Volume 20, Issue 2 (August 2025)

 

Editorials

 

Changes in Editors

Board of Directors

 

Research Articles

 

Spatial Distribution Pattern of Free-ranging Miyako Grass Lizards (Takydromus toyamai) and Its Causal Factors

Hitomi Asato and Mamoru Toda

Microhabitat Selection of an Isolated Population of Green Salamanders (Aneides aeneus) in Southern Ohio, USA

Aidan McCarthy and William E. Peterman
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Population Dynamics and Environmental Drivers of Crawfish Frog (Rana areolata) Migration in Southeastern Oklahoma, USA

Owen M. Edwards, Kaleb M. Banks, Bo Zhang, and Michael S. Reichert

Microhabitat Use by the Talladega Seal Salamander (Desmognathus cheaha) and Spatial Niche Partitioning with a Congener in Metro-Atlanta, USA, Headwater Streams

Nicholas Chang, Will Hutchinson, and Carolyn Keogh

Exploring Potential Independent Loss of Cloacal Bursae in Turtles of the Family Geoemydidae

Megan Wright, Sage Babish, Lily Gowens, and Joseph R. Mendelson III

The Influence of Weather on Annual Clutch Frequency for the Yellow Mud Turtle (Kinosternon flavescens) in Western Nebraska, USA

John B. Iverson

Species Differences in the Foraging Rates of Salamander Larvae in the Presence of an Invasive Fish Predator

John C. Moore and Thomas L. Anderson

Fixed-Field Videography for Studying Reptile Behavior: Validation with Sistrurus miliarius Hydrating Tactics

Zander E. Perelman and Terence M. Farrell

Following in the Footsteps of Chapman Grant: Novel Observations of the Virgin Islands Boa (Chilabothrus granti) in the British Virgin Islands

Dustin Smith, Diane Barber, Justin M. Elden, Jan P. Zegarra, Mervin Hastings, and R. Graham Reynolds
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Reptiles of the Atlantic Forest, Espírito Santo, Brazil: Using Two Complementary Citizen Science Data Sources

André Felipe Barreto-Lima, Paula Drummond de Castro, and Natalia Pirani Ghilardi-Lopes
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Larval Growth and Natural History Traits of Lithobates warszewitschii

M. Delia Basanta, Heidi Ross, Roberto Brenes, Mirna G. García-Castillo, Carolina Lambertini, Sara L. Anaya-Morales, Sam Lapp, Michel E.B. Ohmer, Justin Kitzes, and Jamie Voyles

Characterization of Human-snake Encounters in the Houet District of West Burkina Faso

Rabila Bamogo, Achille S. Nikièma, Lassane Koala, Massamba Thiam, Doubata D.M. Coulibaly, Youssouph Mané, Abdoul A. Millogo, Youssouph Diatta, and Roch K. Dabiré
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Noteworthy and Historical Records of Amphibians in the Diet of Snakes in Colombia

Luis Santiago Caicedo-Martínez, Jose J. Henao-Osorio, Andrés Fernando Tamayo-Zuluaga, Guillermo Alejandro Echeverry Montoya, Daniel Enrique Espitia-Sanabria, Juan S. Echeverry-Pérez, Juan José Arboleda Osorio, Macela Carolina Espitia-Sánchez, Yeny Tatiana Marín García, Julián A. Rojas-Morales, Héctor Fabio Arias-Monsalve, José Rancés Caicedo-Portilla, and Héctor E. Ramírez-Chaves
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Low Abundance and Diversity of Canopy Amphibians in an Andean Choco Forest of Ecuador

Mar D.M. Moretta-Urdiales, Francisco Velasquez-Espin, Moises Tenorio, Juan M. Guayasamin, David Rodriguez, and Shawn F. McCracken
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Wood Frog (Rana sylvatica) Testicular Microstructure Correlates with Plasma Hormone Concentrations During Late-Stage Spermatogenesis

Audrey Warburton, Kirsty J. MacLeod, L. Kealoha Freidenburg, David K. Skelly, and Lindsey Swierk
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Does Traffic Noise Affect the Advertisement Call of Dendropsophus nanus (Anura, Hylidae)?

Gonzalo R. Libramento de los Santos, Víctor H. Zaracho, Daniel Espinola Ocampo, and María R. Ingaramo
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A Wetland-Based Habitat Suitability Model for Spotted Turtles (Clemmys guttata) in West Virginia, USA, Using Field Surveys and Regional Data

Joel L. Mota, Donald J. Brown, Kevin J. Oxenrider, and Michael P. Strager
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Snakes, Fences, and Temperature Extremes: Subsurface Artificial Refugia Provide Escape from Heat

Chloe R. Howarth, Lindsay Whitehead, Shayleen N. Gray, Julia M. Burkart, Valerie E. Law, Christine A. Bishop, and Karl W. Larsen
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Taxonomy, Distribution, and Conservation of Threatened Steppe Vipers of Western Asia: Vipera anatolica and Vipera renardi eriwanensis (sensu lato)

Konrad Mebert, Mert Karış, Mehmet Zülfü Yıldız, Naşit Iğci, Nikolaus Stümpel, Oleksandr Zinenko, Giorgi Iankoshvili, Alisa Sanakoeva, P. Lennart Schmid, Tigran Tadevosyan, Guram Iremashvili, Edvard Mizsei, Tibor Sos, Tavakkul Iskenderov, Arzu Mammadov, Kerim Çiçek, Balkan Mega, Aziz Avcı, Mahdi Rajabizadeh, Daniel Jablonski, Tom Kirschey, and Justin M. Elden
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High Diversity of Herpetofauna in Kukrail Urban Forest, Lucknow, India, Calls for Well-informed Conservation Policies

Jon Hakim and Shaariq Ashar
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Critically Endangered Darevsky’s Viper: Incisive Distribution Discoveries and Taxonomic Considerations

Konrad Mebert, Naşit Iğci, Mert Karış, Mehmet Zülfü Yıldız, P. Lennart Schmid, Judith Grünewald, Giorgi Iankoshvili, Alisa Sanakoeva, Nikolaus Stümpel, Tigran Tadevosyan, Kerim Çiçek, Burak Akdag, Oleksandr Zinenko, Adem Adakul, Guram Iremashvili, Edvard Mizsei, Tibor Sos, Bahadir Akman, Justin M. Elden, Daniel Jablonski, and Tom Kirschey
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