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A review of the Angolan House snakes, genus Boaedon Duméril, Bibron and Duméril (1854) (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with description of three new species in the Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827) species complex
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Jakob Hallermann --- Center of Natural History (CeNak), Zoologisches Museum, Universität Hamburg, Germany Luis MP Ceríaco --- Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto, Portugal Andreas Schmitz --- Natural History Museum of Geneva, Department of Herpetology and Ichthyology, Switzerland Raffael Ernst --- Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, Germany Werner Conradie --- Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld), South Africa Luke Verburgt --- National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project, Wild Bird Trust, South Africa Mariana P Marques --- Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos (CIBIO), Rede de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Biologia Evolutiva (InBIO), Universidade do Porto, Portugal Aaron M Bauer --- Department of Biology and Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stewardship, Villanova University, USAAn integrative taxonomic review of the genus Boaedon in Angola is provided. A molecular phylogeny, based on 99 genetic samples for which the mitochondrial markers 16S rRNA have been sequenced, reveals 23 monophyletic species-level groups in Africa and indicates the... -
Prey, but not plant, chemical discrimination by the lizard Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: William E. Cooper --- Department of Biology,, U.S.A Jason J. Habegger --- Department of Biology,, U.S.AWe experimentally studied responses to food chemicals by Gerrhosaurus nigrolineatus, a member of a lizard genus endemic to subsaharan Africa. Gerrhosaur diets vary from insectivorous to omnivorous with a very large plant portion. The omnivorous G. validus responds strongly to... -
Vestigial appendicular skeletons in the African and Malagasy skink species Feylinia grandisquamis, Melanoseps ater, Grandidierina lineata and Voeltzkowia mira
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Rachel Liniewski --- , , USA Shane Stanley --- , USA Julia Andrade --- , , USA Phil Senter --- , , USAVestigial appendicular skeletons are present but have not previously been described and illustrated in the skink species Feylinia grandisquamis and Melanoseps ater. Vestigial appendicular skeletons have been described and illustrated in only one specimen of Grandidierina lineata and in a... -
Appendicular skeleton of the vestigial-limbed African skink Eumecia anchietae
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Shane G. Stanley --- , , USA Rachel M. Liniewski --- , , USA Philip J. Senter --- , , USAWithin the lizard family Scincidae (the skinks) are numerous examples of species with vestigial limbs and girdles, but these vestigial structures remain undescribed for many such species. Here we seek to partially fill this gap in knowledge by describing the... -
Bone-by-bone: A detailed skull description of the White-headed dwarf gecko Lygodactylus picturatus (Peters, 1870)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Javier Lobon-Rovira --- Universidade do Porto, Portugal Aaron Bauer --- Villanova University, United StatesThe Lygodactylus genus is one of the most species-rich genera of gekkonid lizards in Africa. It is one of relatively few exclusively diurnal geckos’ lineages and its members include some of the smallest gekkonids. Osteological features within Lygodactylus have never... -
Tropidosaura essexi Hewitt, 1927 (Reptilia: Lacertidae) is live bearing: the only viviparous African lacertid
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Gary K Nicolau --- Rhodes University, South Africa Emily A Jackson --- Rhodes University, South Africa Adriaan Jordaan --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Graham J Alexander --- School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaViviparity has evolved independently multiple times within squamate reptiles. In the Lacertidae, two genera and several species from the Northern Hemisphere are known to be viviparous. However, although viviparity is present in many African reptiles, all African lacertids were considered... -
A further new species of limbless skink, genus Paracontias, from eastern Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Jörn Köhler --- Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany DavidR. Vieites --- Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Spain Frank Glaw --- Zoologische Staatssammlung München, Germany Nathalie Kaffenberger --- Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany Miguel Vences --- Zoological Institute, Technical University of Braunschweig, GermanyWe describe a new species of the genus Paracontias from a rain forest in the northern Central East of Madagascar based on a single specimen. Paracontias kankana sp. nov. is unique among all known species of Paracontias by exhibiting large... -
A new species of Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Príncipe Island, Gulf of Guinea, West Africa with comments on the African-Atlantic clade of Hemidactylus geckos
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: ElizabethC. Miller --- University of California, USA AnnaB. Sellas --- California Academy of Sciences, USA RobertC. Drewes --- California Academy of Sciences, USAThe remote oceanic Gulf of Guinea islands of São Tomé and Príncipe are home to a highly endemic herpetofauna, which has become the focus of modern, on-going scientific analysis only during the past decade. Until now, the endemic Hemidactylus greeffi... -
Discovery of the second specimen of the African amphisbaenian Monopeltis kabindae Witte & Laurent, 1942
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Lívia Cristina dos Santos --- , , BrazilThe genus Monopeltis (Reptilia, Amphisbaenia) is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, occurring in several areas, from South Africa to Cameroon. Monopeltis kabindae Witte & Laurent, 1942 was until now only known from its type specimen, which was collected in 1930 in... -
Agama agama: a charter tourist in the Cape Verde Islands?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Raquel Vasconcelos --- , , Portugal Evandro Lopes --- , , Cape Verde Bruno H. Martins --- , , PortugalAgama agama is a successful invader that was recently introduced to Santo Antão Island of the Cape Verde archipelago. The species was then noted to be present also in São Vicente and Santiago Islands but the geographic origin of the... -
Morphological and molecular investigation of Scolelepis agilis (Verrill, 1873) (Annelida: Spionidae) from beaches of the Atlantic coast of North America
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Corey Bonavia --- Hofstra University, United States Maureen Krause --- Hofstra University, United States Jason Williams --- Hofstra University, United StatesPolychaete worms of the genus Scolelepis are one of the most abundant members of beach ecosystems worldwide. Along the Atlantic coast of North America, specimens of Scolelepis inhabiting high-energy beaches have long been erroneously identified as the European species Scolelepis... -
A comprehensive phylogeny of night adders (Causus)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Krystal A Tolley --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Jody M Barends --- University of Johannesburg, South Africa Eli Greenbaum --- University of Texas at El Paso, USA Werner Conradie --- Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld), South AfricaAfrican night adders (Causus) are an enigmatic group of viperid snakes in the subfamily Viperinae. These snakes have a suite of unusual characters atypical of other species of vipers (e.g., oviparous reproduction, round pupils) but are firmly placed within the...