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Recent Publications RECENT PUBLICATIONS Anonymous. 2012. Zehn Komodowarane importiert – Gregorovicova, M., O. Zahradnicek, A.S. Tucker, P. Zoo Leipzig vergrößert europäische Population. Velensky & I. Horacek. 2012. Embryonic Elaphe 2012(4): 15. development of the monitor lizard, Varanus Anonymous. 2012. Monitor mutation? Practical Reptile indicus. Amphibia-Reptilia 33: 451-468. Keeping, April: 12. Kapur, F., R. Macoon, J.R. O’Neal, B. Lock & J.R. Brown, D. 2012. A Guide to Australian Monitors in Mendelson. 2012. Comparison of the oral bacteria Captivity. Reptile Publications, Burleigh. 264 p. communities among five lizard species in a captive Castille, C. 2012. Mad about monitors. Practical environment. Herpetological Review 43(2): 260- Reptile Keeping, February: 16-20. 264. Ciliberti, A., S. Martin, E. Ferrandez, S. Belluco, Koch, A. 2012. Discovery, Diversity, and Distribution Benoit Rannou, C. Dussart, P. Berny & V. de of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Sulawesi and Buffrenil. 2012. Experimental exposure of juvenile its Offshore Islands. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt savannah monitors (Varanus exanthematicus) to an am Main. 374 p. environmentally relevant mixture of three Kycko, A., W. Kozacynski, A. Jasik, A. Kedrak- contaminants: Effects and accumulation in tissues. Kablonska, B. Borkowska-Opacka & M. Reichert. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2012. Granulomatous pneumonia and hepatitis DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1230-4. associated with Providencia rettgeri infection in Conrad, J.L., A.M. Balcarcel & C.M. Mehling. 2012. a crocodile monitor lizard (Varanus salvadorii). Earliest example of a giant monitor lizard Acta Veterinaria Hungarica. DOI: 10.1556/ (Varanus, Varanidae, Squamata). PLoS One 7(8): AVet.2012.052 e41767. Courtney-Smith, J. 2012. Monitor lighting. Practical Reptile Keeping, April: 32. Donovan, P. 2012. Out of Africa: The white-throated or rock monitor. Practical Reptile Keeping, April: 52- 55. Doody, S.J., R. Lloyd & D. Rhind. 2012. Varanus panoptes (Yellow-spotted monitor). Diet and prey capture. Herpetological Review 43(2): 339-340. Doody, S.J., M. Hall, D. Rhind, B. Green & G. Dryden. 2012. Varanus panoptes (Yellow-spotted monitor). Diet. Herpetological Review 43(3): 491- 492. Doody, S.J., C.M. Castellano, D. Rhind & B. Green. 2012. Indirect facilitation of a native mesopredator by an invasive species: Are cane toads re-shaping tropical riparian communities? Biological Invasions. DOI: 10.1007/s10530-012-0308-8. Doody, J.S. & S. Cherriman. 2012. Varanus gouldii ( Sand monitor) and Varanus panoptes (Yellow- spotted monitor). Predation. Herpetological Review 43(4): 653-654. Goldstein, E.J.C., K.L. Tyrell, D.M. Citron, C.R. Cox, I.M. Recchio, B. Okimoto, J. Bryja & B.G. Fry. 2012. How do Komodo dragons kill their prey? Lack of role for oral flora in predation. Toxicon Varanus juxtindicus. Rennel Island, Solomon Islands. 60(2): 245. Photographed by Tony Morris. 96 97 BIAWAK VOL. 6 NO. 2 Kwet, A. 2012. Die hundertjährigen drachen von Somma, M. & A. Koch. 2012. New morphological and Komodo. Elaphe 20(1): 107-111. distributional data of Varanus rainerguentheri Laver, R.J., D. Purwandana, A. Ariefiandy, J. Ziegler, Böhme & Schmitz, 2007 (Squamata: Imansyah, D. Forsyth, C. Ciofi & T.S. Jessop. Varanidae), an endemic and little-known monitor 2012. Life-history and spatial determinants lizard species of the Moluccas, Indonesia. of somatic growth dynamics in Komodo dragon Salamandra 48: 207-212. populations. PLoS One 7(9): e45398. Ujvari, B., H.