Vol. 33 No. 1 (2026): Reptiles & Amphibians

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17161/randa.v33i1

Published: 2026-01-01

Articles

Post-translocation monitoring of an Egyptian Spiny-tailed Lizard, Uromastyx aegyptia (Forskål 1775), population displaced by a global giga-project

Muhammad Elmirghani, David Olson, Bushra Alabdulhafith, Eric Wikramanayake, Ghulam Rasool, Ismail Alhawiti, Raneem Almalki, Barry Shepherd, Brett Lyons, Robert A. Montgomery

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A study from the Ramnagar Area of Purba Medinipur District in West Bengal, evaluating the knowledge of undergraduate students regarding common myths and perception of snakes

Anjan Kumar Chanda

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Checklist of snakes from Dang District of Lumbini Province, Nepal

Basant Subedi, Sandeep Oli, Chiranjeevi Khanal, Santosh Bhattarai

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Northern King Cobra, Ophiophagus hannah (Cantor 1836), rescue and conservation efforts in and around Assam University, Silchar, Cachar District, Assam

Bishal Sonar, Sumit Nath, Nazimur Rahman Talukdar, Parthankar Choudhury

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Anurans of the Ventania Environmental Protection Area, Miracema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Elvis Almeida Pereira Silva, Lucas Custodio Lomba da Rocha, Tatiely da Silva Candido, Érica da Silva Santiago

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Experimental assessment of Spot-tailed Earless Lizards (Holbrookia lacerata and H. subcaudalis) as visual predators

E. Drake Rangel, Scott E. Henke, Cord B. Eversole

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Expanding range, ecological impact, and conservation challenges of the invasive Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) in West Bengal, India

Prasun Mandal, Dr. Priyanka Halder Mallick, Abhishek Gain

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Notes

A new record of Mukhlesuri's Chorus Frog, Microhyla mukhlesuri Hasan et al. 2014 (Microhylidae), from Malabati Forest; West Bengal, India.

Sejuti Biswas, Shuvam Das, Kaushik Deuti

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A new distribution record for the Bompu Litter Toad (Leptobrachium bompu) from the Dibang River Basin, Arunachal Pradesh, India, and the first report of an egg mass

Jayanta Kumar Roy, M. Firoz Ahmed, Regon Menda, Ramie H. Begum

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Predation by a non-native Cuban Knight Anole (Anolis equestris) of a native Corn Snake (Pantherophis guttatus) in Miami, Florida, USA

James Stroud, Edgar Francisco, Taylor L. Cooper, Jonathan Suh

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New item in the diet of Blacksmith Treefrog (Boana faber) tadpoles in an urban area of southeastern Brazil

Glauco Cássio de Sousa Oliveira, Catalina do Nascimento Lopez, Alexandre de Assis Hudson

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First record of Salazar’s Pitviper (Trimeresurus salazar) from Nagaland, India

Sushmita Kar, Shailendra Singh, C Zupeni Tsanglai, Lalit Budhani, Rupankar Bhattacharjee, Jayaditya Purkayastha

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First record of a merolepid Checkered Keelback, Fowlea piscator (Schneider 1799), from Nagpur, Maharashtra, India

Rahul Shinde

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Early season diet of the Red-spotted Newt, Notophthalmus viridescens viridescens, from artificial vernal pools in south-central Pennsylvania: A possible trade-off between survival and reproduction

Walter Meshaka, Jr., Cheyenne Moore, Eugene Wingert

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Predation on a Prairie Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster) by a Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) in Oklahoma, USA, with notes on opossum-snake interactions

Owen Edwards; Neil R. Balchan

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Mating behavior of Pelagic Seasnakes (Hydrophis platurus) in the Golfo Dulce, Puntarenas Province of Costa Rica

Alejandro Solórzano

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Rat the ripper: Large scale predation of Marbled Newts (Triturus marmoratus) by Brown Rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Vigo (Pontevedra), Spain

Cesar Ayres, Miguel Dominguez-Costas, Julian Comesaña-Iglesias

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First record of cannibalism in the Orange-throated Whiptail, Aspidoscelis hyperythrus, with a review of cannibalism in the family Teiidae

Fernanda Jacqueline Manrriquez-Gomez, Emmanuel Javier-Vázquez, Gerardo Marrón, Adam G. Clause

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Defensive tail-display behavior in the Brown Rainbow Boa (Epicrates maurus) and Central American Boa Constrictor (Boa imperator) (Squamata: Boidae)

Ronald A. Díaz Flórez

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Potential weed dispersal by a Black-and-White Tegu, Salvator merianae (Squamata: Teiidae), in southeastern Brazil

Glauco Cássio de Sousa Oliveira, Guilherme Ramos Demetrio

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Predation on an invasive Burmese Python nest by vultures in southern Florida

Brandon Welty, James W. Whelpley, Elizabeth Sutton, Cythina A. Fussell Persuad, Eric Saurez, Frank J. Mazzotti, Melissa A. Miller

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Carrion feeding by Himalayan Toad (Duttaraphrynus himalayanus) tadpoles on a domestic fowl (Gallus gallus domesticus) in Nepal

Bivek Gautam, Santosh Bhattarai

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An aberrant striped Mountain Pitviper, Ovophis monticola (Günther 1864), from Mizoram, India

Malsawmdawngliana, Michael Vanlalchhuana, Mara Duasa Hlychho, Mathipi Vabeiryureilai, Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga

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First records of Common Sandboas (Eryx conicus), from Papikonda National Park, northern Eastern Ghats, India

