I reached out to the Canadian Herpetological Society and, guess what?
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Alligator Bob is an expert volunteer with the Chicago Herpetological Society.
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Twitter co-founder Biz Stone's family has just witnessed a herpetological miracle!
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The findings were published in the journal of Herpetological Conservation and Biology in April.
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A paper will be published describing Swierk's observations in the forthcoming March issue of Herpetological Review.
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One of the days was spent taking a trip to the nearby Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary, a nonprofit conservatory for reptiles.
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In Tennessee, the snakes are "protected from harvest" and listed as "in need of management" according to the Tennessee Herpetological Society.
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Fortunately, milk snakes are not venomous, and typically spend much of their time beneath the ground, according to the Virginia Herpetological Society.
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Each of the ladders designed by the British Herpetological Society costs 15 pounds ($20), a large price for a local conservation group.
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The unnamed person who found the snake contacted the Virginia Herpetological Society for identification and a state herpetologist picked it up to study.
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Its collection included a 160 million-year-old fossil bone of a sauropod, bird eggs, preserved butterflies, stuffed animals and birds, herpetological specimens and dioramas.
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"They could be sitting right here where this little piece of wood is floating and we wouldn't even know it," said Chicago Herpetological Society's 'Alligator Bob.
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Instead, he's convinced that the assistant is a spy from his rivals at the local Herpetological Society, and nothing the children say can convince him otherwise.
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Now, it appears that an eleventh-hour effort has pulled the species from the edge of extinction, according to a recent paper in the journal Herpetological Review.
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"The owner runs a dental lab... He had tried to redo the (snake) enclosure at the office, but that didn't work," said Debbie Gibson with the Phoenix Herpetological Society.
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Alligators can go up to two months without eating and capturing it could be time consuming, said Rich Crowley, president of the Chicago Herpetological Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to reptiles and amphibians.
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The team's research, published recently in the Journal of Herpetological Conservation and Biology, took place in Miami-Dade and Hendry counties from 2000 to 2014, during which time the scientists studied four "nonnative" crocodile species.
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Richard Crowley, president of the Chicago Herpetological Society, told CNN he believes the reptile was brought to the lagoon, possibly by someone who owned it illegally (it's illegal to own an alligator in the state of Illinois).
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You may recall my 2011 post highlighting a piercing line from Mendelson's essay in Herpetological Review on how this amphibian apocalypse was affecting his field: I sought a career in herpetology because I enjoy working with animals.
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"I would think it's not outside the realm of possibility for a frog to survive a few weeks inside a pepper, considering it's probably pretty humid in there, so it wouldn't dry out," said Dr. Amanda Bennett, the secretary of the Canadian Herpetological Society.
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Patrick Moldowan, the Director at Large at the Canadian Herpetological Society, first told me that the amphibian in question, based on the "white lip stripe, horizontal pupil, and body proportions," looks like a green tree frog that is strangely colored possibly due to a stress response.
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The British Herpetological Society (BHS) is an international herpetological society based in the United Kingdom. The BHS is a non-profit organization with goals to support the conservation, education and captive care of reptiles and amphibians. The society regularly publishes the Herpetological Journal and Herpetological Bulletin on a quarterly basis. It is one of the oldest international herpetological societies and is recognized worldwide for its support in conservation, research and other relevant activities.
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The Karl P. Schmidt Memorial Herpetological Library, named for Karl Patterson Schmidt is a research library containing over 2,000 herpetological books and an extensive reprint collection.
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Caribbean Journal of Science 41 (4): 709-715. Powell is member in the following organisations: American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, American Society of Mammalogists, Association of College and University Biology Educators, Association of Systematics Collections, Biological Society of Washington, Chicago Herpetological Society, Council on Undergraduate Research, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, Herpetologists’ League, International Iguana Society, IUCN Diminishing Amphibian Task Force, IUCN Iguana Specialist Group, Kansas City Herpetological Society, Kansas Herpetological Society, Maryland Herpetological Society, Missouri Academy of Science, Missouri Herpetological Association, Missouri Prairie Foundation, Societas Europaea Herpetologica, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, and Vida Silvestre Neotropical.CURRICULUM VITAE: ROBERT POWELL, Ph.D.
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Biographies of People Honored in the Herpetological Nomenclature of North America. Ebeltz.net.
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The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) is an international herpetological society. It is a non-profit organization supporting education, conservation, and research related to reptiles and amphibians. Regular publications include the Journal of Herpetology and Herpetological Review. It is the largest international herpetological society, and is recognized worldwide for having the most diverse program of publications, meetings, and other activities.
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During his career, he was the author of 35 papers on herpetological subjects.
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Modern herpetological writers include Mark O'Shea and Philip Purser. Modern herpetological showmen include Jeff Corwin, Steve Irwin, popularly known as the "Crocodile Hunter", and the star Austin Stevens, popularly known as "AustinSna keman" in the TV series Austin Stevens: Snakemaster.
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8th edition. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular no. 43.
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Bury, RB, ML McCallum, SE Trauth, and RA Saumure. 2006. Dawning of Herpetological Conservation and Biology: A special welcome to your new journal. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 1(1):i-iii. His research has been covered by David Attenborough,Life in Cold Blood.
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Herpetological Review 37(1):75-76 Its length from snout to vent is 1.4 in.
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The bold hypothesis(es) of Joseph T. Collins. Kansas Herpetological Society Keynote address. Fort Hays, Kansas.
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"First description of the acoustic repertoire of Rana italica (Anura, Ranidae)". Herpetological Journal 16: 229-231.
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Snakes in the vicinity of Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 7 (1): 46–57.
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Recent herpetological studies have found many new forms, including at least eight endemic reptile and amphibian species.
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Cook, W. E. (1987). Amphibians and reptiles: predators and prey. Amphibians and birds. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service.
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Amphibians and Reptiles of Durango, Mexico. Eco Herpetological Publishing and Distribution. Rodeo, New Mexico. xii, 416 pp.
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A Phylogenetic Analysis of Lizards of the Liolaemus chiliensis Group (Iguania: Tropiduridae). Herpetological Journal 11 (4): 137-150.
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Herpetological Journal 17 (4): 237-246.Beolens, Bo; Watkins. Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.
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Scincella silvicola caudaequinae (Horsetail Falls Ground Skink). Mexico: Coahuila. Herpetological Review 36(3): 337. and Tamaulipas.Martin, Paul S. 1958.
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Kenneth Lee Williams (September 4, 1934 – November 1, 2017)Wilson, Larry David (2018). "Kenneth Lee Williams 1934–2017: My Fast Friend and Herpetological Colleague of More than Half a Century". Herpetological Review 49 (1): 178-180. was an American herpetologist and author of books on the subject of snake biology and classification.
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It is also cannibalistic.O’Shea, M. 1994 Micropechis ikaheka (Small-eyed or Ikaheka Snake) Cannibalism. Herpetological Review 25(2):70-71.
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"Reproductive biology of Philodryas olfersii (Serpentes, Dipsadidae) in a subtropical region of Brazil". The Herpetological Journal 23 (1): 39-44.
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Bulletin of the Maryland Herpetological Society, 37: 130-136.Agkistrodon howardgloydi, Agkistrodon russeolus and Agkistrodon taylori were formerly considered subspecies.
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Donald George Broadley (1932–2016) was an African herpetologist. He described as new to science 115 species and subspecies, and 8 genera and subgenera of reptiles. He was one of the founders of the Herpetological Association of Africa (initially the Herpetological Association of Rhodesia). He earned his doctorate at the University of Natal in 1966.
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The role of predation in shaping crocodilian natural history. Herpetological Monographs, 27(1), 23-51.Chinery, M. (2000). Predators and Prey.
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Herpetology Notes 4: 187-189.Tozetti AM et al. (2004). "Oxyrhopus guibei (False Coral Snake). Predation". Herpetological Review 35 (2): 179.
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He coauthored the popular book Rattlesnakes of the Grand Canyon and was the founding editor of the journal Herpetological Natural History.
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"Reproductive biology and food habits of the swamp racer Mastigodryas bifossatus from southeastern South America".The Herpetological Journal 17 (2): 104-109.
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This behavior was documented for the first time in the September 2015 issue of Herpetological Review by Andy and Michelle Leighty Jones.
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A herpetological inventory of Arkansas Post National Memorial, Arkansas County, Arkansas. Final Report. National Park Service, Heartland I&M; Network. 10 October 2002.
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Herpetological Natural History 9.2 (2006): 141-149. His work has also been featured on Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe and by news outlets.
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Meshaka, Jr., W. E., & Layne, J. N. (2015). The herpetology of southern Florida. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 10(5), 1-353.
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Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. In total, the prey spectrum of common buzzards include nearly 50 herpetological prey species. In studies from northern and southern Spain, the leading prey numerically were both reptilian, although in Biscay (northern Spain) the leading prey (19%) was classified as "unidentified snakes". In Murcia, the most numerous prey was the ocellated lizard (Timon lepidus), at 32.9%.
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Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. Vision and well-developed hearing adaptations combined with silent flight aid its night hunting.Hume, R. (1991). Owls of the world.
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28 pp.McCallum, M. L., S. E. Trauth, and V. Hoffman. A herpetological inventory of Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, Christian-Greene County, Missouri. Final Report.
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Collins Collins, J. T. 1997. Standard common and current scientific names for North American amphibians and reptiles. Fourth edition. Herpetological Circular 25: 1–40.
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It feeds on arthropods, amphibians, reptiles and fish.Martins, M. (2006). Life in the water: Ecology of the Jacarerana lizard, Crocodilurus amazonicus. Herpetological Journal 16: 171-177.
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Da Silveira, R., Do Amaral, J.V., Mangusson, W.E. & Thorbjarnarson, J.B. (2011). Melanosuchus niger: Signaling Behavior & Long-Distance Movement. Herpetological Review, 42 (3): 424-425.Sirder, H. (2014).
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Herpetological Journal 17: 237-246. synonymised this genus with the genus Protobothrops, based on evidence that it is phylogenetically nested within the existing species of that genus.
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E. Katz; K.A. Tolley; R. Altwegg: Survival and abundance of Cape dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion pumilum, inhabiting a transformed, semi-urban wetland. Herpetological Journal. Volume 23 (October 2013), 179–186.
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Herpetological notes. No. 5 (page 284). Australian Museum Scientific Publications, Retrieved November 14, 2013 James Roy Kinghorn regarded ferox as a synonym for microlepidotus and proposed the genus Parademansia.
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Herpetological Records from the Gómez Farias Region of Southwestern Tamaulipas, Mexico. Copeia 1955(3): 173-180.Martin, Paul S. (1955). Zonal Distribution of Vertebrates in a Mexican Cloud Forest.
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Indian Herpetological Society. Pune, India. (Photographic guide with 61 species.)Smith MA. 1943. The Fauna of British India, Ceylon and Burma, Including the Whole of the Indo-Chinese Sub-region.
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Herpetology Notes, 4, 271-274.Ganesh, S. R., & Asokan, J. R. (2010). Catalogue of Indian herpetological specimens in the collection of the Government Museum Chennai, India. Hamadryad, 35, 46-63.
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Trauth, S. E., J. D. Wilhide, and P. Daniel. 1993. The Ozark hellbender, Cryptobranchus bishopi, in Arkansas: distributional survey for 1992. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society 28:81-85.
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Zootaxa, 4193(2), zootaxa-4193.Ganesh, S. R., & Asokan, J. R. (2010). Catalogue of Indian herpetological specimens in the collection of the Government Museum Chennai, India. Hamadryad, 35, 46-63.
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Herpetological Review 31: 237. In captivity, juvenile crocodiles are treated aggressively by adult crocodiles but never hatchlings.Hunt, R. H. (1977). Aggressive behavior by adult morelet's crocodiles Crocodylus moreleti toward young.
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D. vyneri is known only from Sarawak, Malaysia.Das, Indraneil (2004). "A new locality for the rare bornean Skink, Lamprolepis vyneri (Shelford, 1905) (Sauria: Scincidae)". Asiatic Herpetological Research 10: 241-244.
