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1 7 an Identification Key to the Geckos of the Seychelles
HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL. Vol. I. pp. 17-19 (19X5l 17 AN IDENTIFICATION KEY TO THE GECKOS OF THE SEYCHELLES, WITH BRIEF NOTES ON THEIR DISTRIBUTIONS AND HABITS ANDREW S. GARDNER Department of Zoology, University of Aberdren. Ti/lydrone Avenue, Aberdeen AB9 2TN. U. K. Present addresses: The Calton Laboratory. Department of Genetics and Biomet IT, Universif.I' Co/legr London. Wo/f�·on !-louse, 4 Stephenson Wa r London NWI 21-11'.. U.K. (A ccepted 24. /0. 84) INTRODUCTION 4. Scales on chest and at least anterior of belly keeled. Underside white. Phe!suma astriata The Republic of Seychelles, lying in the western Tornier. 5. Indian Ocean consists of a group of mountainous, granitic islands, and a large number of outlying coral Scales on chest and belly not keeled. 6. atolls and sand cays, distributed over 400,000 km2 of sea. There are over a hundred islands, ranging in size 5. Subcaudal scales keeled and not transversely from Mahe, at 148 km2 to islands little more than enlarged in original tails. Ground colour of emergent rocks. A total of eighteen species of lizard, rump and tail usually bright blue, and of from three families are recorded from the Seychelles nanks, green. Tail unmarked or spotted with (Gardner, 1984). The best represented family is the red. Red transverse neck bars often reduced or Gekkonidae with eleven species, fo ur of which are absent. Phe/suma astriata astriata Tornier i endemic to the islands. The identification key 90 1. presented here should enable interested naturalists to Subcaudal scales unkeeled and transversely identify any gecko encountered in the Seychelles to the enlarged in original tails. -
Patterns of Species Richness, Endemism and Environmental Gradients of African Reptiles
Journal of Biogeography (J. Biogeogr.) (2016) ORIGINAL Patterns of species richness, endemism ARTICLE and environmental gradients of African reptiles Amir Lewin1*, Anat Feldman1, Aaron M. Bauer2, Jonathan Belmaker1, Donald G. Broadley3†, Laurent Chirio4, Yuval Itescu1, Matthew LeBreton5, Erez Maza1, Danny Meirte6, Zoltan T. Nagy7, Maria Novosolov1, Uri Roll8, 1 9 1 1 Oliver Tallowin , Jean-Francßois Trape , Enav Vidan and Shai Meiri 1Department of Zoology, Tel Aviv University, ABSTRACT 6997801 Tel Aviv, Israel, 2Department of Aim To map and assess the richness patterns of reptiles (and included groups: Biology, Villanova University, Villanova PA 3 amphisbaenians, crocodiles, lizards, snakes and turtles) in Africa, quantify the 19085, USA, Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe, PO Box 240, Bulawayo, overlap in species richness of reptiles (and included groups) with the other ter- Zimbabwe, 4Museum National d’Histoire restrial vertebrate classes, investigate the environmental correlates underlying Naturelle, Department Systematique et these patterns, and evaluate the role of range size on richness patterns. Evolution (Reptiles), ISYEB (Institut Location Africa. Systematique, Evolution, Biodiversite, UMR 7205 CNRS/EPHE/MNHN), Paris, France, Methods We assembled a data set of distributions of all African reptile spe- 5Mosaic, (Environment, Health, Data, cies. We tested the spatial congruence of reptile richness with that of amphib- Technology), BP 35322 Yaounde, Cameroon, ians, birds and mammals. We further tested the relative importance of 6Department of African Biology, Royal temperature, precipitation, elevation range and net primary productivity for Museum for Central Africa, 3080 Tervuren, species richness over two spatial scales (ecoregions and 1° grids). We arranged Belgium, 7Royal Belgian Institute of Natural reptile and vertebrate groups into range-size quartiles in order to evaluate the Sciences, OD Taxonomy and Phylogeny, role of range size in producing richness patterns. -
Herpetological Type Specimens in the Natural History Collections of the Museums in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, Germany
