Vol. 31 No. 1 (2024): Reptiles & Amphibians

View Vol. 31 No. 1 (2024): Reptiles & Amphibians

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17161/randa.v31i1

Published: 2024-01-05

Articles

What are we saving? The amphibians and reptiles of the rice paddies in the Balasore District, Odisha, India

Deyatima Ghosh

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Antipredator displays of the Cuban Groundlizard (Pholidoscelis auberi) on Little San Salvador Island (Half Moon Cay), The Bahamas, and a review of similar behavior in other lizards

Philip Senter

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Microplastics in invasive geckos (Hemidactylus mabouia and H. angulatus): first evidence in Cuba and the Caribbean, and transfer pathways of concern

Rafael Borroto-Paez, Dr. Orlando Enrique Sánchez León; Dr Boris A. Fabres

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Passive-activated camera trap used to detect a medium-sized reptile: A case study of the Jamaican Iguana, Cyclura collei

Damion Whyte, Eric Garraway

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A review of ectoparasites (Acari and Hirudinea) associated with herpetofauna in the Mexican Yucatan Peninsula

Josh Phangurha; Pedro E. Nahuat-Cervera, Alexandros Theodorou, Joseph Oakley, Olga Sawoscianiki, José António L. Barão-Nóbrega

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Notes on Günther’s Oriental Slender Snake (Trachischium guentheri) from the Himalayan Realm of North Sikkim, India

Vivek Sarkar; Rupali Thakur; Anukul Nath, Abhijit Das

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Anurans in the ecotone between the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado in the Campos das Vertentes, southeast Brazil

Jéssica Aparecida Pereira; Diego Gonçalves dos Santos Renne; Felipe Barbosa Augusto de Freitas, Glauco Cássio de Sousa Oliveira, Marcos de Jesus Santos Damiano, Heitor Alves Venancio da Rocha, Mireile Reis dos Santos, Luís Felipe Toledo, Marcos Magalhães de Souza

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Relationship between predation and maternal investment In Curly-Tailed Lizards

Valentina Consuegra, Adania Flemming, Dr. Natalie Claunch

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Notes on patagium morphology in the Gliding Flat-tailed House Gecko (Hemidactylus platyurus)

Amber M. Petty, Tony Gamble, Aaron H. Griffing

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Ophidiofauna of Maharashtra: An annotated checklist with new locality records

Shradha Rathod, Chaitanya Shukla, Varun Satose

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Status and observations of the critically endangered Turks Island Skink (Spondylurus turksae)

Graham Reynolds, L. Caden Comsa, Matthew L. Niemiller

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Temporal changes in freshwater turtle assemblage in Gomti River, North India

Shailendra Singh, Dhruvajyoti Basu, Daren Riedle, Sreeparna Dutta

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Morphology, biology, and distribution of Ichthyophis kodaguensis (Amphibia:Gymnophiona), a rare caecilian from the Western Ghats, India

Venu, Govindaiah Venkatachalaiah, Gandlahalli N. Balakrishna, Kulkarni Varadh, Nishtha, Prithvi S. Ramakrishna, Narayanappa G. Raju, Robert K. Browne

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Establishing a baseline trend and diversity of snake rescues in the Kali Tiger Reserve, Karnataka.

Omkar Pai, Bismay Ranjan Tripathy, Aslam Abbas , Chandrakanth Naik, Gajanan Yallatti, Goudappa Dharennavar, Mahabaleshwar Kotagi, Parasappa Jajappagol, Parashuram Fakirappa Bhajantri, Parashuram Prabhu Bajantri, Pradhani Patrot, Prasanna Amaravati, Raghavendra Gouda, Ramesh Badiger, Ramesh Dambal, Sadanand Ganagi, Shankaranand Jiddimani, Pavan KS Kumar, Imran Patel

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Morphological variation of the European Pond Turtle, Emys orbicularis (Linnaeus 1758), on the island of Menorca

Daniel Escoriza, Santiago Poch, Dani Boix

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Population changes in Gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) vary spatially in Chitwan National Park, Nepal

Bed Bahadur Khadka, Ashish Bashyal, Phoebe Griffith

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Environmental heterogeneity and lizard assemblages in riparian areas in Cyprus

Elena Erotokritou, Christos Mammides, Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis, Spyros Sfenthourakis

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Conservation of two freshwater turtle species in the Guru Gorakhnath Community Reserve in Western Haryana, India

Vikram Delu, Vinod Karwasra, Ashish Panda

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Salinity preferences of Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin) headstarts: A laboratory study

Erika Dahl, Hanna Banner, Itzick Vatnick

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Updated geographic distributions for Texas reptiles

Lawrence Bassett, Gregory Pandelis

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Nesting crawls and associated behaviors of turtles in the genus Batagur along the Chambal River, India

Pawan Shantiprakash Pareek, Shailendra Singh; Sreeparna Dutta

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Demographic traits of an Eastern Gartersnake, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis, population in two different habitats

