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Annual variation of ovarian structures of Boulengerula taitana (Loveridge 1935), a Kenyan caecilian
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: M. A. Raquet --- , , France G. J. Measey --- , , South Africa J. M. Exbrayat --- , , FranceThe Kenyan caecilian, Boulengerula taitanus inhabits a climate characterised by two distinct dry and wet seasons, and a single thermal minimum in June. It is oviparous with direct development and a remarkable dermatophagous maternal care, but the female reproductive cycle... -
Thirty years of amphibian surveys in the Ukagurus Mountains of Tanzania reveal new species, yet others are in decline
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: H Christoph Liedtke --- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Spain John V Lyakurwa --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Lucinda P Lawson --- University of Cincinnati, USA Michele Menegon --- Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Marina Garrido-Priego --- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Spain Jean Mariaux --- Natural History Museum of Geneva, Switzerland Wilirk Ngalason --- University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Alan Channing --- North-West University, South Africa Nisha R Owen --- On the EDGE Conservation, UK Gabriela B Bittencourt-Silva --- Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC), Spain Mark Wilkinson --- Natural History Museum, UK Joanna G Larson --- University of Notre Dame, USA Václav Gvoždík --- Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic Simon P Loader --- Natural History Museum, UKRecords of biodiversity over time are important resources for assessing conservation priorities. However, such baseline data are missing for regions of key biodiversity importance. The Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania are known for their species richness and endemism, but not... -
On Herpele multiplicata (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark Wilkinson --- The Natural History Museum, Hendrik Müller --- The Natural History Museum, DavidJ. Gower --- The Natural History Museum,The African caecilian genus Herpele contains two species, the relatively widespread H. squalostoma (Stutchbury, 1859) and the enigmatic H. multiplicata (Nieden, 1912). The holotype and only reported specimen of H. multiplicata is lost. Consequently, the species is known only from... -
Niche separation and comparative abundance of Boulengerula boulengeri and Scolecomorphus vittatus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) in an East Usambara forest, Tanzania
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: DavidJ. Gower --- The Natural History Museum, UK SimonP. Loader --- University of Glasgow, UK CliveB. Moncrieff --- The Natural History Museum, UK Mark Wilkinson --- The Natural History Museum, UKThe ecology of the sympatric caecilians Boulengerula boulengeri and Scolecomorphus vittatus was studied in Nilo Forest Reserve in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania. Three sampling methods (timed digging, pitfall trapping and casual visual encounter surveys of the forest floor) yielded... -
A visceral synapomorphy of Scolecomorphus Boulenger, 1883 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark Wilkinson --- The Natural History Museum, UK DavidJ. Gower --- The Natural History Museum, UK SimonP. Loader --- University of Basel, Switzerland Hendrik Müller --- Institut für Spezielle Zoologie und Evolutionsbiologie mit Phyletischem Museum, Friedrich Schiller Universität Jena, GermanyWe describe the distinctive but previously overlooked shape and position of the fat bodies of some scolecomorphid caecilians. Anteriorly positioned, finger-like fat bodies projecting into the coelom from narrow bases in the genital mesenteries are found in both sexes of...