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Cfreptiles & Amphibians WWW.IRCF.ORG TABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES &IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 189 27(2):304–305 • AUG 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES . ChasingA Bullsnakes New (Pituophis catenifer Locality sayi) in Wisconsin: Record for the On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Recently. The Shared History ofDescribed Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans Laudankia on Grenada: Vinesnake A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES(Ahaetulla laudankia) . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestrisDebaprasad) in Florida Sengupta1 and S.R. Chandramouli2 .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun, Uttarakhand–248002, India ([email protected]) 2Department of EcologyCONSERVATION and Environmental Sciences,ALERT School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry–605014, India ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 f the ten currentlyHUSBANDRY recognized species of tropical Asian record for this species (Fig. 2). The specimen was accessioned Ovinesnakes in the. Captive genus Care ofAhaetulla the Central Netted, nine Dragon occur ....................................................................................................... on the into the collections of the Shannon Wildlife Plummer Institute226 of India (WII/ Indian SubcontinentPROFILE (Uetz et al. 2020). The Laudankia NRW/No_55). Vinesnake (Ahaetulla. laudankiaKraig Adler: A Lifetime Deepak, Promoting Narayanan, Herpetology ................................................................................................ Sarkar, The snake was identified Michael L. Tregliaas Ahaetulla 234 laudankia based Dutta, and MohapatraCOMMENTARY 2019) was described on the basis of on the following characters: head long (18.8 mm) and slen- three specimens from. The Odisha Turtles Have in Been eastern Watching India Me ........................................................................................................................ and Mount der (head width 5.34 mm) Eric with Gangloff a long238 pointed snout (eye– Aboo in Rajasthan. Patel et al. (2019) subsequently recorded snout distance 8.03 mm) oriented slightly upward; eyes large the species from threeBOOK localities REVIEW in Gujarat. (ED 3.04 mm) with horizontal pupils; eye–nostril distance . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, Herein, we report anR. Berridge,additional P. Ramani, record and B.E. fromYoung ..............................................................................................................the Sariska 4.97 mm and interorbital Robertdistance Powell (5.10243 mm) greater than Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan. A subadult male (SVL 427 mm, internarial distance (1.50 mm). Dorsal scales smooth and in tail 230 mm; Fig. 1) wasCONSERVATION basking on RESEARCH a stem of REPORTS: grass at 0830Summaries h of Publishedoblique Conservation 15:15:13 Research rows.Reports .................................Ventrals numbered 245 188; cloacal scale NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 on 10 December 2017 NEWBRIEFS on the slope ............................................................................................................................... of a hill adjacent to Dhok single, subcaudals....................................................... 171, loreal absent, 248supralabials 8, infralabi- (Anogeissus pendula)EDITORIAL dominated INFORMATION forest at ...............................................................................................................................Kalighati in the als 7, preocular single, postoculars...................... 2,251 and temporals 1 + 2. FOCUS ON CONSERVATION Sariska Range (27°18'09.3"N, 76°25'07.0"E): A at Project an elevationYou Can Support ...............................................................................................The dorsum was light brown, the venter 252 somewhat lighter. of 578 m asl. This site is approximately 600 km northeast Vinesnakes with superficially similar morphology to of Mount Abu and thus represents the northernmost locality those of A. laudankia have been reported from Phansad in 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 Laudankia Vinesnake (Ahaetulla laudankia) (WII/NRW/No_55) from the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan. Photographs by Debaprasad Sengupta. Copyright © 2020. Debaprasad Sengupta. All rights reserved. 304 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 SENGUPTA AND CHANDRAMOULI IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(2):304–305 • AUG 2020 tus of those snakes requires confirmation. The limits of this recently described and poorly known species’ distribution are not well documented. An awareness of its entire distribution is necessary to assess its conservation status. Acknowledgements The observation reported herein was made under the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA)-funded project, “Monitoring of Reintroduced Tigers in Sariska Tiger Reserve–Phase II.” We thank the Rajasthan Forest Department and NTCA for granting permission to conduct studies in the Sariska Tiger Reserve; the Director, Dean and Research Coordinator of the Wildlife Institute of India for their support; Dr. Parag Nigam for supervising the project; Dr. J.A. Johnson for registration of the specimen in the col- lections of the Wildlife Institute of India; and our field assis- tants, Ratan Gurjar and Rajesh Meena, for help in the field. Literature Cited Deepak, V., S. Narayanan, V. Sarkar, S.K. Dutta, and P. Mohapatra. 2019. A new species of Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Ahaetullinae) from India. Journal of Natural History 53: 497–516. Patel, H., R. Vyas, and P. Vaghashiya. 2019. On the distribution of Ahaetulla lau- dankia Deepak, Narayanan, Sarkar, Dutta & Mohapatra, 2019 and Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome, 1870) (Squamata, Colubridae) from Gujarat, India. Check List 15: 1045–1050. Fig. 2. Known locality records for the Laudankia Vinesnake (Ahaetulla laudankia). Red dots indicate localities recorded by Deepak et al. (2019), Rao, T.K., H.V. Ghate, M. Sudhakar, S.M.M. Javed, and I.S.R. Krishna. 2005. Herpetofauna of Nallamalai Hills with eleven new records from the region includ- black dots those of Patel et al. (2019), and the red triangle marks the new ing ten new records for Andhra Pradesh. Zoos’ Print Journal 20: 1737–1740. record reported herein from the Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan. Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2019. The Reptile Database. <http://www. reptile-database.org>. Walmili, N., S. Karangutkar, B. Yengal, V. Wagh, A. Kumbhar, A. Jadhav, and A. Khan. 2012. Record of Ahaetulla nasuta var. isabellinus from Phansad Wildlife Maharashtra (Walmiki et al. 2012) and the Nallamalai Hills Sanctuary Raigad-Maharastra, India. Universal Journal of Environmental in Andhra Pradesh (Rao et al. 2005), but the taxonomic sta- Research and Technology 2: 196–198. 305.
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