HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL & AMPHIBIANS15, NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 28(2):189 280–284 • AUG 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS NewFEATURE LocalityARTICLES Records of the Zunheboto . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: HornedOn the Road to Understanding Frog, the Ecology Xenophrys and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant zunhebotoensis Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: MathewA Hypothetical and Excursion Sen ............................................................................................................................ 2007 (Anura: Megophryidae:Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texas HornedMegophryinae), Lizard in Central and Western Texas ....................... Emily from Henry, Jason Brewer, IndiaKrista Mougey, 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 Samuel Lalronunga1,2, Malsawmdawngliana2,3, Lalkhawngaiha Sailo2, Vanlalvuana4, and Esther Lalhmingliani1,2 CONSERVATION ALERT 1Systematics and Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Mizoram University, Aizawl 796004, Mizoram, India ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis 2...............................................................................................................................Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, P.O. 18, Dehradun, India .............................. 220 . More Than Mammals3Biodiversity ............................................................................................................................... and Nature Conservation Network, Aizawl 796001, Mizoram,....................................... India 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 4Zonuam, Aizawl 796009, Mizoram, India HUSBANDRY . Captive Care of the Central Netted Dragon ....................................................................................................... Shannon Plummer 226 he ZunhebotoPROFILE Horned Frog (Xenophrys zunhebotoen- Tsis) was described. Kraig Adler:from A LifetimeNguti Promoting (Sukhalu), Herpetology Zunheboto ................................................................................................ Michael L. Treglia 234 District, Nagaland,COMMENTARY India (Mathew and Sen 2007), and has been recorded from. The Meghalaya, Turtles Have Been Manipur, Watching Me ........................................................................................................................and Arunachal Eric Gangloff 238 Pradesh (Saikia and Sen 2012; Sangma and Saikia 2015; Saikia et al. 2017;BOOK Kharkongor REVIEW et al. 2018; Mahony et al. Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, 2020). However, the recordsR. Berridge, ofP. Ramani, this species and B.E. Young from .............................................................................................................. Meghalaya Robert Powell 243 (Saikia and Sen 2012; Sangma and Saikia 2015; Kharkongor et al. 2018) and ArunachalCONSERVATION Pradesh RESEARCH (Saikia REPORTS:et al. 2017) Summaries were of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 erroneous and based NATURAL on misidentifications HISTORY RESEARCH (see REPORTS Mahony: Summaries et of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 al. 2020). The species EDITORIAL has been INFORMATION recorded with ............................................................................................................................... certainty only ...................... 251 from Nagaland andFOCUS western ON CONSERVATION Manipur (Mathew: A Project Youand Can Sen Support ............................................................................................... 252 2007; Mahony et al. 2020). Mahony et al. (2020) discussed Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Totat et velleseque audant mo Totat et velleseque audant mo estibus inveliquo velique rerchil estibus inveliquo velique rerchil erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus erspienimus, quos accullabo. Ilibus 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 sectia- ma derrovitae voluptam, as quos Fig.tur 2. ma Map derrovitae showing voluptam, the known as localities of the Zunheboto Horned Frog accullabo. (Xenophrys zunhebotoensis). The type locality is indicated by the red dia- mond, previously published locality records by blue circles, and the new records by red circles. the high genetic diversity between X. zunhebotoensis from Nagaland and Manipur. However, without any diagnosable morphological distinction between the two populations, the Manipur population is treated as conspecific with X. zunhe- Fig. 1. A male Zunheboto Horned Frog (Xenophrys zunhebotoensis) from botoensis (Mahony et al. 2020). Herein, we present the first Hmuifang, Mizoram, India (MZUHC 30036). Photograph by Samuel record of this species from the state of Mizoram and also Lalronunga. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 280 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. LALRONUNGA ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(2): 280–284 • AUG 2021 discuss the record of the Little Karen Hills Horned Frog (X. available in GenBank. The generated sequence was deposited parva) from Mizoram, India. at GenBank (NCBI) with the accession number MW650112 We collected three male Zunheboto Horned Frogs (Fig. 1) (Mahoney et al. 2020). Sequences were aligned with the from the Hmuifang Community Forest Reserve (23°27.288'N, CLUSTALW algorithm (Thompson et al. 1994) in BioEdit 92°45.4427'E; 1,384 m asl.) at Hmuifang Village on 17 software (Hall 1999). Ambiguously aligned regions were fur- July 2020 and from the Sailam Community Forest Reserve ther adjusted by eye where necessary to ascertain homology. A (23°21.8747'N, 92°47.578'E; 1,128 m asl) at Sailam Village Bayesian inference phylogenetic reconstruction (Huelsenbeck on 7 September 2018 (Fig. 2). Frogs were humanely eutha- et al. 2001) was carried out using the Phylogeny.fr web service nized with Benzocaine, fixed in 10% formalin for 24 h, and (Dereeper et al. 2008). Uncorrected pairwise genetic distances then transferred to 70% ethanol. Prior to fixation, we excised (p-distance) between sequences were determined with MEGA femoral muscle tissue from some specimens and stored it in 7 (Kumar et al. 2018). absolute ethanol for genomic DNA extraction. Specimens were The three males (Table 1) collected from Mizoram deposited in the herpetological collection of the Systematics matched the descriptions of X. zunhebotoensis in Mathew and Toxicology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, Mizoram and Sen (2007) and Mahony et al. (2020) and the generated University, India (MZUHC 20035–20037). sequence formed a clade with sequences of X. zunhebotoensis Following Lalronunga and Lalrinchhana (2017), we in the phylogenetic tree (Fig. 3). The genetic distance between generated a fragment of the 6S rRNA mitochondrial gene the sequence from Mizoram and the sequence of a topotype sequence from one specimen (MZUHC 20036) for compari- (GenBank KY022319) was 2.8%, whereas the genetic dis- son with members of the Xenophrys megacephala species group tance between the sequences from Mizoram and Manipur Table 1. Morphometric measurements of three male Zunheboto MZUHC MZUHC MZUHC Horned Frogs (Xenophrys zunhebotoensis) from Mizoram, India. 20035 20036 20037 Abbreviations: SVL = snout-to-vent length (SVL); HW = head SVL 29.3 31.0 30.1 width, measured at the posterior angle of the jaws; HL = head length, measured from the rear of the mandible to the tip of the HW 10.9 10.9 10.5 snout; SL = snout length, measured from the tip of the snout to HL 10.8 11.1 11.2 the anterior border of the orbit; SN = distance from the center of SL 3.9 4.4 4.4 the nostril to the tip of the snout; EL = eye length, the horizontal SN 2.2 2.8 2.9 distance between the anterior and posterior borders of the orbit; IUE = inter-upper eyelid width, the shortest distance between the EL 4.2 4.2 4.3 upper eyelids; UEW = maximum upper eyelid width; TYD = maxi- IUE 3.1 3.0 3.2 mum tympanum diameter; TYE = distance from the anterior bor- UEW 3.4 3.4 3.4 der of the tympanum to the posterior orbital border; FAL = fore- TYD 2.1 2.2 2.2 arm length, measured from the elbow to the wrist; HAL = hand length, measured from the wrist to the tip of the third digit; FIL TYE 1.5 1.7 1.8 = first finger length, measured from the tip of the first digit to its FAL 6.5 6.5 6.6 base where it joins the second digit; FIIL = second finger length, HAL 8.4 8.7 8.5 measured from the tip of the second digit to its base where it joins FIL 3.7 3.6 3.8 the first digit; FIIIL = third finger length, measured from the tip of the third