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is held by the authors. Articles in R&A are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license. D uring the breeding season, adult male anurans emit species-specific advertisement calls to attract conspecific females (Duellman and Trueb 1986;Wells 2007). Anurans distinguish mates through visual, chemical, or acoustic signals (e.g.,

We present an updated inventory of the reptilian fauna of Dampa Tiger Reserve based on two separate field surveys during March and September 2021. We recorded 33 species of reptiles which is about 27% of the total reptilian diversity recorded from the state. This includes new distribution records for 16 snake species with observations on rare species: Smithophis atemporalis, Smithophis bicolor, and Boiga quincunciata.

We report the clutch size, egg morphometry and timing of oviposition in two snakes, Oligodon albocinctus and Hebius xenura based on specimens from Mizoram, northeast India.