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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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A FEATURENew ARTICLESLocality Record for the Condanarus . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: Sandsnake,On the Road to Understanding the Ecology Psammophis and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent condanarus ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: (Psammophiidae),A Hypothetical Excursion ...... from Buxwaha,Robert Chhatarpur W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The TexasDistrict, Horned Lizard in Central and MadhyaWestern Texas ...... EmilyPradesh, Henry, Jason Brewer, Krista Mougey, India 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 Vishal Varma1, Yogesh H. Vamdev1, and Akshay Parashar2 CONSERVATION ALERT 1Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, India ([email protected] [corresponding author]; [email protected]) . World’s Mammals in 2CrisisBombay ...... Natural History Society, Mumbai, India ([email protected])...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225
HUSBANDRY n India, sandsnakes. Captive in the Care genus of the Central Psammophis Netted Dragon are represented...... by Shannon Plummer 226 Ifour species: P. condanarus (Merrem 1820), P. leithii (Günther 1869), P. schokariPROFILE (Forskal 1775), and P. longifrons (Boulenger . 1896). The CondanarusKraig Adler: Sandsnake A Lifetime Promoting(P. condanarus Herpetology), ...... which also Michael L. Treglia 234 is known to occurCOMMENTARY in Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar, and Laos (Uetz et al. 2020), occupies. The diverse Turtles Have habitats Been Watching that Meinclude ...... moist grass- Eric Gangloff 238 lands, shrublands,BOOK forests, REVIEW and agricultural areas (Schleich and Kästle 2002; Sharma. Threatened 2003; Amphibians McKay of2006). the World In edited India, by S.N. the Stuart, spe- M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, cies has been recordedR. from Berridge, the P. Ramani,states andof B.E.Uttarakhand, Young ...... Punjab, Robert Powell 243 Gujarat, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa, West Bengal, Himachal CONSERVATIONPradesh, Karnataka, RESEARCH Madhya REPORTS: Pradesh, Summaries and in of Published Conservation Research Reports ...... 245 NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 the Eastern Ghats NEWBRIEFSof Andhra ...... Pradesh (Ali 1943; Prassad 1993; ...... 248 Ingle 2002; Whitaker EDITORIAL and Captain INFORMATION 2004; Chandra ...... and Gajbe ...... 251 2005; Saikia et al. FOCUS2007; GaneshON CONSERVATION et al. 2017).: 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 Fig.estibus 2. inveliquo Map of velique India rerchil showing the distribution of the Condanarus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus,Sandsnake quos (P. accullabo. condanarus Ilibus; red shading) and the new locality record in aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum autBuxwaha, dolor apicto Chhatarpur invere pe dolum District, Madhya Pradesh (black shading). 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. On 24 September 2015, we rescued an adult (total length 79.5 cm) Condanarus Sandsnake in Buxwaha, Chhatarpur District, Madhya Pradesh (24.272669°N, 79.29946°E; elev. 480 m asl). The snake was found in a settlement surrounded by agricultural areas and shrubland. We confirmed the iden- tity of the snake by using descriptions in Smith (1943) and Whitaker and Captain (2004). This new locality record for the species in Madhya Pradesh is about 400 km (straight-line Fig. 1. A rescued Condanarus Sandsnake (Psammophis condanarus) from distance) from the nearest previous record in Ujjain District Buxwaha, Madhya Pradesh, India. Photograph by Yogesh H. Vamdev. (Chandra and Gajbe 2005).
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