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Ribeiro LB et al. (2008). "Thermoregulatory behavior of the saxicolous lizard, Tropidurus torquatus (Squamata, Tropiduridae), in a rocky outcrop in Minas Gerais, Brazil". Herpetological Conservation and Biology 3 (1): 63-70.
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He left in 1925 to continue his studies at the museum in London. He was the founder and president of the British Herpetological Society which operated from within the Linnean Society.
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Herpetological society is a commonly used term for a club or organized group of reptile and amphibian enthusiasts. The term is derived from herpetology - the branch of zoology dealing with the study of those organisms. Herpetological societies are typically non-profit, private organizations in which members pay dues for the benefit of the group. In general they are geographically focused around a specific state, province, or region, but most groups accept members from anywhere in the world.
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Lessona has several herpetological species named after him, such as Pelophylax lessonae,Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2013). The Eponym Dictionary of Amphibians. Exeter, England: Pelagic Publishing Ltd. xiii + 262 pp. .
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Siberian Serpentarium or Siberian Herpetological Centre is a serpentine farm producing snake venom and snake venom medications. It was founded in 1989 in Novosibirsk, Russia. It is the only serpentarium in Russia.
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C. meridionalis is preyed upon by the spider Parabatinga brevipes.Almeida, Rony Peterson Santos; do Rosário, Igor Rios; Dias, Eduardo José dos Reis (2015). "Coleodactylus meridionalis. Predation". Herpetological Review 46 (3): 432-433.
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Litteratura Serpentium is a herpetological magazine published by the European Snake Society in Dutch since 1980 (;), and in English since 1983.() It was previously published bi-monthly, but its frequency switched to quarterly.
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Hiler, W. R., B. A. Wheeler, and S. E. Trauth. 2013. The decline of the Ozark hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi) in the Spring River, Arkansas, USA. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 8:114-121.
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C. sarasinorum is currently being evaluated by CITES for protective status and is considered vulnerable to extinction in many herpetological circles. It has been found only in six locales in its native habitat.
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Schmidt was one of the most important herpetologists in the 20th century. Though he made only a few important discoveries by himself, he named more than 200 species and was a leading expert on coral snakes. His donation of over 15,000 titles of herpetological literature formed the foundation for The Karl P. Schmidt Memorial Herpetological Library located at the Field Museum. His writings reveal that he was generally a solid supporter of a W. D. Matthew brand of dispersalism of species.
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Through his endeavors, the museum's herpetological collection contained a skeleton collection that was considered to be world-renowned. At the museum, he worked on specimens collected by Viktor Pietschmann in Mesopotamia and Kurdistan; on Alfred Voeltzkow's zoological collections from East Africa, on Rudolf Grauer's Belgian Congo collections and with Steindachner's herpetological specimens from Brazil. In 1895 and 1897, he accompanied Steindachner on the Ersten und Zweiten Österreichischen Expedition nach dem Roten Meer (First and Second Austrian Expeditions to the Red Sea).
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"Early German Herpetological Observations and Explorations of Southern Africa, with special reference to the Zoological Museum of Berlin". Bonn Zoological Bulletin 52 (3/4): 205. Juvenile Gerrhosaurus flavigularis, in the wild. Soutpansberg, South Africa.
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Feeding Behavior. Herpetological Review 37(2):217.Demography, genetic structure, and identification of reproductive fidelity in the alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) from Arkansas. Chelonian Research Foundation Linnaeus Fund Turtle Research Award. 2000-2001.
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Jockusch, E. L., Yanev, K. P., & Wake, D. B. (2001). Molecular phylogenetic analysis of slender salamanders, genus Batrachoseps (Amphibia: Plethodontidae), from central coastal California with descriptions of four new species. Herpetological Monographs, 54-99.
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The destabilization of North American Colubrid snake taxonomy. Herpetological Review 38:273-278. Despite the controversy and debate, the vast majority of changes recommended by Collins were ultimately supported by the molecular evidence.Crother BI. 2012.
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This species, H. gigas, was once considered to constitute a single monotypic genus, Cyclagras Dowling HG, Gibson FW (1970). "The relationships of the Neotropical snakes Hydrodynastes bicinctus and Cyclagras gigas ". Herpetological Review 2 (2): 37-38.
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Herpetological Circulars 36. The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR). 60 pp. . The name of the society was changed to The Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles on January 1, 1967.
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The subspecific name, warreni, is in honor of C. Rhea Warren who collected herpetological specimens on Île de la Tortue.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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G. hasemani is a host for parasitic worms of the genera Mesocestoides and Skrjabinelazia.Goldberg SR, Bursey, Vitt LJ (2010). "Helminths of Gonatodes hasemani and Pseudogonatodes guinanensis (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Brazil, South America". Herpetological Bulletin (114): 30–32.
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Amphibians in Decline: Canadian Studies of a Global Problem. D. M. Green, eds., Herpetological Conservation, 309-328. In the Cascade Mountains of Washington, A. gracile is far less abundant in young forests than in old-growth forests.
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Asiatic Herpetological Research, 11, 110-131.Ganesh, S. R., & Arumugam, M. (2015). Species Richness of Montane Herpetofauna of Southern Eastern Ghats, India: A Historical Resume and a Descriptive Checklist. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 23(1), 7-24.
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Tulsa ZooCollins, Dave. "Captive Breeding and Management of the Aldabra Tortoise". Presented to 8th International Herpetological Symposium, Jacksonville Zoo, Jacksonville, Fl., 1984. maintains a small herd of Aldabra tortoises and they have reproduced several times since 1999.
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A. ordinarium specimens live about two years.J.K., 1975. Longevity of reptiles and amphibians in N. American collections as of 1 November, 1975. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, Miscellaneous Publications, Herpetological Circular 6:1-32.
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The specific name, warreni, is in honor of Mr. C. Rhea Warren who collected herpetological specimens on Île de la Tortue.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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In 1967, he was hired as a vertebrate preparator by the University of Kansas Natural History Museum, where he worked for 30 years. He had already been corresponding with other herpetologists across the country. He earned his Associates from the University of Cincinnati, but had no further formal education. He was among the group of young herpetologists and hobbyists including Kraig Adler (Cornell University) who founded the Ohio Herpetological Society in 1958, which later developed into the largest herpetological society, the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles under Collins' leadership.
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New Distributional Records for Amphibians and Reptiles from the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico III. Herpetological Review 44(4): 631-645. It was considered a subspecies of Scincella silvicola for many decades.Darling, Donald, M. and Hobart M. Smith. 1954.
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"Growth and Viability of a Translocated Population of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Macrochelys temminckii)". Herpetological Conservation and Biology 8 (1): 141-148. Males are typically larger than females. 88 adult alligator snapping turtles averaged , 92 averaged , and 249 averaged .
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In 1882 he was appointed director of the Natural History Museum in Hamburg. The herpetological species Pseudemoia pagenstecheri (southern grass tussock skink) is named in his honor.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.
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A survey conducted by the Virginia Herpetological Society indicated a healthy diversity of amphibians, turtles, lizards, and snakes, including the carpenter frog, a species more typically found in extreme southeastern Virginia, with only occasional occurrences in Caroline County.
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It can survive in water for an extended amount of time, as well as attach to feathers.Wixson, Joel G., and Kevin B. Rogers (2009). "Detecting Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the wild when amphibians are absent." Herpetological Review 40(3): 313.
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Herpetological Circular 25: 1–40. recognized it as its own species which was followed by ASW6.0 and Amphibiaweb on the basis of its diagnosability from Pseudacris streckeri and its allopatry. The IUCNredlist 2013.2 has not incorporated this taxonomic split.
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New Zealand Herpetological Society. is a species of gecko, a lizard in the family Diplodactylidae. The species is endemic to Stewart Island/Rakiura in the far south of New Zealand, where it was discovered in 1969.Gill, Brian; Whitaker, Tony (1996).
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Herpetological Review 4: 81-82. and no significant change was reported in 1990 or 1999.California Department of Fish and Game (CDF&G;). 1990. 1989 annual report on the status of California's state listed threatened and endangered plants and animals.
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"Common five-lined skink - Plestiodon fasciatus ". Virginia Herpetological Society. Retrieved 2 August 2015 Females lay fifteen to eighteen eggs in a small cavity cleared beneath a rotting log, stump, board, loose bark, a rock, or an abandoned rodent burrow.Harding, J. (1997).
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The specific name, unsaacae, is in honor of the herpetological research group at the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad de Cusco (UNSAAC).Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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They drink by licking dew or rain drops from leaves or other surfaces.E. Katz; K.A. Tolley; R. Altwegg: Survival and abundance of Cape dwarf chameleons, Bradypodion pumilum, inhabiting a transformed, semi-urban wetland. Herpetological Journal. Volume 23 (October 2013), 179–186.
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Herpetological Review 40 (3): 357-358. It will eat the lizard Tropidurus itambere and it has been observed taking white-tipped dove nestlings (Leptotila sp.). Lizards it will swallow alive, but rodents it often constricts first.Oliveira Andrade R, Silvano RAM (1996).
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Herpetological Conservation and Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal established in 2006 that covers the conservation, management, and natural history of reptiles and amphibians. It publishes up to three regular issues per year as well as occasional monographs.
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STATUS AND GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN GECKO, HEMIDACTYLUS TURCICUS, IN LOUISIANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 1:45-50, Pp. 50 His research has been covered by Lawrence Journal-World, among other news outlets.
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Natural predation. Herpetological Review, 44, 3.Homyack, J. A., Haas, C. A., & Hopkins, W. A. (2010). Influence of temperature and body mass on standard metabolic rate of eastern red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus). Journal of Thermal Biology, 35(3), 143-146.
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J.C. Mitchell, R.E. Jung, and B. Bartholomew (eds.). Pp. 107-117 In: Urban Herpetology. Herpetological Conservation Vol. 3: Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Nationwide, probably >75% of the salt marshes where terrapins lived have been destroyed or altered.
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Galapagos terrestrial snakes: biogeography and systematics. Herpetological Natural History 5 (1): 19-40 In November 2016, a video clip from the BBC series Planet Earth II showing a group of Galápagos racers hunting marine iguana hatchlings became a viral trend.
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The specific name, derooijae, is in honor of Dutch herpetologist Nelly de Rooij."Stegonotus derooijae ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. The specific name, diehli, is in honor of German missionary Wilhelm Diehl (1874–1940), who collected herpetological specimens in New Guinea.
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In 2000 the museum's herpetological collection was considered the sixth-largest of its kind, and it is recognized as the largest assemblage of South American reptiles and amphibians. In 2013 it comprised 260,000 specimens (an increase of nearly 12 percent over 230,000 specimens 13 years earlier), including nearly 120,000 reptiles and 140,000 amphibians (primarily preserved in wet media). The collection also features a large number of tissue samples (about 6,850 items) and almost 1,000 skeletons, preserved dry. The herpetological collection began as material from sporadic expeditions by the end of the 19th century, which was still housed in the Museu Paulista.
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The diet of the lizard is composed of insects, and it specializes on ants.Goldberg SR et al. (2009). "Diet and parasite communities of two lizard species, Plica plica and Plica umbra from Brazil and Ecuador". The Herpetological Journal 19 (1): 49-52.
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Pantherophis vulpinus, commonly known as the foxsnake (or eastern fox snake),Crother BI (editor) (2008). Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Herpetological Circular 37. 84 pp.
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Toshiaki, H. (2006). Predation by a carabid beetle (Epomis nigricans) on a juvenile frog (Rana nigromaculata). Bulletin of the Herpetological Society of Japan 2: 99-100. The larvae reach a body length of up to 20 millimeters; they are yellow with black markings.
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Phrynocephalus ananjevae is a species of agamid lizard endemic to the Zagros Mountains in Iran. The specific epithet honors Natalia Ananjeva of the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia for her contribution to herpetological research of the family Agamidae and Phrynocephalus in particular.
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John Hewitt (23 December 1880 – 4 August 1961) was a South African zoologist and archaeologist of British origin. He was born in Dronfield, Derbyshire, England, and died in Grahamstown, South Africa. He was the author of several herpetological papers which described new species.
