Welcome and thank you for participating in the 2013 Herpers Survey, sponsored by SWCHR. We hope to get an overall picture of what is loosely called the ‘herping community’—interests, preferences, and concerns. While not perfect, the survey provides a starting point useful in refining future data-gathering activities, informing regulatory policy and guidance, and focusing various organizations’ activities and efforts. Leer más.
«Reptiles y anfibios: una visión integral» del 11 al 13 de Diciembre de 2013 de miércoles a viernes en la Facultad de Ciencias. Ir al enlace.
Los Agentes Rurales de la Generalitat de Cataluña han interceptado cinco tortugas mediterráneas, la única especie originaria de Europa occidental y una de las más amenazadas de extinción en Cataluña, procedentes de la República Checa y que se comerciaban con certificados falsos. Leer más.
A total of 40 species of reptiles was recorded within two herpetological surveys during May 2007 and April 2008 on Cat Ba Island, Hai Phong, northeastern Vietnam: one species of turtle, 19 species of lizards, and 20 species of snakes. Nineteen species (47.5%) were new records for the island. Leer más.
We report about the rediscovery of the holotype of the Southeast Asian striped skink Lipinia vittigera and provide a detailed redescription together with photographs and drawings. The species was first described by George Albert Boulenger in 1894 as Lygosoma vittigerum based on a specimen collected by Elio Modigliani on the island of Sereinu (= Sipura), west of Sumatra. Leer más.
