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{"title":"New distribution records for the Aesculapian snake Zamenis longissimus in Greek Thrace","authors":"A. Christopoulos, Christos Kotselis, Platon Stefanopoulos, Y. Zevgolis","doi":"10.33256/hb164.3336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.3336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47204273","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":"African Spurred Tortoise Centrochelys sulcata: Range extension to Algeria","authors":"B. A. Boulaouad, Badis Bakhouche, Benhafid Friel, D. Escoriza","doi":"10.33256/hb164.4445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.4445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41570161","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":"Albinism in the southern spectacled salamander Salamandrina terdigitata","authors":"M. Capula, G. Aloise","doi":"10.33256/hb164.46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.46","url":null,"abstract":"W present here the first documented case of albinism in Salamandrina terdigitata. This is a tiny terrestrial salamander (maximum total length: females 88 mm; males 75 mm) endemic to southern Italy, where it occurs from Campania to Calabria (Angelini et al., 2007; Di Nicola et al., 2019). The specimen (collection number MSNC 116) was identified in the herpetological collection of the Museo di Storia Naturale e Orto Botanico dell’Università della Calabria (Rende, Cosenza, southern Italy). It was an adult male (Fig. 1 A & B) 61 mm long (head-body length: 26 mm, tail length: 35 mm), weighing 3 g. Intergumentary pigment was completely lacking on the back, head, belly, limbs and tail (Fig. 1B). It was collected on 24 April 1992 in the Vallone del Gardo (municipality of Pietrapaola, Province of Cosenza, Calabria, southern Italy; 39° 29’17’’ N, 16° 48’20’’ E) during an entomological survey (Mazzei et al., 2006). The genus Salamandrina is endemic to Peninsular Italy and includes two species: Salamandrina perspicillata and S. terdigitata. In the case of S. perspicillata there have been reports of individuals with partially depigmented backs (Lanza & Canestrelli, 2002; Crucitti et al., 2016) and partial leucism (Ramorino, 1863; Lanza, 1946). In the case of S. terdigitata, Angelini et al. (2007) reported a personal communication (without year and month) by S. Tripepi concerning an observation in the field (Pollino Mount, southern Italy) of an albino (leucistic?) individual S. terdigitata but gave no other relevant details. Thus to our knowledge the case we report here is the first documented record of complete albinism for both Salamandrina terdigitata and the genus Salamandrina.","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42079331","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":"First record of hypopigmentary anomaly in the Moorish gecko Tarentola mauritanica with an overview of the cases reported for wild geckos","authors":"F. Faraone, Filippo Faraone, M. D. Di Nicola","doi":"10.33256/hb164.2627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.2627","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48711265","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":"Tail regrowth in wall lizards Podarcis muralis from a population introduced into England","authors":"Raymond Wergan","doi":"10.33256/hb164.2829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb164.2829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45151085","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":"Common wall lizards Podarcis muralis at a new site in England registered by a citizen science reporting tool","authors":"Will Johanson, Jenny TSE-LEON","doi":"10.33256/hb163.3940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb163.3940","url":null,"abstract":"T common wall lizard Podarcis muralis Laurenti, 1768, is a small lizard species that is widely distributed across southern and western Europe (Böhme et al., 2009). It has colonised areas outside this native range successfully, including Britain, where the Wall Lizard Project estimates 20,500 animals to be living (Langham, 2019). Here, we report an observation of P. muralis at Faversham, a town in south-east England. This has been identified from a sighting submitted to Froglife’s Dragon Finder App, a free digital recording tool that was developed with the aim of increasing recording of amphibians and reptiles by members of the public in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The wall lizard sighting was submitted to a Microsoft Access database through the Dragon Finder App on 9 April 2022, as a photo of a pair of lizards basking on a brick wall (Fig. 1). These were reported using the species selection tool built into the app as viviparous lizards Zootoca vivipara. However, during verification by trained Froglife staff members and volunteers (using photos and distributional records), the two lizards were identified as P. muralis, probably an adult male and female. Through information accompanying the submission, we learned that the sighting was from a private garden of a property built three years earlier. From the location of the sighting and follow-up correspondence with the app user, it was inferred that the house is part of a larger residential development, bordered by mixed land uses (improved grassland, built-up areas and arable fields) (Kent Habitat Survey, 2012). The approximate location of the sighting was 51.309° N, 0.88° E (Fig. 2). In further correspondence with the app user, we received photographs taken in spring 2020 of a juvenile P. muralis basking on the same brick wall (Fig. 3). The user had observed lizards basking on the garden walls, believed to be the same population of P. muralis, regularly in the spring and summer since 2020. The only other verified reports of P. muralis in the Faversham area come from the nearby site of Ospringe Church (location: 51.30684° N, 0.86835° E), first recorded and verified by Kent Reptile and Amphibian Group in July 2020. At the time of writing, the origin of this population had not been identified. This population is located <1 km south-west of the Faversham sighting, separated mostly by a mixture of arable fields and improved grassland (Kent Habitat Survey, 2012). Williams (2019) notes that introduced P. muralis populations in Britain display a preference for dense and scattered scrub, bare ground, introduced and dry dwarf shrub and hard cliff, but also favour anthropogenic features including roads, rail tracks, quarries and residential gardens. In fact, Williams (2019) found a lower probability of occurrence at increased distances from roads, rail tracks The Herpetological Bulletin 163, 2023: 39–40","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41932799","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":"Pelvic spur use during courtship and mating in the red-tailed boa Boa constrictor","authors":"ra Anzai, Nicolas Fontana Eleuterio, Tiago DE OLIVEIRA LIMA, Rafael Haddad Manfio, Selma Maria DE ALMEIDA SANTOS","doi":"10.33256/hb163.3536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb163.3536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42396575","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":"Predation by a smooth snake Coronella austriaca of an aspic viper Vipera aspis in Spain","authors":"Eneko I. Escalante, P. Zdunek, Aleksandra Kolanek","doi":"10.33256/hb163.4445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb163.4445","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46434666","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":"The Madeira lizard Teira dugesii may have the greatest population density of any terrestrial vertebrate","authors":"K. Arbuckle, A. J. N. Arbuckle","doi":"10.33256/hb163.2427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb163.2427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49017615","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":"Aspects of the natural history of the Sertao lancehead Bothrops lutzi from Brazil","authors":"C. Oliveira, R. W. Ávila, I. Roberto","doi":"10.33256/hb163.914","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb163.914","url":null,"abstract":"Bothrops lutzi is a secretive species mainly associated with the Cerrado, Carrasco and ecotonal areas of Cerrado-Caatinga vegetation. We gathered information about habitat use, diet and the parasites of this elusive species. The species was found exclusively in Carrasco vegetation habitats in the states of Piaui and Ceará, but not in the core Caatinga region. Bothrops lutzi appears to have a diet composed of invertebrates and small vertebrates, not changing during its ontogeny. Three endoparasites were identified, one of them, Oswaldofilaria sp., is the first record for a Bothrops spp.","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48940689","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}