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Herpetological Review 37: 332. In the early 1950s, the P. cinereus group of small Plethodon species was made up of only three species: the southern ravine salamander (P. richmondi), the Cheat Mountain salamander (P. nettingi), and the eastern red-backed salamander (P. cinereus).
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305-312, Figures 93-94, Map 29.) or deaf adder, is a colubrid species endemic to North America.McCoy, C.J., Jr., and A.V. Bianculli. 1966. The distribution and dispersal of Heterodon platyrhinos in Pennsylvania. Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society 5 (4): 153-158.
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Herpetological bulletin, (107), 12-15. and in some parts of Eastern Ghats (Shevaroys) Ganesh, S. R., & Arumugam, M. (2016). Species richness of montane herpetofauna of southern Eastern Ghats, India: a historical resume and a descriptive checklist. Russian Journal of Herpetology, 23(1).
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The specific name, armouri, is in honor of Mr. Allison Vincent Armour, an American philanthropist, owner of the yacht, Utowana, used for scientific expeditions.Cochran, D.M. 1934. Herpetological collections made in Hispaniola by the Utowana Expedition, 1934. Occ. Pap. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.
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Named after Varad Giri, the curator of the herpetological collection of the Bombay Natural History Society. He contributed enormously to the knowledge of the Indian reptiles by his own research and by making the BNHS collection easily available for all kind of researchers.
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Scincella caudaequinae, commonly known as the Horsetail Falls ground skinkLiner, E. A. and G. Casas-Andreu. 2008. Standard Spanish, English and scientific names of the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico. Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles. Herpetological Circular 38: i-iv, 1-162.
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"A reliable customer: Hunting site fidelity by an actively foraging neotropical colubrid snake". Herpetological Bulletin (99): 36-38.Barbo FE, et al. (2011). "Diversity, natural history, and distribution of snakes in the municipality of São Paulo". South American Journal of Herpetology 6 (3): 135-160.
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Munscher, E. C., Kuhns, E. H., Cox, C. A., & Butler, J. A. (2012). Decreased nest mortality for the Carolina diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin centrata) following removal of raccoons (Procyon lotor) from a nesting beach in northeastern Florida. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 7(2), 176–184.
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Amphibians and reptiles: predators and prey. Amphibians and birds. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. While some authors have posited that as much as 2.1% of the Cooper's hawks global prey consists of invertebrates, prevailing food studies tend to find scant to none evidence of such prey.
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He is the taxonomic authority of 26 reptile species."Nikolsky". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. The viper Vipera nikolskii (Nikolsky's adder) and the turtle subspecies Testudo graeca nikolskii (Nikolsky's tortoise) are named in his honor. Today in Russia, the "Nikolsky Herpetological Society" commemorates his name.
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Herpetological Conservation and Biology 3 (1): 63-70. It is associated with many other animals, including giant ameiva, coati, brown capuchin, guira cuckoo, and false coral snake.Wiederhecker, H.C., et al. (2003). The demography of the lizard Tropidurus torquatus (Squamata, Tropiduridae) in a highly seasonal Neotropical savanna.
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Tucano people under the influence of hallucinogens have created artwork featuring various symbols of masculinity, with some representations bearing strong resemblance to the hemipenis.Böhme W (1983). "The Tucano Indians of Colombia and the iguanid lizard Plica plica: Ethnological, herpetological and ethological implications". Biotropica 15 (2): 148-150.
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Halstead B.J., Wylie G.D., Casazza M.L., Hansen H.C., Roberts III J.R. 2013. Thamnophis gigas (Giant Gartersnake) Movement. Herpetological Review 44(1): 159-160. Because of this, giant garter snakes are typically found in areas that they inhabited previously, even if those areas were destroyed or converted.
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The long-nosed snake is not apt to bite, but will release a foul smelling musk and bloodMcCoy CJ Jr, Bianculli AV (1966). "Defensive behavior of Rhinocheilus lecontei ". Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society 5 (4): 166. from the cloaca as a defense mechanism if harassed.
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The Philadelphia Herpetological Society (PHS) is the oldest, continually operated reptile group in North America. It was founded by Roger Conant (herpetologist) and a group of like-minded herpetologists in 1952. The current president is Mark Miller. PHS has published the Bulletin and occasional newsletters throughout its history.
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Herpetological Monographs is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the zoology of amphibians and reptiles. It is published annually by the Herpetologists' League and was established in 1982. The League also publishes a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, Herpetologica. The editor-in-chief is Michael Harvey (Broward College, Florida).
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Yunganastes mercedesae is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae. It is found in Bolivia and southern Peru. It is sometimes known as Mercedes' robber frog. It is named after Mercedes S. Foster, who collected the holotype and was acknowledged for her herpetological collection efforts in South America.
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Broadley, D.G. (1995) The snouted cobra, Naja annulifera, a valid species in southern Africa. Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa, 44, 26–32.Broadley, D.G. & Wüster, W. (2004) A review of the southern African ‘non-spitting’ cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja). African Journal of Herpetology, 53, 101–122.
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"Dietary habits of the Burmese python, Python molurus bivittatus, in Everglades National Park, Florida." Herpetological Bulletin 101:5-7. Radiotelemetry includes the use of small, surgically implanted radiotransmitters to track the movement patterns of captured and released animals over extended periods of time.Reinert, H. K., and D. Cundall. 1982.
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He was chairman of Planta Europa 1998–2004. In 1995 he became a trustee of the Herpetological Conservation Trust. He served as chairman of the UK Committee of the World Conservation Union (1996-1999). From 1997 he sat on the board of the Farming and Rural Conservation Agency.
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Malcolm L. McCallum (born December 26, 1968 in Maywood, IllinoisBirth Announcements. Joliet Herald News. January 3, 1969) is an American environmental scientist, conservationist, herpetologist, and natural historian and is known for his work on the Holocene Extinction. He is also a co-founder of the herpetology journal, Herpetological Conservation and Biology.
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Then, on reaching Reyes, Bolivia, he spent a year planning the Beni expedition. During that time he sent herpetological samples back to the U.S.; a snake (Heath’s Tropical Racer) is named for him. Heath mapped the entire 1200 mile length of the Beni, traveling by canoe accompanied by two local guides.
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About one-third of the nests of a population are joint nests, while between 50% and 70% of females lay their eggs in joint nests each year.Harris, R.N. & D.E. Gill. (1980). Communal Nesting, Brooding Behavior, and Embryonic Survival of the Four-Toed Salamander Hemidactylium scutatum. Herpetological 36(2):141-144.
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Bedriaga has a handful of herpetological species named after him, including Bedriaga's rock lizard (Archeolacerta bedriagae), Bedriaga's fringe-fingered lizard (Acanthodactylus bedriagai), Bedriaga's skink (Chalcides bedriagai), Bedriaga's wonder gecko (Teratoscincus bedriagai),Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. .
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The Texas long-nosed snake is not likely to bite; its primary defense is to release a foul smelling musk, or bloodMcCoy, C.J., Jr., and A.V. Bianculli. 1966. "Defensive behavior of Rhinocheilus lecontei ". Journal of the Ohio Herpetological Society 5 (4): 166. from the cloaca as a defense mechanism if harassed.
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The African Journal of Herpetology is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the Herpetological Association of Africa. It covers research on any aspects of African reptiles and amphibians. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 0.429.
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The number of skink species endemic to New Zealand is not yet known, as advancing molecular studies indicate genetic divergence amongst many groups previously considered a single species. At present, there is estimated to be between 50-60 species, all of the family Scincidae.New Zealand Herpetological Society. (2014). NZ Reptiles.
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It also provides habitat for Burmese peacock softshell turtle (Nilssonia formosa), elongated tortoise (Indotestudo elongata), Asian forest tortoise (Manouria emys), Amboina box turtle (Cuora amboinensis), Asiatic softshell turtle (Amyda cartilaginea) and 93 fish species. During a herpetological survey, the Indawgyi bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus mombergi) was discovered and described in 2019.
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The garden slender salamander is threatened by habitat loss, it is an IUCN Red List Least concern monitored species. One subspecies, the desert slender salamanderCrother, B. I. (ed.). 2008. Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, p. 15. SSAR Herpetological Circular 37.
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Cox, Merel J. (1995). "Opisthotrophis boonsongi ". Herpetological Review 26 (3): 157. Most recently, a 2015 study described a new genus, Isanophis, to accommodate this species on the basis of morphological differences in the teeth size, eye size and placement, pupil shape, keel shape, gross body morphology, and presence of a single prefrontal scale.
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Notes on the diet, survival rate, and burrow specifics of Uromastyx aegyptius microlepis from the United Arab Emirates. Asiatic Herpetological Research 9:30–33. Other herbivores, such as Ctenosaura pectinata (the spiny- tail iguana), have a mixed diet, with 52% of its diet composed of leaves, 35% flowers, and 2% of fruits.
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Adders, common lizards (try Oxwich bay) and grass snakes have been recorded. Some sand lizards bred by Herpetological Conservation Trust volunteers and Chester and Jersey Zoos have been released into the wild.Sixty more Sand lizards re-introduced to the sand dunes of north and west Wales Wildlife Extra, Retrieved 28 September 2012.
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Its natural habitat is grassland and bushland on the summit of Sumaco. Herpetological sources cite the altitude as being about , although other sources give maximum elevation of to this mountain. The volcano is in the Sumaco Napo-Galeras National Park. Nevertheless, being restricted to a single location, the population is vulnerable stochastic processes.
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They do not reach maturity until they are around 10 to 15 years old. Gopher tortoises have an abbreviated mating season in early spring, when male tortoises visit the female tortoise' burrows and mate with them.Landers, L. J.; Garner, J. A. & McRae, W. A. (1980). "Reproduction on Gopher Tortoises in Southwestern Georgia". Herpetological.
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Although previously reported to change color with increasing temperature,Sprackland RG (1980). "Some notes on Storr's dwarf spiny-tailed monitor". Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter 40: 7–9. the subspecies of V. storri were found to neither change color nor absorb solar radiation between 15–35°C (59–95°F) in later studies.
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From 2007 to 2013 he was member of the steering committee of the German Herpetological Society (DGHT) and is Chief Editor of SALAMANDRA - German Journal of Herpetology. Since 2005 he has worked as researcher and curator for vertebrate zoology at the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and has published articles in various scientific journals.
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The specific name, clarki, is in honor of Dr. Herbert Charles Clark (1877-1960), director of medical research and laboratories, United Fruit Co., for his support of the herpetological collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.Bailey JW (1928). p. 2.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.
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This snake was named in July 2019 after Salazar Slytherin from the Harry Potter series by a herpetological expedition to Arunachal Pradesh, India. In the Harry Potter series Salazar Slytherin is described as a Parselmouth, meaning he can communicate with snakes. The house he founded in Hogwarts, Slytherin, is associated with the color green.
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Glucose tolerance in the toad Bufo gutturalis (Power). South African Journal of Zoology, 16(3), 156-162. The largest herpetological prey known is the Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus), at a mean mature mass of , these primarily diurnal reptiles can provide a fulfilling meal but can be hard to subdue even if ambushed unaware.Condon, K. (1987).
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The North-Western Journal of Zoology is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal on zoology and animal ecology. It is the official journal of the Herpetological Club of Oradea (Romania). It was established in 2005. The journal is indexed and abstracted in the Science Citation Index Expanded, The Zoological Record, Scopus, and EBSCOhost.
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Ozark hellbenders are nocturnal predators, remaining beneath rock cover during the day and emerging to forage at night, primarily on crayfish.Dierenfeld, E. S., K. J. McGraw, K. Fritsche, J. T. Briggler, and J. Ettling. 2009. Nutrient composition of whole crayfish (Orconectes and Procambarus species) consumed by hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis). Herpetological Review 40(3):324-330.
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Taimu), west of Fuding City. Another nearby population may already be extinct. The species is not known from elsewhere, and the known population is threatened by habitat destruction associated with tourism, introduced predators (such as bullfrogs and red-eared slider turtles), and collection by herpetological hobbyists. Reproduction requires the presence of a larger group of newts.
