Lino Cirucci, L. De Lisio, M. Carafa, Angela Pelosi, G. Capobianco, Pasquale Buonpane, M. Capula
{"title":"The distribution of amphibians in the Matese Massif of southern Italy","authors":"Lino Cirucci, L. De Lisio, M. Carafa, Angela Pelosi, G. Capobianco, Pasquale Buonpane, M. Capula","doi":"10.33256/hb164.1823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.1823","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41490366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Minervarya cf. keralensis has been detected for the first time north of the Palghat gap in the central Western Ghats, a range extension of about 85 km. This species calls and breeds in the post-monsoon period (Jan–March) and exhibits axillary amplexus. Male call characteristics, natural history observations, and distributional complexities are described. Currently, the Minervarya nilagirica group that includes M. keralensis, show a complex distribution pattern in peninsular India that is worthy of further phylogeographic study.
{"title":"Bioacoustics, breeding ecology and range of the Kerala warty frog Minervarya cf. keralensis from north of the Palghat gap, central Western Ghats","authors":"Amit Hegde, G. Kadadevaru","doi":"10.33256/hb164.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.16","url":null,"abstract":"Minervarya cf. keralensis has been detected for the first time north of the Palghat gap in the central Western Ghats, a range extension of about 85 km. This species calls and breeds in the post-monsoon period (Jan–March) and exhibits axillary amplexus. Male call characteristics, natural history observations, and distributional complexities are described. Currently, the Minervarya nilagirica group that includes M. keralensis, show a complex distribution pattern in peninsular India that is worthy of further phylogeographic study.","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47130403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Insights into the courtship and copulation of the worm snake Xerotyphlops vermicularis","authors":"Angel Dyugmedzhiev, K. Andonov, Georgi Krastev","doi":"10.33256/hb164.3032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.3032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42122211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pham Van Thong, Olivier Le Duc, B. Leprince, Cédric Bordes, Charlotte Ducotterd, Luu Quang Vinh, Seng Ravor, Tran Quang Bao, L. Luiselli
Very little is known of the ecology and distribution of Vietnamese tortoises and freshwater turtles, even though Vietnam is one of the world’s hotspots of chelonian diversity and, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), almost all its species are threatened. We report the diversity of chelonians for two distinct areas of northern Vietnam (in three provinces) characterised by forested hills and mountains, with ponds and streams. We observed ten species in Lang Son/Bac Giang provinces and 11 species in Lao Cai province. Reportedly, the two most frequently recorded species were Pelodiscus sinensis and Cuora mouhotii. Most species were Endangered or Critically Endangered according to IUCN, thus making the protection of the forest habitats of these provinces of crucial relevance for the survival of these species. Reliable records for the almost extinct Rafetus swinhoei were collected, but all of them refer to the end of the 1970s.
{"title":"A preliminary assessment of chelonian diversity in the montane forests of two areas in northern Vietnam","authors":"Pham Van Thong, Olivier Le Duc, B. Leprince, Cédric Bordes, Charlotte Ducotterd, Luu Quang Vinh, Seng Ravor, Tran Quang Bao, L. Luiselli","doi":"10.33256/hb164.712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.712","url":null,"abstract":"Very little is known of the ecology and distribution of Vietnamese tortoises and freshwater turtles, even though Vietnam is one of the world’s hotspots of chelonian diversity and, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), almost all its species are threatened. We report the diversity of chelonians for two distinct areas of northern Vietnam (in three provinces) characterised by forested hills and mountains, with ponds and streams. We observed ten species in Lang Son/Bac Giang provinces and 11 species in Lao Cai province. Reportedly, the two most frequently recorded species were Pelodiscus sinensis and Cuora mouhotii. Most species were Endangered or Critically Endangered according to IUCN, thus making the protection of the forest habitats of these provinces of crucial relevance for the survival of these species. Reliable records for the almost extinct Rafetus swinhoei were collected, but all of them refer to the end of the 1970s.","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44485680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T blue-sided leaf frog Agalychnis annae is currently assessed by the IUCN as Vulnerable (IUCN, 2020). The species was considered endemic to Costa Rica, but a single individual has since been observed in Panama (Hertz et al., 2012). Within Costa Rica the known range of the species has recently been extended (Hildalgo-Mora et al., 2021). Despite these recent extensions the species is still found predominantly in a few, isolated populations within urban areas of the Central Valley of Costa Rica (Hoffmann, 2005; Hildalgo-Mora et al., 2021; Arguedas et al., 2022), and remains extirpated from previously known sites of more natural habitat, such as Monteverde and Tapantí national parks, where the species was once considered common (IUCN, 2020). On 15 September 2022 at approximately 18:30 h in Heredia province Costa Rica, 1188 m a.s.l., during a visit to a breeding site for A. annae within an urban area, the authors observed a juvenile specimen at Gosner stage 45 (Gosner, 1960) with a missing right eye, where instead there was a small fold or scar, and a normal left eye (Fig. 1A & B). The specimen was active, observed on the upper surface of a leaf approximately 1 m above the ground and within 0.5 m from a breeding pond. It appeared otherwise in good health and body condition when compared to numerous individuals observed at the site at a similar developmental stage. Anophthalmia, the absence of one or both eyes, is a deformity that has previously been recorded in both anurans (Ramalho et al., 2017; Castro-Torreblanca & Blancas-Calva, 2021) and urodeles (Ayres et al., 2022). Individuals with this condition exhibiting the loss of a single eye have been known to survive to adulthood whilst appearing in otherwise good health (Ramalho et al., 2017). This observation is the first recorded account of anophthalmia in a wild individual of this vulnerable species. Due to the fragile nature of amphibian populations, and observed dramatic declines recorded previously in this species (Hoffmann, 2005; IUCN, 2020), it is important to keep a record of observations that may be indicative of the health of their populations.
