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October 2010 | Vol. 2 | No. 11 | Pages 1237-1308 Date of Publication 26 October 2010 ISSN 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print)

Š R. Somaweera

Serpent in a wine jar

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Journal of Threatened Taxa EDITORS Founder & Chief Editor Dr. Sanjay Molur, Coimbatore, India

Managing Editor Mr. B. Ravichandran, Coimbatore, India Associate Editors Dr. B.A. Daniel, Coimbatore, India Dr. Manju Siliwal, Dehra Dun, India Dr. Meena Venkataraman, Mumbai, India Editorial Advisors Ms. Sally Walker, Coimbatore, India Dr. Robert C. Lacy, Minnesota, USA Dr. Russel Mittermeier, Virginia, USA Dr. Thomas Husband, Rhode Island, USA Dr. Jacob V. Cheeran, Thrissur, India Prof. Dr. Mewa Singh, Mysuru, India Dr. Ulrich Streicher, Oudomsouk, Laos Mr. Stephen D. Nash, Stony Brook, USA Dr. Fred Pluthero, Toronto, Canada Dr. Martin Fisher, Cambridge, UK Dr. Ulf Gärdenfors, Uppsala, Sweden Dr. John Fellowes, Hong Kong Dr. Philip S. Miller, Minnesota, USA Prof. Dr. Mirco Solé, Brazil Editorial Board / Subject Editors Dr. M. Zornitza Aguilar, Ecuador Prof. Wasim Ahmad, Aligarh, India Dr. Giovanni Amori, Rome, Italy Dr. M. Arunachalam, Alwarkurichi, India Dr. Aziz Aslan, Antalya, Turkey Prof. R.K. Avasthi, Rohtak, India Dr. N.P. Balakrishnan, Coimbatore, India Dr. Maan Barua, Oxford OX , UK Dr. Aaron M. Bauer, Villanova, USA Dr. S. Bhupathy, Coimbatore, India Dr. Anwar L. Bilgrami, New Jersey, USA Dr. Gill Braulik, Fife, UK Dr. Prem B. Budha, Kathmandu, Nepal Mr. Ashok Captain, Pune, India Dr. Cleofas R. Cervancia, Laguna , Philippines Dr. Apurba Chakraborty, Guwahati, India Dr. Anwaruddin Choudhury, Guwahati, India Dr. Gabor Csorba, Budapest, Hungary Dr. Paula E. Cushing, Denver, USA Dr. Neelesh Naresh Dahanukar, Pune, India Dr. R.J. Ranjit Daniels, Chennai, India Dr. A.K. Das, Kolkata, India Dr. Indraneil Das, Sarawak, Malaysia Dr. Rema Devi, Chennai, India Dr. Nishith Dharaiya, Patan, India Dr Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, Queenswood, South Africa Dr. J.L. Ellis, Bengaluru, India Dr. Susie Ellis, Florida, USA Dr. Zdenek Faltynek Fric, Czech Republic Dr. Hemant Ghate, Pune, India Dr. Gary A.P. Gibson, Ontario, USA Dr. M. Gobi, Madurai, India Dr. Stephan Gollasch, Hamburg, Germany Dr. K. Gunathilagaraj, Coimbatore, India Dr. Mohammad Hayat, Aligarh, India Dr. V. B. Hosagoudar, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Prof. Fritz Huchermeyer, Onderstepoort, South Africa Dr. Rajah Jayapal, Bengaluru, India Dr. Weihong Ji, Auckland, New Zealand Prof. R. Jindal, Chandigarh, India Dr. Pierre Jolivet, Bd Soult, France Dr. Werner Kaumanns, Eschenweg, Germany Dr. Vinod Khanna, Dehra Dun, India Dr. Cecilia Kierulff, São Paulo, Brazil Dr. Ignacy Kitowski, Lublin, Poland Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte, Cambridge, USA Prof. Dr. Adriano Brilhante Kury, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Dr. Carlos Alberto S de Lucena, Porto Alegre, Brazil Dr. Glauco Machado, São Paulo, Brazil Dr. Gowri Mallapur, Mamallapuram, India Prof. Richard Kiprono Mibey, Eldoret, Kenya Dr. Shomen Mukherjee, Jamshedpur, India Dr. D. Narasimhan, Chennai, India Dr. T.C. Narendran, Kozhikode, India Dr. K.A.I. Nekaris, Oxford, UK Dr. Heok Hee Ng, Singapore Dr. Shinsuki Okawara, Kanazawa, Japan Dr. Geeta S. Padate, Vadodara, India Dr. Larry M. Page, Gainesville, USA Dr. Rohan Pethiyagoda, Sydney, Australia Mr. J. Praveen, Bengaluru, India Dr. Muhammad Ather Rafi, Islamabad, Pakistan Dr. H. Raghuram, Bengaluru, India Dr. Vatsavaya S. Raju, Warangal, India Dr. V.V. Ramamurthy, New Delhi, India Dr (Mrs). R. Ramanibai, Chennai, India Dr. Robert Raven, Queensland, Australia Dr. K. Ravikumar, Bengaluru, India Dr. Anjum N. Rizvi, Dehra Dun, India Dr. Yves Samyn, Brussels, Belgium Dr. K.R. Sasidharan, Coimbatore, India Dr. Kumaran Sathasivam, India Dr. S. Sathyakumar, Dehradun, India Dr. M.M. Saxena, Bikaner, India Dr. Subodh Sharma, Towson, USA Prof. B.K. Sharma, Shillong, India Prof. K.K. Sharma, Jammu, India Dr. R.M. Sharma, Jabalpur, India Dr. Lala A.K. Singh, Bhubaneswar, India Mr. Peter Smetacek, Nainital, India Dr. C. Srinivasulu, Hyderabad, India Dr. Ulrike Streicher, Danang, Vietnam Dr. K.A. Subramanian, Pune, India Mr. K.S. Gopi Sundar, New Delhi, India Dr. P.M. Sureshan, Patna, India Dr. Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Dehradun, India Dr. R.K. Verma, Jabalpur, India Dr. W. Vishwanath, Manipur, India Dr. Gernot Vogel, Heidelberg, Germany Dr. Ted J. Wassenberg, Cleveland, Australia Prof. Yehudah L. Werner, Jerusalem, Israel Dr. Hui Xiao, Chaoyang, China English Editors Mrs. Mira Bhojwani, Pune, India Ms. Mary Regen Jamieson, Massachusetts, USA Dr. Fred Pluthero, Toronto, Canada Dr. Krishnan Srinivasan, Chennai, India