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Other, widespread species of frogs are also found, such as Hyla crepitans, Bufo marinus, Phyllomedusa trinitatis, Phrynohyas venulosa and Physalaemus pustulosus.Abraham Mijares-Urnitia & Alexis Arends R. (2000) Herpetofauna of Estado Falcón, Northwestern Venezuela: A checklist with geographical and ecological data Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service, No. 123 available in pdfVázquez, J., Madi, Y., Cordero, I., & Rodríguez, B. (2011).
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A taxonomic review of the Varanus (Polydaedalus) niloticus (Linnaeus, 1766) species complex. The Herpetological Journal 7: 155-162. In 2016, a review based primarily on genetics came to another result. They found that monitors from West African forests and adjacent savannah are distinctive and worthy of recognition as a separate species: the West African Nile monitor (V. stellatus).
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464 pp. . with the latter group of animals being characterized by having its anus outside of the crown of tentacles, as opposed to Endoprocta.The Fine Dictionary Ectoprocta Today the term "Ectoprocta" is considered to be synonymous with Bryozoa.GBIF Entoprocta Nitsche, 1870GBIF Ectoprocta (Nitsche, 1869) The herpetological species Nitsche's bush viper (Atheris nitschei ) is named in his honor.
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He specialized in the anatomy and systematics of the flatfish (order Pleuronectiformes) and was the taxonomic authority of many herpetological and ichthyological species.Paragraph incorporates translated text from an equivalent article at the Dutch Wikipedia, source listed as: Robert Ph. Dollfus. "Paul Chabanaud 1876-1959 (Notice biographique et bibliographique)". Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle, 1960, vol.
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Bothrops asper (common names Terciopelo [English], Cuatro Narices [Spanish], and often called the fer-de-lance among many other colloquial names, but see discussion under common names belowLiner, Ernest A. (1994). Scientific and common names for the amphibians and reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanish. Herpetological Circular No. 23. Society for the Study Amphibians and Reptiles.
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During this period, he had a job recataloging the herpetological collection at the Academy of Natural Sciences, where he became a member at Leidy's urging.Davidson, 21. Cope's job lasted two years and he visited the Smithsonian Institution on occasion, where he became acquainted with Spencer Baird, who was an expert in the fields of ornithology and ichthyology.Osborn, 107.
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Anelytropsis is found in drier environments and is adapted to xeric conditions of different environments in northern Mexico. Little is known about the reproduction of this group of lizards, but the inspection of female specimens from herpetological collections indicate that dibamids lays single egg with hardened shell, and eggs are laid frequently, at least in Dibamus.
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Herpetological Monographs, pp. 38–191. However, the red-tailed hawks ranging into the neotropics regularly take numerous species of lizards. This is especially true of hawks living on islands which are not naturally colonized by small mammals. Insular red-tails commonly pluck up mostly tiny anoles, that may average only in adult mass, depending on species.
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All six highland endemic birds are found here, including dull-blue flycatcher, Sri Lanka white-eye, Sri Lanka wood pigeon, and Sri Lanka bush warbler. Yellow- eared bulbul and black-throated munia are widespread throughout the highlands. Calotes nigrilabris at Horton Plains National Park Sri Lanka is considered a herpetological paradise in the world. Possibly about 15 amphibian species inhabit the park.
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T. homalocephala was first described in 1828 by Weigmann (who named it Scincus homolocephalus), based on specimens at the Natural History Museum in Berlin that were collected in South Africa by Ludwig Krebs.Bauer AM (2004). "Early German Herpetological Observations and Explorations of Southern Africa, with special reference to the Zoological Museum of Berlin". Bonn Zoological Bulletin 52 (3/4): 205.
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Trauth led the first inventories of amphibians and reptiles of the Arkansas Post National Memorial, George Washington Carver National Memorial, Wilson's Creek National Battlefield, and Ozark National Scenic Waterways for the National Park Service and United States Geological Survey.McCallum, M. A., S. E. Trauth, and V. Hoffman. A herpetological inventory of George Washington Carver National Monument, Newton County, Missouri. Final Report.
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The Bobby Witcher Society (BWS) is registered non-profit reptile and amphibian group in the United States dedicated to the study and appreciation of herpetology. The society funds a scholarship to support student members of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles who are engaged in herpetological study and research. Member groups exist at Avila University and the University of Missouri.
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In 1885 Fritz Müller described Rhinoplocephalus bicolor, commonly known as "Müller's snake", and in 1889 he described Nessia sarasinorum, a species of skink sometimes referred to as "Müller's nessia".Encyclopedia of Life Müller's Nessia. His name is also associated with the herpetological species Gongylophis muelleri (Müller's sand boa) GBIF Gongylophis muelleri . and Calamaria muelleri (Mueller's reed snake),IUCN Red List Calamaria muelleri .
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The Herpetological Bulletin 101:27-31. Quantitative analysis of herpetofauna revealed that the differences in the environmental characteristics inside and outside the swamp play an important role in regulating the species diversity and abundance of both amphibians and reptiles. Amphibians were more susceptible to environmental changes. Patterns of diversity and abundance during day and night, across swamps and among months varied.
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The Herpetological Journal 7: 155-162. More recent work based on a large sample size using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences indicates that Varanus ornatus is not a valid species and that animals with the diagnostic appearance belong either of two sister species of Nile monitor. Animals described as ornate monitor lizards are native to closed canopy forests in West and Middle Africa.
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Over ten miles of natural coastline are protected within Escribano Point WMA. These serve as productive habitat for a wide range of wildlife. Numerous bird species occupy these coastal habitats including piping plover, least tern, black skimmer, and a variety of migratory songbirds. Herpetological surveys have documented the presence of many uncommon reptiles and amphibians, including one federally-endangered species.
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Subsequent studies support the paraphyletic status of Tupinambis, though further research will be necessary to determine if the split will gain wider acceptance among the herpetological community. Comparative analysis of hemipenial anatomy also provides support for the split between Tupinambis and Salvator. Tegus probably originated sometime during the Cenozoic era. Tupinambis fossils from Argentina date back to the Late Miocene.
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In 1990 it was classified as extinct by the IUCN, but on 4 July 1995 ornithologist Donald W. Buden obtained a dead female that was shot by a native guide at a herpetological expedition during 1994. Therefore, the IUCN has reclassified it as critically endangered in 2000. In 2008, surveys produced 3 records, although these have not been fully documented.
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There are many different species of birds in the few marshes remaining in the area. These were probably part of the original fauna of the lake that disappeared. Among the herpetological fauna, the Mediterranean Painted Frog, the Palmate Newt, the European pond terrapin and the small snake Natrix maura deserve mention. It is difficult to know which fishes inhabited the waters of the ancient lake.
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Yellow-banded poison dart frog Dendrobates leucomelas from Venezuela, Guyana and Brazil, in captivity in Bristol Zoo, England Poison dart frogs have been regularly maintained and bred in captivity since the 1970s.Grow, D. 1977. Reproduction of Dendrobates auratus at the SCZ. Kansas Herpetological Society Newsletter 1977: 9-12 The International Zoo Yearbook reported in 1977 that Stuttgart Zoo bred Phyllobates bicolor and Zoo Basel bred Dendrobates auratus.
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The Herpetological Conservation Trust (HCT) was a British wildlife charity for the conservation of herpetofauna: amphibians and reptiles. It was founded in 1989 by Vincent Weir and Ian Swingland of DICE and launched at the First World Congress of Herpetology in Canterbury that year. In July 2009, HCT evolved into Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, a new voice for conserving frogs, toads, newts, snakes and lizards.
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Jean Roux (March 1876, Geneva - 1 December 1939) was a Swiss herpetologist. He studied at the University of Geneva, completing his doctoral thesis in 1899. His early research involved studies of protozoa, and following post-doctoral work in Berlin, he became a curator at the natural history museum in Basel. Here, he performed analysis of herpetological specimens collected by Fritz Müller, his predecessor at Basel.
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The first three subspecies listed above are protected, and the bluetail mole skink is classified as a federally-threatened species since 1987. The major threats to all three subspecies are habitat destruction due to residential, commercial, and agricultural development and over-collection by herpetological enthusiasts. The remaining two subspecies are rather common, though elusive. The northern mole skink also occurs in southern Alabama and Georgia.
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The frog species Platymantis guppyi was renamed Cornufer hedigeri in 2015, to honor Hediger's merit in the field of taxonomy of frogs and herpetological research in the Southern Pacific in 1931–1932. Also named after Hediger are the praying mantis genus Hedigerella, the land snail Japonia hedigeri, and the venomous snake Parapistocalamus hedigeri.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.
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Born Frederick William Stouffer in 1912, he was adopted in 1916 by Charles and Frances Smith, farmers. In 1938 he married Rozella Pearl Beverly Blood (who became Rozella Pearl Beverly Blood Smith, 1911–1987), who helped him publish his extensive collection of herpetological notes. In 1942 he named a species of lizard in honor of her, Celestus rozellae.Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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The Christmas Island forest skink was common and widespread on Christmas Island during most of the twentieth century. It was considered abundant in 1979.Smith MJ, Cogger H, Tiernan B, Maple D, Boland C, Napier F, Detto T, & Smith P (2012) "An Oceanic island reptile community under threat: The decline of reptiles on Christmas Island, Indian Ocean" Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 7(2): 206–218.
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In 1942, he attained his doctorate at Ottawa University. In 1958 he moved to Arizona to become a lecturer and research associate in the zoology department of the University of Arizona, in Tucson. In 1974 he retired to become an emeritus professor at the University of Arizona. The Kansas Herpetological Society grants an annual scholarship named for Howard K. Gloyd and Edward Harrison Taylor.
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It was first described in 1843 by Fitzinger (who named it Cricochalcis aenea), based on specimens at the Natural History Museum in Berlin that were collected in South Africa by Ludwig Krebs.Aaron M. Bauer, "Early German Herpetological Observations and Explorations of Southern Africa, with special reference to the Zoological Museum of Berlin", Bonn Zoological Bulletin, Volume 52, No. 3/4, November 30, 2004, p 205.
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The eggs are laid in a burrow in loamy soil. Leptopelis bufonides appears to be a very uncommon species that is known only from few records across its vast mapped range. It is not known to what degree this is because of the paucity of herpetological surveys in the area, its secretive habits, or genuinely patchy distribution. It is unlikely to face any major threats.
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Observations of "three small A. fuscata (SVL 70-100 mm)" climbing trees are described in Rudman 2009, p. 217; one "appeared to be stalking an Anolis oculatus." Rudman, citing to Powell and Censky (2002) Herpetological Review 33:50, notes arboreal activity has also been described of Ameiva alboguttata and Pholidoscelis plei. Males mature at a size of 94 mm SVL, and females mature at 105 mm.
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Austrochaperina adamantina is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae. It is endemic to New Guinea and occurs in the Torricelli and Bewani Mountains in the West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. The specific name adamantina is Latin for "like a diamond" and refers to Jared Diamond, credited as the collector of the holotype and "great many other valuable herpetological specimens from Papua New Guinea".
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A Python (" Python sebae" Gmelin) for the King: The Third Century BC Herpetological Expedition to Aithiopia (Diodorus of Sicily 3.36–37). Museum Helveticum, 60(1), 22-38. One specimen, reportedly in length, was killed by K. H. Kroft in 1958 and was claimed to have had a juvenile Nile crocodile in its stomach. An even larger specimen considered authentic was shot in The Gambia and measured .
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During the years 1958-1962 Sherman A. Minton and his family lived in Karachi, West Pakistan, where he served as the microbiologist at the newly established Basic Medical Science Institute. The Minton's also spent much of their time traveling around Pakistan, covering some 69,000 km and collecting approximately 1,500 herpetological specimens. These four years would inextricable link Sherman and Madge Minton with the herpetofauna of Pakistan.