Walter Meshaka, Jr., Eugene Wingert, Dayna Levine, Daren Riedle

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First checklist of Herpetofauna in Mt. Arayat National Park and vicinity, Pampanga Province, Luzon Island, The Philippines

Yu-Sing Lin, Shan-Min Chen, Jake Wilson B. Binaday, Chin-Chia Shen, Ace Kevin Amarga

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Intraspecific variation in Black Caiman (Melanosuchus niger) embryonic development

Helena Gurjão Pinheiro Val, Cristiano Andrey do Vale, Luiza Figueiredo Passos, Marcos Eduardo Coutinho

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Preliminary observations of skeletal UV fluorescence in fresh and preserved snakes

Justin Bernstein, Eric Rittmeyer, Sara Ruane

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Potential distribution of the Long-tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus stejnegeri Dunn 1919 (Squamata: Viperidae): A rare and under-sampled species

Héctor Alexis Castro Bastidas

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Big pythons, big gape, and big prey

Bruce C. Jayne, Ian C. Easterling, Ian A. Bartoszek

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Notes

Apparent disappearance of two species of urban-adapted skinks, Tiliqua scincoides and Eulamprus quoyii, from a suburban area of Sydney, Australia

Matthew Mo

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First verifiable maximum size for the Two-striped Gartersnake,Thamnophis hammondii

Sabrina Liu; Sierra Vasquez, Chad Campbell; Dr. Adam Clause

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A Banded Kukri (Oligodon arnensis) (Squamata: Colubridae) with an unusual pattern from Pune, Maharashtra, India

Umesh Vaghela, Rajendra Kamble

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Notes on the diet of the Cuban Giant Blue Anole, Anolis equestris cyaneus (Squamata: Dactyloidae)

Daylon Fundora, Odey Martínez Llanes, Serguei López Pérez

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Feeding on Pteropus scapulatus (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) by Varanus varius (Squamata: Varanidae) in Australia

Przemysław Zdunek, Bryn Amstrong

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Use of roads by Rainbow Mud Snakes (Enhydris enhydris) during parturition

Azizul Islam Barkat, Md. Rokonuzzaman, Md. Fazle Rabbe

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Predation on a Brazilian Teal, Amazonetta brasiliensis (Gmelin 1789), and a White-faced Whistling Duck, Dendrocygna viduata (Linnaeus 1766), by a Green Anaconda, Eunectes murinus (Linnaeus 1758)

Bruno Felipe Camera, Ana Prudente

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First authenticated records of the Khasi Hills Long-tailed Lizard, Takydromus khasiensis Boulenger 1917 (Squamata: Lacertidae), from Nagaland, India

Sumidh Ray

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Notes on prey of the Common Sandboa, Eryx conicus (Schneider 1801), in Valsad, Gujarat, India

Aadit Patel, Shreya Pandey, Aurobindo Samal, Maharshi Pandya

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Maximum longevity of the Middle Eastern Short-fingered Gecko, Stenodactylus doriae (Blanford 1874)

Shai Meiri

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An observation of mating behavior in the Horrible Spiny Lizard, Sceloporus horridus Wiegmann 1834

Luis Enrique Galeana Barrera; Aarón García Rosales, Matías Martínez Coronel

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First record of the Assam Painted Frog, Uperodon assamensis (Das, Sengupta, Ahmed, and Dutta 2004) (Anura: Microhylidae), from Manas National Park, Assam

Jaydev Mandal, Lonie Lahkar, Edison Basumatary, Jayaditya Purkayastha

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Gaping behavior in Mottled Snail-eater Sibon longifrenis, and a Yellow Blunt-headed Vine Snake Imantodes inornatus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae)

Alexander Moya-Valverde, Marck Leiva-Méndez, Gerald Vega-Campos, Jefferson Delgado-Madrigal, Ana Campos-Morera, Jonathan Vega Coto

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Second record of a Marbled Treefrog, Dendropsophus marmoratus Laurenti 1768 (Anura: Hylidae), in the diet of the Banded Cat-eyed Snake, Leptodeira annulata Linnaeus 1758 (Squamata: Colubridae), in the Bolivian Amazon

Luis Rolando Rivas, Cord B. Eversole, Randy L. Powell, Vincent A. Vos

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Predation of a Yucatan Silky Anole (Anolis ustus) by a Yucatan Blunt-headed Treesnake (Imantodes tenuissimus)

Daniel R. Durán-Arceo, Pedro E. Nahuat-Cervera; Ana Laura Rivas-Villegas

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An albino Purple Caecilian (Gymnopis multiplicata) from Drake Bay, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

Alex Alvarado-Acuña, Raby Nuñez

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The Neotropical Birdsnake: Phrynonax sexcarinatus (Serpentes: Colubridae), a new geographic record in Bolivia

