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Cfreptiles & Amphibians HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 27(3):539–540189 • DEC 2020 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS AFEATURE Bifid ARTICLES Tail in a Northern House Gecko, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: HemidactylusOn the Road to Understanding the Ecology andflaviviridis Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Rüppell Serpent ...................... Joshua M.1835, Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: A Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................in Gujarat, India Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas Horned Lizard in Central and WesternRaju Texas Vyas .......................1 and Kartik Emily Upadhyay Henry, Jason Brewer,2 Krista Mougey, and Gad Perry 204 . The Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) in Florida 1 1-Sashwat ............................................. Apartment, AnandBrian Nagar, J. Camposano, BPC-Haveli Kenneth Road, L. Krysko,Nr. Splatter Kevin M. Studio, Enge, EllenAlakapuri, M. Donlan, Vadodara–390007, and Michael Granatosky Gujarat, 212 India ([email protected] [corresponding author]) CONSERVATION21/101 Avni Residence, Near ALERT Bansal Super Market, GotriVasna Road, Vadodara, Gujarat, India ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 mith (1935)HUSBANDRY stated that the native range of the Northern geckos. Because a bifurcated tail typically occurs when dam- SHouse Gecko. Captive(Hemidactylus Care of the Central flaviviridis Netted Dragon) in....................................................................................................... India was age is incurred without complete Shannon Plummer tail loss226 (Arnold 1988), we restricted to northern parts of the country. Anderson (1999) suspect that the same factors that led to the scars were respon- indicated that PROFILEpopulations of these geckos found elsewhere sible for the regenerated tails. Although the female appeared . are the result of a westwardKraig Adler: Aanthropogenic Lifetime Promoting Herpetology distribution ................................................................................................ along to be healthy, the presence Michael of L.multiple Treglia 234 tails in an individual trade routes. Today,COMMENTARY the global distribution of this species can negatively affect fitness by limiting activities such as forag- includes Afghanistan,. The Turtles Bahrein, Have Been Bangladesh, Watching Me ........................................................................................................................ Egypt, China, ing, mating, and the ability Ericto Gangloffescape 238from predators (Passos India, Iran, Iraq,BOOK Japan, REVIEW Kuwait, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, et al. 2014). Qatar, Saudi Arabia,. Threatened Somalia, Amphibians Sudan, of theUnited World edited Arab by Emirates,S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, Previous J.S. Chanson, accounts N.A. Cox, of tail abnormalities in Northern and Yemen (Uetz et al.R. Berridge,2020). P. TheRamani, Northern and B.E. Young House .............................................................................................................. Gecko is House Geckos are in Woodland Robert Powell (1920), 243 Das (1932), Singh the most abundant and widely distributed gecko in Gujarat, Sood (1939), Kumbar et al. (2011), Bhattarai et al. (2020), India, where it inhabitsCONSERVATION both RESEARCHnatural environments REPORTS: Summaries and of Publishedand Conservation possibly Research in Vyas Reports (2016), ................................. who described 245 a bifid tail in a NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 human-modified NEWBRIEFSareas (Patel ............................................................................................................................... and Vyas 2019). Hemidactylus sp........................................................ from The Dangs District 248 of Gujarat. We On 27 July EDITORIAL2020, we INFORMATIONencountered ...............................................................................................................................an unusual gecko present this additional report...................... only because 251 of the unusual in a hut in Sindhrot,FOCUS ONVadodara CONSERVATION District,: A ProjectGujarat, You Can India Support ...............................................................................................configuration of the bifid tail in this individual. 252 (22°19'49.03"N; 73°03'52.48"E). It was a large adult female Northern House Gecko (SVL ~8.5 cm) with two regenerated Literature Cited tails, one in the normal position and a second emerging at a Anderson, S.C. 1999. The Lizards of Iran. SSAR Contributions to Herpetology Volume 15. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Ithaca, New York, USA. right angle from the base of the Fronttail (Fig. Cover. 1).Shannon The Plummer. gecko had Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Arnold,Totat E.et velleseque1988. Caudal audant autotomy mo as a defense, pp. 235–273. In: C. Gans and R.B. a number of scars on the head, estibusneck, inveliquo and anterior velique rerchil dorsum, estibusHuey inveliquo (eds.), velique Biology rerchil of the Reptilia. Volume 16, Ecology B. Defense and Life and the fourth finger on the righterspienimus, forelimb quos was accullabo. missing. Ilibus The erspienimus,History. quos Alan accullabo. R. Liss, Ilibus Inc., New York, New York, USA. aut dolor apicto invere pe dolum autBhattarai, dolor apicto S., B.R. invere Lamichhane, pe dolum and N. Subedi. 2020. Tail bifurcation in a Yellow- scars are indications of bites, presumablyfugiatis maionsequat the result eumque of mat- fugiatisbellied maionsequat House Gecko, eumque Hemidactylus flaviviridis Rüppel 1835, in Chitwan, ing with a particularly aggressive moditiamale erereor fighting nonsedis ma with sectiatur other moditiaNepal. erere nonsedisReptiles &ma Amphibians sectia- 27: 48–49. ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Fig. 1. A Northern House Gecko (Hemidactylus flaviviridis) with a bifid tail at Sindhrot, Vadodara, Gujarat, India. Note the number of scars and areas of damaged skin on the head, neck, and anterior dorsum. Photograph by Kartik Upadhyay. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 539 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 1098-6324 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. VYAS AND UPADHYAY REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 27(3):539–540 • DEC 2020 Das, G.M. 1932. Observations on the trifid tails in two specimens of Hemidactylus dis Rüppel. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Section B 9: 316–322. flaviviridis, Rüppel, with a note on the artificial regeneration of double and Smith, M.A. 1935. The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Reptilia triple tails of the “Tokhak” Lizard, Gecko verticillatus, Laurenti. Journal of the and Amphibia. Vol. II—Sauria. Taylor & Francis Ltd., London, UK. Bombay Natural History Society 35: 657–662. Kumbar, S.M., A.B. Ghadage, and V.M. Shendage. 2011. Hemidactylus flaviviridis Vyas, R. 2016. Bifid tails in two Indian lizards. Reptiles & Amphibians 23: 14–26. (House Gecko). Bifurcation. Herpetological Review 42: 94. Uetz, P., P. Freed, and J. Hošek (eds.). 2020. The Reptile Database. <http://www. Passos, D., L. Pinheiro, C. Galdino, and C. Rocha. 2014. Tropidurus semitaeniatus reptile-database.org>. (Calango de Lagedo). Tail bifurcation. Herpetological Review 45: 138. Woodland, W.N.F. 1920. Some observations on caudal autotomy and regenera- Patel, H. and R. Vyas. 2019. Reptiles of Gujarat, India: Updated checklist, distribu- tion in the gecko (Hemidactylus flaviviridis, Rüppel), with notes on the tails tion, and conservation status. Herpetology Notes 12: 765–777. of Sphenodon and Pygopus. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, New Singh Sood, M. 1939. A peculiar case of caudal abnormality in Hemidactylus flaviviri- Series 65: 63–100. 540.
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