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This species and several other native California salamanders were described as new species in 2001 when the Batrachoseps pacificus species complex was split according to the results of a phylogenetic analysis.Jockusch, E. L., Yanev, K. P., & Wake, D. B. (2001). Molecular phylogenetic analysis of slender salamanders, genus Batrachoseps (Amphibia: Plethodontidae), from central coastal California with descriptions of four new species. Herpetological Monographs, 54-99.
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Because of the mud salamander's extreme rarity in Virginia, it was put on the threatened species list in 1979. The Virginia Herpetological Society regards this species to be secure globally, but in danger in Virginia because of its extreme rarity there.(Office of Natural Lands Management 1992). Many surveys and searches were run in the 1980s to locate the populations of the mud salamander in western Virginia.
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In July 2008, the Autlán rattlesnake was rediscovered in the foothills of Colima, Mexico.Reyes-Velasco, Jacobo; Grünwald, Christoph I.; Jones, Jason M.; Weatherman, Ginny N. (2010), "Rediscovery of the Rare Autlán Long-Tailed Rattlesnake, Crotalus lannomi " . Herpetological Review 41 (1): 19-25. – Over the course of several weeks in July 2008, five additional specimens of long-tailed rattlesnakes were found in the foothills of Colima, México.
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Substantial morphological variation (body size, colour and colour pattern) is evident within O. n. nigriplantare,Daugherty CH, Patterson GB, Thorn CJ, French DC (1990) Differentiation of the members of the New Zealand Leiolopisma nigriplantare species complex (Lacertilia: Scincidae). Herpetological Monographs, 4, 61–76; Patterson & Daugherty 1990;Freeman A (2000) A preliminary study of habitat use in the skink Oligosoma nigriplantare nigriplantare on Rangitira Island, New Zealand.
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While most of them are solely cosmetic, some have come under controversy due to inherited physical or cognitive defects associated with the inherited pattern. It has been shown that the spider morph gene is connected with major neurological issues, specifically related to the snake's sense of balance. The International Herpetological Society banned the sale of such morphs at their events. Captive ball pythons are available in hundreds of different color patterns.
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Because reptiles and amphibians are often agitated when captured, various techniques have evolved to pacify subjects of herpetological photography. One technique involves placing a hat or similar object over an animal (typically a snake) so that it coils and rests quietly. The object is then quickly lifted off the animal and a series of photos are taken. Assistants are often standing by out-of-frame to head off escape attempts.
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During his last ten years, Darevsky was a leader of the St. Petersburg herpetological school. He became seriously ill over the last few years and was unable to visit the Zoological Institute. Nonetheless, he was continuously interested in the life of his colleagues and was upset that he could not work anymore. But as he said before his death: "I did a lot and now I should have some rest".
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Van Denburgh was born in San Francisco and enrolled at Stanford University in 1891. As of 1895, he organized the herpetology department of the California Academy of Sciences. In 1897, he received a Ph.D. from Stanford University and earned a M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1902. Subsequently, he practiced medicine in San Francisco, while again serving as curator of the herpetological collections of the California Academy of Sciences.
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The islands' native reptiles include two geckos, Hemidactylus frenatus and H. parvimaculatus,Agarwal, Ishan & Jablonski, Daniel & Bauer, A.. (2019). The identity and probable origin of the Hemidactylus geckos of the Maldives. Herpetological Journal. 29. 230-236. 10.33256/hj29.4.230236. the Oriental garden lizard (Calotes versicolor) and another agamid lizard, the white- spotted supple skink (Lygosoma albopunctatum), and two snakes, the Indian wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus) and Brahminy blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus).
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More recently, Guo et al. (2007)Guo, P., A. Malhotra, P.P. Li, C.E. Pook & S. Creer (2007) New evidence on the phylogenetic position of the poorly known Asian pitviper Protobothrops kaulbacki (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) with a redescription of the species and a revision of the genus Protobothrops. Herpetological Journal 17: 237-246. transferred the species to the genus Protobothrops, based on evidence T. mangshanensis is phylogenetically nested within the existing species of that genus.
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Dwyer's snake (Suta dwyeri) Queensland Museum also known as the whip snake "Balling as a defence mechanism for snakes", Journal of the Herpetological Society of Queensland, Spring 2005 and the variable black-naped snake, "Parasuta dwyeri ". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org. Common Names of Australian Reptiles is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Australia, where it is found from New South Wales to South Queensland.
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Wickramasinghe was born in Kalutara, 06 May 1976, and educated in Tissa Central College. He was employed as an Ecologist at the Sri Lanka Program of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for nearly seven years (2000-2007). Mendis formed the Herpetological Foundation of Sri Lanka (HFS) in year 2007, to further pursue in independent research on the herpetofauna of Sri Lanka, and also provide a platform for young herpetologists to initiate research.
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HerpMapper is a cooperative citizen science project designed to gather and share information about reptile and amphibian (herp) observations across the planet. Contributors create records of their herp observations online or via its mobile application. Data are available to HerpMapper Partners – groups who use your recorded observations for research, conservation, and preservation purposes. In addition, the HerpMapper mobile application is used by multiple other herpetological atlas projects, and the Minnesota Nongame Wildlife Program.
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Born in North Girard, Pennsylvania, she grew up in Washington, D.C., after her father transferred there for a government job. While an undergraduate student at George Washington University (A.B. 1920, M.S. 1921), she worked for the War Department and became Aide in the Division of Herpetology at the United States National Museum. Although the museum was under the curatorship of Leonhard Stejneger, Cochran was responsible for the administration of the herpetological collections.
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Home to 13 species of salamander as well as to New York's largest population of the Northern Cricket Frog (Acris c. crepitans), the state's only listed "Endangered" frog species, the creek area is considered by biologists to be one of the state's herpetological "hot spots". Black Meadow Creek has several confirmed bald eagle nests along its length. Roughly 1/2 of the creek's length runs through a reservoir preserve owned by Orange County.
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Dickerson promoted the growth of the herpetological collections, and was known for her lifelike amphibian and reptile dioramas or "groups". She attracted a trio of notable herpetologists to the American Museum: Karl Patterson Schmidt, Gladwyn Kingsley Noble, and Charles Lewis Camp. Under Dickerson's direction, the herpetology collections grew to nearly 50,000 specimens. In February, 1920, herpetology was separated from ichthyology and a new Department of Herpetology was formally created, with Dickerson as its first curator.
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Many of his written works dealt with herpetological collections from South America and Africa (including Madagascar), with some publications on specimens from Italy, the Middle East, China and Australia. He was the taxonomic authority of numerous reptile and amphibian species, and has several species named after him, such as Peracca's clawed frog (Xenopus clivii), Mantidactylus peraccae, Anolis peraccae,Reptile Database "Anolis peraccae ".Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.
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None of these species were counted during the landbird breeding survey. Early migratory stopover studies will be conducted by USFWS in subsequent years to further assess the use of Mt. Tom by neo- tropical migrants for stopover habitat. Amphibians and reptiles The Mount Tom ridge is an extremely important habitat for amphibians and reptiles. Thirty- eight species of amphibians and reptiles have been recorded on the Mount Tom ridge, representing 76% of all herpetological species found in Massachusetts.
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By spring 1824, he was assumed to sojourn in Cochinchina. In 1826, he traveled and collected in the areas of Banjarmasin, Pontianak and Sungei Barito. In 1829, he joined the Natural History Commission of the Dutch Indies and was appointed its head in 1832.Das, I. (2004) Collecting in the "Land Below the Wind", Herpetological Explorations of Borneo . Bonner zoologische Beiträge, Band 52 (2003), Heft 3/4: 231–243 Diard travelled in the East Indies until 1848.
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"Presence of Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis at the Headwaters of the Mississippi River, Itasca State Park, Minnesota, USA." Herpetological Review 40(1): 48–50. Print. There have been many studies examining how this species copes with an infection of Bd. Some studies claim that Pseudacris maculata is struggling (8),Seburn, David C., Kari Gunson, and Frederick W. Schueler (2014). "Apparent widespread decline of the Boreal Chorus Frog (Pseudacris maculata) in eastern Ottawa." The Canadian Field-Naturalist 128(2): 151-157.
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FOLIA ZOOLOGICA-PRAHA-, 51(3), 205-214. Outside of aforementioned families other infrequently taken bird prey has included cuckoos, nightjars, sandpipers, terns, rollers and hoopoes. Due likely in no small part to the scarcity of herpetological prey diversity in the temperate and often frigid haunts of Ural owls, reptiles are very infrequent prey for this species. However, sometimes frogs may be taken when an Ural owl opportunes upon one in the warmer months of the year.
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His primary focus is on North American and exotic amphibians and reptiles with a strong connection to the herpetofauna of southern Florida.W.E., Jr. et al. 2006. STATUS AND GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION OF THE MEDITERRANEAN GECKO, HEMIDACTYLUS TURCICUS, IN LOUISIANA: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 1:45-50, Pp. 50 J. Whitfield Gibbons noted, "Meshaka’s thoughtful afterword on exotic species introductions to Florida offers some achievable solutions for controlling the influx of more herpetofauna.".
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Anomaloglossus triunfo is a species of frog in the family Aromobatidae. It is endemic to Venezuela and is only known from the summit and slopes of Cerro Santa Rosa (its type locality), on the northwestern slopes of Sierra de Lema, Bolívar state. It might be synonym of Anomaloglossus parkerae. The specific name triunfo is the name of the camp site that was used as the base for herpetological surveys by one of the scientists who described the species.
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The Auckland green gecko (Naultinus elegans) is a species of gecko found only in the northern half of the North Island of New Zealand, except north of Whangaroa. The Wellington green gecko, formerly considered a subspecies (together called common green gecko), is found in the southern half of the North Island and the two ranges do not overlap. Its length is up to 145 mm, snout to vent.Naultinus elegans — Auckland Green Gecko, New Zealand Herpetological Society.
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8th ed. Society Study Amphibians and Reptles Herpetological Circular 43: 102 pp. The generic name is derived from the Greek words ancistro (hooked) and odon (tooth), or fishhook. The trivial name, or specific epithet, comes from the Latin contortus (twisted, intricate, complex); which is usually interpreted to reference the distorted pattern of darker bands across the snakes back, which are broad at the lateral base but "pinched" into narrow hourglass shapes in the middle at the vertebral area.
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From 1968 to 1972 Blair was chairman of the United States National Committee of the IBP. Blair was a founder of the Southwestern Association of Naturalists, becoming its president. He also served as president of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, the Ecological Society of America, the Society for the Study of Evolution, and the Texas Herpetological Society, He served as vice-president of American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists and of the Texas Academy of Science.
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After graduation, he remained in Turin as an assistant to Lessona, and later Lorenzo Camerano (1856-1917), at the zoological institute. Here he worked until his retirement in 1920. At the zoological institute, he served as curator of herpetological collections. Among the specimens at the museum were reptiles and amphibians that were produced at his estate, where he kept a large temperature-controlled vivarium with tropical plants, containing animals that included giant salamanders and Galapagos tortoises.
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More or less any snake in Europe is potential prey and the buzzard has been known to be uncharacteristically bold in going after and overpowering large snakes such as rat snakes, ranging up to nearly in length, and healthy, large vipers despite the danger of being struck by such prey.Meek, R. (2013). Post hibernation movements in an aspic viper, Vipera aspis. Herpetological Bulletin, 125, 22–24.Ettling, J. A., Aghasyan, L. A., Aghasyan, A. L., & Parker, P. G. (2013).
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Most of the fish removed from the lake were to be fed to other denizens of the Phoenix Herpetological Society, where the alligator has lived since 2005. On October 8, 2010, SRP crews began refilling the lake. Water used to refill the lake was brought down the Salt River reservoir system from Roosevelt Lake east of the Phoenix area. Tempe officials chose to use a portion their allotment of lake water since it was filled to capacity at the time.
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Herpetological Review 21:57. At present, there do not appear to be any major threats to this species. However, potential future threats might include habitat destruction from changes in irrigation schemes or other factors resulting in water table alteration, well-intentioned but non-scientifically based conservation efforts, changes in water availability, recreational vehicle use, collection by humans, changes in grazing regimes and predation by introduced fish. Other desert toads in nearby areas have done well, and even thrived, with more active management.