{"title":"Unilateral anophthalmia in a recently metamorphosed blue-sided leaf frog Agalychnis annae in Costa Rica","authors":"Adam W. Bland, Ellie J. Mclaren","doi":"10.33256/hb164.4142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.4142","url":null,"abstract":"T blue-sided leaf frog Agalychnis annae is currently assessed by the IUCN as Vulnerable (IUCN, 2020). The species was considered endemic to Costa Rica, but a single individual has since been observed in Panama (Hertz et al., 2012). Within Costa Rica the known range of the species has recently been extended (Hildalgo-Mora et al., 2021). Despite these recent extensions the species is still found predominantly in a few, isolated populations within urban areas of the Central Valley of Costa Rica (Hoffmann, 2005; Hildalgo-Mora et al., 2021; Arguedas et al., 2022), and remains extirpated from previously known sites of more natural habitat, such as Monteverde and Tapantí national parks, where the species was once considered common (IUCN, 2020). On 15 September 2022 at approximately 18:30 h in Heredia province Costa Rica, 1188 m a.s.l., during a visit to a breeding site for A. annae within an urban area, the authors observed a juvenile specimen at Gosner stage 45 (Gosner, 1960) with a missing right eye, where instead there was a small fold or scar, and a normal left eye (Fig. 1A & B). The specimen was active, observed on the upper surface of a leaf approximately 1 m above the ground and within 0.5 m from a breeding pond. It appeared otherwise in good health and body condition when compared to numerous individuals observed at the site at a similar developmental stage. Anophthalmia, the absence of one or both eyes, is a deformity that has previously been recorded in both anurans (Ramalho et al., 2017; Castro-Torreblanca & Blancas-Calva, 2021) and urodeles (Ayres et al., 2022). Individuals with this condition exhibiting the loss of a single eye have been known to survive to adulthood whilst appearing in otherwise good health (Ramalho et al., 2017). This observation is the first recorded account of anophthalmia in a wild individual of this vulnerable species. Due to the fragile nature of amphibian populations, and observed dramatic declines recorded previously in this species (Hoffmann, 2005; IUCN, 2020), it is important to keep a record of observations that may be indicative of the health of their populations.","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47275322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"High frequency of hindlimb malformation in froglets Pelophylax sp. in Ukraine","authors":"A. Fedorova, E. Pustovalova, M. Drohvalenko","doi":"10.33256/hb164.2425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.2425","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43412034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
César A. Díaz-Marín, Tonantzin Carmona-Zamora, A. Ramírez‐Bautista
{"title":"Missing toes in the graphic spiny lizard Sceloporus grammicus from central Mexico","authors":"César A. Díaz-Marín, Tonantzin Carmona-Zamora, A. Ramírez‐Bautista","doi":"10.33256/hb164.3738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.3738","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42932895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles in Connecticut","authors":"R. Griffiths","doi":"10.33256/hb164.4748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.4748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44793004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smooth newts Lissotriton vulgaris as more than just occasional items in the diet of the Eurasian kingfisher Alcedo atthis","authors":"N. Davies, S. J. R. Allain","doi":"10.33256/hb164.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.43","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44286584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Juanita Pardo-Sanchez, Ashley D. Taylor, E. Weigel, J. Mendelson
Many species of vipers are known to use ambush sites repeatedly, a phenomenon presumably informed by chemical cues from prey. Experimentally, we limited chemical cue availability and recorded site selection in five captive-born sidewinders Crotalus cerastes during their first active season. Snakes showed individual differences among the study subjects in spatial movement across the season and repeatedly reused specific sites in their enclosures, suggesting spatial memory and individual differences in choices of resting sites. Individual variability in spatial- and object-use and associated memories suggests attention to such should be considered in developing husbandry routines for these captive individuals.
{"title":"A study of individual differences in spatial use of captive sidewinder rattlesnakes Crotalus cerastes","authors":"Juanita Pardo-Sanchez, Ashley D. Taylor, E. Weigel, J. Mendelson","doi":"10.33256/hb164.1317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.1317","url":null,"abstract":"Many species of vipers are known to use ambush sites repeatedly, a phenomenon presumably informed by chemical cues from prey. Experimentally, we limited chemical cue availability and recorded site selection in five captive-born sidewinders Crotalus cerastes during their first active season. Snakes showed individual differences among the study subjects in spatial movement across the season and repeatedly reused specific sites in their enclosures, suggesting spatial memory and individual differences in choices of resting sites. Individual variability in spatial- and object-use and associated memories suggests attention to such should be considered in developing husbandry routines for these captive individuals.","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42969071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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