HTTPS://JOURNALS.KU.EDU/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANSREPTILES • VOL & AMPHIBIANS15, NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 28(2):189 262–263 • AUG 2021 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATUREFirst ARTICLES Record of the Green Catsnake, . Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi) in Wisconsin: On Boigathe Road to Understanding cyanea the Ecology and Conservation (Dum of the Midwest’sé Giantril, Serpent ......................Bibron, Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: and DumA Hypothetical Excursionéril ............................................................................................................................ 1854) (Reptilia: Colubridae),Robert W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLES . The Texasfrom Horned Lizard in CentralNarcondam and Western Texas ....................... Emily Island, 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 G. Gokulakrishnan1, A.K. Das1, C. Sivaperuman1, and S.R. Chandramouli2 CONSERVATION ALERT 1Zoological Survey of India, Andaman and Nicobar Region Centre, Haddo, Port Blair-744102, India 2Department of Ecology. World’s and Mammals Environmental in Crisis Sciences, ............................................................................................................................... School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Puducherry-605014,.............................. India ([email protected]) 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 HUSBANDRY he nocturnal, .arboreal,Captive Care rear-fanged,of the Central Netted and Dragon mildly ....................................................................................................... venom- Centre (ZSI/ANRC/T/13497). Shannon Plummer Body long226 and slender (SVL ous colubrid snake genus Boiga Fizinger 1826 is repre- 1,287 mm, tail 428 mm); head distinct from neck, longer T PROFILE sented by two species, the Andaman Catsnake ( (HL 44.5 mm) than broad (HW 28.4) and deep (HD 22.8); . Kraig Adler: A Lifetime Promoting HerpetologyBoiga ................................................................................................ anda- Michael L. Treglia 234 manensis [Wall 1909]) and the Nicobar Catsnake (B. wallachi eyes large (ED 6.71 mm); nostrils situated much closer to tip Das 1998) in theCOMMENTARY Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Whitaker of snout tip than to eye; dorsal scales in 22:21:15 rows; ven- and Captain 2008;. The Chandramouli Turtles Have Been Watching 2017). Me ........................................................................................................................ A report of a trals and subcaudals 251 and Eric 126, Gangloff respectively; 238 cloacal scute Green CatsnakeBOOK (B. cyanea REVIEW) from Galathea on Great Nicobar single; supralabials 8, 8; infralabials 11, 11; temporals 2+3+3; Island by Das and .ChandraThreatened Amphibians(1994) that of the was World based edited byon S.N. a juve Stuart,- M. Hoffmann,preoculars J.S. Chanson, 2; postoculars N.A. Cox, 2; supraoculars triangular; dorsal nile specimen (ZoologicalR. Berridge, Survey P. Ramani, of andIndia B.E. Young[ZSI] .............................................................................................................. 8513) was coloration pale green with black Robert Powellskin evident243 between scales; shown to be erroneous and was referred to B. wallachi by venter pale yellow; eyes greenish with a vertically elliptical CONSERVATION RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Conservation Research Reports ................................. 245 Chandramouli (2017). NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Publishedpupil; Reportsand interior on Natural Historyof mouth ................................. black. A 247second individual was Herein, we presentNEWBRIEFS the ............................................................................................................................... first authentic record of a found dead (Fig........................................................ 1C) on Narcondam and248 was not collected. Green Catsnake fromEDITORIAL Narcondam INFORMATION Island ............................................................................................................................... in the Andaman The specimens recorded herein...................... were easily 251 distinguished from FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 Archipelago. We collected an adult male (SVL 1,287 mm) B. andamanensis by the black coloration inside the mouth (vs. (Fig. 1A, B) in a coconut plantation in a littoral forest on pink in B. andamanensis) and morphometric and meristic Narcondam Island (13°27.126'N; 94°16.546'E) at 2230 h characters coincided well with those reported for B. cyanea on 17 October 2020. The specimen was deposited at the in the literature (Smith 1943; Whitaker and Captain 2004). Front Cover. Shannon Plummer. Back Cover. Michael Kern Zoological Survey of India, AndamanTotat etand velleseque Nicobar audant Regional mo OurTotat identification et velleseque audant was mo verified by Patrick David. 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 tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Fig. 1. An adult male Green Catsnake (Boiga cyanea) (ZSI/ANRC/T/13497) (A, B) and a dead individual (C) collected on Narcondam Island, Andaman Islands. Photographs by A.K. Das. Copyright is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a 262 Reptiles & Amphibians ISSN 2332-4961 Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. GOKULAKRISHNAN ET AL. REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 28(2): 262–263 • AUG 2021 After the invalidation of an earlier report of B. cyanea Andaman and Nicobar Region, for permission to travel by from Great Nicobar by Chandramouli (2017), this is the first Indian Coast Guard Ship; Shri. Devendra Pathak, Director authentic report of B. cyanea from the Andaman and Nicobar General of Police, Andaman and Nicobar Police, for per- Islands. Despite several expeditions to Narcondam (sum- mission to stay with police personnel posted on Narcondam marized by Raman et al. 2013), B. cyanea had never been Island; and Dr. Naveen Kumar Nigam for help in the field. reported. Boiga cyanea was not recorded from any islands other than Narcondam, and only the Andaman Catsnake (B. Literature Cited andamanensis) was observed on other islands of the Andaman Chandramouli, S.R. 2017. A critical appraisal of the record of the Green Cat Snake, Boiga cyanea, from Great Nicobar Island and its deletion from the Nicobar Archipelago. Islands faunal list. Sauria 39(3): 47–50. Das, I. 1998. A new species of Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Nicobar Archipelago. Journal of South Asian Natural History 3: 59–67. Acknowledgments Das, I. and K. Chandra. 1994. Two new snakes to Andaman and Nicobar Islands. We are grateful to Patrick David for confirming our identifi- Journal of Andaman Science Association 10: 114–115. cation of the snake. We thank Dr. Kailash Chandra, Director, Raman, T.R.S., D. Mudappa, T. Khan, U. Mistry, A. Saxena, K. Varma, N. Ekka, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata, for providing necessary J. Lenin, and R. Whitaker. 2013. An expedition to Narcondam: observations of marine and terrestrial fauna including the island-endemic hornbill. Current support; Mr. D.M. Shukla, Principal Chief Conservator Science 105: 346–360. of Forests & Chief Wildlife Warden, Department Smith, M.A. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the of Environment and Forests, Andaman and Nicobar Whole of the Indo-Chinese Subregion. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. III.– Serpentes. Taylor and Francis, London, UK. Administration, for permission to conduct a faunal survey; Whitaker, R. and A. Captain. 2004. Snakes of India. The Field Guide. Draco Books, Inspector General Shri. M.V. Pathak, Indian Coast Guard, Chengalpattu, India. 263.