOOK Deeporbeel.REVIEW We herein report the first species within the C. khasiensis group. Using Mega 7 (Kumar record from the state. Threatened of Meghalaya. Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,et al. 2016), J.S. Chanson, we N.A.calculated Cox, the uncorrected p-distance. The R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young ...... Robert Powell 243

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Fig. 1. An adult female Urban Bent-toed Gecko (Cyrtodactylus urbanus) from from Nongpoh, Meghalaya, India. Photograph by Sanath Chandra Bohra.

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result showed a 0.7–0.9% pair-wise distance between the specimens from Nongpoh, Meghalaya to that of the type series from Basistha, Assam (Table 1). Until now, only two species of Cyrtodactylus (C. jainti- aensis and C. khasiensis) were known from Meghalaya. This report increases the number of bent-toed geckos known from the state to three species and extends the range of the species by 23.27 km airline distance south of the type locality.

Acknowledgements We wish to thank IBT Hub, Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, for the laboratory support.

Literature Cited Kumar, S., G. Stecher, and K. Tamura. 2016. MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for bigger datasets. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 33: 1870–1874. Macey, J.R., A. Larson, N.B. Ananjeva, Z. Fang, and T.J. Papenfuss. 1997. Two novel gene orders and the role of light-strand replication in rearrangement of the vertebrate mitochondrial genome. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14: 91–104. Purkayastha, J., M. Das, S.C. Bohra, A.M. Bauer, and I. Agarwal. 2020. Another new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Guwahati, Assam, India. Zootaxa 4732: 375–392. Fig. 2. Map showing the type locality (red square) of the Urban Bent-toed Gecko (Cyrtodactylus urbanus) in Guwahati, Assam, India, and new locality record (green square) from Nongpoh, Meghalaya, India.

Table1. Uncorrected p-distance among species in the Cyrtodactylus khasiensis group (to 1038 nucleotides, ND2). GenBank accession num- bers are in parentheses. The asterisk (*) indicates the sequence generated in this study.

Cyrtodactylus urbanus (MT704301)* Cyrtodactylus urbanus (MN911174) 0.009 Cyrtodactylus urbanus (MN911175) 0.009 0.004 Cyrtodactylus urbanus (MN911176) 0.007 0.004 0.003 Cyrtodactylus tripuraensis (KM255183) 0.136 0.115 0.115 0.115 Cyrtodactylus ayeyarwadyensis (JX440526) 0.139 0.137 0.135 0.136 0.075 Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis (KM255194) 0.156 0.152 0.151 0.149 0.129 0.154 Cyrtodactylus septentrionalis (MH971164) 0.137 0.134 0.132 0.130 0.115 0.146 0.113 Cyrtodactylus khasiensis (KM255188) 0.153 0.142 0.140 0.140 0.125 0.156 0.169 0.157 Cyrtodactylus kazirangaensis (KM255170) 0.179 0.173 0.171 0.170 0.145 0.167 0.197 0.186 0.184 Cyrtodactylus montanus (KM255200) 0.219 0.218 0.216 0.217 0.182 0.200 0.219 0.196 0.217 0.232

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