Oliver, Rene Carpio, Reynaldo Quispe, Bladimir Marca, Jorge Espinoza Echeverría

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Predation by a Great Plated Lizard, Broadleysaurus major (Duméril 1851),on a Guttural Toad, Sclerophrys gutturalis (Power 1927), in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

John Lyakurwa, Yusuph Abdallah Wilangali, Monica Shilereyo

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Scavenging by Indian Kraits, Bungarus caeruleus (Schneider 1801) (Elapidae), in Alibag, Maharashtra, India

Prasad Dabholkar, Aditi Sagar

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Alvarado’s Webfooted Salamander, Bolitoglossa alvaradoi (Taylor 1954): Activity, hunting behavior, and prey selection in Costa Rica

Jonathan Vega

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A third documented case of courtship between a European Pond Turtle (Emys orbicularis) and an Allochthonous Red-eared Slider (Trachemys scripta elegans) (Testudines: Emydidae)

Alessandro Paterna

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Deciphering the reproductive enigma: The Ornate Flying Snake, Chrysopelea ornata (Shaw 1802), in The Dangs District, Gujarat, India

Dikansh Parmar

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Neonatal Morphology of the Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus), Russel's Viper (Daboia russelii), and Common Bamboo Pitviper (Craspedocephalus gramineus)

Priyank Kapadi, Nibedita Das, Vipul Patel, Aadit Patel, Dr. D.C. Patel, Nisha Raj, Maniswara Raja, Maharshi Pandya

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First record of a Black Spiny-tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura similis) predating a Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)

Frank Mazzotti, Melissa A. Miller, Daniel Chaic

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Predation on Leptodactylus griseigularis (Henle 1981) (Anura: Leptodactylidae) by Ancylometes sp. (Bertkau 1880) (Araneae: Ctenidae) in a community-conserved forest in Peru

Lucia Aliaga Maldonado, Christine Burgos, Sydney F. Hope, Grecia Torres Cusi, Ernesto Castillo-Urbina, Diego Olivera, Oscar Machuca Meneses, Adrian Wong, Juan Carlos Cusi, Cesar Ramirez, Aésane Méric, Clément Aubert, Diego Barrera Moscoso, Alejandro Mendoza, María Isabel Ríos, Diego Rado Tipte, Diana Silva-Dávila, César Aguilar-Puntriano, Mathias Dezetter

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On the occurrence of the Myanmar Brown Leaf Turtle, Cyclemys fusca (Testudines:Geoemydidae), from Manipur, India

Gospel Zothanmawia Hmar, Ht. Decemson, Fanai Malsawmdawngliana, Vabeiryureilai Mathipi; Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga

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Three novel prey items and two new defensive behaviors of the South American Sipo, Chironius foveatus (Squamata: Colubridae)

Arthur Abegg, Lucas M. Botelho, João A. Bachur, Miguel Nema Neto, Edelcio Muscat

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Observations of caudal pseudoautotomy in two Asian natricid snakes

Damien Esquerre

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Predation of a Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa latipes (Drury 1773), by a Peninsular Rock Agama, Psammophilus blanfordanus (Stoliczka 1871), from Odisha, India.

Subhrakanta Jena, Rakesh Kumar Mohalik, Pratyush P. Mohapatra, Hemanta K. Sahu

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Toe-tapping during amplexus by the Dry Forest Toad, Incilius coccifer (Cope 1866)

Alexander Moya Valverde, Reyner Villalta, Jose Olivares-Román

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New amphibian records for the Serranía de San Jacinto, Bolívar Department, Colombia

Jose Gabriel Julio-Guzmán, Juan David Jiménez Bolaño; Juan Felipe Romero ; Hernán Darío Granda-Rodríguez

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Ecological notes on the Panamint Alligator Lizard, Elgaria panamintina

Janie Paz, Dr. Adam G. Clause

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Predation by a White Ibis (Eudocimus albus) on a West Coast Gartersnake, Thamnophis validus (Squamata: Natricidae), at Barra de Coyuca, Guerrero, Mexico

Epifanio Blancas, André Sebastián Fuentes-Vega, Marisol Castro-Torreblanca

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Observations of aggressive behavior in the Palawan Bubble-Nest Frog (Philautus longicrus) and characterization of its aggressive call

Jake Wilson Binaday, Marvin Jay R. Sarmiento, John Stephen S. Tuboc, Rainier I. Manalo, Arvin C. Diesmos

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Successful predation by a California Kingsnake (Lampropeltis californiae) on a Desert Rosy Boa (Lichanura trivirgata)

Chance Stevens, Adam G. Clause

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A new island record of the Anatolian Limbless Skink (Ophiomorus kardesi) from Greece

Michail Manonas, Alexios Panagiotopoulos, Elias Tzoras

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An inordinate abundance of snakes: Hundreds of Levantine Blindsnakes Xerotyphlops syriacus found following a flood

Shai Meiri, Aviad Bar, Gaya Kopelis

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A Terciopelo (Bothrops asper) swimming in the Caribbean: Intentional behavior or fortuitous event?

