Herpetology Notes

Six predation events by the Red-banded Snake, Lycodon rufozonatus Cantor, 1842, on Tsushima Island, Japan

Ango Morikawa — 2025-04-13

First record of Kellogg’s Coralsnake, Sinomicrurus kelloggi (Pope, 1928), from Nghe An Province, Vietnam

Shinya Okabe — 2025-06-05

Shedding excess: small tape patches as a lower-impact transmitter attachment method for snakes

Tyler C. Christensen — 2025-04-23

Potential predation by a carabid beetle (Catadromus sp.) larva on an adult Spotted Marsh Frog, Limnodynastes tasmaniensis Günther, 1858, in western Victoria, Australia

Dylan M. Westaway — 2025-06-13

Communal nesting behaviour of female American Alligators, Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1801) in southeastern Oklahoma, USA

Eric C.K. Gren — 2025-03-24

New country records of the Laotian Wolfsnake, Lycodon laoensis Günther, 1864, in Myanmar, discovered via citizen science

Soe Thandar Aung — 2025-06-10

Rescue records of Leith’s Sandsnake, Psammophis leithii Günther, 1869, from Surat, Gujarat, India with some additional insights on pholidosis and natural history

Mehul Thakur — 2025-03-13

Bright marks, dark fate: records of predation on Coleodactylus meridionalis Boulenger, 1888 from a movement ecology study in a forest area in southern Bahia, Brazil

Lucca Izaguirres Souza — 2025-06-05

An Eastern Ribbonsnake, Thamnophis saurita (Linnaeus, 1766), scavenging on a roadkilled Cuban Treefrog, Osteopilus septentrionalis (Duméril & Bibron, 1841), in Everglades National Park, Florida, USA

Sarah Payne — 2025-06-13

Insights from short-term post-fire monitoring of a population of Hermann’s Tortoise, Testudo hermanni Gmelin, 1789, in Calabria, southern Italy

Francesco L. Leonetti — 2025-06-13

Tail movements as an anti-predatory behaviour in Hynobius okiensis Sato, 1940

Amaël Borzée — 2025-03-26

Preliminary data on saltwater crocodiles, Crocodylus porosus Schneider, 1801, and an updated assessment of threats in the Nilwala River, Matara, Sri Lanka

Trevor L. Proctor — 2025-06-05

First record of Trimerodytes praemaxillaris (Angel, 1929) from Xaisomboun Province, Laos, with additional comments on morphology, natural history, and the type locality

Yanpeng Shen — 2025-03-05

We describe the discovery of the 11th specimen of Trimerodytes premaxillaris and use this opportunity to make some clarifying remarks about the history of the species, its type locality, morphology, and natural history. The snake was found at the southernmost locality for the species and represents a new provincial record for Laos. It was in the process of swallowing a juvenile spiny bream (Scaphiodonichthys acanthopterus), the first identifiable prey for this snake. The snake was a female carrying two oviductal eggs indicating that the reproductive season of the species likely coincides with the monsoon season. This correlates with the collection of the hatchling type specimens in late 1925 or early 1926. Finally, we provide some additional detail regarding this species’ scale and colour pattern, as well as a more detailed account of the type locality and the time when the syntypes were collected.