Herpetology Notes

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

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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.

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, David A. De Angelis — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Eric C.K. Gren, Jake A. Pruett, Jared P. Wood, Tim M. Patton — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Soe Thandar Aung, Pongthep Surwanwaree, Min Thant Aung, Justin M. Berstein — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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, Dikansh S. Parmar, Hinrich Kaiser — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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, Antonio G. Adamo, Gianni Giglio, Emilio Sperone — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Amaël Borzée, Yucheol Shin, Taiji Shiraishi — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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, Pradeep Rathnasiri, Shaya Honarvar — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Ango Morikawa, Takato Inoue — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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

Tyler C. Christensen, Jason A. Fantuzzi — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000