Roger Morales-Flores, Ángel Sosa-Bartuano

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The distress call of a Masked Treefrog, Smilisca phaeota (Cope 1862) (Hylidae)

Juan Pablo Durango Cardona

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New reports of interspecific refuge sharing by Cuban snakes

Javier Torres, Alejandro M. Rodríguez-González, Ernesto Morell Savall

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Predation of a Blue-sided Gliding Leaf Frog (Agalychnis saltator) by a Giant Waterbug (Lethocerus colossicus) from Siquirres, Limón, Costa Rica

Craig Howard, Carlos González Quesada, Raby Nuñez

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A Common Krait (Bungarus caeruleus) feeding on a Saw-scaled Viper (Echis carinatus)

Ravikumar Patel

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New locality record of Castoe’s Coralsnake (Calliophis castoe) from Rajapur, Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra, India

Siddharth Parab; Vinayak Puranik, Anil Mahadev Parvati Kubal, Purvendra Jathar

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Artificial incubation of eggs of the Eastern Montpellier Snake (Malpolon insignitus) and physical abnormalities in hatchlings

Foad Zohari, Gunther Köhler, Molood Asadi, Mohammad Kaboli

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Mushroom sprouting out of a living frog

Chinmay C . Maliye, Lohit Y.T.

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Invertebrate predators of Anolis lizards: A new observation and a summary of published reports

Daniel Warner, David Laurencio, James Zanzot

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First record of Lesser Black Krait, Bungarus lividus Cantor 1839 from the mountain region of Nepal

Tujin Rai, Shivaraj Limbu, Nischal Kunwar, Karan Bahadur Shah

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A Hook-Nosed Sea Snake, Hydrophis schistosus (Daudin 1803), killed trying to swallow a fish

Harsh Singhal

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A long-lived leucistic Cope’s Gray Treefrog (Dryophytes chrysoscelis) tadpole from northeastern Tennessee, USA

Michael Gartin, Lance Jessee

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First report of anopthalmia in Rivero's Toad, Rhinella humboldti (Gallardo 1965) (Anura:Bufonidae), in Colombia

Luis Angel Olivera; Jhesteiner Julio-Dávila; Manuel de Luna; Oswaldo Peña-Contreras, José Alvis

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Notes on the diet of the Kashmir Rock Agama, Laudakia tuberculata (Gray 1827), in Himachal Pradesh, India

Rakeshwar Kapoor, Virender Kumar Bhardwaj, Rahul Verma, Hmar Tlawmte Lalremsanga

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Predation by a Painted Bronzeback, Dendrelaphis pictus (Gmelin 1789), on a Crab at Garbhanga Reserve Forest, Assam, India

Anurudha Chakraborty, Rohan Dey, Mayoushree Gogoi, Bhitali Barkakati, Krishnaa Boro, Parimal Chandra Ray

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Interfamilial male-male amplexus between a Malabar Gliding Frog (Rhacophorus malabaricus; Rhacophoridae) and a Bicolored Frog (Clinotarsus curtipes; Ranidae) from the Western Ghats, India

Romit Shilpe, Rohan K. Menzies

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Ophidiomycosis in a Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus (Linnaeus 1758), with behavioral and thermal observations: A case report from Georgia, USA

Amanda Duffus, Anna F. Tipton, Morgan Thompson, William Tillett, John Powers, Danielle Bartlett, Dominic DeSantis

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Erratum: First record of the Asian Painted Frog, Kaloula pulchra Gray 1831 (Anura: Microhylidae), from Jharkhand, India

Nalinaksh Pankaj

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Predation on a Eurasian Blue Tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) by a Barred Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica) in Great Britain

Lloyd Rose; James Bonthron

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Reproduction and tail bifurcation in the Wedge-snouted Skink, Chalcides sepsoides

Reut Vardi, Adi Baram, Avigail Mitrani, Shahar Dubiner, Eran Levin, Shai Meiri

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Predation on an adult Gray Treefrog, Hyla versicolor (Hylidae) (LeConte 1825), by a predaceous diving beetle (Cybister sp. or Dytiscus sp.)

