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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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RecordFEATURE ARTICLES of the Common Leopard Gecko, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: EublepharisOn the Road to Understanding the Ecology macularius and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant (Blyth Serpent ...... Joshua1854) M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical(Squamata: Excursion ...... Eublepharidae),Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texasfrom Horned Lizard inKapilvastu Central and Western Texas ...... District, Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista NepalMougey, 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 Roshan Panthi1, Krishna Ghimire2, and Prabhat Kiran Bhattarai3 CONSERVATION ALERT 1,3Tribhuvan University, Institute of Forestry, Pokhara Campus, Nepal ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 2Tri-shakti Community Forest, Kapilvastu District, Nepal ...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225
HUSBANDRY he family Eublepharidae. Captive Care of the(eyelid Central Nettedgeckos) Dragon comprises ...... six Shannon Plummer 226 Tgenera and 44 species (Uetz et al. 2020), 11 of which are known to occur PROFILEin Nepal. This number has recently increased . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 with reports of Common Leopard Geckos (Eublepharis mac- ularius) (SchleichCOMMENTARY and Kästle 2002; Schleich and Rai 2012; Rawat et al. 2019).. The These Turtles Havenocturnal Been Watching geckos Me ...... are native to Eric Gangloff 238 Afghanistan, Pakistan,BOOK India,REVIEW Iran, and Nepal (Bonke et al. 2011; Szydłowski .etThreatened al. 2020). Amphibians Although of the World largely edited byterrestrial, S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, Common Leopard GeckosR. Berridge, will P. Ramani, climb and B.E.trees Young to ...... take refuge Robert Powell 243 under loose bark but more commonly seek shelter in holes and crevices or under CONSERVATION stones and RESEARCHrocks (Khan REPORTS: 2009). SummariesHerein of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of PublishedFig. 2. ReportsMap of on Nepal Natural showingHistory ...... locality records 247 of the Common Leopard we report a new localityNEWBRIEFS record ...... from Kapilvastu District in Gecko (Eublepharis...... macularius). Previous records 248 are from districts indi- Nepal. EDITORIAL INFORMATION ...... cated by tan color and the new record...... in Kipilvastu 251 District is marked FOCUS ON CONSERVATION We encountered a single individual : (Fig. A Project 1) You at Can1428 Support ...... with a star. 252 h on 2 June 2020 on the northern side of the Tri-Shakti Community Forest (93 m asl), Banganga Municipality, (Fig. 2), during removal of leaf litter for timber extrac- Kapilvastu District, Nepal (27°42'57.38"N, 83° 8'42.59"E) Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. tion. BackThe Cover. lizard Michael was Kern resting 1 m above the ground on a Sal Totat et velleseque audant mo logTotat in etforest velleseque dominated audant mo by Sal (Shorea robusta), with Saaj estibus inveliquo velique rerchil (Terminaliaestibus inveliquo elliptica velique rerchil) and Sissau (Dalbergia sissoo) as associ- erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum atedaut dolor species apicto invere(Fig. pe 3).dolum It was photographed, captured, and fugiatis maionsequat eumque identifiedfugiatis maionsequat by the presence eumque of tubercles on subdigital lamellae, moditia erere nonsedis ma sectiatur circularmoditia erere dorsal nonsedis scales, ma sectia and- the presence of dorsal dark and pale ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. bands with granular spots (Mirza et al. 2014; Rawat et al. 2019). A photographic voucher was deposited in the Zoology and Wildlife Lab, Institute of Forestry, Tribhuvan University, Pokhara, Nepal (017478EM); the identity of the species was confirmed from the photograph by Santosh Bhattarai. Rawat et al. (2019) had reported the species from Banke, Nawalparasi West, and Surkhet Districts (Fig. 2). All of the records are from Inner Terai Valleys, which comprise the tropical regions of western and midwestern Nepal. The pres- Fig.1. Common Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis macularius) recorded in the Tri-Shakti Community Forest, Banganga Municipality, Kapilvastu ence of the species in four districts suggests that Common District, Nepal. Photograph by Roshan Panthi. Leopard Geckos are likely to occur in adjoining areas as well.
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Acknowledgements We thank Santosh Bhattarai for species identification; Chandramani Aryal, Shristee Panthee, Bhuwan Singh Bist, Nabin Pandey, and Nishan KC for helpful suggestions on the manuscript; and the Tri-Shakti Community Forest User Groups for informing us about the species’ location.
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