Particularly, the study of diets at the molecular level identified plant species consumed by lizards that were, occasionally, not identified in morphological analyses. Conversely, the traditional morphological study of an equivalent number of fecal samples allowed for the identification of several prey groups that had not been detected in the molecular study. From this viewpoint, the advantages and disadvantages of each methodology are discussed. Leer más.
Here, we provide the information derived from the first monitoring activities performed on the endangered Sette Fratelli cave salamander, Speleomantes sarrabusensis. Adopting two different monitoring schemes, we estimated the abundance of four populations of S. sarrabusensis, providing important data for future status assessments of the species. Leer más.
Our results revealed an intriguing biogeographical pattern which could be the result of at least two different colonization waves. Particularly, we identified a new ancient insular clade from Giglio and Capraia islands which surely deserves conservation efforts and further taxonomic investigation. Leer más.
A new species of Liotyphlops Peters, 1881, Liotyphlops palauophis sp. nov., is described from the neighborhoods of Bogota, Colombia from a previous syntype of L. anops, and a lectotype is designated for the latter species. Leer más.
A new species of Tropidophis is described from the dry forest of the Barahona Peninsula, southwestern Dominican Republic, on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola. There, the new species is parapatric with T. haetianus, the only previously known Tropidophis on Hispaniola, but exhibits striking differences in scalation . Leer más.
