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Serpent in a wine jar

© R. Somaweera

EDITORSFounder & Chief EditorDr. Sanjay Molur, Coimbatore, India

Managing EditorMr. B. Ravichandran, Coimbatore, India

Associate EditorsDr. B.A. Daniel, Coimbatore, India Dr. Manju Siliwal, Dehra Dun, IndiaDr. Meena Venkataraman, Mumbai, India

Editorial AdvisorsMs. 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, IndiaDr. 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 EditorsDr. M. Zornitza Aguilar, EcuadorProf. Wasim Ahmad, Aligarh, IndiaDr. Giovanni Amori, Rome, Italy Dr. M. Arunachalam, Alwarkurichi, India Dr. Aziz Aslan, Antalya, TurkeyProf. R.K. Avasthi, Rohtak, India Dr. N.P. Balakrishnan, Coimbatore, IndiaDr. Maan Barua, Oxford OX , UKDr. 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, NepalMr. Ashok Captain, Pune, India Dr. Cleofas R. Cervancia, Laguna , PhilippinesDr. Apurba Chakraborty, Guwahati, India Dr. Anwaruddin Choudhury, Guwahati, IndiaDr. Gabor Csorba, Budapest, HungaryDr. 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, IndiaDr. Nishith Dharaiya, Patan, IndiaDr Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, Queenswood, South AfricaDr. J.L. Ellis, Bengaluru, IndiaDr. Susie Ellis, Florida, USA Dr. Zdenek Faltynek Fric, Czech RepublicDr. Hemant Ghate, Pune, IndiaDr. Gary A.P. Gibson, Ontario, USA Dr. M. Gobi, Madurai, India Dr. Stephan Gollasch, Hamburg, GermanyDr. K. Gunathilagaraj, Coimbatore, India Dr. Mohammad Hayat, Aligarh, India Dr. V. B. Hosagoudar, Thiruvananthapuram, India

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

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Communications

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

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. 1251-1260

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

Short Communications

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. Lanés & L. Maltchik, Pp.1282-1285

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