Hidden in plain sight: reverification of citizen-science data unveils the widespread distribution of Tarentola parvicarinata Joger, 1980 (Squamata, Phyllodactylidae) in Côte d’Ivoire [PDF]
Check ListTarentola parvicarinata Joger, 1980 is a phyllodactylid gecko recently reported for the first time from the Grand-Bassam area of Côte d’Ivoire.
Wawogninlin H.Y. Yeung +4 more
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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 +3 more
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Preference of spectral features in auditory processing for advertisement calls in the music frogs
Frontiers in Zoology, 2019 Background Animal vocal signals encode very important information for communication during which the importance of temporal and spectral characteristics of vocalizations is always asymmetrical and species-specific.
Yanzhu Fan +6 more
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Molecular phylogenetic analysis of the genus Gloydius (Squamata, Viperidae, Crotalinae), with description of two new alpine species from Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2021 We provide a molecular phylogeny of Asian pit vipers (the genus Gloydius) based on four mitochondrial genes (12S, 16S, ND4, and cytb). Sequences of Gloydius himalayanus, the only member of the genus that occurs south of the Himalayan range, are included ...
Jing-Song Shi +8 more
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Koedoe: African Protected Area Conservation and Science, 2015 We surveyed six protected areas along the Wild Coast of the Eastern Cape, South Africa, to determine general herpetofaunal diversity as well as the representation of species of special conservation concern.
Jan A. Venter, Werner Conradie
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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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Active Learning Strategies for Biodiversity Science
Frontiers in Education, 2022 Organismal courses are inherently integrative, incorporating concepts from genetics, physiology, ecology and other disciplines linked through a comparative and phylogenetic framework.
Nicole Chodkowski +4 more
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Introducing the 10th World Congress of Herpetology 2024 Kuching, Sarawak, Borneo [PDF]
, 2020 The World Congress of Herpetology (WCH) is an International Scientific Nonprofit Organization that is also a Scientific Member of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS).
Das, Indraneil
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Next-generation sequencing of mixed genomic DNA allows efficient assembly of rearranged mitochondrial genomes in Amolops chunganensis and Quasipaa boulengeri [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Recent improvements in next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies can facilitate the obtainment of mitochondrial genomes. However, it is not clear whether NGS could be effectively used to reconstruct the mitogenome with high gene rearrangement.
Siqi Yuan +3 more
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Book Review: Women in Herpetology
Like most fields of science, herpetology has historically been dominated by men due to societal structures, traditions, or cultures that have existed in the establishments where research has been conducted.
Steven Allain (20853638)
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