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HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 27(3):413–414189 • DEC 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FirstFEATURE Record ARTICLES of the Copper-headed Trinket . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Snake,On the Road toCoelognathus Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of theradiatus Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... (Boie Joshua M. Kapfer 1827) 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: (Reptilia:A Hypothetical Excursion Colubridae), ............................................................................................................................ from Bihar,Robert W. Henderson India 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas HornedArif 1,3Lizard, Ayesha in Central Mohammad and Western Texas Maslehuddin ....................... Emily2,4, Sourabh Henry, Jason Verma Brewer, Krista1,5, and Mougey, Uttam and Gad2,6 Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 .............................................ValmikiBrian J.Tiger Camposano, Reserve, Kenneth West L.Champaran, Krysko, Kevin Bettiah, M. Enge, Bihar-845438, Ellen M. Donlan, India and Michael Granatosky 212 2Department of Wildlife Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, Uttar Pradesh-202002, India CONSERVATION3Manguraha ALERT Range, Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bettiah, West Champaran, Bihar-845438, India ([email protected] [corresponding author]; https://orchid.org/0000-0002-0787-2827) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 4 . More ThanRoom Mammals No. B202, ............................................................................................................................... Begum Sultan Jahan Hall, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar....................................... Pradesh-202002, India 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity([email protected]; ............................................................................................................................... https://orchid.org/0000-0003-3823-9247) ............ 225 5Gonauli Range, Division-2, Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bettiah, West Champaran, Bihar-845438, India HUSBANDRY ([email protected]; https://orchid.org/0000-0001-8321-7368) 6 rd . Captive3 Floor,Care of B4the WZ-17,Central Netted Badi DragonMasjid Lane,....................................................................................................... Tihar Village, Landmark Chhattri Wala Park, New ShannonDelhi-110018, Plummer India 226 ([email protected]; https://orchid.org/0000-0003-3997-5529) PROFILE . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 he Copper-headedCOMMENTARY Trinket Snake (Coelognathus radiatus) 2019; Günther 1864; Harit 2010; Javed et al. 2010; Nath et Tranges from India. The Turtles across Have southern Been Watching China Me ........................................................................................................................ to Hong Kong al. 2011; Thakur 2011). Eric Gangloff 238 and southward BOOKthrough REVIEW Sumatra and Java to Borneo, includ- During a tiger pugmark survey at 1200 h on 26 October ing Bangladesh, Brunei. Threatened Darussalam, Amphibians of theCambodia, World edited byIndonesia, S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,2019 in J.S. the Chanson, Gobardhana N.A. Cox, Range of the Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Lao People’s DemocraticR. Berridge, Republic, P. Ramani, and Malaysia, B.E. Young .............................................................................................................. Myanmar, Pashchim Champaran District, Robert Powell Bihar, 243 we encountered a Nepal, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam (Nguyen et al. snake subsequently identified as Coelognathus radiatus (Fig. CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 2014). In India, theNATURAL species HISTORY has been RESEARCH reported REPORTS from the: Summariesstates of Published1) crossing Reports on a Natural forest History road ................................. (27.331°N, 247 84.306°E). Habitat of Andhra Pradesh, NEWBRIEFS Arunachal ............................................................................................................................... Pradesh, Assam, Chhattisgarh, near a riverbed....................................................... in moist deciduous forest 248 was dominated by Madhya Pradesh, EDITORIAL Maharashtra, INFORMATION Meghalaya, ............................................................................................................................... Mizoram, Khair (Acacia catechu), Rohini...................... (Mallotus 251 philippensis), Indian FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 Nagaland, Orissa, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, and West Bengal Rosewood (Dalbergia sissoo), and weeds like the introduced (Aengals et al. 2018; Chandra and Gajbe 2005; Das et al. Blue Mistflower (Eupatorium odoratum). Our sighting is the first record of Coelognathus radia- tus from the state of Bihar, although Javed et al. (2010) had Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo includedTotat et velleseque the Purnia audant moDistrict of Bihar in a map showing the estibus inveliquo velique rerchil distributionestibus inveliquo of velique this rerchil species. That locality is approximately 500 erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,km ESE quos of accullabo.the Valmiki Ilibus Tiger Reserve. 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 sectiaAcknowledgements- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. We are grateful to the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Department, Government of Bihar, the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests, and the Chief Wildlife Warden for their constant support. We are sincerely thankful to the forest staff, Mr. Kundan, Mr. Dara ji, and Mr. Vijay Uraon, for their hard work. Literature Cited Aengals, R., V.S. Kumar, M.J. Palot, and S.R. Ganesh. 2018. Checklist of Reptiles of India. Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, India. <zsi.gov.in/checklist/ Fig. 1. A Copper-headed Trinket Snake (Coelognathus radiatus) encoun- reptiles>. tered on 26 October 2019 in the Valmiki Tiger Reserve, Bihar, India. Chandra, K. and P.U. Gajbe. 2005. An inventory of herpetofauna of Madhya Images extracted from video recordings by Arif. Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. Zoos’ Print Journal 20: 1812–1819. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 413 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. ARIF ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):413–414 • DEC 2020 Das, S., B. Tripathy, and K. Deuti. 2019. Range extension for the Khasi Hill Long- radiatus (Boie, 1827) (Reptilia: Colubridae) from the Ananthagiri Hills, Tailed Lizard, Takydromus khasiensis Boulenger, 1917 (Squamata: Lacertidae) Eastern Ghats, India. 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