Journal of Threatened Taxa ISSN 0974-7907 (online) | 0974-7893 (print)

October 2010 | Vol. 2 | No. 11 | Pages 1237-1308 Date of Publication 26 October 2010 (online & print) Communications

Short Communications

First records of several sicydiine gobies (Gobiidae: Sicydiinae) from mainland China -- Tony H.M. Nip, Pp.1237-1244.

Discovery of the Critically Endangered annual killifish Austrolebias wolterstorffi (Ahl, 1924) (Cyprinodontiformes: Rivulidae) in Lagoa do Peixe National Park, Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil -- L.E.K. LanĂŠs & L. Maltchik, Pp.1282-1285

Osteology of some catfishes of the genus Glyptothorax (Teleostei: Siluriformes) of northeastern India -- W. Vishwanath, A. Darshan & N. Anganthoibi, Pp. 1245-1250 Serpents in jars: the snake wine industry in Vietnam -- Ruchira Somaweera & Nilusha Somaweera, Pp. 12511260 Habitat suitability, threats and conservation strategies of Hump-nosed Pit Viper Hypnale hypnale Merrem (Reptilia: Viperidae) found in Western Ghats, Goa, India -- Nitin S. Sawant, Trupti D. Jadhav & S.K. Shyama, Pp. 1261-1267 Selection of egg attachment sites by the Indian Golden Gecko Calodactylodes aureus (Beddome, 1870) (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Andhra Pradesh, India -- R. Sreekar, C. Srinivasulu, M. Seetharamaraju & C. Aditya Srinivasulu, Pp. 1268-1272 Phytoplankton diversity of two floodplain lakes (pats) of Manipur, northeastern India -- B.K. Sharma, Pp. 1273-1281

First record of three species of soil nematodes of the suborder Cephalobina from Ladakh region, Jammu & Kashmir, India -- Anjum N. Rizvi, Pp. 1286-1290 A checklist of traditional edible bio-resources from Ima markets of Imphal Valley, Manipur, India -- Oinam Sunanda Devi, Puspa Komor & Dhritiman Das, Pp. 1291-1296 Notes Recent records of snakes (Squamata: Serpentes) from Nicobar Islands, India -- S. Harikrishnan, B.C. Choudhary & Karthikeyan Vasudevan, Pp. 1297-1300 Nest plant selection of the Andaman Crake Rallina canningi, Andaman Islands, India -- N. Ezhilarasi & L. Vijayan, Pp. 1301-1302 Pulmonary anthracosis in Dhaka Zoo collections – a public health forecasting for city dwellers -- S.A. Ahasan, E.H. Chowdhury, S.U. Azam, R. Parvin, A.Z. Rahaman & A.R. Bhuyan, Pp. 1303-1308

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