WWW.IRCF.ORG/REPTILESANDAMPHIBIANSJOURNALTABLE OF CONTENTS IRCF REPTILES &IRCF AMPHIBIANS REPTILES • VOL &15, AMPHIBIANS NO 4 • DEC 2008 • 189 24(3):201–202 • DEC 2017 IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS CONSERVATION AND NATURAL HISTORY TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURE ARTICLES Occurrence. Chasing Bullsnakes (Pituophis of catenifer the sayi) in Wisconsin: Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake On the Road to Understanding the Ecology and Conservation of the Midwest’s Giant Serpent ...................... Joshua M. Kapfer 190 . The Shared History of Treeboas (Corallus grenadensis) and Humans on Grenada: (LycodonA Hypothetical Excursion ............................................................................................................................ flavomaculatus WallRobert 1907)W. Henderson 198 RESEARCH ARTICLESin Surat, Gujarat, India . 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 1 2 .............................................Brian J. Camposano,Krunal KennethTrivedi L. Krysko, and Kevin Vyom M. Enge, Shah Ellen M. Donlan, and Michael Granatosky 212 1A-26, Kasturba Mahila Society, Palanpur Patiya, Surat (Gujarat), 395009, India ([email protected]) CONSERVATION ALERT 2B-504, Kedardham Appartment, New Rander road, Surat (Gujarat), 395009, India ([email protected]) . World’s Mammals in Crisis ............................................................................................................................................................. 220 . More Than Mammals ...................................................................................................................................................................... 223 . The “Dow Jones Index” of Biodiversity ........................................................................................................................................... 225 n 11 June 2017,HUSBANDRY we encountered a Yellow-spotted in a human settlement in the Olpad region of Surat, Gujarat OWolf Snake (Lycodon. Captive Care flavomaculatus of the Central Netted Dragon Wall, ....................................................................................................... 1907) in (21°19'44.89"N, 72°46'13.68"E), Shannon Plummer where226 it was in a pile of Mindhi Village, Surat,PROFILE Gujarat, India (21°22'52.90"N, bricks close to a house. It was rescued and released safely after 72°42'27.11"E). The. Kraigsnake Adler: was A Lifetime moving Promoting along Herpetology a field ................................................................................................ mar- data were collected. The Michael distance L. Treglia between 234 the two locations gin next to a fallow field at 2115 h. Rocks, low vegetation, was about 8.73 km. These are the first records of the species COMMENTARY and fallen logs were in. The the Turtles surrounding Have Been Watching area. Me ........................................................................................................................The snake was in the Surat District. Eric Gangloff 238 docile and non-offensive while scale counts and photographs Found mainly in the semi-arid zone of central India were taken. Scale BOOKcounts REVIEWconfirmed it as a Yellow-spotted and some parts of the Western Ghats, Yellow-spotted Wolf . Threatened Amphibians of the World edited by S.N. Stuart, M. Hoffmann, J.S. Chanson, N.A. Cox, Wolf Snake (these snakesR. Berridge, resemble P. Ramani, the and Barred B.E. Young Wolf .............................................................................................................. Snake, Snakes are nocturnal and, like Robert other Powell 243wolf snakes, quite secre- L. striatus, but are readily distinguished using meristic char- tive. Consequently, very little information is available about acters). We found another CONSERVATION snake at RESEARCH2030 h on REPORTS: 15 April Summaries 2015 of Publishedthe Conservationspecies’ Researchdistribution Reports ................................. and natural 245 history. These snakes NATURAL HISTORY RESEARCH REPORTS: Summaries of Published Reports on Natural History ................................. 247 NEWBRIEFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 248 EDITORIAL INFORMATION ..................................................................................................................................................... 251 FOCUS ON CONSERVATION: A Project You Can Support ............................................................................................... 252 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 tur ma derrovitae voluptam, as accullabo. Fig. 1. A Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake (Lycodon flavomaculatus) from Mindhi, Surat, Gujarat, India. Photograph by Krunal Trivedi. Copyright © 2017. Krunal Trivedi. All rights reserved. 201 TRIVEDI AND SHAH IRCF REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS • 24(3):201–202 • DEC 2017 Fig. 2. A Yellow-spotted Wolf Snake (Lycodon flavomaculatus) rescued from a pile of bricks in Olpad, Surat, Gujarat, India. Photo by Vyom Shah. are known to climb and feed on lizards and small rodents. Boulenger, G.A. 1893. Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History). Volume I., Containing the Families Typhlopidæ, Glauconiidæ, Boidæ, The nearest known locality for this snake is from Vadodra Ilysiidæ, Uropeltidæ, Xenopeltidæ, and Colubridæ Aglyphæ, Part. Trustees of the (Vyas and Upadhyaya 2008). It also has been recorded from British Museum (Natural History), London, UK. Vidisha, (Sharma et al. 2015), Madhya Pradesh, Dharwad in Captain, A. 1999. On the identification of Lycodon flavomaculatus Wall 1907. Karnataka (Wall 1907), Raigarh (Walmiki et al. 2011), Sangli, Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 96: 323–327. Chikane, S. and H.S. Bhosale. 2012. Reptiles of Kaas, Northern Western Ghats, Pune, and Nashik (Wall 1907), Buldhana and Vidarbha (Wall Maharashtra, India, with notes on habitat preferences, abundances and 1923), Amravati, including Melghat (Pradhan 2005; Nande threats. Sauria 34(3): 3–15. and Deshmukh 2007), Satara (Chikane and Bhosale 2012), Deshmukh, R.V., S.A, Deshmukh, and S.A. Badekar. 2015. Rescued records of snakes from Nagpur District, Maharashtra with data on unrecorded species. Solapur (Srinivasulu et al. 2014), and Nagpur (Deshmukh et Reptile Rap 17: 34–43. al. 2015) in Maharashtra, and Bhanvagar and Vadodara (Vyas Mukherjee, D. and S. Bhupathy. 2007. A new species of Wolf Snake (Serpentes: and Upadhaya 2008) in Gujarat. Colubridae: Lycodon) from Anaikatti Hills, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Russian Journal of Herpetology 14: 21–26. Murthy, T.S.N. 1991. A rare Wolf Snake, Lycodon flavomaculatus, from the Nilgiri Acknowledgements Biosphere Reserve, South India. The Snake 23:104–106. Our sincere thanks to Mr. Rajnikant Chauhan for helping Pradhan, M.S. 2005. Reptilia. Fauna of Melghat Tiger Reserve. Conservation Area us with data collection; Dr. Raju Vyas, Mr. Mehul Thakur, Series 24: 165–221. and Mr. Snehal Patel for motivation and support; and Vedant Smith, M.A. 1943. 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