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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES . ChasingNew Bullsnakes (PituophisDistribution catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Records of the On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared HistoryBombay of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis Leaf-toed) and Humans on Grenada: Gecko, A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCHHemidactylus ARTICLES prashadi Smith 1935 . The Texas Horned in Central and Western Texas ...... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida (), ...... Brian J. Camposano, from Kenneth L. Krysko, Maharashtra, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATION ALERT Amit Sayyed1 and Abhijeet Nale2 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 1 . More Than WildlifeMammals Protection ...... and Research Society, Maharashtra, India ([email protected])...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity2Wildlife ...... Protection and Research Society, Maharashtra, India ...... 225

HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226

he Bombay Leaf-toedPROFILE Gecko ( prashadi), Least Concern on the IUCN Red List (Srinivasulu and Twhich is endemic. Kraig to Adler: the A LifetimeWestern Promoting Ghats Herpetology of ...... India, is Srinivasulu 2013), populations Michael L. Treglia at 234some locations appear among the most poorly studied gekkonid in India to be declining due to anthropogenic effects despite some COMMENTARY (Bauer et al. 2010). For many years, it was known only from records of these geckos on walls of human habitations and . The Turtles Have Been Watching Me ...... Eric Gangloff 238 near the type locality at Jog Falls (Smith 1935; Giri and in palm plantations (Giri and Bauer 2006). In natural habi- Bauer 2006) but recentBOOK recordsREVIEW have enlarged the known tats, Bombay Leaf-toed Geckos live on trees and rocks in . Threatened Amphibians of the World2 edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, distribution, which nowR. totals Berridge, 50,000P. Ramani, andkm B.E. inYoung Maharashtra, ...... semi-evergreen forests at elevations Robert Powell of243 15–1,500 m asl. Giri Goa, and Karnataka. In this area, the northernmost record and Bauer (2006) described habitat partitioning in which is Dorle, Maharashtra, CONSERVATION and the southernmost RESEARCH REPORTS: record Summariescomes of Publishedjuveniles Conservation live Research mainly Reports on ...... trees and 245adults chiefly on rocks  NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 from Jog Falls, Karnataka NEWBRIEFS (Giri ...... and Bauer 2006). However, and associated ...... crevices. 248 distances between theEDITORIAL records INFORMATION are large and ...... whether pop- Herein we report two...... localities 251 for Hemidactylus pra- ulations are fragmented FOCUS ONor CONSERVATIONintervening : areas A Project have You Can not Support ...... shadi from the northern 252 of India. On 11 June been sampled is not known. Although listed as being of 2019, we found an adult and a subadult in a cave at Devrukh,

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Fig. 1. A subadult Bombay Leaf-toed Gecko (Hemidactylus prashadi) in a cave in semi-evergreen forest in Devrukh, Maharashtra. Photographs by Amit Sayyed.

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Maharashtra (elev. 1,300 m asl), which is the northernmost Acknowledgements record for the species. The adult was on the wall of the cave at We thank Dewendra Bhosle, Kiran Ahire, Rahul Thombre, dawn and escaped before we were able to take a photograph. Vikas Jagtap, Ashitosh Suryawanshi, Rahul Mandalik, Vijay The subadult specimen (Fig. 1) was on a rock in close prox- Genjge, and team WLPRS for fieldwork. imity to the cave after sunset. We also found six individuals during a field survey on 28 December 2019 at the Rangna Literature Cited Fort, Kolhapur, Maharashtra (679 m asl). Four adults were Bauer, A.M., T.R. Jackman, E. Greenbaum, V.B. Giri, and A. de Silva. 2010. South Asia supports a major endemic radiation of Hemidactylus geckos. Molecular on the fort and two others were on the wall of a cave (locally Phylogenetics and Evolution 57: 343–352. known as Shidhachi Gufa) 3 km from the fort. Giri, V. and A.M. Bauer. 2006. Notes on the distribution, natural history and varia- Despite new records in recent years, the precise dis- tion of Hemidactylus prashadi Smith, 1935. Hamadryad 30: 55–60. tribution and natural history of Hemidactylus prashadi Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia remain largely unknown. We encourage additional surveys and Amphibia. Vol. II.–Sauria. Taylor and Francis, London, UK. Srinivasulu, C. and B. Srinivasulu. 2013. Hemidactylus prashadi. The IUCN Red and field studies to better understand this relatively poorly List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T172638A1357072. .

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