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{"title":"Reproductive Traits of the Rana nigromaculata-porosa Complex in Japan: IV. Clutch Size and Ovum Size@@@IV.-腹卵数と卵径","authors":"T. Serizawa, Y. Tanigawa, S. Serizawa","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.13.3_80","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.13.3_80","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":"126296764","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":"Recent Condition of the Famous Spawning Pond of Hynobius nigrescens in Mt. Towada","authors":"J. Kurasawa","doi":"10.5358/hsj1972.7.1_21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/hsj1972.7.1_21","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"85 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":"116642707","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":"Postembryonic Development of the Skull of the Japanese Skink, Eumeces latiscutatus (Scincidae)","authors":"T. Hikida","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.7.3_56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.7.3_56","url":null,"abstract":"The postembryonic development and the sexual dimorphism of the skull of the Japanese skink, Eumeces latiscutatus, is described. In newborn hatchlings the fontanelle lies between the frontals and the parietal, and it still remains as a median suture in the parietal in young adults. Two degenerated elements, quadratojugal and tabular, appear in adults. The sexual dimorphism is not found in hatchlings and yearlings, and male hypermorphism becomes apparent as a male grows mature. As a male grows older, the dorsal temporal region becomes robust, the lateral margin of the squamosal swells out laterally, and the supratemporal fenestra comes to be closed by surrounding bones which unite tightly with each other. In female adults, however, such changes do not occur. The rise of the nuchal ridge in the parietal, the protrusion of the crest of the quadrate, the development of the basal tuber, and the fusion of some elments of the braincase occur later in females than in males. Males are larger in skull size than females.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"86 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":"132570540","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":"Cyclic Fluctuation in Number of Habu Caught on Amami Oshima","authors":"K. Minakami, T. Ono, E. Nakamoto","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.7.4_81","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.7.4_81","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"518 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":"133691997","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":"Notes on a Poorly Known Blue-Tailed Skink, Eumeces tamdaoensis , from Northern Vietnam","authors":"T. Hikida, I. Darevsky","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.12.1_10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.12.1_10","url":null,"abstract":"A poorly known skink, Eumeces tamdaoensis Is redescribed on the basis of a newly collected specimen from the northern part of Vietnam. The species has been allied to the fasciatus group of the genus iEumeces, but has closer relationship to the East Asian members of the obsoletus group, i. e., E. chinensis and E. kishinouyei. In 1937 Bourret described Eumeces tamdaoensis on the basis of four specimens collected from Tam-dao, northern Vietnam. No additional specimens of this skink have ever been reported thereafter. Two subsequent authors (Fitch, 1958; Lieb, 1985) listed this species as a member of the fasciatus group, which is one of Taylor's (1936) intrageneric groups. However, they did not provide the specific features of this species, probably because they failed to gain access to the original description. Due to unavailability of the publication in which Bourret's (1937) description appeared (i. e., Bulletin Generale de 1'Instraction Publique, Hanoi), this species has been one of the least known members of the genus Eumeces. In 1982 a peculiar specimen of Eumeces was collected from northern Vietnam. Since then we fortunately obtained a copy of Bourret (1937) through the courtesy of Dr. R. Yoshii, and we identified the specimen as E. tamdaoensis, since even details of the morphology of the specimen agreed well with the original description of that species. Although Bourret (1937) compared the species only with E. elegans and insufficiently diagnosed it, we found that it is a valid species from comparisons with other East Asian species of Eumeces. In this paper we redescribe this poorly known species, Eumeces tamdaoensis, based on the newly collected specimen as well as the original description. We further discuss the taxonomic relationship of this species to the other East Asian Eumeces species. MATERIALS AND METHODS Specimen examined. Eumeces tamdaoensis, ZIL (Zoological Institute of Leningrad) 19806, a male juvenile, collected from Kuk-Fiong, Hasonbinh Province, northern Vietnam (Fig. 1), in July 1982 by I.S. Darevsky. In describing the scutellation of the FIG. 1. Known localities of Eumeces tamdaoensis. Closed circle indicates the type locality, Tam-dao, and open circle Kuk-Fiong, Hasonbinh Province, Vietnam. Accepted 