©Zoologische Staatssammlung München/Verlag Friedrich Pfeil; download www.pfeil-verlag.de SPIXIANA 30 2 275–288 München, 1. November 2007 ISSN 0341–8391 Herpetological type specimens in the natural history collections of the museums in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, Germany Jörn Köhler & Robert Güsten Köhler, J. & R. Güsten (2007): Herpetological type specimens in the natural his- tory collections of the museums in Darmstadt and Wiesbaden, Germany. – Spixiana 30/2: 275-288 We provide the fi rst complete list of the present and lost amphibian and reptile type specimens of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt and the Museum Wiesbaden Naturhistorische Landessammlung. The Darmstadt collection cur- rently houses primary types of 5 taxa (holotypes) and secondary types of addi- tional 15 taxa (paratypes). The Wiesbaden collection includes primary types of 13 taxa (8 represented by holotypes, 4 by syntypes and 1 by lectotype). Furthermore, the primary types of 6 taxa formerly housed at the Museum Wiesbaden are consid- ered lost. In several cases, we comment on the current status of the taxa present in the collections. Bufo spinulosus var. arapensis Andersson, 1908 was obviously over- looked and neglected in the literature. It is here considered a junior synonym of Chaunus spinulosus (Wiegmann, 1834). The largest specimen of the type series is designated as lectotype (MWNH 153/1). The current status of Hylambates rufus var. aubryioides Andersson, 1908, as a junior synonym of Leptopelis modestus (Werner, 1898) is rejected. Jörn Köhler, Department of Natural History – Zoology, Hessisches Landesmu- seum Darmstadt, Friedensplatz 1, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] Robert Güsten, Merckstr. 28, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] Introduction reviewed and their status remained unknown in many cases. -
Bulletin 110 FINAL EDIT.Indd
The HERPETOLOGICAL BULLETIN Number 110 – Winter 2009 PUBLISHED BY THE BRITISH HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY THE HERPETOLOGICAL BULLETIN Contents NEWS REPO R TS . 1 RESEA R CH ABST R ACTS . 5 RESEA R CH AR TICLES Grassland snake assemblages in central and western Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio, USA Walter E. Meshaka, Jr., Samuel D. Marshall, Timothy J. Guiher and Lindsay Zemba . 8 Recent data on the distribution of lizards and snakes of the Seychelles Sara Rocha, D. James Harris, Ana Perera, Andreia Silva, Raquel Vasconcelos and Miguel A. Carretero . 20 An undescribed gecko (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from Deer Cave, Gunung Mulu National Park, Sarawak, with comments on the distribution of Bornean cave geckos Donald A. McFarlane, Joyce Lundberg and Keith Christenson . 33 Conspicuous tail coloration in Vipera berus Kevin Palmer................................................... 36 CAPTIVE HUSBA N D R Y Notes on the captive husbandry and breeding of the Shovel-footed Squeaker, Arthroleptis stenodactylus (Pfeffer 1893) Benjamin Tapley . 38 BOOK REVIEW Wildlife Monographs: Living Dinosaurs & Other Reptiles by Heather Angel Kate Statham...................................................- Registered Charity No. 205666 - 42 ACK N OWLEDGEME N TS . 44 - Registered Charity No. 205666 - THE HERPETOLOGICAL BULLETIN The Herpetological Bulletin is produced quarterly and publishes, in English, a range of articles concerned with herpetology. These include society news, selected news reports, full-length papers of a semi- technical nature, new methodologies, natural history notes, book reviews, letters from readers and other items of general herpetological interest. Emphasis is placed on natural history, conservation, captive breeding and husbandry, veterinary and behavioural aspects. Articles reporting the results of experimental research, descriptions of new taxa, or taxonomic revisions should be submitted to The Herpetological Journal (see inside back cover for Editor’s address). -
Eastern Afromontane Biodiversity Hotspot
Ecosystem Profile EASTERN AFROMONTANE BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOT FINAL VERSION 24 JANUARY 2012 Prepared by: BirdLife International with the technical support of: Conservation International / Science and Knowledge Division IUCN Global Species Programme – Freshwater Unit IUCN –Eastern Africa Plant Red List Authority Saudi Wildlife Authority Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Centre for Middle Eastern Plants The Cirrus Group UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre WWF - Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Programme Office Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund And support from the International Advisory Committee Neville Ash, UNEP Division of Environmental Policy