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{"title":"09. On the geographic distribution of the caecilians Caecilia goweri and Caecilia occidentalis","authors":"Juan David Fernández-Roldán, J. Lynch","doi":"10.33256/hb162.3031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.3031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47682104","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":"18. The Secret Life of the Adder: The Vanishing Viper","authors":"Rick Hodges","doi":"10.33256/hb162.4748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.4748","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47079178","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":"04. Eastern green lizard Lacerta viridis predation on adult wall lizard Podarcis muralis - another reason for tail loss in small lacertids?","authors":"M. Leu, S. Petrovan","doi":"10.33256/hb162.1718","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.1718","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45843346","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":"14. Skin secretions from the velvet swamp snake Erythrolamprus typhlus","authors":"Rafael A. Camayo, J. A. Zúñiga-Baos","doi":"10.33256/hb162.3940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.3940","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43625540","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":"11. A female Amazon water snake Hydrops martii with an exceptionally large number of secondary follicles","authors":"M. S. França, Uécson S.C. DE OLIVEIRA, R. C. Gonzalez","doi":"10.33256/hb162.3334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.3334","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49659339","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":"02. Investigating the behaviour and enclosure use of zoo-housed Cuvier’s dwarf caiman Paleosuchus palpebrosus","authors":"Kevin Leigh Gray, J. Brereton","doi":"10.33256/hb162.510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.510","url":null,"abstract":"The welfare needs of reptiles in zoological collections are generally less well understood than those of other taxa. Crocodilians represent an excellent opportunity to study a commonly-housed, conservation-dependant zoo animal. We studied the behaviour and enclosure use of five dwarf caimans Paleosuchus palpebrosus through day and night, at two British zoological collections; the enclosures had either six or seven identifiable zones. Time of day, mean temperature and collection were used as predictors of behaviour and enclosure usage. Camera traps recorded the position and behaviour of caimans at 30-second intervals. At each zoo, 80 hours of data were collected from which we constructed activity budgets and calculate a relativised Electivity Index of enclosure usage. The results identified that water-based perching, floating, swimming, immobile water behaviour and underwater behaviour were significantly affected by time of day, and that collection and temperature were good predictors of some behaviours. As for enclosure use, zone 3 (shallow water) was slightly overutilised in both collections, while all other zones were underutilised. Time was a significant predictor of the use of zones 3, 5, 6 and 7. There is considerable scope for future research on crocodilians in zoos.","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47238678","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":"10. Egg laying and neonate morphology of the stout sand snake Psammophis longifrons","authors":"Harshil Patel, Aadit Patel, R. Vyas","doi":"10.33256/hb162.32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.32","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46740899","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":"07. Deaths of overwintering Nanorana spp. tadpoles due to desiccation during check dam maintenance in a western Himalayan stream, India","authors":"V. Jithin, Abhijit Das","doi":"10.33256/hb162.2325","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.2325","url":null,"abstract":"affected by drought, although many amphibians exhibit plasticity in the duration of tadpole development, in response to drought conditions, with trade-offs such as reduced body condition, survival etc. (Cayuela et al., 2016; Yeung, 2021). Droughts may be induced by human activity such as when check dams are drained for maintenance purposes. Check dams are important civil engineering structures built for soil conservation, groundwater recharging and water extraction, and are very common in Indian streams (Agoramoorthy et al., 2008). Here, we report the first observations of the deaths of overwintering tadpoles of two species of Nanorana during check dam maintenance. It is known that check dams have negative impacts on stream channel morphology (Fortugno et al., 2017), water quality, velocity, and substrate fineness (Kang & Kazama, 2012), cause loss of larval microhabitat (Thomas et al., 2019), and influence the breeding ecology of frogs (Lind et al., 1996). However the influence of check dam maintenance has been little documented. Our observations concern two dicroglossid frog species. The small paa frog Nanorana minica (Dubois, 1975) that is associated with montane subtropical forests and streams distributed in Nepal, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh at 1000–2400 m a.s.l. (Ohler et al., 2004; Bhattarai et al., 2020; Frost, 2021). It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List and major conservation threats are waterway management and loss of habitat through forest clearance (Ohler et al., 2004). The other species is the Himalaya paa frog Nanorana vicina (Dubois, 1976) that is distributed in the Himalayan front of India, north-central Pakistan from Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh to Punjab, and Uttarakhand ranging from 2000–3000 m a.s.l. and is associated with montane streams, springs, fountains and other running water within open forest and grassland habitats (Ohler & Dutta, 2004; Frost 2021). Apart from morphological descriptions and other natural history records, little is known of the larval ecology of either species (Das & Dutta, 2007; Sircar, 2010; Banerjee et al., 2020; Gill et al., 2020; Jithin, 2021). Jithin (2021) reported overwintering tadpoles of N. minica and N. vicina from the western Himalaya, India. The overwintering tadpoles feed on periphyton growing on check dam walls, bedrocks, boulders, cobbles, leaf litter surface, submerged logs in the pool; humus and animal carcasses; the check dam pools also offer a temperature gradient (Boix-Fayos et al., 2007: Banerjee et al., 2020; Jithin, 2021). We recorded tadpole mortality at two check dam maintenance events along the Dhobhighat (Ringali Gad) stream, flowing through the Mussoorie Wildlife Sanctuary. This second-order stream flows through private resorts,","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47602890","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":"17. First record of male-male combat and courtship in the brown vine snake Oxybelis aeneus","authors":"Gabrieli Santos DE ARAÚJO, Renan Augusto Ramalho, O. A. Marques, S. M. de Almeida-Santos","doi":"10.33256/hb162.4546","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.4546","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42904795","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":"15. Smooth newts Lissotriton vulgaris observed hibernating in a waterfowl nest","authors":"A. J. van der Goot, Manon de Visser, A. Hiemstra","doi":"10.33256/hb162.4142","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33256/hb162.4142","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35972,"journal":{"name":"Herpetological Bulletin","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49535177","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}