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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY

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FEATURE ARTICLES Northernmost. Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer Record sayi) in Wisconsin: of the Nilgiri Keelback, On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . HebiusThe Shared History of Treeboas beddomei (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on(G Grenada:ünther 1864) A Hypothetical Excursion ...... Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH(Squamata: ARTICLES Natricidae) from the . 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 ...... WesternBrian J. Camposano, Kenneth Ghats L. Krysko, Kevin M. Enge,of Ellen M.India Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212

CONSERVATIONAnuj Shinde1, ShubhankarALERT Deshpande1,4, Makarand Ketkar2,4, and Swayam Thakkar3 . World’s Mammals in Crisis ...... 220 1 . MoreFergusson Than Mammals College, ...... Shivajinagar, Pune, Maharashtra, 411004, India ([email protected]...... 223) 2 .InsearchThe “Dow Outdoors, Jones Index” Ketan of Biodiversity Heights, ...... C-26, Anupam Park, Rahul Nagar, Kothrud, Pune, Maharashtra, 411038,...... 225India 3MIT World Peace University, Survey No. 124, Paud Road, Kothrud, Pune, Maharashtra, 411038, India 4InstituteHUSBANDRY of Natural History Education and Research (INHER), C26/9 Ketan Heights, Kothrud, Pune, Maharashtra 411038, India . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ...... Shannon Plummer 226

PROFILE . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting Herpetology ...... Michael L. Treglia 234 he Nilgiri Keelback (Hebius beddomei) is an endemic At 1330 h on 6 October 2019, during a field survey in Tnatricid (ChaitanyaCOMMENTARY et al. 2018) with a known distribu- Adarwadi Devrai, Tamhini Ghat, Pune (18°25'51.00"N, tion in the Western .GhatsThe Turtles of Have Kerala, Been Watching Karnataka, Me ...... Goa, and 73°24'15.36"E), MK and Eric ST Gangloff encountered 238 a single indi- Maharashtra fromBOOK south REVIEWof Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, vidual (Fig. 1) at an elevation of 578 m asl in tropical semi- to the Bonacaud Estate. Threatened in KeralaAmphibians at of theelevations World edited bybetween S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann,evergreen J.S. Chanson,type forest N.A. Cox, (Champion and Seth 1968). The snake 60 and 1,000 m asl (SrinivasuluR. Berridge, P. Ramani, et al. and 2014). B.E. Young In ...... the state was in thick leaf litter next Robert to aPowell rock 243 on the forest floor and of Maharashtra, thisCONSERVATION species is RESEARCHknown to REPORTS: occur Summariesat the of Publishedin the Conservation process Research of ingestingReports ...... an endemic 245 Ghate’s Shrub Frog Mahabaleshwar Hill NATURALStation HISTORYand Koyna RESEARCH Wildlife REPORTS Sanctuary: Summaries of Published(Raorchestes Reports on ghatei Natural) History (Fig...... 2). We photographed 247 the snake and  NEWBRIEFS ...... 248 in Satara District (Srinivasulu EDITORIAL INFORMATIONet al. 2014), ...... the Kaas Plateau then released it at the site of...... capture. 251 in Satara District (ChikaneFOCUS ON and CONSERVATION Bhosale 2012),: A Project Chandoli You Can Support ...... The new locality of Adarwadi 252Devrai is about 62 km National Park in Sangli District (Amol Jadhav, pers. comm.), north of the previously documented northernmost record and Amboli (AS, SD, MK, pers. obs.). at South Mahabaleshwar (Whitaker and Captain 2004)

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Fig. 1. A Nilgiri Keelback (Hebius beddomei) from Adarwadi Devrai, Tamhni Ghat, Pune, Maharashtra, India. Photograph by Swayam Thakkar.

Fig. 2. A Nilgiri Keelback (Hebius beddomei) from Adarwadi Devrai, Tamhni Ghat, Pune, Maharashtra, India, ingesting a Ghate’s Shrub Frog (Raorchestes ghatei). Photograph by Swayam Thakkar.

and also the first record of the species from Pune District of Maharashtra.

Acknowledgements We thank Srushti Bhave for helping map the locations, Gaurang Gowande and Shauri Sulakhe for their comments on the manuscript, and Ramdas Yenpure for help during fieldwork.

Literature Cited Chaitanya, R., A. Khandekar, D. Caleb, N. Mukherjee, A. Ghosh, and V. Giri. 2018. Herpetofauna of the Meghamalai Wildlife Sanctuary, Southern Western Ghats, India: An updated checklist with annotations on taxonomy and nomenclature. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 115: 21–37. Champion, H. and S. Seth. 1968. A Revised Survey of the Forest Types of India. Government of India, New Delhi, India. Chikane, S. and H. Bhosale. 2012. Reptiles of Kaas, northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India, with notes on habitat preferences, abundances and threats. Sauria 34(3): 3–15. Srinivasulu, C., B. Srinivasulu, and S. Molur (compilers). 2014. The Status and Distribution of Reptiles in the Western Ghats, India. Conservation Assessment Fig. 3. Map of the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India, show- and Management Plan (CAMP). Wildlife Information Liason Development ing the distribution of the Nilgiri Keelback (Hebius beddomei). The previ- Society, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. ously recorded distribution in Maharashtra is represented by pink squares Whitaker, R., and A. Captain. 2004. Snakes of India – The Field Guide. Draco and the new northernmost record is indicated by a red triangle. Books, Chennai, India.

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