Implementation; Elisabeth Chadri, MacArthur Foundation; Fabian Haas, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology; Matthew Hall, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Centre for Middle Eastern Plants; Sam Kanyamibwa, Albertine Rift Conservation Society; Jean-Marc Froment, African Parks Foundation; Kiunga Kareko, WWF, Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Programme Office; Karen Laurenson, Frankfurt Zoological Society; Leo Niskanen, IUCN Eastern & Southern Africa Regional Programme; Andy Plumptre, Wildlife Conservation Society; Sarah Saunders, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds; Lucy Waruingi, African Conservation Centre. Drafted by the ecosystem profiling team: Ian Gordon, Richard Grimmett, Sharif Jbour, Maaike Manten, Ian May, Gill Bunting (BirdLife International) Pierre Carret, Nina Marshall, John Watkin (CEPF) Naamal de Silva, Tesfay Woldemariam, Matt Foster (Conservation International) -
Biogeography and Phylogeography of the Western Indian Ocean Islands
3 The Generation of a Biodiversity Hotspot: Biogeography and Phylogeography of the Western Indian Ocean Islands Ingi Agnarsson1,2 and Matjaž Kuntner2,3 1University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, 2Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 3Institute of Biology, Scientific Research Centre, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 1,2USA 3Slovenia 1. Introduction The importance of islands in revealing evolutionary processes was highlighted already at the birth of evolutionary biology as a science (Darwin 1859; Darwin and Wallace 1858). Since the thrilling discoveries revealed by Darwin’s work on the Galapagos (Darwin 1909) and Wallace’s work in the Malay (Indonesian) archipelago (Wallace 1876), island biogeography has experienced an explosive growth. The discipline has provided many elegant examples of the evolutionary mechanisms involved in generating biodiversity, especially the interplay of geological processes and colonization and isolation (Emerson 2008; Gillespie, Claridge, and Goodacre 2008; Parent, Caccone, and Petren 2008; Ricklefs and Bermingham 2008). Islands have provided particularly strong insights into adaptive radiations (Camacho-Garcia and Gosliner 2008; Blackledge and Gillespie 2004; Cowie and Holland 2008; Gillespie and Roderick 2002; Losos and DeQueiroz 1997; Schluter 2000), the processes of colonization and extinction (Ricklefs and Bermingham 2008; Goldberg, Lancaster, and Ree 2011), the formation of species (Emerson 2008; Pickford et al. 2008; Gillespie and Roderick 2002; Schluter -
Tanzania's Reptile Biodiversity : Distribution, Threats and Climate Change Vulnerability
This is a repository copy of Tanzania's reptile biodiversity : Distribution, threats and climate change vulnerability. White Rose Research Online URL for this paper: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/102121/ Version: Accepted Version Article: Meng, Han, Carr, Jamie, Beraducci, Joe et al. (17 more authors) (2016) Tanzania's reptile biodiversity : Distribution, threats and climate change vulnerability. Biological Conservation. pp. 72-82. ISSN 0006-3207 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2016.04.008 Reuse This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) licence. This licence only allows you to download this work and share it with others as long as you credit the authors, but you can’t change the article in any way or use it commercially. More information and the full terms of the licence here: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Takedown If you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by emailing [email protected] including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request. [email protected] https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/ Article published online at Biological Conservation 1 Tanzania’s Reptile Biodiversity: Distribution, Threats and Climate Change 2 Vulnerability 3 Han Meng a,c,r,*, Jamie Carr a,d, Joe Beraducci e, Phil Bowles b,William R. Branch f, Claudia Capitani g, 4 Jumapili Chenga h, Neil Cox b, Kim Howell i, Patrick Malonza j, Rob Marchant g, Boniface Mbilinyi k, 5 Kusaga Mukama l, Charles Msuya i, Philip J. -
Out of the Blue: a Novel, Trans-Atlantic Clade of Geckos (Gekkota, Squamata)
