AUTHORS: PARHAM AZARAKHSH, ALVAND MOHAMMADALIZADEGAN, MAHAN SALMANPOUR, MOHAMMAD AMIN GHAFFARI & POURYA SARDARI

AUTHOR: L. YUSNAVIEL GARCIA-PADRON

AUTHORS: KULDIP TOPO & SAGAR NAIK

AUTHORS: DANIEL W. COSGROVE & MARCIO R. PIE

AUTHORS: MARIANA BEATRIZ R. SOBRINHO, CARLOS HENRIQUE DE-OLIVEIRA-NOGUEIRA, HENRIQUE J. OLIVEIRA, HENRIQUE C. COSTA & LEONARDO S. SILVEIRA

AUTHOR: OLDŘICH KOPECKÝ

AUTHORS: MATTEO RICCARDO DI NICOLA, SERGIO MEZZADRI, ANNA CERULLO, IACOPO NEROZZI, ARIANNA MELETIADIS, PIER LUIGI ACUTIS & GIACOMO BRUNI

AUTHORS: SILVESTRE ESTEBAN MALANZA, GERARD CARBONELL & ALBERTO SÁNCHEZ-VIALAS

AUTHORS: ROBERTO ALONSO BOSCH, SERGIO L. DEL CASTILLO DOMÍNGUEZ & MARIAM CURBELO CRUZ

AUTHOR: SONJA NIKOLIĆ

AUTHORS: MIN HO CHANG, JAE YOUNG SONG, SU GON PARK, SEUNG HYUN WOO, SEOK BEOM KIM & KYO SOUNG KOO

AUTHORS: HÉCTOR ALEXIS CASTRO-BASTIDAS, HELEANA VELARDE-URÍAS, JOSÉ DAVID JACOBO-GONZÁLEZ & JOSÉ MANUEL SERRANO

AUTHOR: ANTHONY YE

AHTHORS: PRAJJWAL RAY, DEBASISH BAIDYA, CHANDRIMA BOSE, SANAJIT GHOSH & SOUMITRA ROY

AUTHOR: ROGER MEEK

ABSTRACT: Few studies have focused on the activities of individual lizards, which have often been hampered by the problems of tracking them in natural environments. Using photographs, the behaviour of western green lizards Lacerta bilineata were observed during the springs of 2023 and 2024. The length of time that males paired with females varied from only a few days to over most of the reproductive season and in this time, two females, one during 2023 and one in 2024, mated with more than one male, suggesting that reproductive performance may be enhanced by polyandry. Furthermore, one of the females appears to have laid egg clutches twice within a year, a further enhancement of reproductive performance.

AUTHORS: DIMITRIS MARGARITOULIS, DIMITRIS FYTILIS, NIKOS MANIAS, ALIKI PANAGOPOULOU & PANAGIOTA THEODOROU

ABSTRACT: In Greece, about 18% of loggerhead sea turtle nesting occurs around the Aegean Sea, on specific beaches that are monitored regularly. Sporadic nesting is also recorded incidentally in other areas. We present here the sporadic nesting events, along the Aegean coasts of Greece, for the 41-year period 1984–2024. Beaches with multiple nesting events, in the same or different nesting seasons, should be further investigated as this may lead to the discovery of new nesting sites that support regular nesting.

AUTHORS: ALEXIOS PANAGIOTOPOULOS, ALEXANDROS ZACHARIOU & EVANTHIA THANOU

ABSTRACT: The Italian wall lizard Podarcis siculus is a species distributed in Italy and the east Adriatic coast. It is also a well-known invasive species introduced into four continents and many countries outside its native range. In 2014, an established population of this species was recorded in Athens, Greece, which was identified as Podarcis siculus campestris by molecular analysis. Here, we report for the first time the presence of another subspecies, Podarcis siculus siculus, in Greece and specifically on the island of Crete. Tissue samples from six adult and subadult lizards were analysed to reconstruct a mitochondrial phylogeny using a segment of cytochrome b and all published sequences of native and introduced populations of P. siculus. We identified the source-population of the Cretan P. siculus to be located in Sicily, while the Athenian population originated from the Adriatic coast. This indicates two independent introduction events in a period of < 10 years. The Cretan population of P. siculus seems to be well established and may pose a future threat to the endemic Cretan wall lizard Podarcis cretensis.