. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. 2001 Asiatic Herpetological Research , pp. 101—106| First Record of the Smooth-Backed Parachute Gecko Ptychozoon lionotum Annandale 1905 from the Indian Mainland Samraat Pa war' and Sayantan Biswas2 Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun- 248 001, India. Present addresses: '3/21, Mohanwadi, AlandiRoad, Yerawada, Pune-411006, India. 2 30/3 Jheel Road, Calcutta-700031, India. The smooth-backed parachute gecko, Ptychozoon lionotum is reported from the mainland India for the
. Asiatic herpetological research. Reptiles -- Asia Periodicals; Amphibians -- Asia Periodicals. 2001 Asiatic Herpetological Research , pp. 101—106| First Record of the Smooth-Backed Parachute Gecko Ptychozoon lionotum Annandale 1905 from the Indian Mainland Samraat Pa war' and Sayantan Biswas2 Wildlife Institute of India, Chandrabani, Dehradun- 248 001, India. Present addresses: '3/21, Mohanwadi, AlandiRoad, Yerawada, Pune-411006, India. 2 30/3 Jheel Road, Calcutta-700031, India. The smooth-backed parachute gecko, Ptychozoon lionotum is reported from the mainland India for the first time. The nearest known previous record was from Pegu, Myanmar, about 700 km southeast of the previous location. The species was collected in Langtlai and seen in the Ngengpui Wildlife Sanctuary, both in south Mizoram. The collected individual was kept in captivity for four and a half months, during this time, opportunistic observations on activity pattern, food habits, escape and parachuting behavior were made. Both individuals showed slow, deliberate pre-escape movement previously unrecorded for Ptychozoon. Information on morphological characters and morphometric measurements is presented. Explanations for the disjunct distribution are discussed. Key Reptilia, Gekkonidae, Ptychozoon, parachute gecko, Northeast India, Myanmar, distribution, biogeography, behavior Ptychozoon is a genus of arboreal geckos distributed over much of Southeast Asia, primarily in moist tropi- cal evergreen and semi-evergreen forests (Brown, 1999; Brown et al. 1997; Smith, 1935). At present, six species are recognized under the genus: Ptychozoon kuhli, P. horsfieldii, P. lionotum, P. intermedium, P. rhacophorus and P. trinotaterra (Brown et al., 1997; Brown, 1999). To date, the only species reported for India is Ptychozoon kuhli, from the Nicobar Islands (De Rooij, 1915; Smith, 1935; Tiwari, 1961). We present here the first record of the smooth-backed parachute gecko Ptychozoon lionot
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