OutBlackwell Publishing Ltd of the blue: a novel, trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata) TONY GAMBLE, AARON M. BAUER, ELI GREENBAUM & TODD R. JACKMAN Submitted: 3 December 2007 Gamble, T., Bauer, A. M., Greenbaum, E. & Jackman, T. R. (2008). Out of the blue: a novel, Accepted: 2 February 2008 trans-Atlantic clade of geckos (Gekkota, Squamata). — Zoologica Scripta, 37, 355–366. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00330.x Phylogenetic relationships among gekkotan lizards were estimated from five nuclear protein- coding genes in separate and combined analyses using maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. All analyses recovered a monophyletic trans-Atlantic gecko clade (Phyllodactylidae) consisting of the genera Asaccus, Haemodracon, Homonota, Phyllodactylus, Phyllopezus, Ptyodactylus, Tarentola and Thecadactylus. No other phylogenetic or taxonomic hypotheses have proposed linking these genera, which have been consistently grouped with other taxa outside of the clade. In this paper, we determine the relationships of this new clade to other major gekkotan groups, evaluate previous phylogenetic hypotheses regarding constituent members of this novel clade, and critically examine the use of historically important morphological characters in gekkotan systematics as they relate to this novel clade, specifically — phalangeal formulae, hyoid morphology and external structure of the toe-pads. Corresponding author: Tony Gamble, Conservation Biology Graduate Program, Bell Museum of Natural History, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Aaron M. Bauer, Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Eli Greenbaum, Department of Biology, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Todd R. -
Evolution and Ecology of Lizard Body Sizes PAPER Shai Meiri
Global Ecology and Biogeography, (Global Ecol. Biogeogr.) (2008) 17, 724–734 Blackwell Publishing Ltd RESEARCH Evolution and ecology of lizard body sizes PAPER Shai Meiri NERC Centre for Population Biology, Imperial ABSTRACT College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire Aim Body size is instrumental in influencing animal physiology, morphology, SL5 7PY, UK ecology and evolution, as well as extinction risk. I examine several hypotheses regarding the influence of body size on lizard evolution and extinction risk, assessing whether body size influences, or is influenced by, species richness, herbivory, island dwelling and extinction risk. Location World-wide. Methods I used literature data and measurements of museum and live specimens to estimate lizard body size distributions. Results I obtained body size data for 99% of the world’s lizard species. The body size–frequency distribution is highly modal and right skewed and similar distributions characterize most lizard families and lizard assemblages across biogeographical realms. There is a strong negative correlation between mean body size within families and species richness. Herbivorous lizards are larger than omnivorous and carnivorous ones, and aquatic lizards are larger than non-aquatic species. Diurnal activity is associated with small body size. Insular lizards tend towards both extremes of the size spectrum. Extinction risk increases with body size of species for which risk has been assessed. Main conclusions Small size seems to promote fast diversification of disparate body plans. The absence of mammalian predators allows insular lizards to attain larger body sizes by means of release from predation and allows them to evolve into the top predator niche. Island living also promotes a high frequency of herbivory, which is also associated with large size. -
Uzungwa Scarp Nature Forest Reserve: a Unique Hotspot for Reptiles in Tanzania
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Firenze University Press: E-Journals Acta Herpetologica 14(1): 3-14, 2019 DOI: 10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-25008 Uzungwa Scarp Nature Forest Reserve: a unique hotspot for reptiles in Tanzania John Valentine Lyakurwa1,2,*, Kim Monroe Howell2, Linus Kasian Munishi1, Anna Christina Treydte1,3 1 Department of Sustainable Agriculture and Biodiversity Ecosystem Management, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 447, Arusha, Tanzania 2 Department of Zoology and Wildlife Conservation, University of Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 35064, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 3 Agroecology in the Tropics and