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Codes for Natural History Collections in Ichthyology and Herpetology

open access: yesCopeia, 2020
Assembled here is a reasonably complete list of annotated codes for historical and modern natural history collections associated with lost and extant specimens of fossil and Recent fishes, amphibians, and reptiles.
M. Sabaj
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An artificial intelligence model to identify snakes from across the world: Opportunities and challenges for global health and herpetology

open access: yesPLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2022
Background Snakebite envenoming is a neglected tropical disease that kills an estimated 81,000 to 138,000 people and disables another 400,000 globally every year. The World Health Organization aims to halve this burden by 2030.
I. Bolon   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Supervised Learning Computer Vision Benchmark for Snake Species Identification From Photographs: Implications for Herpetology and Global Health

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021
We trained a computer vision algorithm to identify 45 species of snakes from photos and compared its performance to that of humans. Both human and algorithm performance is substantially better than randomly guessing (null probability of guessing ...
A. Durso   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

WHAT IS A HERPETOLOGIST AND HOW CAN I BECOME ONE? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The following is the first in the JNAH series in which we address a variety of topics on herpetology based on essays from our upcoming book “How to Be a Herpetologist,”.
Dorcas, Michael E.   +1 more
core   +2 more sources

Kalyptoidy: the nomenclatural status of new zoological nomina originally published as synonyms, with examples in herpetology and comments on taxonominal databases

open access: yesBionomina, 2022
The Rules provided by the Code for the nomenclatural status of nomina originally published as invalid synonyms of nomina considered valid are complex, and often ignored or misunderstood by taxonomists.
A. Dubois
semanticscholar   +1 more source

CHORUSING PATTERNS OF A DIVERSE ANURAN COMMUNITY, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON SOUTHERN CRAWFISH FROGS (LITHOBATES AREOLATUS AREOLATUS) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Wildlife surveys have a critical role in conservation efforts and the collection of life history data. For anuran amphibians these surveys often focus on calling males.
Ligon, Day B., McKnight, Donald T.
core   +2 more sources

Herpetology in Spain: a current overview through doctoral theses

open access: yesBasic and Applied Herpetology, 2022
This study summarizes the temporal variation, the relative contribution of each university, the research topics addressed, the taxonomic groups studied and the differences in author and its advisors’ gender in the 303 PhD theses on herpetology defended
Gisela Marín-Capuz   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

PHYLOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG WEST INDIAN XENODONTINE SNAKES (SERPENTES; COLUBRIDAE) WITH COMMENTS ON THE PHYLOGENY OF SOME MAINLAND XENODONTINES [PDF]

open access: yes, 1999
The evolutionary relationships of the West Indian (W. I.) xenodontine snake assemblage has been considered as either monophyletic or paraphyletic. Allozyme data from protein electrophoresis were used to estimate the phylogeny of the W. I.
Crother, Brian I.
core   +2 more sources

Male homophily in South American herpetology: one of the major processes underlying the gender gap in publications

open access: yesAmphibia-Reptilia, 2021
The growing number of gender studies encourages more refined analyzes and greater conceptualization of the underlying processes of gender gap in science.
Jimena Grosso   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SPATIAL ECOLOGY AND HABITAT USE OF THE WESTERN MASSASAUGA (SISTRURUS TERGEMINUS) IN NEBRASKA [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We used radiotelemetry during 2004 and 2005 to investigate seasonal movements and habitat use and to improve our understanding of how land management practices were affecting Western Massasauga (Sistrurus tergeminus) populations in Nebraska.
Fawcett, James D.   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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