Joey Cannizzaro

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Notes on copulation in Banded Kraits, Bungarus fasciatus (Schneider 1801)

Prajjwal Ray, Suman Das, Sourav Mandal, Parta Dey

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Egg entanglement in a Mallorcan Midwife Toad (Alytes muletensis) causes amputation of the metatarsals and phalanges in a captive male

Caleb Leeke; Mario Shimbov, James Bonthron; Mark Goodman

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Anomalies and parasite infestation in the Canyon Tree Frog Dryophytes arenicolor Cope 1866 (Anura: Hylidae) from Mexico

Héctor Alexis Castro-Bastidas, Juan Carlos Herrera-Salazar, Marisol Magdalena Moreno-Chávez, David Aguillón

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Effects of hoop-net mouth opening on capture success of Rio Grande Cooters (Pseudemys gorzugi)

Sierra Shoemaker, Ivana Mali

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Predation on a gecko (Hemidactylus sp.) by a Common Treefrog (Polypedates maculatus) in Kataragama, Sri Lanka

Varun Taneja, Krunal Trivedi

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First confirmed record of the Brown-spotted Pitviper, Protobothrops mucrosquamatus (Cantor 1839), from Assam, India

Arijit Dutta, Sourav Gupta, Jayanta Kumar Roy, M Firoz Ahmed

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An attack on a Centipede Snake (Tantilla cf. schistosa) by soldier ants (Eciton burchellii) in Honduras

Alex M. Cubas Rodríguez, Andrea Rodríguez, Astrid Martínez, David Medina

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Notes on the natural history of two species of snakes from Panama: defensive behavior in an Ecuador Sipo, Chironius grandisquamis (Peters 1869), and fluorescence in Hoffmann’s Earthsnake, Geophis hoffmanni (Peters 1859)

Ángel Sosa-Bartuano, Edgardo Griffith, Macario González-Pinzón, Samuel Sucre, Rafael Lau

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First report of a prolonged bite by a Western Whip Snake, Hierophis viridiflavus carbonarius (Bonaparte 1833) (Serpentes, Colubridae), resulting in pronounced local oedema

Ignazio Avella, Fabio Savini, Matteo Di Nicola

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Twinning in a wild breeding population of Gharials (Gavialis gangeticus) in India

Shantanu Ugemuge, Akash Deep Badhawan, Pulkit Gupta, Gaurav Vashistha

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Xanthism in three wild snakes in Colombia

Oscar A. Sierra-Serrano; Cristian J. Castillo-Peñarredonda, Juan David Jiménez-Bolaño

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First winter reproductive record of the Imbituba Lizard, Tropidurus Imbituba Kunz and Borges-Martins 2013, a critically endangered microendemic from Brazil

Diego dos Anjos Souza, Maricelma Simiano Jung, Rodrigo Ávila Mendonça

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Invasion history of the Moorish Gecko, Tarentola mauritanica (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae), in the USA, with new records of an established population in Texas

Drew Davis; Benjamin Genter, Travis LaDuc

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Curassow at the street fair: Attempted consumption of Amphisbaena alba (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) by Crax fasciolata (Galliformes: Cracidae)

Henrique Costa, Diego Santana

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Use of artificial habitat by the Imbricate Alligator Lizard, Barisia imbricata (Squamata: Anguidae), in Toluca, State of México, México

Laura Sonia Arzate-Garay, Erika Adriana Reyes-Velázquez, Josele Ricardo Flores-Santin, Oswaldo Hernández-Gallegos

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First record of Maskey's Burrowing Frog, Sphaerotheca maskeyi (Schleich and Anders 1998), from Bhutan

Jigme Tshelthrim Wangyal; Chogyal Tashi, Sampa Chogyel

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Interspecific communal oviposition by a Colombian Lightbulb Lizard (Riama columbiana) and Eyelash Lizards (Lepidoblepharis duolepis) in Colombia

Daniel Enrique Espitia-Sanabria, Iván Camilo Pineda-Infante, Pamela Patiño Salazar

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Death feigning behavior in the Ring-necked Coffee Snake, Ninia diademata Baird and Girard 1853

Dillon Jones, Mathieu Charette, Vanessa Kilburn

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Mortality of a Common House Gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus (Duméril and Bibron1836) due to multiple Asian Honeybee (Apis cerana) stings in Balasore, Odisha, India

Shreya Pandey, Aurobindo Samal, Niladri Bhusan Kar

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Licuri (Syagrus coronata) consumption by Salvator merianae in the Caatinga seasonally dry forest: nutritional and ecological implications

Antonio Soares-Júnior, Míriam Plaza Pinto, Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Francis Luiz Santos Caldas
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New records of the Yucatecan Dwarf Short-tailed Snake, (Tantillita canula) Cope 1875 (Squamata: Colubridae), in Southern Mexico

Pedro E. Nahuat Cervera, Daniel Jesús-Espinosa, Fernando M. Contreras-Moreno

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Host-specific ectoparasitic isopod (Nerocila loveni) found on a Little Filesnake (Acrochordus granulatus) on Surwada Beach, Gujarat, India

Aadit Patil, Aurobindo Samal, Shreya Pandey

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Notes on the diet of the Brown Wood Turtle, Rhinoclemmys annulata (Gray 1860), in the humid tropical rainforest of Costa Rica

Jonathan Vega

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A predation attempt by a Samar Cobra, Naja samarensis Peters 1861, on a Banded Bullfrog, Kaloula pulchra Gray 1831, on the Island of Mindanao, Philippines

