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IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY
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FEATUREA Note ARTICLES on the Type Locality of the . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: HimalayanOn the Road to Understanding Treefrog, the Ecology and Conservation Polypedates of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...... himalayensis Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: (AnnandaleA Hypothetical Excursion ...... 1912) (Anura: Rhacophoridae)Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas HornedBhaskar Lizard Saikiain Central1, andAmritee Western Bora Texas ...... 2, Bikramjit Emily Sinha Henry,3, andJason Brewer,Jayaditya Krista PurkayasthaMougey, and Gad4 Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 ...... Zoological SurveyBrian of India, J. Camposano, North Eastern Kenneth Regional L. Krysko, Centre,Kevin M. Risa Enge, Colony, Ellen M. Shillong,Donlan, and Meghalaya, Michael Granatosky India 212 2Department of Geography, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India CONSERVATION3Zoological Survey ALERT of India, Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Senki Valley, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, India 4 . World’s MammalsHelp Earth, in Crisis 16, ...... RNC Path, Lachitnagar, Guwahati 781 007, Assam, India ([email protected])...... 220 . More Than Mammals ...... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ...... 225
HUSBANDRY he Abor Expedition. Captive Care was of the a Centralshort Netted war Dragonwaged ...... by colonial the lectotype and ZSIC 16969 Shannon Plummeras paralectotypes 226 of Polypedates TBritish Forces against the Abor (= Adi) tribes of the Abor himalayensis. As per the recommendation under Article 73C Country along PROFILEthe Dihang (= Siang) River Valley (Hamilton of the Code for designating a name-bearing type, we provide . 1912) in the present-dayKraig Adler: Indian A Lifetime state Promoting of Arunachal Herpetology ...... Pradesh. the following data for the Michael lectotype: L. Treglia 234An adult male having Stanley Kemp COMMENTARYand R. Hodgart, zoologists from the Indian a snout-to-vent length of 31.84 mm, collected by Stanley Museum, Calcutta. The (= Turtles Kolkata), Have Been Watchingaccompanied Me ...... the British Kemp from Kobo, elev. 400 Eric ft Gangloff (= 122 238 m), Abor Hills, and
Expeditionary ForceBOOK to REVIEW study the faunal and anthropological deposited in the museum of the Zoological Survey of India, aspects of the Abor. Threatened Country Amphibians (Kemp of 1912).the World editedBased by onS.N. speciStuart,- M. Hoffmann,Kolkata, J.S. underChanson, the N.A. registration Cox, number ZSIC 16944. mens collected duringR. Berridge, the expedition,P. Ramani, and B.E. Annandale Young ...... (1912) Because the designated Robert lectotype Powell 243 (ZSIC 16944) is the described six news species and one new subspecies of frog. name-bearing type of P. himalayensis, its place of collection Among the newCONSERVATION discoveries, RESEARCHAnnandale REPORTS: (1912) described Summaries of Published(Kobo) Conservation is the Research type Reports locality...... Note that 245 Chanda et al. (2000) NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ...... 247 Rhacophorus maculatus NEWBRIEFS himalayensis ...... (now Polypedates himalayen- reported the collection...... locality of ZSIC 248 16944 and ZSIC sis; Fig. 1), which EDITORIALhe differentiated INFORMATION from two ...... other races of the 16969 as “Kobo, alt. 4000 ft...... …. Abor 251 Hills” (in Arunachal Common Treefrog,FOCUS then ONknown CONSERVATION as Rhacophorus: A Projectmaculatus You Can (Gray Support ...... Pradesh, north-east India), whereas Annandale 252 (1912) listed 1830), based on morphological variation and distribution. For Kobo at an elevation of 400 ft (= 122 m). A review of per- many years, Rhacophorus maculatus himalayensis was considered a junior synonym of Polypedates maculatus or P. leucomystax by various workers (see the synonymiesFront in Cover. Anders Shannon 2002 Plummer. and Frost Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo 2020) until Gogoi and Sengupta estibus(2017) inveliquo elevated velique it rerchil to species estibus inveliquo velique rerchil rank and placed the collection localitieserspienimus, of thequos syntypesaccullabo. Ilibus (Kobo erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum and east of river Dihang) in the Eastfugiatis Siang maionsequat District eumque of Arunachal fugiatis maionsequat eumque Pradesh. They did not, however,moditia designate erere nonsedis a lectotype ma sectiatur from moditia erere nonsedis ma sectia- among the syntypes. Consequently,ma derrovitaeFrost (2020) voluptam, retained as quos the tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. several type localities “The Eastern Himalayas, Assam, western China,” which actually constituted the distribution Annandale (1912) had attributed to his newly erected subspecies. Gogoi and Sengupta (2017) reported that the two syn- types under registration number ZSIC 16969 were mutilated, so they used morphometric data of the third syntype (ZSIC 16944) for their redescription of the species. Because desig- nation of a lectotype will result in the assignment of a type locality for the species, we herein designate (in accordance Fig. 1. A Himalayan Treefrog (Polypedates himalayensis) from Basar, with the Article 74 of the International Code of Zoological Lepa-Rada District, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Photograph by Jayaditya Nomenclature; hereafter referred as the Code) ZSIC 16944 as Purkayastha.
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surveyed and highlighted in a topographical map by Kemp (1912) and plotted those coordinates on a GIS map (Fig. 2), which we prepared using ArcGIS software (Esri, Redlands, California, USA). That map clearly shows that, except for Kobo (27.78388889°N, 95.38305556°E), all other localities surveyed by Kemp (1912) are in Arunachal Pradesh. In 2017, the senior author tried to visit Kobo but suc- ceeded only in reaching the southern part of the Poba Reserve Forest north of Kobo. Kobo is now an island in the Brahmaputra River. Nevertheless, the visit confirmed that the type locality of Kobo is in the Jonai Sub-Division of Dhemaji District, Assam, India.
Acknowledgment The first author expresses his gratitude to the Director, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, for support, and to Uttam Saikia for constructive comments that improved this manuscript.
Literature Cited Anders, C.C. 2002. Class Amphibia (Amphibians), pp. 133–348. In H.H. Schleich and W. Kästle (eds.), Amphibians and Reptiles of Nepal. Biology, Systematics, Field Guide. A.R.G. Gantner Verlag, Ruggell, Liechtenstein. Annandale, N. 1912. Zoological results of the Abor Expedition, 1911–1912. I. Amphibia. Records of the Indian Museum 8: 7–36. Fig. 2. Map showing the type locality of the Himalayan Treefrog Chanda, S.K., I. Das, and A. Dubois. 2000. Catalogue of amphibian types in the (Polypedates himalayensis) in Kobo in Assam (large red dot) and all other collection of the Zoological Survey of India. Hamadryad 25: 100–128. localities in Arunachal Pradesh (smaller red dots) that had been surveyed Frost, D.R. 2020. Amphibian Species of the World: An Online Reference. Version by Stanley Kemp (1912) during the Anglo-Abor War, 1911–1912. 1 = 6.1. American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA. Kobo, 2 = Pasighat, 3 = Janakmukh, 4 = Balek, 5 = Sirpo, 6 = Renging,
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