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Hiding in the valley: a new national record of Ablepharus eremchenkoi, with rediscovery of Ablepharus alaicus in China: phylogeny, morphology and natural history notes 隐藏在山谷中：Ablepharus eremchenkoi 的国家新记录，以及 Ablepharus alaicus 在中国的重新发现：系统发育、形态学和自然史说明

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e116071

T. Liang, Qian-Ru Liang, Jiang-miao Ran, Jing An, Ya-hui Huang, Peng Ding, Lei Shi

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At home in Jiangsu: Environmental niche modeling and new records for five species of amphibian and reptile in Jiangsu, China 家在江苏：中国江苏五种两栖类和爬行类动物的环境生态位模型和新记录

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-03-25 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e117370

Dallin B. Kohler, Xiaoli Zhang, Kevin R. Messenger, Kenneth Chin Yu An, Deyatima Ghosh, Siti N. Othman, Zhenqi Wang, Hina Amin, Vishal Kumar Prasad, Zhichao Wu, Amaël Borzée

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Kleptoparasitism in Micrurus mipartitus (Squamata, Elapidae) competing for the same Caecilia sp. (Gymnophiona, Caeciliidae) in western Colombia 哥伦比亚西部争食同一种Caecilia sp.（Gymnophiona，Caeciliidae）的Micrurus mipartitus（Squamata，Elapidae）的爬虫寄生现象

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e112716

Henrik Bringsøe, Niels Poul Dreyer

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The first record of the rarely observed rat snake, Elaphe urartica Jablonski et al., 2019 (Squamata, Colubridae) for Iraq 伊拉克首次记录到罕见的鼠蛇 Elaphe urartica Jablonski 等人，2019 年（有鳞目，颊蛇科）。

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e117207

Daniel Jablonski, Soran H. Ahmed

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New data on the distribution of the Vipera ammodytes (Linnaeus, 1758) mitochondrial lineages place their contact zone in western Bulgaria 关于 Vipera ammodytes（林奈，1758 年）线粒体系分布的新数据将其接触区置于保加利亚西部

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e116879

Angel Dyugmedzhiev, K. Andonov, Georgi Hristov, Simeon B. Borissov

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Three brown frog species in Denmark have different abilities to colonise new ponds 丹麦的三个褐蛙物种在新池塘定居的能力各不相同

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-02-20 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e107986

K. Fog

{"title":"Three brown frog species in Denmark have different abilities to colonise new ponds","authors":"K. Fog","doi":"10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e107986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e107986","url":null,"abstract":"For 29 consecutive years, the populations of three species of brown frogs, Rana arvalis, R. dalmatina and R. temporaria, were monitored in an open area in South Zealand, Denmark, with no direct influence of agriculture. Population sizes were recorded by counting egg clumps and showed large variations from year to year. The total population of R. arvalis differed by a factor of 100 between the years with the lowest and the highest numbers. A total of 19 initially unoccupied suitable waterbodies could potentially be colonised by the frogs. Rana dalmatina colonised all of the ponds, mostly in the very first year of existence. Rana arvalis colonised 17 ponds after an average of 10.5 years. Rana temporaria colonised eight ponds after an average of 13.4 years. Colonisation by R. dalmatina was independent of changes in total population size, whereas colonisation by R. arvalis predominantly occurred in years with considerable population increases. The results are discussed in relation to the movement patterns and philopatry of juvenile frogs of the three species. Juvenile R. dalmatina disperse far from the breeding site, but most individuals return to their natal site. This allows the species to be an efficient coloniser of new waterbodies and, at the same time, to have stable occurrence at the original site. The two other species show a more erratic type of dispersal and especially R. temporaria often shifts breeding site from year to year.","PeriodicalId":49314,"journal":{"name":"Herpetozoa","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140446523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nayarit, Mexico with conservation status and comparison with adjoining States 墨西哥纳亚里特两栖类和爬行类动物的最新清单、保护状况以及与邻近各州的比较

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e112093

J. A. Loc-Barragán, Geoffrey R. Smith, G. Woolrich-Piña, J. Lemos‐Espinal

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An updated checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of Nayarit, Mexico with conservation status and comparison with adjoining States 墨西哥纳亚里特两栖类和爬行类动物的最新清单、保护状况以及与邻近各州的比较

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-02-12 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e112093

J. A. Loc-Barragán, Geoffrey R. Smith, G. Woolrich-Piña, J. Lemos‐Espinal

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First record of Bombina variegata (Linnaeus, 1758) at the southern part of Euboea Island, Greece Bombina variegata (Linnaeus, 1758) 在希腊尤博亚岛南部的首次记录

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-01-12 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e115750

Panayiotis Pafilis, Grigoris Kapsalas

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The validity of Rana bannanica Rao & Yang, 1997 (Anura, Ranidae) Rana bannanica 的有效性 Rao & Yang, 1997 (Anura, Ranidae)

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Herpetozoa Pub Date : 2024-01-11 DOI: 10.3897/herpetozoa.37.e114263

Shuo Liu, Tan Van Nguyen, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Qiaoyan Wang, Dingqi Rao, Song Li

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