This is an enormous geographic range encompassing great variation in environment and climate. Amazingly, almost no research has been conducted on geographic variation in this, our only native species of anole. In fact, it was only recently that good studies of phylogeographic variation in genetics were published. Leer más.
Geocrinia alba, the White-bellied Frog, is considered ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Redlist of Threatened SpeciesTM. It is native to southwest Australia, residing between Blackwood and Margaret River. It occurs in Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park, Forest Grove and Witchcliffe State Forests, as well as private land. The range of this species is 130 km2 but the area of occupancy is only 2.5 km2. The White-bellied Frog lives in permanently moist, swampy areas in drainage depressions. It breeds in spring and early summer and the females lay eggs in burrows. The eggs develop directly with no tadpole stage. Leer más.
Une récente collaboration entre des chercheurs français du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, du CNRS, de l’IRD ainsi que des chercheurs australiens et américains a mis en évidence une grande diversité d’espèces de serpents dont on ne soupçonnait pas l’existence. Ils publient en juillet les résultats de cette étude dans «The Biological Journal of The Linnean Society«. Leer más.
Description of a new species of Burmese vipers of genus Azemiops Boulenger, 1888 (Reptilia: Ophidia: Viperidae: Azemiopinae) from northeast Vietnam and southeast China is given. It leads to changing the status of the monotypic genus Azemiops. Critical analysis of literature for all period of study and analysis of distribution of two species of Azemiops genus as well as natural history data are discussed. Leer más.
Scientists spent three years looking for a rare snake near the Gila River in southwestern New Mexico, a snake they thought had disappeared from New Mexico 20 years ago. They were wrong. Leer más.
