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WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & IRCFAMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL 15,& NAMPHIBIANSO 4 • DEC 2008 •189 25(2):129–131 • AUG 2018 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Extension. Chasing Bullsnakes of (Pituophis the catenifer sayi ) Knownin Wisconsin: Range of the Trinket On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 Snake,. The Shared HistoryCoelognathus of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans onhelena Grenada: nigriangularis A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................Robert W. Henderson 198 (Reptilia:RESEARCH ARTICLES Squamata: Colubridae), in India . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . SubhadeepThe Knight Anole Chowdhury (Anolis equestris) 1in, FloridaRanadeep Sengupta2, Shibajee Mitra3, and Anirban Chaudhuri4 .............................................Brian J. Camposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1Krishnachak, Dhurkhali, Howrah 711410, West Bengal, India CONSERVATION ALERT214 Garia Place (North), Kolkata 700084, West Bengal, India . World’s Mammals 3inBadu Crisis Reptile ............................................................................................................................... Conservation Society, Badu, Kolkata 700128, West Bengal, India.............................. 220 4Nature. More MatesThan Mammals Nature ...............................................................................................................................Club, 6/7, Bijoygarh, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, West Bengal, India....................................... ([email protected]) 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 he genus Coelognathus (Fitzinger 1843) currently comprises its dry and moist tropical deciduous forests where it has been Tseven species, PROFILEof which three, C. flavolineatus (Schlegel encountered under piles of rock boulders and inside limestone . 1837), C. helena (DaudinKraig 1803),Adler: A Lifetime and PromotingC. radiatus Herpetology (Boie ................................................................................................ 1827), caves (Mohapatra et al. 2016). Michael L. TregliaEdake 234 (2011) found one indi- are known to occurCOMMENTARY in India (Schulz 2013). Coelognathus helena vidual hidden under bamboo leaves. Like the other conspecific currently comprises three. The Turtles recognized Have Been Watchingsubspecies, Me ........................................................................................................................ C. h. helena taxa, this subspecies is crepuscular Eric Gangloff by nature238 and preys primar- (Daudin 1803), C.BOOK h. montilocollaris REVIEW (Schulz 1992), and the ily on small mammals (Mohapatra et al. 2016). recently described C.. Threatenedh. nigriangularis Amphibians of (Mohapatra,the World edited by S.N.Schulz, Stuart, M. Hoffmann, Coelognathus J.S. Chanson, N.A. helena Cox, helena can be identified in the field Helfenberger, Hofmann,R. and Berridge, Dutta P. Ramani, 2016). and B.E. The Young latter .............................................................................................................. inhab- by the uniform twin-striped Robert neck Powell marking243 (Whitaker and CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 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 Trinket Snake (Coelognathus helena nigriangularis) from the Susunia Hills, West Bengal, India. Photographs by Ranadeep Sengupta. Copyright © 2018. Subhadeep Chowdhury. All rights reserved. 129 IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 CHOWDHURY ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 25(2):129–131 • AUG 2018 Fig. 2. Map of India showing previously published locality records and a new record for the Trinket Snake (Coelognathus helena nigriangularis). Captain 2008; Mohapatra et al. 2016), C. h. monticollaris Here we report the occurrence of C. helena nigriangularis can be distinguished by a round necklace-like nuchal pattern from the Susunia Hills region in the northwestern Bankura (Mohapatra et. al 2016), and C. h. nigriangularis can easily be District of southern West Bengal, India (23.395525°N, diagnosed by the prominent black inverted V- or Y-shaped 86.986439°E; elev. 410 m asl; Fig. 2). RS encountered the snake marking on the ventrolateral side of the neck near the base at 0905 h on 17 December 2016 with the anterior part of its of the parietal shields (Mohapatra et al. 2016). In some indi- body extending out of a rocky crevice. It was then photographed viduals, the pointed end of the inverted V or Y extends to the from a distance, and when approached it retreated inside the frontal shield (Fig. 1; photographic voucher, Lee Kong Chian crevice. The rocky area where the snake was found lacked sub- Natural History Museum, National University of Singapore, stantive vegetation but a few small bushes and shrubs were in ZRC(IMG) 2.381a-c). the area. This new locality record for the subspecies extends its The known range of C. h. nigriangularis (Fig. 2) con- northeastern-most distribution by approximately 311 km and sists of scattered records in parts of Chhattisgarh and the state 358 km from the nearest previously recorded locations in the of Odisha (Mohapatra et al. 2016). The subspecies also has states of Jharkhand and Odisha, respectively. been recorded from the states of Madhya Pradesh (Edake 2011; Kumbhar et al. 2011), Maharashtra (Schulz 2013), Acknowledgement Jharkhand (Lampe and Lindholm 1902; Srivastava et al. The authors thank Milind Mutnale for providing the outline 2013), and Andhra Pradesh (Kantimahanti et al. 2015) in map. India. A specimen in the Bombay Natural History Society Museum (BNHS 3374) was examined by Mohapatra et al. Literature Cited (2016); it originated from Rajasthan, India, but lacked spe- Edake, S. 2011. Serpents of Bandhavgarh. Trustees of the Corbett Foundation cific locality data. Newsletter, October–December 2010 & January–March 2011: 1–8. 130 CHOWDHURY ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 25(2):129–131 • AUG 2018 Kantimahanti, M., K.D. Schulz, and V. Sharma. 2015. New locality records of 2016. A contribution to the Indian Trinket Snake, Coelognathus helena Coelognathus helena cf. monticollaris (Schulz, 1992) from Andhra Pradesh, (Daudin, 1803), with the description of a new subspecies. Russian Journal of India. Sauria 37(4): 71–74. Herpetology 23: 115–144. Kumbhar A.S., G.C Patwardhan, A.K Pradhan, and N.S Dungriyal. 2011. New Schulz, K.D. 2013. 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