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T. verrucosus is found in mountains of Yunnan, Kakhyen Hills, Sikkim, Manipur and Northern Burma.The Myanmar Herpetological Survey Project Preservation efforts are on in its habitat in Darjeeling (India), where it breeds in good numbers. In Thailand, it is only known from Doi Chang in Chiang Rai Province. Other populations in Northern and Northeastern Thailand, as well as populations in Laos and Vietnam, were described in 2013 and 2015 as the new species T. anguliceps, T. panhai and T. uyenoi.
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Some frog species display polymorphism by presence/absence of a light stripe going along the central part of their back. A light mid-dorsal stripe has been shown to be determined by a simple dominant gene in Rana limnocharis, Rana ridibunda, Rana sylvatica and Rana arvalis;SHCHUPAK, E. L. & ISHCHENKO, V. G., 1981. On the hereditary base of colour polymorphism in moor frog (Rana arvalis Nilss). I. Light mid-dorsal stripe. In: Herpetological researches in Siberia and Far East, Leningrad, Nauka: 128-132.
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Aquiloeurycea galeanae, commonly known as the Galeana false brook salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Plethodontidae. It is endemic to north-eastern Mexico and known from higher elevations in the Sierra Madre Oriental of southern Nuevo León (including elevations above the eponymic Galeana) as well as adjacent Coahuila and Tamaulipas.Farr, William L., Pablo A. Lavin-Murcio and David Lazcano (2007). New Distributional Records for Amphibians and Reptiles from the State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. Herpetological Review 38(2): 226-233.
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Because amphibians are especially sensitive to environmental contamination, they are considered excellent indicators of the health of an ecosystem. Neotropic forests host the world's greatest diversity of anuran species. In Belize, amphibian populations remain largely undetermined due to their isolation and probable scarcity, and subsequently only fragmentary information is available on their status and distribution. From the mid-19th century, various scientific explorers such as Godman, Morelet and Salvin conducted herpetological research from samples collected in Belize and the surrounding Petén Basin.
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The carnivorous pitcher plant Nepenthes insignis grows on Biak. The rain forest-covered Biak Islands have been designated the Biak-Numfoor rain forests, especially as they have the largest number of endemic bird species of any single area in the New Guinea region. There are also numerous reptile and amphibian species found here. Among the many snake species catalogued by Tom Mendelson during his herpetological survey of Biak in the 1990s, the green tree python (Morelia viridis) and the amethystine python (Morelia amethystina) were quite common.
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During his second reconnaissance visit to Mount Mabu (23–26 January 2006) Dr. Julian Bayliss found a very young forest viper in leaf litter on the floor of closed- canopy wet forest on Mount Mabu at approximately . On examination in the Port Elizabeth Museum (BayWorld, acronym PEM) herpetological collection by Prof. Bill Branch, the specimen was identified as a member of the genus Atheris, which had never previously been recorded from Mozambique and which, moreover, represented a substantial southern range extension for the genus.
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O'Shea is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and The Explorers Club of New York. In November 2000 he received the Millennium Award for Services to Exploration (Zoology) from the British Chapter of The Explorers Club. The other recipients were Brian Jones (Aerospace), F. Story Musgrave (Artists), Michael Wood (History), Sylvia Earle (Marine Sciences), Sir Chris Bonington (Mountaineering), Buzz Aldrin (Outer Space), and Sir Ranulph Fiennes (Navigation). He was Chairman of the International Herpetological Society (IHS) from 1983–86 and its President from 2003–06.
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In 1935 he returned to Philadelphia and became the Curator of Reptiles at the Philadelphia Zoo. He was president of the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums from 1946 to 1947 and helped found the Philadelphia Herpetological Society in 1952. He held many positions in the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, including president in 1962; he advocated keeping the organization unified rather than splitting into separate organizations for herpetology and ichthyology. He was promoted to Director of the Philadelphia Zoo in 1967.
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Roy Pinney Roy Schiffer Pinney (August 13, 1911August 9, 2010) was a professional photographer, herpetologist, writer, journalist, war correspondent and pilot. Pinney was the former president of the New York Herpetological Society and the author of The Snake Book. He was also an ardent spelunker and the author of Cave Exploration. Roy Pinney worked for the New York Daily News (Brooklyn Section, editor Jack Hoins) for 18 years working as photographer and writer, a familiar figure around New York City arriving on assignments on his 1928 Indian chief motorcycle.
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Many herpetological societies have been formed to promote interest in reptiles and amphibians, both captive and wild. Herpetology offers benefits to humanity in the study of the role of amphibians and reptiles in global ecology, especially because amphibians are often very sensitive to environmental changes, offering a visible warning to humans that significant changes are taking place. Some toxins and venoms produced by reptiles and amphibians are useful in human medicine. Currently, some snake venom has been used to create anti-coagulants that work to treat strokes and heart attacks.
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In 1995, David G. Barker and Michael B. Harvey, herpetological expert and professor at the University of Texas, conducted a study of various specimens of Indonesian snakes. By examining both live specimens and museum specimens, these scientists observed morphological differences and phylogenetically analyzed the snakes' molecular DNA sequences. In its molecular sequencing, Morelia tracyae showed a 6-7% divergence in from all other scrub pythons in the surrounding area. The resultant conclusions of this study led to the identification of three new species: M. clastolepis, M. nauta, and M. tracyae.
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Some of the more popular herping destinations include the United States, Costa Rica, the Amazon, Madagascar, and Australia. Other countries such as India and South Africa possess tremendous herpetological diversity and there are entrepreneurial individuals developing ecotourism infrastructure in these areas. One example is Exo-Terra,Exo-Terra a division of the Hagen pet supplies company, which since 2004 has travelled to a different tropical African country each year. The company also holds an annual photography contestNactus Award that showcases some of the best herp photography in the world.
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The Nui Chua bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus sangi) is a species of gecko of the genus Cyrtodactylus. It is endemic of southern Vietnam. The specific epithet sangi honors Nguyen Ngoc Sang, who has helped the herpetological community with their work in the taxonomy and in the understanding of the Cyrtodactylus. This species can be differentiated from its congeners by its small size (56.3 mm, 2.22 in), absence of the precloacal groove and transversally enlarged medium subcaudal scales and the presence of irregular rows to the midbody, among other characteristics.
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Slowinski was born on November 15, 1962 in New York City, New York. He attained his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Kansas in 1984 and went on to receive his Ph.D. at the University of Miami in 1991, studying under herpetologist Jay M. Savage. He performed postdoctoral work at the National Museum of Natural History and Louisiana State University, eventually taking a position as a professor of biology at Southeastern Louisiana University. Slowinski was a founder of the first online herpetological journal, Contemporary Herpetology, and served as its editor-in- chief.
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Herald was appointed as Curator of Aquatic Biology at the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco on 2 August 1948. He expanded the Herpetological Exhibit at the Aquarium from a single boa to one of the world's leading exhibits of reptiles and amphibians. He also secured major funding for refurbishment and renewal of the Aquarium in the form of a San Francisco Municipal bond. In addition, he conceived of a doughnut-shaped exhibit which would allow for the display of fast swimming pelagic species, for which he also secured major funding.
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Branch was also an important figure in the Herpetological Association of Africa. He edited the Association's journal in the 1980s and 1990s, and founded the newsletter (now African Herp News). A frog species, Breviceps branchi; a lizard species, Acanthocercus branchi; a species of venomous snake, Atractaspis branchi; as well as a genus of lizards, were named after him. He also served on several conference committees, journal editorial committees, co-supervised a number of post-graduate students, examined several university theses, and refereed nearly 200 manuscripts for about 56 different journals.
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The society was founded as a regional organization, The Ohio Herpetological Society (OHS), by two young but serious-minded amateurs, Kraig Adler and David M. Dennis, then 16 and 17 years of age respectively. They decided in the fall of 1957 to formalize interactions amongst a small group of amateur herpetologists throughout Ohio and began publishing a combined journal and newsletter (called the Trimonthly Report) in January 1958.Moriarty, John J., and Breck Bartholomew. 2007. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles: A Fifty Year History 1958–2007.
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The work was comprehensive in its coverage, dealing with mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, river fish, insects and botany. He replaced Martin Lichtenstein as curator of the museum in 1858, and in the same year he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. In a few years time, he greatly increased the Berlin Museum's herpetological collection to a size comparable to those of Paris and London. Herpetology was Peters' main interest, and he described 122 new genera and 649 species from around the world.
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South of the city, along the East Coast Road, is the Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, which hosts several fresh-water and salt-water crocodiles, alligators, gharials, and also turtles and snakes. It is considered an important institute for herpetological research and performs services such as snake venom extraction for preparing antidotes. A large number of cattle egrets, pond herons and other waterbirds can be seen in the rivers of Cooum and Adyar. In addition, the Government of India has plans to classify the Adyar Estuary into a protected eco-system.
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There are no subspecies that are currently recognized. Little is known about this species, as this species is known only from two young individuals, based on which it was first described in 1949. Despite long-term and targeted herpetological surveys in the particular hill range (Meghamalai), it has never been re-sighted there or elsewhere since then. A possible third specimen from the northern Western Ghats is considered to be of doubtful identity at best, as it shares several features typical of T. wagleri complex as well; and its provenance is also currently unresolved.
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Kannemeyer was responsible for collecting most of the Free State entomological and herpetological specimens housed in the South African Museum. The records show that he collected from Smithfield between 1908 and 1914. His collection of artefacts from the district defined the Smithfield culture, regarded as a Later Stone Age hunting and gathering culture active between 1300-1700 AD, and on the same level as that of the Mesolithic people of Europe or the modern Kalahari bushmen. The hallmark of their industry was the virtual absence of backed microliths and tiny semicircular scrapers.
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In 2006 O'Shea designed a set of six postage stamps called "The Dangerous Snakes of Papua New Guinea", for Post PNG. The launch of these stamps coincided with the snakebite workshops and fieldwork O'Shea and his colleagues from AVRU were conducting in that country. O'Shea is also involved in the Tropical Research Initiative at Victor Valley College, initiated and led by Hinrich Kaiser. The primary aim of the project was to conduct the first herpetological survey of Timor-Leste and to provide education and research opportunities for local researchers and students in their native environment.
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In 1884 he earned his doctorate of sciences with a thesis on the structure of the stomach in crustaceans, afterwards working as an assistant in the ichthyology and herpetology department at the museum. Biodiversity Library (biography in French) During his career he described numerous herpetological taxa, most notably species from Madagascar, Tonkin, Borneo, Mexico and Central America. BHL-Celsus (biographical information) In addition, he has several species named after him, including reptiles, Alluaudina mocquardi, Mochlus mocquardi, Tretanorhinus mocquardi, Tropidophorus mocquardii, and Xenotyphlops mocquardi ;Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles.
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He studied zoology at the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna, afterwards serving as a demonstrator under Carl Brühl at the zootomical institute in Vienna. In 1886, he began work as a volunteer at the Naturhistorisches Museum,: Siebenrock Friedrich @ Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815–1950 (ÖBL) where he would subsequently spend the remainder of his career. In 1919 he succeeded Franz Steindachner as curator of the amphibian and reptile section at the museum.Naturhistorisches Museum Wien Herpetological Collection His primary scientific research was dedicated to turtles, publishing a number of works on their morphology and systematics.
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Effects of rattlesnake roundups on the eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus). Herpetological Conservation and Biology 4:132-141. Typically a round-up will also include trade stalls, food, rides, and other features associated with fairs, as well as snake shows that purport to provide information on rattlesnake biology, identification, and safety, but actually perpetuate misinformation and myths about snakes while demonstrating unsafe handling techniques. To date, round-ups where snakes are killed take place in Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, and Texas, with largest events in Texas and Oklahoma.Fitzgerald, L. A., and C. W. Painter. 2000.
