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One Health Approach to Globalizing, Accelerating, and Focusing Amphibian and Reptile Disease Research—Reflections and Opinions from the First Global Amphibian and Reptile Disease Conference

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2023
The world’s reptiles and amphibians are experiencing dramatic and ongoing losses in biodiversity, changes that can have substantial effects on ecosystems and human health.
Matthew J. Gray, Robert J. Ossiboff, Lee Berger, Molly C. Bletz, E. Davis Carter, Joseph A. DeMarchi, Leon Grayfer, David Lesbarrères, Daniel A. Malagon, An Martel, Debra L. Miller, Frank Pasmans, Lee F. Skerratt, Anastasia E. Towe, Mark Q. Wilber   +14 more
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Anurans (Amphibia: Anura) of the Brazilian state of Amapá, eastern Amazonia: species diversity and knowledge gaps

European Journal of Taxonomy, 2022
We herein present the first annotated anuran checklist for the Brazilian state of Amapá, eastern Amazonia, based on a thorough literature review. We recorded the occurrence of 111 species belonging to 13 anuran families distributed across 48 localities ...
Pedro P.G. Taucce, Carlos Eduardo Costa-Campos, Thiago R. Carvalho, Fernanda Michalski   +3 more
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Consequences of Evolving Limbless, Burrowing Forms for the Behavior and Population Density of Tropical Lizards

Diversity, 2022
We quantified functional traits (escape strategy, sprint speed and predatory performance) and population density across 10 lizard species representing morphotype stages in the acquisition of burrowing snake-like morphotypes (BSLM), from Brazil.
Agustín Camacho, Carlos A. Navas, Adriana Tiemi Yamanouchi, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues   +3 more
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Supervised Learning Computer Vision Benchmark for Snake Species Identification From Photographs: Implications for Herpetology and Global Health

Frontiers 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, M. Krishnan, S. Mohanty, I. Bolon, M. Salathé, Rafael Luis Ruiz de Castaneda   +5 more
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Kalyptoidy: the nomenclatural status of new zoological nomina originally published as synonyms, with examples in herpetology and comments on taxonominal databases

Bionomina, 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
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A taxonomic revision of the south-eastern dragon lizards of the Smaug warreni (Boulenger) species complex in southern Africa, with the description of a new species (Squamata: Cordylidae) [PDF]

PeerJ, 2020
A recent multilocus molecular phylogeny of the large dragon lizards of the genus Smaug Stanley et al. (2011) recovered a south-eastern clade of two relatively lightly-armoured, geographically-proximate species (Smaug warreni (Boulenger, 1908) and S ...
Michael F. Bates, Edward L. Stanley
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Herpetology in Spain: a current overview through doctoral theses

Basic 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, Javier Menéndez-Blázquez   +1 more
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Doubtful records of reptile species in some areas of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Romania) [PDF]

Scientific Annals of the Danube Delta Institute, 2012
In the present paper there are provided details on the doubtful data on the occurrence of some reptile species in various parts of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve.
TÖRÖK Zsolt Csaba
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Threatened and extinct amphibians and reptiles in Italian natural history collections are useful conservation tools

Acta Herpetologica, 2022
Natural history museums are irreplaceable tools to study and preserve the biological diversity around the globe and among the primary actors in the recognition of species and the logical repositories for their type specimens.
Franco Andreone, Ivano Ansaloni, Enrico Bellia, Andrea Benocci, Carlotta Betto, Gabriella Bianchi, Giovanni Boano, Antonio Borzatti de Loewestern, Rino Brancato, Nicola Bressi, Stefano Bulla, Massimo Capula, Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi, Piero Carlino, Umberto Chalvien, Marta Coloberti, Pierangelo Crucitti, Maria Chiara Deflorian, Giuliano Doria, Simone Farina, Valeria Franceschini, Simona Guioli, Roberta Improta, Luca Lapini, Leonardo Latella, Giuseppe Manganelli, Stefano Mazzotti, Marta Meneghini, Paola Nicolosi, Annamaria Nistri, Nicola Novarini, Edoardo Razzetti, Giovanni Repetto, Roberta Salmaso, Guido C. Salza, Stefano Scali, Giovanni Scillitani, Andrea Sforzi, Roberto Sindaco, Gionata Stancher, Marco Valle, Giannantonio Zanata Santi, Marco Alberto Luca Zuffi, Giulia Tessa   +43 more
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Male homophily in South American herpetology: one of the major processes underlying the gender gap in publications

Amphibia-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, J. Fratani, Gabriela Fontanarrosa, Mariana Chuliver, A. S. Duport-Bru, R. G. Schneider, M. D. Casagranda, D. Ferraro, Natalin Vicente, M. J. Salica, Laura C. Pereyra, R. G. Medina, Carla Bessa, Romina Semhan, M. C. Vera   +14 more
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