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Lycodon Flavomaculatus) Is Morphology and Color Pattern of the Snake Matched Char WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES &IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 189 24(2):115–117 • AUG 2017 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Notes. Chasing on Bullsnakes (thePituophis catenifer Southernmost sayi) in Wisconsin: Distributional On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: RecordA Hypothetical for Excursion the ............................................................................................................................ Yellow-spotted Wolfsnake,Robert W. Henderson 198 LycodonRESEARCH ARTICLES cf. flavomaculatus (Wall 1907), . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida .............................................fromBrian J. TamilCamposano, Kenneth L. Krysko, Nadu, Kevin M. Enge, Ellen M.India Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 CONSERVATIONSurya Narayanan ALERT 1, Naveen Joseph2, Melvin Selvan3, and Ahmed Jerith2 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals 1 ...............................................................................................................................Wayanad Wild, Lakkidi, Vythiri, Kerala, India ([email protected])....................................... 223 . The “Dow2 NationalJones Index” Troopers of Biodiversity for Conservation ............................................................................................................................... of Nature, Palayamkottai, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India............ 225 3Valanesam Road, Gundupatti, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 PROFILE he Yellow-spotted Wolfsnake (Lycodon flavomaculatus) is Morphology and color pattern of the snake matched char- . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 Tone of seven congeners known to occur in mainland India acteristics of L. flavomaculatus (Smith 1943; Captain 1999; (Uetz et al. 2016). COMMENTARYBoulenger (1893) considered this species to Whitaker and Captain 2004; Table 1). Our snake had nine . be a color variant of theThe IndianTurtles Have Wolfsnake Been Watching Me(Lycodon ........................................................................................................................ aulicus), supralabials, whereas the Northern Eric Gangloff 238Wolfsnake (L. striatus) but Wall (1907) recognizedBOOK REVIEW it as a distinct species after exam- has eight supralabials. Although Wall (1907) distinguished ining the specimen collected. Threatened at Amphibians the type of thelocality World edited in Dharwad,by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,L. flavomaculatus J.S. Chanson, N.A. and Cox, L. striatus based on a single supralabial R. Berridge, P. Ramani, and B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Robert Powell 243 Karnataka. He also examined five other specimens, of which touching the nasal in L. flavomaculatus (first two supralabials four were from Sangli, CONSERVATION Kirkee (Khadki), RESEARCH Poona REPORTS: (Pune), Summaries and of Publishedtouch Conservation the nasal Research in ReportsL. striatus .................................), Captain 245 (1999) considered this Nashik in Maharashtra NATURAL and one HISTORY was RESEARCHfrom Faizabad REPORTS in: Uttar Summaries of Publishedan unstable Reports on taxonomic Natural History ................................. character inadequate 247 for diagnosing NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 Pradesh; however, the EDITORIAL latter was INFORMATION considered invalid ............................................................................................................................... by Wallach the two species. Both of the...................... individuals 251 we examined (our et al. (2014). The presenceFOCUS ON of CONSERVATION this species : in A Projectvarious You Canother Support ...............................................................................................snake and that recorded by Melvinselvan 252 [sic] et al. 2016) parts of India has been subsequently documented. Sharma et have only the first supralabial in contact with the nasal. al. (2015), in a detailed discussion of locality records, sup- Nagalapuram is in southern Tamil Nadu (Fig. 2) at an ported the validity of localities at Mandla and Balaghat by elevation of about 100 m and about 55 km south of the previ- providing a new record from VidishaFront in Cover.Madhya Shannon Pradesh, Plummer. but ouslyBack recorded Cover. Michael southernmost Kern locality (Melvinselvan [sic] et al. Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo raised doubts about a record from Chattisgarhestibus inveliquo velique(Srinivasalu rerchil et 2016).estibus inveliquo The new velique site rerchil is in the rainshadow on the eastern slopes al. 2014). Murthy (1991) listed a recorderspienimus, in Tamil quos accullabo. Nadu Ilibus from erspienimus,of the Western quos accullabo. Ghats Ilibus and receives an annual rainfall of about aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve, but Mukherjeefugiatis maionsequat and eumque Bhupathy 700fugiatis mm. maionsequat The natural eumque habitat in the area, dry grassland with (2007) demonstrated that the specimenmoditia was erere a nonsedis Yellow-collared ma sectiatur scatteredmoditia erere nonsedissmall boulders,ma sectia- has been largely replaced by stands ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as Wolfsnake (L. flavicollis). However,accullabo. Melvinselvan [sic] et al. (2016) recently documented the presence of L. flavomacula- tus in Tamil Nadu. Herein we provide another, even more southerly record from Tamil Nadu of an individual tenta- tively assigned to the same species. At 2130 h on 15 February 2015, we found a snake (Fig. 1) that looked like a L. flavomaculatus in an agricultural plot near Nagalapuram in Tuticorin District (9.206138°, 78.195638°). We collected morphological and meristic data and, using a Canon Eos 600D camera, took voucher photo- graphs for further comparisons. We counted dorsal scale rows one head length behind the neck, at approximately midbody, and one head length in front of the cloacal plate, and ventral Fig. 1. Dorsal view of an individual tentatively identified as a Yellow- scales per Dowling (1951) before releasing the snake at the spotted Wolfsnake (Lycodon cf. flavomaculatus) from Nagalapuram, Tamil original site of capture. Nadu. Photograph by Naveen Joseph. Copyright © 2017. Surya Narayanan. All rights reserved. 115 NARAYANAN ET AL. IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 24(2):115–117 • AUG 2017 Table 1. Meristic and morphological data for Yellow-spotted Wolfsnakes (Lycodon flavomaculatus) listed by Captain (1999) and the indi- viduals described in Melvinselvan [sic] et al. (2016) and herein. Source Character Captain (1999) Melvinselvan [sic] et al. (2016) This work Dorsal scale rows 17:17:15 17:17:15 17:17:15 Ventrals 165 173 161 Subcaudals 61 NA 42+ (tail broken) Supralabials (touching eyes) 9 (3–5) 9 (3–5) 9 (3–5) Supralabials in contact with nasal 1 1 1 Infralabials 10 10 10 Loreals 1 1 1 Preoculars 1 1 1 Postoculars 2 2 2 Temporals 2 + 3 2 + 3 2 + 3 SVL (mm) 345 192 375 Total length (cm) 95 NA 80+ (tail broken) of Mesquite (Prosopis juliflora) and agriculture. Sharma et al. (2015) noted that L. flavomaculatus occurred in diverse habi- tats ranging from dry grasslands to dry deciduous forests and in areas that differ in annual rainfall from low (in most parts of the range) to high on parts of the Deccan Plateau (which composes much of peninsular India). The Yellow-spotted Wolfsnake (L. flavomaculatus) was considered endemic to western and central India by Captain (1999) and Whitaker and Captain (2004), but our record and one earlier report (Melvinselvan [sic] et al. 2016) appear to demonstrate the presence of the species in Tamil Nadu. However, in the absence of molecular support and consid- ering the apparent gap in the distribution between these new locations and the nearest previously known locality in Dharwad, we conservatively refer this individual to L. cf. fla- vomaculatus. We believe these snakes are likely to occur in a wider geographic area where habitats such as the dry grass- lands and dry deciduous forests on the eastern slopes of the Western Ghats appear to be suitable. Acknowledgements We thank Deepak Veerapan for his suggestion regarding the identity of the species and for valuable comments on an ear- lier draft of this manuscript. We also thank Abhishek Samrat for providing the map (Fig. 2). Literature Cited Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum
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