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Correspondence was one of the primary ways in which Pitman conducted his zoological, herpetological, and ornithological research, as he relied almost solely on his own observations or the first-hand observations of others for data. This is particularly apparent in his files relating to the second edition of his Guide to the Snakes of Uganda (1974). This book, which was originally published in serial form in the Uganda Journal (1936-1937), is the foundation for Pitman's reputation as a methodical and exhaustive herpetologist. The Ugandan forester and naturalist, William Julius Eggeling, supplied a large number of snakes to Pitman.
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They are restricted to the Pilbara region in the northwest of Australia. A similar species Varanus kingorum occurs to the north, in the Kimberley region, in a non-overlapping distribution range. Varanus pilbarensis occurs at the Chichester Range in the Pilbara region, another species, Varanus hamersleyensis, is named for its range south of the Fortescue River basin at the Hamersley Range; the latter is darker and marking less obvious than this species. Like other rock dwelling varanids in the Pilbara region, one of around ten species in the herpetological "hotspot", the population has become geographically isolated and diverged as a distinguishable genetic lineage.
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Joseph Richard Slevin (September 13, 1881 – February 17, 1957) was an American herpetologist and the second curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences, with which he was affiliated for over 50 years. He collected reptile and amphibian specimens from around the world, notably in the Galápagos Islands in a 17-month expedition, and was largely responsible for re-growing the Academy's herpetological collection following its destruction in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. He wrote or co-wrote nearly 60 scientific papers, and is commemorated in the scientific names of over a dozen species or subspecies of animals and plants.
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Herpetologist Shawn Heflick has a permit from the State of Florida to hunt Burmese Pythons in the Everglades. He is also the president of the Central Florida Herpetological Society. Of note he indicates in an interview that there "is very little genetic variation with this wild population…" and goes on to say that a "genetic study done on this population suggest that the population stems from the Hurricane Andrew devastation in 1992." The hurricane is an important event as a reptile breeding facility had an estimated nine hundred animals released due to its destruction by the Hurricane in 1992.
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He served as the president of the following organizations, Southwestern Association of Naturalists from 1966 to 1967, the Texas Academy of Sciences from 1972 to 1973, the Texas Organization for Endangered Species from 1978 to 1979, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists in 1987 and the American Institute of Fisheries Research Biologists from 1995-1997. He also spent four years as editor for the Texas Journal of Science. He went on to edit the Southwestern Naturalist and the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. He was the editor of America's primary ichthyological and herpetological journal Copeia for fourteen years.
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This involved a series of seven multi-disciplinary and international expeditions to remote parts of La Amistad during which over 7,500 plant, 17,000 beetle and 380 herpetological collections were made and deposited in the national collections of Costa Rica and Panama. These expeditions also led to the discovery of 12 plant species, one dung beetle species, 15 amphibian and three reptile species new to science. Five species of big cats roam the park: pumas, ocelots, margay, jaguars, and jaguarundis. It has 600 species of birds, including the three-wattled bellbird, resplendent quetzal, yellow-green brushfinch, and bare-necked umbrellabird.
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He served as president of the SSAR in 1978, many SSAR committees, acting VP of the Herpetologists League. He was a major influence on many herpetologists including Kelly Irwin (Arkansas Game and Fish, State Herpetologist), Travis W. Taggart (Sternberg Museum of Natural History), and Emily Moriarty, Ph.D. (Florida State University). He did many benefit auctions for wildlife and environmental groups including the Wichita Audubon Society, Jayhawk Audubon Society, Society for Amphibians and Reptiles, Kansas Wildlife Federation and the Kansas Herpetological Society. After retirement, he served as a consultant for his consulting firm and performed public lectures around the country.
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Moffett was born in Salida, Colorado where his father was a Presbyterian minister. As a young boy, he was interested in insects and when the family moved to Wisconsin, and attended meetings of the Wisconsin Herpetological Society, where, at 12, he was the youngest member. Although a high-school drop out he was admitted to Beloit College, and at 17 he was invited to a collecting trip to Costa Rica. He came across the book The Insect Societies and wrote to the author E.O. Wilson before he met him and went on to research under him.
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Perret's toad is endemic to Nigeria where it is known from a single locality, the Idanre Hill in the southwestern part of the country. Only one population of Sclerophrys perreti is known. Searches in nearby areas have failed to locate other populations in suitable habitat, nevertheless, the toad is common in the location where it is found and the tadpoles plentiful. The area is rocky and inaccessible and the International Union for Conservation of Nature thinks it likely that more populations would be found if more herpetological surveys were done; no particular threats have been recognized.
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Wild Chicago was a television series that aired on Chicago's WTTW (a local PBS affiliate) from 1989 to 2003. The show took viewers on a trip through Chicago's "urban jungle", highlighting hundreds of offbeat and unusual people, places, and events in the metropolitan area. Subjects included the Chicago Herpetological Society; singing taxicab drivers; flotation tanks; an Ancient Astronaut society; the Inkin' Lincoln Tattoo and Piercing Jamboree; an interstate pierogi festival; a squirrel lovers' club; the Playboy Advisor; a cookie jar museum; and the Polka Music Hall of Fame. Wild Chicago was created by Ben Hollis and John Davies.
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Therefore, the colder temperatures are making it more difficult for the frogs to grow quickly, which sometimes leaves the species prey to many other animals that feed on their young. The problems occurring between the foothill yellow-legged frog and the dam are being handled by several herpetological organizations, along with the Forest Service, to find ways to alter the effects in a beneficial way for the frog. This species is also estimated to be gone from most of its range in the Sierra Nevadas, especially south of Highway 80, where pesticides often contaminate rivers, and dams block the essential stream flows.
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One of his most notable publications, though uncompleted at the time of his death, was his "Monograph of the Weaver Birds (Ploceidae) and Arboreal and Terrestrial Finches ", of which five parts were published in 1888–89. His most notable herpetological publication, "The Crocodiles and Lizards of Borneo in the Sarawak Museum, with Descriptions of Supposed New Species and the Variation of Colours in the Several Species during Life ", was published in 1895. Species named after Bartlett include Bartlett's tinamou Crypturellus bartletti of Peru - the name being assigned in 1873 by fellow British ornithologists Philip Lutley Sclater and Osbert Salvin.
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The Traill collection forms a part of the National Herbarium of Canada, the museum's botany collection. A Daspletosaurus torosus holotype specimen from the museum's collection mounted on display The museum's herpetology collection includes over 133,000 specimens, and forms the world's largest collection of herpetological specimens that originate from Canada. The museum also holds the largest collection of Arctic plant specimens from Canada; with over 100,000 Arctic plant specimens forming part of the National Herbarium of Canada collection. The museum's collection also includes the skull of an Albertasaurus, the first dinosaur skull found in Canada; discovered by Joseph Tyrrell.
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There are also a number of vulnerable mammal species listed under the NSW Threatened Species Conservation Act (NSW TSC Act) that have been recorded in the park. They are yellow-bellied sheath-tailed bat (Saccolaimus flaviventris), little pied bat (Chalinilobus picatus), inland forest bat (Vespadelus baverstocki) and stripe-faced dunnart (Sminthopsis crassicaudata). Shingleback (Tiliqua rugosa) Freckled duck (Stictonetta naevosa) Surveys conducted by the Australian Museum and Australian Herpetological Society in 2001 and 2002 recorded 44 species of reptiles and 8 species of amphibians. These include the wedgesnout ctenotus (Ctenotus brooksi) and crowned gecko (Diplodactylus stenodactylus) which are listed as vulnerable under the NSW TSC Act.
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Pinney was a world traveling herpetologist who collected venomous and nonvenomous snakes the world over. He was an active member of the New York Herpetological Society, serving as that organization's president for four years ending in 1989. Throughout his career Pinney developed a reputation as the go-to man for expert information on the care of snakes and other reptiles. During the 1980s and early 1990s the then active duty New York City police officers and now notorious "mafia cops", Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, routinely gave Roy Pinney the exotic pets they would seize from drug dealers after the arrests they would regularly make.
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Co-authored by himself and high school teacher C. Ross Wellington, the papers reorganized the taxonomy of all of Australia's and New Zealand's amphibians and reptiles and proposed over 700 changes to the binomial nomenclature of the region's herpetofauna. The herpetological community reacted strongly to the pair's actions and eventually brought a case to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature to suppress the scientific names they proposed. After four years of arguments, the commission opted not to vote on the case, leaving some of Wells and Wellington's names available. The outcome highlighted the vulnerability to the established rules of biological nomenclature that desktop publishing presented.
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In 1985, he was given the honorary title of Honored Scientist of the RSFSR, and in 1987 he became a laureate of Mechnikov Prize. Darevsky was President of Russian Herpetological Society (1989–2006), honorary member of the Societas Europaea Herpetologia (since 1996) and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (since 1973), and a member of many Russian and foreign scientific societies. Many species of amphibians and reptiles were named in honor of Darevsky. The Caucasian rock lizards, that Darevsky studied for his entire life, were named in his honor as a genus Darevskia, as well as the viper Vipera darevskii, and the lizard Eutropis darevskii.
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This species is widely distributed in savannas between Gambia and Senegal in the west and east to the northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (on the South Sudanese border), but its distribution is patchy. This probably reflects the lack of herpetological work in its general distribution area. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the following countries in the confirmed distribution (from west to east): the Gambia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. Furthermore, it is expected to occur in many intervening countries (Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Burkina Faso, Chad, and Sudan).
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During Brazaitis's tenure in the Bronx Zoo, the Reptile Department bred nine species of crocodilians, producing numerous founder stocks of endangered Cuban crocodiles, Siamese crocodiles, and the first Malayan false gharials to be captive bred in a US zoo. Brazaitis was involved in field herpetological studies, including the NYZS Nixon Griffis expedition to Cameroon in 1981 to capture Goliath frogs. He also led expeditions to study crocodilian population biology on Palau and throughout South America. Since the 1970s he has served as a forensic specialist and consultant to the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), and has received numerous awards for his service to the USFWS.
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A brilliant student, he corresponded often with George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937) and Oskar Boettger (1844–1910) who encouraged his studies with these animals. Werner obtained his doctorate in Vienna in 1890 and then after spending a year in Leipzig, began to teach at the Vienna Institute of Zoology. In 1919, he became tenured as a professor, maintaining this title until his retirement in 1933. Although working close to the Vienna Natural History Museum, he could not use their herpetological collections, after the death of its director, Franz Steindachner (1834–1919), who did not like Werner, and had barred him from accessing the collections.
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She was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Forestry Association, American Ornithologists' Union, and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dickerson considered exhibition work to be of equal importance to research and she developed the concept of herpetological "habitat groups" by employing a variety of preparation techniques, most notably wax casting to create life like models and create a more integrated exhibit. Dickerson described over 20 new species of reptiles, including the San Esteban chuckwalla and the Cuban sharp-nosed amphisbaena. She is commemorated in the names of four lizard species or subspecies: Cnemaspis dickersonae, Aspidoscelis tigris dickersonae, Holbrookia maculata dickersonae, and Crotaphytus dickersonae.
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Amphibian and Reptile Conservation (ARC) is a British wildlife charity formed in July 2009 by the Herpetological Conservation Trust. It supports the conservation of frogs, toads, newts, snakes and lizards, and the habitats on which they depend. Amphibian and Reptile Conservation has around 30 members of staff working across the UK and owns, leases or formally manages over 80 reserves covering more than 1500 ha (3800 acres) and a variety of different habitats, from coastal dunes to clay pits, woodland to heathland. As well as being one of the UK's leading managers of lowland dry heathland, ARC carries out a variety of national and regional projects and campaigns working with hundreds of volunteers and many professional partners.
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Originally from Wolverhampton, Mark O'Shea moved to Shropshire in 2001. Since 1980, O'Shea has conducted herpetological fieldwork in over 30 countries on six continents but he has special interest in the Australo-Papuan region. He has worked in Papua New Guinea since 1986 when he first visited the country as a member of the scientific directing staff of Operation Raleigh. He continued fieldwork in the country as a member of the Oxford University Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine snakebite research team throughout the 1990s, and now researches there under the auspices of a fellowship from the Australian Venom Research Unit (AVRU), based in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Melbourne.