-C. Mun, A.D. Conigrave, A. Bray, J. Mendyk, R.W., A.L. Newton & M. Baumer. 2012. A Osterkamp, P. Halling & T. Madsen. 2012. retrospective study of mortality in varanid lizards Isolation breeds naivety: Island living robs (Reptilia:Squamata:Varanidae) at the Bronx Zoo: Australian varanid lizards of toad-toxin immunity Implications for husbandry and reproductive via four-base-pair mutation. Evolution. DOI: management in zoos. Zoo Biology. DOI 10.1002/ 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01751.x. zoo.21043 Uyeda, L.T., E. Iskandar, R.C. Kyes & A.J. Wirsing. Merchant, M., D. Henry, R. Falconi, B. Muscher & J. 2012. Proposed research on home ranges and Bryja. 2012. Characterization of serum resource use of the water monitor lizard, Varanus complement activity in serum of the Komodo salvator. The Forestry Chronicle 88(5): 542-546. dragon (Varanus komodoensis). Advances in van Kempen, C.P. B. 2012. A kerangas forest floor Biological Chemistry 2: 353-359. (2011). Herpetological Review 43(2): 224-225. Montuelle, S.J., A. Herrel, P.-A. Libourel, S. Daillie & Vidal, N., J. Marin, J. Sassi, F.U. Battistuzi, S. V.L. Bels. 2012. Prey capture in lizards: Donnellan, A.J. Fitch, B.G. Fry, F.J. Vonk, R.C. Differences in jaw-neck-forelimb coordination. Rodriguez de la Vega, A. Couloux & S.B. Hedges. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105: 2012. Molecular evidence for Asian origin of 607-622. monitor lizards followed by tertiary dispersals to Pianka, E.R. 2012. Can humans share spaceship earth? Africa and Australasia. Biology Letters 8(5): 853- Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 6(1): 1-24. 855. Řeháková-Petrů, M., L. Peške & T. Daněk. 2012. Welton, L.J., C.D. Siler, A.C. Diesmos, M.L.L. Predation on a wild Philippine tarsier (Tarsius Diesmos, R.D. Lagat, R.M. Causaren & R.M. syrichta). Acta Ethologica 15(2): 217-220. Brown. 2012. Genetic identity, geographic ranges, Ridzwan, B.H. & K.S. Fatimah. 2012. Antinociceptive and major distribution records for frugivorous effects of crude fats from Egyptian spiny-tailed monitor lizards of Luzon Island, Philippines. (Uromastyx aegyptia microlepis) and local monitor Herpetological Review 43(2): 226-230. (Varanus salvator) lizards. European Journal of Woodford, L.P., A. Robley, P. Maloney & J. Reside. Scientific Research 87(2): 236-243. 2012. The impact of 1080 bait removal by lace Schmida, G. 2012. The Australian Goanna Pictorial. monitors (Varanus varius) on a red fox (Vulpes Self published e-book. 100 p. vulpes) control program. Ecological Management Schmida, G. 2012. The Goannas of Australia – 2. Self & Restoration. DOI: 10.1111/j.1442- published e-book. 106 p. 8903.2012.00665.x Sourav, M.S.H., S.U. Chowdhury & S.C. Rahman. Woodruff, D. 2012. Tree monitor success: A UK first 2012. Varanus salvator (Water monitor lizard). breeding? Practical Reptile Keeping, June: 10-11. Bangladesh: Dhaka Division. Herpetological Yaap, B., G.D. Paoli, A. Angki, P.L. Wells, D. Wahyudi Review 43(4): 619-620. & M. Auliya. 20120 First record of the Borneo Subramanean, J. & M.V. Reddy. 2012. Monitor lizards earless monitor Lanthanotus borneensis and geckos used in traditional medicine face (Steindachner, 1877) (Reptilia: Lanthanotidae) in extinction and need protection. Current Science West Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Journal of 102(9): 1248-1249. Threatened Taxa 4(11): 3067-3074..
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