Yogesh Pasul, Dr. Deyatima Ghosh, Dr. Vikram Aditya

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Predation of a Speckled Racer, Drymobius margaritiferus (Colubridae), by a Common Road Guarder, Conophis lineatus ( Dipsadidae), in northwestern Costa Rica

Alejandro Solórzano, Mahmood sasa

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New distribution records for Speckled Worm Lizards (Amphisbaena fuliginosa) in Panamá, with two corrections of previous records

Ángel Sosa-Bartuano, Vayron De Gracia, Marcos Ponce

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First documented observation of regurgitation by a Bengal Monitor, Varanus bengalensis (Daudin 1802), in Pakistan

Ahmed Junaid

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What’s on the toad? Persistent landing of a Housefly (Musca domestica) on a juvenile Asian Black-spined Toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)

Matthew Mo, Elouise Mo

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Updated distribution range of two worm lizard species (Amphisbaena alba and A. fuliginosa) based on citizen science and literature review

Henrique J. Oliveira, Vanessa Nocelli, Henrique C. Costa

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Observations of natural history and distribution of three species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Tamil Nadu, India

Ayuthavel Kalaimani

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First record of bilateral anophthalmia in a Common Trinket Snake (Coelognathus helena) from Pune, Maharashtra, India

Rahul Shinde, Anil Kanaskar

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First record of the Ornate Flying Snake, Chrysopelea ornata (Shaw 1802), from the northwestern coastal region of Maharashtra, India : Extending the known distribution or human-mediated introduction?

Khushal Vaishnav, Nikhil Parab

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Novel herpetofaunal records for Great Cay and Windermere Island, Eleuthera, Bahamas

Graham Reynolds, M. Charlotte Reynolds, Emmeline G. Reynolds, Jennifer G. Reynolds, Cory F. Deal

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Maximum brood size for the Yucatán Neotropical Rattlesnake (Crotalus tzabcan Klauber 1952)

José Rogelio Cedeño-Vázquez, Pablo Beutelspacher, Rubén Carbajal

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Crossing frontiers: First record of the Western Andean Lizard, Andinosaura vespertina (Kizirian 1996), in Peru

Germán Chávez, Wilmar Aznaran, Karen Y. Victoriano-Cigüeñas

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Predation of Brahminy Blind Snake (Indotyphlops braminus) by Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus): near the Koshi Rivver, Eastern Bihar, India

Javed Anver, Shantanu Ugemuge

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Predation on a Bowring’s Smooth Gecko (Hemidactylus bowringii) by a White-lipped Tree Viper (Trimeresurus albolabris) in Hong Kong, China

Jake Hallam, Ahmed Junaid

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Predation on a Malabar Tree Toad, Pedostibes tuberculosus (Anura: Bufonidae), by a fishing spider, Dolomedes sp. (Araneae: Dolomedidae), in a riparian ecosystem in India

Deva Charan S. S., Sidharth R

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Predation of a Green and Black Poison Frog, Dendrobates auratus (Dendrobatidae), by a Wandering Spider, Ancylometes bogotensis (Ancylometidae), in southern Costa Rica

Alex Barboza Elizondo, Alejandro Solórzano

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First records of three species of Squamata in the Sierra Negra, Puebla, Mexico

Rafael Peralta, Bryce Anderson, Joey Mullica , Oswaldo Corona-Garduño

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New distributional and elevational records for Herrera's Alligator Lizard, Barisia herrerae (Squamata: Anguidae), in Central Mexico

Laura Sonia Arzate-Garay, Edgar Oviedo-Hernández, Oswaldo Hernández-Gallegos, Charles M. Watson, Josele Ricardo Flores-Santin

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First in situ breeding observation of Polillo Forest Frog, Platymantis polillensis Taylor 1922, in a Winged Pitcher Plant Nepenthes alata in northern Luzon, Philippines

Mr. Philip Malindog, Mr. Tristan Luap P. Senarillos, Ms. Ma. Susana V. Legaspi, Dr. Jayson C. Ibañez

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Notes on the defensive behavior and distribution of the poorly known snake Prado’s Coastal House Snake, Mesotes rutilus (Dipsadidae: Xenodontinae: Tachymenini)

Luis Felipe Lima, Afonso Santiago de Oliveira Meneses, Isabella Parreira, Pedro Paulo Queiroz, Murielly Alves Coimbra, Emayre Rebecca Souza Campos, Fernanda Barros Passaglia, Reuber Albuquerque Brandão

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First record of forelimb amely in the genus Plestiodon (Squamata: Scincidae) in Mexico

Vianey Heredia-Domínguez, Cristóbal Torres Velasco, Luis Fernando Licona-Hidalgo, Antonio Yolocalli Cisneros Bernal

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Interspecific amplexus of a Long-footed Marsupial Frog, Gastrotheca longipes (Boulenger 1882), and a Canelos Treefrog, Boana appendiculata (Boulenger 1882),in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador

Vincent Prémel, Przemysław Zdunek

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Predation on a juvenile Terciopelo (Bothrops asper) by a tarantula (Stichoplastoris denticulatus) in Tirimbina Biological Reserve, Costa Rica

Sergio Villegas, Charlyn Elizondo Montano, Justin Rodríguez Castro

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Book Reviews

Book Review: Tortoise Husbandry and Welfare

Steven Allain

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Commentary

Whither Dendrelaphis in western India? A critique of recent papers by Vaishnav and Ghadi (2025) and Puranik et al. (2025)

Dikansh S. Parmar, Hinrich Kaiser

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