Anne Krizzia Caasi, Dolens James Iñigo, Lief Erikson Gamalo

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Ambush hunting in a Checkered Keelback (Fowlea piscator) on Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in Lalbagh Lake, Bengaluru, India

Chandan Gowda, U.B. Roy

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A stationary defence strategy backfires: a Weasel Skink (Saproscincus mustelinus) becomes prey of a Lace Monitor (Varanus varius)

Matthew Mo

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A Bangladesh Skittering Frog, Euphlyctis adolfi (Günther 1860) (Anura: Dicroglossidae), preying on a Common Mormon Butterfly, Papilio polytes

Mohammad Quamruzzaman Babu, Prosenjit Debbaarma, Khurshed Alom, Mohammad Abdur Razzaque Sarker

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Double take: Ingestion of two rats by a juvenile Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) in Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, USA

Teah Evers, Andrea Currylow, Mark Sandfoss, Lisa McBride, Christina Romagosa, Wesley Boone, Jacquelyn Guzy, Gretchen Anderson; Kristen Hart; Matthew McCollister, Amy Yackel Adams

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Predation of a Brahminy Blind Snake, Indotyphlops braminus (Daudin 1803) (Typhloidae), by a Bibron’s Coral Snake, Calliophis bibroni (Jan 1858) (Elapidae), from the Western Ghats, Kerala, India

Jafer Palot, K.P. Dinesh, A. Shabnam, Shyamkant S. Talmale, Basudev Tripathy

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Predation attempt by a Wandering Spider, Ancylometes bogotensis (Aranae: Ctenidae), on a Western Basilisk, Basiliscus galeritus (Squamata: Corytophanidae)

José Santiago Pérez Galvis, Carolina Martinez-Vargas, Juan Gutierrez-Toro

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First record of a Yellow-green Catsnake, Boiga flaviviridis Vogel and Ganesh 2013 (Colubridae), from Kalakad Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India

Thalavaipandi Subbaiah, P. Maria Antony

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Oviposition by an Indian Ratsnake (Ptyas mucosa) in the shell of an Indian Black Turtle (Melanochelys trijuga)

Dikansh Parmar, Dr. Bernard Rodrigues

e21367
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The post-feeding activity of an Indian Rock Python, Python molurus (Linnaeus 1758), in the Moyar River Valley, southern India

C.S. Vishnu, Chinnasamy Ramesh, Vedagiri Thirumurugan, Krishnamorthy Ashokan, Abhijit Das, Gautam Talukdar

e20100
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Unusual clutch size and new prey items for a Western Ribbon Snake, Thamnophis proximus (Say 1823), from Hidalgo, Mexico

Luis Fernando Hidalgo Licona, Ángel L. Ayala-Leyva, Monserrat Cardoso-Aguilar, Gustavo Campillo-García

e21520
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First confirmed record of Spectacled Caiman, Caiman crocodilus Linnaeus 1758, in the Department of Pando, Bolivia

Natalio Roque, Brandon Gross, Andrés L. Rodriguez-Cordero, Sergio A. Balaguera-Reina, Llewellyn D. Densmore III

e21738
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Leucism in a paedomorphic Smooth Newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) in a garden pond in Essex, United Kingdom

Matthew Hulse, James D. Bonthron

e22241
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An observation of polydactyly associated with tail injury in the Great Crested Newt (Triturus cristatus Laurenti 1768)

Lana J. Deaton ; James D. Bonthron

e21878
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Squamate reptiles in the diet of the Neotropical Lava Lizard, Tropidurus hispidus (Spix 1825): New records and habitat types

Maria Clara de Claro, Patricio Adriano da Rocha, Daniel Oliveira Mesquita, Raone Beltrão-Mendes

e22389
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A new item in the diet of the Black-and-White Tegu, Salvator merianae (Squamata: Teiidae)

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

e21634
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First record of Salazar’s Pitviper, Trimeresurus salazar (Mirza, Bhosale, Phansalkar, Sawant, Gowande, and Patel 2020) from Tripura, India

Antara Choudhury, Arnab Deb, Jayaditya Purkayastha

e20654
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A new record of the Sri Lankan Painted Frog, Uperodon taprobanicus, (Parker 1934) (Microhylidae), from Parbhani, Maharashtra, India.