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Amethystine python near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, 2014 Amethystine python visiting kitchen at home near Cooktown, Queensland, Australia, 2014 Specimens of S. amethistina have reportedly been measured at more than in total length (including tail), but this is exceptional, as specimens are already considered large. As is typical for very large constricting snakes, almost no verified specimens of this species have exceeded . However, in 1990, while conducting a herpetological survey, Tom Mendelson collected a wild female specimen on Biak Island, far Eastern Indonesia, which measured 22 feet 7 inches. Another huge female, in a report considered reliable by the staff of the Guinness Book of World Records, was measured by S. Dean in 1954 as .
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In 2005, Stewart was awarded the Robert K. Johnson Award and Henry S. Fitch Award of the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, recognising her contributions both to the society and to the excellence of her herpetological research. In June 2006, Stewart was elected an alumna member of the Epsilon chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at UNC-Greensboro. The puddle frog Phrynobatrachus stewartae was named in honour of Stewart, as is an interpretive trail in the Albany Pine Bush and a visitor centre at Sam's Point Preserve. In 2019, the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists created the Margaret M. Stewart Achievement Award for Excellence in Ichthyology or Herpetology, in honour of Stewart and her contributions both to the society and to the field of herpetology.
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She has also been involved in several conservation activities, including acting as a board member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature as part of the DAPTF (Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force) from 2000 to 2010. She has held several editorial positions including Associate Editor of Herpetological Natural History from 2000 to 2006 and has served as an officer in several professional organizations including the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, and The Herpetologists’ League. She is currently the Program Officer for the annual scientific conference Joint Meeting of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (JMIH). Crump co-authored all four editions of one of the two most popular modern herpetology textbooks, Herpetology (1997-2015).
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Collins had chaired the committee that produced the SSAR Common and Scientific Names List from 1978 through 1982 with the consensus of the committee. In 1991, Collins released a new third edition to the names list in which he "...unilaterally changed from committee chairperson to author."Cook FR. 2012. Book Review: Scientific and standard English names of amphibians and reptiles of North America north of Mexico, with comments regarding confidence in our understanding - 7th ed. Canada Field Naturalist 2012:340-341. Then, he published a recommendation for mass changes by elevating 55 allopatric distinctive subspecies to species rank in line with the developing evolutionary species concept.Collins JT. 1991. Viewpoint: A new taxonomic arrangement for some North American amphibians and reptiles. Herpetological Review 22:41-42.
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A condition for granting an "A permit" is an inspection by DOC to ensure adequate quality of caging is provided and detailed records of changes in a collection must be kept; recording births, deaths, escapes and animals exchanged, received or given away, in annual forms submitted to DOC, are all legal requirement of the permit. Many Naultinus keepers are members of The New Zealand Herpetological Society, which acts as a community hub for New Zealand Herpetoculturalists. Naultinus in private collections are often seletively bred for certain colours and patterns of colouration. DOC has in recent years begun sourcing Naultinus (particularly punctatus) for reintroductions to predator-free offshore islands from private collections, on the condition that the animals are in good health and of pure genetic origin (i.e.
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Male golden toad Herpetology (from Greek ἑρπετόν herpetón, meaning "reptile" or "creeping animal") is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of amphibians (including frogs, toads, salamanders, newts, and caecilians (gymnophiona)) and reptiles (including snakes, lizards, amphisbaenids, turtles, terrapins, tortoises, crocodilians, and the tuataras). Birds, which are cladistically included within Reptilia, are traditionally excluded here; the scientific study of birds is the subject of ornithology. Thus, the definition of herpetology can be more precisely stated as the study of ectothermic (cold-blooded) tetrapods. Under this definition "herps" (or sometimes "herptiles" or "herpetofauna") exclude fish, but it is not uncommon for herpetological and ichthyological scientific societies to "team up", publishing joint journals and holding conferences in order to foster the exchange of ideas between the fields, as the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists does.
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Chance the Snapper was under the watch of Chicago Herpetological Society's "Alligator Bob", who on July 14 stated that the creature was "getting comfortable" in the lagoon and had continued to move further into the water, as well as resisting food, perhaps indicating that he had found a steady food supply. On Sunday, July 14 the city hired Frank Robb, an "alligator trapping agent" and owner of Crocodilian Specialist Services in St. Augustine, Florida, to catch the gator after he was recommended by local experts there. At Robb's suggestion, a large part of the park was closed off, to keep people away from the gator in hopes that it would feel less of a need to hide. Chance the Snapper was caught by Robb early Tuesday morning, July 16, 2019.
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With more than 4 million specimens, the Bell's scientific collections have provided opportunities for research and teaching since the museum's inception in 1872. The museum recently launched the Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas, an online, searchable interface integrating over 5 terabytes of data from the Bell Museum on birds, mammals, fishes, plants, and fungi to enhance research capacity to perform a range of activities from biological surveys to conservation planning. (bellatlas.umn.edu) This database contains over 400,000 scientific records and as many as 175,000 high- resolution images with plans to expand entries and specimen photographs. Amphibian and Reptile Collection The Amphibian and Reptile Collection is a diverse collection that has a heavy focus on the upper Midwest region and represents one of the best collections of herpetological material for this region.
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Monteith contended that the pair had named numerous species in trivial ways (including, for instance, naming a species after Darth Vader), and wrote that although Wells and Wellington had given some taxa names honoring working herpetologists, many of those namesakes supported suppressing the duo's work. Gordon C. Grigg, president of the Australian Society of Herpetologists, and Richard Shine wrote in a letter to the Herpetological Review that "the effect of these [Wells and Wellington's] publications, if taken seriously, would be to destabilise permanently the nomenclature of the Australian herpetofauna." The letter was cosigned by over 150 other herpetologists. In September 1984, the Australian Society of Herpetologists elected to petition the ICZN to formally suppress all of the names proposed in first of the pair's three papers, the only one published at that point.
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In 1949 Stebbins received a Guggenheim Fellowship that allowed him to extend his studies throughout the western United States and to collect enough material to begin preparing his first amphibian field manuals. The first of these to appear was Amphibians of Western North America (1951, University of California Press), covering the U.S. and Canada roughly west of the 102nd meridian. Praised for its thoroughness as well as its illustrations, the book "unquestionably provides more information concerning the 51 species ... covered than any preceding it," wrote Charles M. Bogert: "The maps provided for each species and subspecies are on the whole the most detailed and accurate of any thus far published." Stebbins' second herpetological field guide, Amphibians and Reptiles of Western North America (1954, McGraw-Hill), was similarly praised.
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Two French-Lebanese-British expeditions in the years 2004 and 2005 yielded no confirmation as to the further existence of this species.Tron, Francois (April 2005) The Eastern spadefoot Toad (Pelobates syriacus) : A new amphibian species for Lebanon The international expedition of herpetological research in South Lebanon , A Rocha France. In August 2010, a search organised by the Amphibian Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation of Nature set out to look for various species of frogs thought to be extinct in the wild, including the Hula painted frog. In 2013, a study published in Nature Communications revealed that in 2011 during a routine patrol at the Hula Nature Reserve, ranger Yoram Malka found the frog, which he immediately suspected as being the Hula painted frog, as he claimed he has been on the lookout for it for many years.
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He collected a great deal of herpetological and other zoological specimens, which were sent to Copenhagen and other European museums. The Danish zoologists Johannes Theodor Reinhardt and Christian Frederik Lütken were preparing a great monograph on the amphibians and reptiles of the Danish West Indies and the wider Caribbean, much of it based on the extensive collections of Riise, unfortunately for them however, the young American Edward Drinker Cope found a number of Riise's (he thought the man was called Rüse) specimens from the Danish West Indies of the species that they were in the process of describing which had been sent to America, and rushed to describe them for posterity himself, publishing his work in 1862 a week or two earlier than them, which necessitated a rash of last minute changes to their manuscript before it could be brought to the printers.
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Other on-going projects include DNA and behavioural research on pine martens with Waterford Institute of Technology in Éire; funding for the pool frog reintroduction with Herpetological Conservation Trust /English Nature; water shrew husbandry with Imperial College, London; and in-situ breeding of harvest mice with Chester Zoo. Future projects might see Wildwood being more involved the use of large herbivores for near-natural grazing. They have been awarded funding from The Postcode Lottery to re-introduce Bison into Blean Woods, a project jointly run with Kent Wildlife Trust. Two species (European beavers and konik polski) are currently used for these purposes on several reserves in Kent. Konik polski (meaning ‘Polish small horses’) are a robust breed closely related to the extinct tarpan and have been used in similar grazing schemes in the Netherlands and Poland.
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The Woodbury Desert Study Area, southwestern Utah Woodbury's research specialized in reptiles and birds of Utah, especially wintering behavior of snakes and tortoises and the geographic distribution of birds. In 1949, he published along with Ross Hardy a "classic study" on the biology of wild desert tortoises: professor Peter Alagona of UC Santa Barbara writes, "Their paper provided key insights into the species’ physiology, life history and ecology, and it served as a basis for subsequent research into tortoise evolutionary biology, biogeography, and epidemiology." In 1977, the area where Woodbury and Hardy studied was designated the Woodbury Desert Study Area by the Bureau of Land Management, and is now a part of the Beaver Dam Wash National Conservation Area.\-- Woodbury was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Ornithological Union, the Herpetological League, and the Utah Academy of Science, Arts and Letters.
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Housing development began in 1973 in North Canford Heath, and in 1980, International Supermarket and formerly Somerfield (now Asda) became North Canford Heath's first supermarket. In 1984, planning permission was given for development of all of Canford Heath, providing that the site did not become a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). In response, an application was made in 1985 for much of Canford Heath to become a SSSI, due to the rare habitat and wildlife on the heathland. The application was accepted in 1988, although developers were still permitted to build houses on land not in the SSSI. A report by the Conservation Committee of the British Herpetological Society to the House of Lords in 1988 said that "more than half of Canford, our largest single heath, is being built over with most of its reptiles doomed or already lost", and a 1988 New Scientist article criticised that houses could be built as little as 50 metres away from the SSSI, continuing to endanger rare reptiles.
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Der Kampf mit der Nahrung. Ein Beitrag zum Darwinismus (Berlin: Wilhelm Issleib). In 1891 he had already accepted a post as an assistant in the zoological museum of the Friedrich Wilhelm University (now Humboldt University) in Berlin. Initially he occupied himself with preparing anatomical specimens, but from 1893 he also worked in the herpetological department. When its curator, Paul Matschie, took over the mammal collection in 1895, Tornier succeeded him. In 1902, he became professor of zoology at the university, whilst later also accepting the post of head librarian at the museum (1903), assistant director of the museum (1921), and finally director ad interim of the museum (1922–1923). In addition, he served as a board member of the Berlin Society of Friends of Natural Science (Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin) from 1907 to 1924, and as such was closely involved with organizing the Tendaguru Expedition (1910-1912), still the largest dinosaur excavation expedition in history.Tornier, Gustav. “Ueber Den Erinnerungstag an Das 150-jährige Bestehen Der Gesellschaft: Rückblick auf die Palaeontologie.
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Naultinus can legally be kept in captivity as pets in New Zealand, provided one has an appropriate permit from DOC and hundreds are kept in private collections all over the country.David Wilkinson, "Analysis of Annual Returns for the 2003 Calendar Year", MOKO: Newsletter of the New Zealand Herpetological Society, February 2005 Elegans, grayii and punctatus can all be kept on an "A permit", which is the entry level license given to new keepers, while the remaining species in the genus require a "B permit" for which several years experience keeping geckos is required. In the past, animals could be collected from the wild to add to captive collections and this is how people typically used to enter the hobby; this changed in 1981 when all species of native gecko were granted legal protection, with the exception of two species of Hoplodactylus, the forest gecko (Hoplodactylus ganulatus) and common gecko (Hoplodactylus maculatus) - these two species were later also granted full protection in 1996. These days, keepers must obtain their founder stock from an existing, licensed breeder and animals can only be given away or swapped; sale of any sort of native lizard commercially is illegal.
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