Herpetology Notes

Short Articles

• Predation on the Indian House Gecko, Hemidactylus flaviviridis Rüppell, 1835, by the huntsman spider Heteropoda venatoria in Kolkata, India

  Saheba Khatun, Aniruddha Mitra

  5–6

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• First report of flavinistic albinism in Calamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955

  Oliver Christopher, Gabrielle Poh, Robbin Tan, Catherine Tan, Md Azlan Mairin, Steven Wong, Frederic Griesbaum

  7–9

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• First records of axanthism in African Reed Frogs (genus Hyperolius) and an updated checklist of axanthic amphibians

  Gregory Jongsma, Ange-Ghislain Zassi-Boulou, Hocraiche Mercia Ngouala, David C. Blackburn

  31-37

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• The largest Eastern Newts, Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820), are found at high elevation in North Carolina

  Hayleigh R. Locke, Maxwell Ramey, Jon M. Davenport, Dustin S. Siegel

  17-19

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• Arboreal behaviour in Ocellated Lizards, Timon lepidus (Daudin, 1802): can trees play a role in species conservation?

  Przemysław Zdunek, Grégory Deso, Matthieu Berroneau, Julien Renet, Elisa Leplat, Alexandre Roux, Alexandre Braut, Jean Nicolas, Auxence Foreau, Olivier Calvez

  39-47

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• First sightings of axanthism in the Lacertidae, observed in the Greek endemic Erhard’s Wall Lizard, Podarcis erhardii (Bedriaga, 1882)

  Rory Mendelow, Kinsey M. Brock

  1–3

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• Caudal regeneration in introduced and native populations of the Italian Wall Lizard, Podarcis siculus (Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810), in California, USA, and Taormina, Italy, with reports of tail bifurcation

  Alyssa Head, Maelstrom J. Lee, Amber L. Singh, Kinsey M. Brock

  51-53

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• A rare record of a midge biting Nidirana shyhhuangi Lin et al., 2025 in Taiwan

  JhYu You, Yuan Teng Wang, Ming-Feng Chuang

  15-16

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• First case of erythristic Common Frog, Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758, in Latvia

  Alessandro Di Marzio, Rebeka Šķērstiņa , Elza Birbele

  49–50

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• Postprandial refuge selection strategy in the Montpellier Snake, Malpolon monspessulanus (Hermann, 1804), in a human-altered landscape

  Grégory Deso, Gonzalo del Barrio

  61-64

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• New and recurrent morphological abnormalities in amphibians from northwest Mexico

  Héctor A. Castro-Bastidas, Carolina Sedano-Camacho, Eduardo G. Santos-García, Perla M. Meza-Inostroza, Marcos Bucio-Pacheco, David R. Aguillón-Gutiérrez

  11-14

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• Yellow is the new green: abnormal colouration of Pelophylax sp. in Latvia and Lithuania

  Alessandro Di Marzio, Rebeka ´Šķērstiņa, Elza Birbele

  55-59

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