13, Jul. 1987 HIKIDA & DAREVSKY-VIETNAMESE SKINK 11 head we followed the terminology proposed by Taylor (1936), which is different from that of Bourret (1937); Bourret's `internasale' and 'postnasale' correspond to Taylor's (1936) postnasal and posterior part of nasal, respectively. Several characters, which we measured or counted here on the present specimen, were not mentioned in the original description of Eumeces tamdaoensis, and therefore provide more detailed description of the species. Eumeces tamdaoensis Bourret 1937. Eumeces tamdaoensis Bourret, Bull. Gen. Instr. Publique (Hanoi) 9, p. 19, fig. 5, pl. 1 (c, d), (terra typica : Tam-dao, northern Vietnam); 1958, Fitch, Univ. Kansas Publ. Mus. Nat. Hist. 8 (1), p. 11; 198","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"3 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":"114370656","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":"Population Structure and Male Melanism in the Reeves' Turtle, Chinemys reevesii","authors":"T. Yabe","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.15.4_131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.15.4_131","url":null,"abstract":"Mark-recapture study on a population of Reeves' turtle, Chinemys reevesii, was conducted at two adjacent ponds in the southwestern part of Gifu Prefecture. A total of 111 turtles was marked during the period from 1986 to 1987, comprising 42 males, 68 females, and one young individual. It was speculated from the age structure that females lived longer on average than males. The females were larger than the males, growing to more than 200mm in carapace length (CL), whereas the males grew to about 160mm in CL. Melanistic individuals occurred only in males. Submelanistic males were six to nine years old and their mean CL was 140.3mm. Melanistic males were older than six years and larger than 120mm in CL. The mean CL of melanistic males was 149.6mm.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"79 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":"114808601","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 Radio-tracking Study of the Behaviour of Females of the Frog Buergeria buergeri (Rhacophoridae, Amphibia) in a Breeding Stream in Japan","authors":"K. Fukuyama, T. Kusano, M. Nakane","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.12.3_102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.12.3_102","url":null,"abstract":"Breeding behaviour of females of the stream-breeder, Buergeria buergeri was studied in the Inokawa River, Chiba Prefecture, in the early summer of 1986. We attached newly devised miniature transmitters to six gravid females which appeared in the stream for spawning, and released them in or near the stream. All of the females completed mating, spawning, and returning to land within two days after their release. Each female mated with a male within a few hours after release near the release point. After mating, they moved, on the average, 26 meters downstream or upstream from the mating points to spawn under stones. Mean duration of the amplexus was 17.8 hours. After the females spawned, they returned to land on the bank near the spawning points. They remained near the bank for several days before dispersing from the mating ground.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"69 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":"115889589","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 Preliminary Study of Sexual Dimorphism in Wing Morphology of Five Species of the Flying Lizards, Genus Draco","authors":"A. Mori, T. Hikida","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.14.4_178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.14.4_178","url":null,"abstract":"Sexual size dimorphism was examined for five species of flying lizards, genus Draco, from Southeast Asia. Female SVL was larger than male SVL in three species. This sexual size dimorphism may be related to differences in gliding performance between males and females. Quantitative characters of wings such as wing shape and wing loading were compared between the sexes within each species. Significant sexual dimorphism was found in five characters.","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"13 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":"123685345","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":"Notes on the Fourth Collected Specimen of Rhabdophis tigrinus formosanus and the Morphological Features Characteristic of this Subspecies","authors":"H. Ota, A. Mori","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1972.11.2_41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1972.11.2_41","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"73 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":"126147926","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":"Note on the monstered tail of two species of Lacertilia","authors":"T. Niimi","doi":"10.5358/HSJ1964.3.2-3_14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5358/HSJ1964.3.2-3_14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":348021,"journal":{"name":"Japanese journal of herpetology","volume":"29 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":"126193870","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}