Mahesh Manik Bandgar, Kranti M. Bandgar, Shital V. Wahurwgh, Vivek J. Chandane

e21685
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Delayed emergence of hatchling Eastern Box Turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in northeastern Tennessee, USA

Lance D. Jessee; Rachel F. Herrmann

e21964
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Predation of a fossorial lizard, Saiphos equalis (Scincidae), by an arboreal spider, Heteropoda jugulans (Sparassidae), in Australia

Matthew Mo, Elouise Mo

e21498
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Depredation attempt on novel prey by Northern Pinesnake (Pituophis m. melanoleucus)

Jason Fantuzzi, Daniel Brill

e21260
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Predation of a Cachabi Robber Frog (Pristimantis achatinus) by a Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani)

Gustavo Adolfo Pisso Florez, Andres Felipe Lievano-Bonilla

e21641
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Largest seizure of Earless Monitor Lizards Lanthanotus borneensis in Kalimantan, Indonesia

Loretta Shepherd, Chris Shepherd

e22312
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First record of the Beaked Worm Snake, Grypotyphlops acutus (Duméril and Bibron 1844), from the Union territory of Delhi, India

Gaurav Barhadiya; Chirashree Ghosh

e21216
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Predation of “Cochinillas” (Isopoda) by Riama cashcaensis (Squamata: Gymnophtalmidae), Bolívar-Ecuador

Andy Proaño, Nantu Narankas, Gabriela Manzano, Marcelo Bustillos, Marta Ochoa, Michael Cordero, Gabriela Gallmeier, Karen Molina, Kevin Narum
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New record of the Bar-necked Keelback Fowlea schnurrenbergeri from Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary, Assam, India

Pranjal Deka, Pramod Choudhury, Hari Prasad Saikia, Bibhab Kumar Talukdar, Jayaditya Purkayastha

e21287
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Range extension of the Long-legged Swamp Froglet, Pseudopaludicola murundu (Anura, Leptodactylidae), in the highlands of Serra da Mantiqueira, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Pílade Robert Filho, Marcella Souza; André Yves; Lúcio Lima, Henrique Costa, Diego Santana

e21659
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Scavenging of a Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia) by carpenter ants in northeastern Brazil

Raone Beltrão-Mendes, Míriam Plaza Pinto

e21527
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First record of an albino Spectacled Cobra (Naja naja) from Uttar Pradesh, India

Rahul Nishad, Vipul Maurya

e21413
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Twinning in Asian Giant Tortoise (Manouria emys phayrei) embryos

Sushmita Kar, Shailendra Singh, C. Zupeni Tsanglai, Awadhesh Kumar

e21341
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A recent observation of the northernmost documented population of the Pine Woods Littersnake (Rhadinaea flavilata) on the Outer Banks of North Carolina

Tyler DeVos; Sam Bluestein

e21165
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Fused eggs and twinning in the Australian Jacky Dragon (Amphibolurus muricatus)

Daniel A. Warner, Tonia S. Schwartz, Richard Shine

e22373
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Occurrence of the East Indian Leopard, Gecko,Eublepharis hardwickii Gray 1827, in the Dalma Wildlife Sanctuary and Saranda Forest in Jharkhand, India

Rahul Kumar

e20112
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A Blue/Cyan Bamboo Pitviper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri stejnegeri) in Taiwan

Kuang Ting Chen, You Jia Tu, Kin Onn Chan, Eng Wah Teo

e21421
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Diurnal predation on an Asian Common Toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) and a cricket frog (Fejervarya sp.) by a Buff-striped Keelback(Amphiesma stolatum) in Cumilla, Bangladesh

Md. Sabbir Ahammed, Sajib Biswas, Shayer Mahmood Ibney Alam; Muhammad Saiful Islam

e20274
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Communal oviposition by Spectacled Cobras, Naja naja (Linnaeus 1758), in West Bengal, India

Prajjwal Ray, Chandrima Bose, Soumitra Roy, Bappa Sarkar

e22337
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An observation of ophiophagy in the Kenyan Sandboa (Eryx colubrinus)

Soham Mukherjee, Akanksha Mukherjee, Dr. Gowri Mallapur

e21252
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Predation attempt by a Venezuelan Snouted Treefrog (Scinax x-signatus) on a Tropical House Geckos (Hemidactylus mabouia) in northeastern Brazil.

Leonardo Cruz da Rosa

e21423
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Combat wounds in Dwarf Glassfrogs, Teratohyla spinosa (Centrolenidae)

Erick Barría; Greta Hernandez, Rogemif Fuentes, Konrad Mebert

e21057
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First confirmed record of Gore’s Coral Snake, Sinomicrurus gorei (Wall 1908), from Tripura, India

Arnab Deb, Bijay Basfore, Jayaditya Purkayastha

e21490
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A new record of the Kallar Torrent Frog, Micrixalus herrei Myers 1942, from the Ranni Forest Division, Kerala, India

Priya Thomas, Sujith V. Gopalan, Giji K. Joseph

e21567
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New district record for the Assam Snail Eater Snake, Pareas monticola (Cantor 1839), from Dhalai, Tripura, India

Arnab Deb, Bijay Basfore, Jayaditya Purkayastha

e21536
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Cannibalism by a Peninsular Rock Agama Psammophilus dorsalis in Tamil Nadu, India

Amirtha Balan Raveendran

e22395
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First record of the Green Catsnake, Boiga cyanea Duméril, Bibron, and Duméril 1854 (Squamata: Colubridae), from Manipur, India

