{"title":"A Preliminary Study of the Food Habits of Natricine Snake, Amphiesma v. vibakari on Hegura-jima Island","authors":"S. Kadowaki","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.14.1_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.14.1_21","url":null,"abstract":"Amphiesma v. vibakari, the only snake species inhabiting Hegura-jima Island was collected. All snakes were forced to regurgitate stomach contents. Two snakes contained undigested earthworms. Another snake excreted a lump of mud which could be the remains of completely digested earthworms.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130969674","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":"Selective Predation on Large Cheloniid Sea Turtles by Tiger Sharks ( Galeocerdo cuvier )","authors":"W. N. Witzell","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.12.1_22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.12.1_22","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129052263","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":"A Review of Biological Studies on Sea Turtles in Japan","authors":"N. Kamezaki, M. Matsui","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.17.1_16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.17.1_16","url":null,"abstract":"To clarify the research history of sea turtle biology in Japan, a total of 256 scientific publications are reviewed in relation to the following six categories: taxonomy, distribution, development, genetics, ecology and ethology, and local research activities. The oldest scientific study project was started in 1880 on Chichijima Island of the Ogasawara Islands to conserve the stock of green turtles as a food resource. This study is still continuing and allows us to grasp the fluctuation in numbers of turtles captured. On the other hand, taxonomic study of Japanese sea turtles, which was initiated in 1907 by L. Stejneger, achieved little progress until the 1960-70's when Nishimura clarified the correct species names of Japanese members and their distributions. In the 1980's, many volunteers started research on the loggerhead turtle in its nesting sites at various localities in Japan. With the advance of research activities, ecological information has been accumulated for several nesting beaches and reported mainly in local publications. These publications, mostly written in Japanese and not circulated widely, are difficult to obtain for researchers abroad and usually neglected or unnoticed by them, or in the worst case, even by Japanese researchers. However, some of these studies include important information, as examplified by the data accumulated nearly 50 years for nesting fluctuation on the Ohama and Kamouda Beaches. Therefore, they are actually of great value in considering biology and conservation of sea turtles.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115329021","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":"A Large-sized Individual and an Albino of Elaphe quadrivirgata","authors":"H. Fukada, N. Tsujii","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.9.1_28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.9.1_28","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115758617","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":"Maturity and Other Reproductive Traits of the Kanahebi Lizard Takydromus tachydromoides (Sauria, Lacertidae) in Mito","authors":"S. Takenaka","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.9.2_46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.9.2_46","url":null,"abstract":"SUMMARY: Reproduction in females of the kanahebi lizard, Takydromus tachydromoides , was studied in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. Yearling females larger than 40mm SVL and not reproductive early in the reproductive season (April-May) might be judged to be mature because their largest unyolked follicles were the same size as those of reproductive females (1.3mm or larger). Most yearlings bred once or twice late in the reproductive season (June-July), and they had a mean clutch size of 3.0. Older females reproduced from April through July, and they had a mean clutch size of 4.2 for the first clutch and of 4 .0 for the second and third. In this population the mean dry weight of oviducal eggs was 84mg , and the mean ratio of clutch weight to body weight was 0 .729.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126119992","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":"Maturity and Clutch Frequency of Female Rana porosa brevipoda in the Northern Ina Basin, Nagano Prefecture, Japan","authors":"Ryohei Shimoyama","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.11.4_167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.11.4_167","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126241719","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":"Changes in the Size of Egg-form Embryos with the Advance of Development in the Salamander Hynobius nigrescens","authors":"Hisashi Takahashi, H. Iwasawa","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.12.3_124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.12.3_124","url":null,"abstract":"Using the eggs derived from 16 females of Hynobius nigrescens, changes in the size of developing egg-form embryos (from 2-cell embryo to gastrula) were studied. No significant difference in the proportional increase in size was found among the embryos of any of the females examined. Conversion factors for obtaining the initial egg size from the size of egg-form embryos were presented.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125176217","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":"Overwintering of Hatchlings of the Turtle Chinemys reevesii","authors":"H. Fukada, Shigeatsu Ishihara","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.5.3_45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.5.3_45","url":null,"abstract":"The senior author has reported on overwintering hatchlings of the turtle Chinemys reevesii, based on observations in his home garden (Fukada, 1965: 76). This paper deals with the confirmation of this fact. We kept turtles in the outdoor pens. Dates of egg laying and emergence are shown in Table 1. A summary of our observations is as follows: 1) The turtle lays eggs in the ground in June to July in Kyoto, and the hatchlings emerge from the ground in April and May the next year. 2) Sometimes, the hatchlings emerge in October of the same year. 3) The eggs of one clutch number 4 to 11, with an average of 6.7 eggs, in one to two clutches per year. When two clutches are laid, the interval between clutches is about one month. 4) The average egg measures 38mm×22.5mm with a weight of","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121866132","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":"Female Reproductive Traits in a Population of the Pond Frog, Rana nigromaculata , with Prolonged Breeding Season","authors":"Ryohei Shimoyama","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.15.1_37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.15.1_37","url":null,"abstract":"Reproductive traits of female Rana nigromaculata inhabiting northern Ina Basin, Nagano Prefecture, were studied for two breeding seasons. The breeding season lasts at least two months between mid May and early July. This prolonged breeding is caused by markedly asynchronous development of ovarian eggs among females. Smaller females tend to breed later in the season than larger ones. Clutch size and ovum size are positively correlated with female snout-vent length.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122630945","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":"Original Description of the Brown Frog from Hokkaido, Japan (Genus Rana )","authors":"M. Matsui","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.14.2_63","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.14.2_63","url":null,"abstract":"Rana pirica, a brown frog from Hokkaido, Japan, is described as a new species. The species is closely related to R. ornativentris, R. dybowskii and R. chensinensis, characterized by 2n=24 chromosomes, but is distinct morphologically from all three, and genetically from the first two species. Systematic problems of brown frogs from east Asia are discussed.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121705619","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}