The Herpetological Bulletin

The Herpetological Bulletin is a quarterly publication in English. It includes full-length papers, natural history notes, book reviews, and other items of general herpetological interest. Emphasis is placed on natural history and conservation as well as captive care that includes breeding, husbandry, veterinary, and behavioural aspects.

Issue Number 137 - Autumn 2016 Issue Number 137 - Autumn 2016

01. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans as a threat to British amphibians

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Eleanor Drinkwater

02. Use of artificial refuges by the northern viper Vipera berus - 1. Seasonal and life stage variations on chalk downland

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Rick J. Hodges & Clifford Seabrook

03. Use of artificial refuges by the northern viper Vipera berus - 2. Thermal ecology

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Rick J. Hodges & Clifford Seabrook

04. Use of artificial refuges by the northern viper Vipera berus - 3. An experimental improvement to the thermal properties of refuges

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Rick J. Hodges & Clifford Seabrook

05. Successful reproduction in Paramesotriton chinensis after more than a decade of reproductive inactivity, with observation of parental care

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Christopher J. Michaels

06. Husbandry of the axolotl (Ambystoma maculatum): successful treatment of a case of constipation

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Gabriele Achille, Andrea Marchegiani, Maria Luisa Magnoni & Alessandro Blasetti

07. Movements, mating and parturition in a female aspic viper, Vipera aspis, in western France

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Roger Meek

08. Melanism in the pond slider (Trachemys scripta) in northern Indiana, USA

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Geoffrey R. Smith, Jessica E. Rettig, & John B. Iverson

09. An extraordinary large prey observed in the diet composition of Natrix tessellata (Squamata: Colubridae)

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Petr Vlček & Daniel Jablonski 

 

 

10. Dark coloration in Sardinian grass snakes (Natrix natrix cetti)

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Enrico Lunghi, Frank Deschandol, Lorenzo Cornago & Roberto Cogoni

11. Boa constrictor (Reptilia, Serpentes, Boidae): opportunistic predation on Diopsittaca nobilis (Aves, Psittacidae).

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Silvia R. Travaglia-Cardoso, Giuseppe Puorto, Marcelo S. B. Lucas & Hana Suzuki

12. Bird mobbing of Boa constrictor in lowland tropical rainforest of Costa Rica

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Andrew W. Jones & Ralph A. Saporito

13. Rana temporaria: Leucism in combination with retarded development

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Markus Krings & Annbritt Reich

14. New occurrence record of the Algerian ribbed newt Pleurodeles nebulosus (Guichenot, 1850) in Algeria

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Khaled Merabet, Abdelhak Dahmana, Mokrane Karar & Aissa Moali

15. The first record of melanistic Trachemys scripta from an introduced population of Slovakia

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Daniel Jablonski , Daniel Grul'a & Jana Christophoryová

16. Marsupial Frogs: Gastrotheca and Allied Genera

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Rowland Griffin

Issue Number 137 - Autumn 2016 - Full Issue

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Poster: The BHS Amphibian Gully Pot Ladder

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