Premjit Singh Elangbam; Hemeshwor Nongthombam, N. Mohilal Meitei

e21508
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Albinism in a Common Fire Salamander, Salamandra salamandra (Linnaeus 1758), in Galicia (Spain)

Martín Quintáns Suárez

e22376
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Python eats python: A Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) preying on a Reticulated Python (Malayopython reticulatus) in Bangladesh

Iftiker Mahamud, Adnan Azad Asif, Md Mahfuzur Rahman, Shubhabrata Sarker, Ashikur Rahman Shome

e21418
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Mating in Common House Geckos, Hemidactylus frenatus Dumeril and Bibron 1836 (Squamata, Gekkonidae), in Godda District, Jharkhand, India

Shuvam Das; Pratyush P. Mohapatra

e21658
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An observation of drinking behavior by a Green Cat Snake, Boiga cyanea (Dumeril, Bibron, and Dumeril 1854)

Mahia Tasnim, Sajib Biswas, Tania Akhter, Md. Mofaqkharul Islam, Md. Shalauddin, Sabit Hasan

e21444
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Utilization of cattle dung as cover by a Northern Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon sipedon) at a high-elevation site in northeastern Tennessee, USA

Jeremy Stout, Lance D. Jessee

e22424
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Predation on a Velvet Worm, Epiperipatus sp. (Onycophora: Peripatidae), by a Striped Glasstail, Urotheca guentheri (Squamata: Dipsadidae), in Costa Rica

Julio Méndez Fallas, Alejandro Solórzano

e22380
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New locality and elevational range extension of the Montane Lichen Anole, Norops fungosus Myers 1971 (Squamata: Dactyloidae), in central Costa Rica: Conservation actions for a near-threatened species

Álvaro A. Zamora-Roda, Christian G. Herrera Martínez, Anthony J. Abarca-Zúñiga, Andrey Solís-Mora, Raby Nuñez-Escalante, Horacio J. Torres-Serrano

e20044
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Himalayan Toad (Duttaphrynus himalayanus) tadpoles feeding on a mammalian carcass in the Western Himalayas of India

Tuheina Thakur, Abhijit Das

e21463
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Introduced Species

The Rainbow Boa, Epicrates cenchria (Linnaeus 1758) (Squamata: Boidae), another established non-native snake in Florida

Jonathan Asher, Kenneth Krysko

e22335
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Regional records and reproductive potential of the non-indigenous Central Asian Tortoise, Testudo horsfieldii Gray 1844 (Testudinidae) in southwestern Florida

Jordan Donini

e20927
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Multiple records of the introduced parthenogenetic Smooth-scaled Tegulet, Gymnophthalmus underwoodi Grant 1958, in Puerto Rico

Danielle Rivera, Jan P. Zegarra, Alberto R. Puente-Rolón, Nahíra Arocho-Hernandez, Nathan J. Hostetter, Jaime A. Collazo, Rayna C. Bell

e21466
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Geographic expansion of the Common House Gecko, Hemidactylus frenatus (Squamata, Gekkonidae), in Baja California Sur, Mexico

Jorge Heriberto Valdez-Villavicencio, Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Clark R. Mahrdt, Melissa A. Stepek, Patricia Galina-Tessaro

e20262
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New evidence of Red-eared Slider, Trachemys scripta (Wied-Neuwied 1839), reproduction in Galicia (Spain)

Cesar Ayres, Miguel Dominguez-Costas

e21524
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Flooding-induced failure of an invasive Burmese Python nest in southern Florida

Mark Sandfoss, Lisa McBride, Gretchen Anderson, Amanda Kissel, Matthew McCollister, Christina Romagosa, Amy Yackel Adams

e21384
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First record of the non-native Mourning Gecko, (Lepidodactylus lugubris) Duméril and Bibron 1836 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), in southern Mexico

Pedro E. Nahuat Cervera, Omarely Martínez Chan, Geiser Tun Pool
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Husbandry

A rare case of paraphimosis in an African Spurred (Sulcata) Tortoise (Centrochelys sulcata)

Ndumari Wachida, Chris Ezihe

e21394
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Sylvia’s Leaf Frog (Cruziohyla sylviae) Gray 2018: Husbandry captive breeding, and natural history

Samuel Sucre, Macario González-Pinzón, Constance Courville, Ángel Sosa-Bartuano

e21317
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Book Reviews

Salamanders of the Eastern United States

Christopher Distel

e22823
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Book Review : Tadpole Hunter

Steven Allain

e21657
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Book Review: Turtles of the World

Steven Allain

e22359
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Book Review: Women in Herpetology

Steven Allain

e22610
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Invasive Species

First record of free-range Red-eared Slider, Trachemys scripta elegans (Wied-Neuwied 1839), on Euboea Island Greece

Taxiarchis Danelis

e22320
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