Subtropics, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany * Corresponding author. Email: [email protected] Submitted on: 2018, 23rd November; revised on: 2019, 10th March; accepted on: 2019, 4th April Editor: Marco Sannolo Abstract. While knowledge of African vertebrate biodiversity has increased dramatically in recent years, the field of herpetology which encompasses many threatened and endemic species, has lagged behind, and many areas have not been adequately explored. Intensive field work was conducted during the rainy season from December 2017 to April 2018 to assess reptile occurrence mostly in previously unexplored areas of the Uzungwa Scarp Nature Forest Reserve (USNFR) which is part of the Udzungwa Mountain ranges in the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAM), and adjacent agri- cultural areas. Bucket pitfall traps, funnel traps, night transects and opportunistic search methods were used to sample reptiles across four zones: in lowland, submontane and montane forests of the USNFR, and in neighboring farmlands. Forty-five reptile species across 14 families were recorded, mostly concentrated on the lowland and submontane for- ests. -
Aprasiainis87 FAMILY
61 GENUS: Oedura GENUS; Lygodactylus GENUS: Phyllurus GENUS: Matoatoa GENUS: Pseudothecadactyl us GENUS: Microscalabotes* GENUS: Rhacodactylus GENUS; Nactus GENUS: Rhynchoedura* GENUS: Narudasia* GENUS: SaItuarius GENUS: Pachydactylus GENUS: Underwoodisaurus GENUS; PaImatogecko SUBFAMILY: Eublepbarinae'" GENUS; Psragehyra GENUS: Coleonyx GENUS: Psroedura GENUS: Eublepbaris GENUS; Perochirus GENUS: Goniurosaurus GENUS: Phelsuma GENUS: Hemitheconyx GENUS: Phyllodactylus GENUS: Holodactylus GENUS; Phyllopezus SUBFAMILY: Gekkoninae GENUS: Pristurus GENUS: Afroedura GENUS; Pseudogekko GENUS: Afrogecko GENUS; Pseudogonatodes GENUS: Agamura GENUS: Plenopus GENUS: Ailuronyx GENUS: Plychozoon GENUS: Alsophylax GENUS; Plyodactylus GENUS; Arlstelliger GENUS: Quedenfeldtia GENUS; Asaccus GENUS: Rhoptropus GENUS; Blaesodactylus GENUS; Saurodactylus GENUS: Bogertia* GENUS: Sphaerodactylus GENUS; Brlha* GENUS; Stenodactylus GENUS: Bunopus GENUS; Tarentola GENUS: Calodactylodes GENUS; Teratolepis GENUS: Carinatogecko GENUS; Thecadactylus* GENUS: Chondrodactyiu,* GENUS: Tropiocoiotes GENUS; Christinus GENUS; Urocotyledon GENUS: Cnemaspis GENUS: Uroplatus GENUS; Coleodactylus SUBFAMILY: Teratoscincinae GENUS; Colopus* GENUS: Teratoscincus GENUS: Cosymbotus FAMILY: Pygopodidae'" GENUS: Crossobamon SUBFAMILY: LiaIisinae GENUS: Cryptactites' TRIBE: Aprasiaini S87 GENUS; Cyrtodactylus GENUS; J\prasia GENUS: Cyrtopodion GENUS: Ophidiocephalus* GENUS: Dixonius GENUS; Pletholax* GENUS: Dravidogecko* TRIBE: Lialisini GENUS; Ebenavia GENUS: LiaIis GENUS; EuIeptes* -
The Herpetofauna of the Eastern Afromontane: Evolutionary History, Biogeography and Conservation
THE HERPETOFAUNA OF THE EASTERN AFROMONTANE: EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION M MENEGON PhD 2015 THE HERPETOFAUNA OF THE EASTERN AFROMONTANE: EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY, BIOGEOGRAPHY AND CONSERVATION MICHELE MENEGON A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Manchester Metropolitan University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Division of Biology and Conservation Ecology School of Science and the Environment Manchester Metropolitan University 2015 Abstract ........................................................................................................................................ 11 Chapter 1 : Introduction ................................................................................................ 14 Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 14 Diversity and ecology of the Herpetofauna ...................................................................... 18 Classification ............................................................................................................................................ 18 Amphibians ............................................................................................................................................... 18 Frogs (Order Anura) ............................................................................................................................. 19 Caecilians (Order Gymnophiona) ....................................................................................................