Herpetology Notes

About the Journal

Herpetology Notes is an online-only and Open Access journal (under CC BY-NC 4.0) published by the Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH) alongside its flagship journal, Amphibia-Reptilia. Processing, editing, and typesetting of manuscripts is carried out by an international editorial team. The current rejection rate is around 30%.

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Current Issue

Vol. 19 (2026)

Published: 2026-01-07

Short Articles

Observation of limb abnormalities in Indirana chiravasi Padhye et al., 2014 from the Western Ghats region of Goa, India

Shubham Rane, Sagar Naik, Jalmesh Karapurkar, Nitin Sawant

103–105
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Postprandial refuge selection strategy in the Montpellier Snake, Malpolon monspessulanus (Hermann, 1804), in a human-altered landscape

Grégory Deso, Gonzalo del Barrio

61-64
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First records of axanthism in African Reed Frogs (genus Hyperolius) and an updated checklist of axanthic amphibians

Gregory Jongsma, Ange-Ghislain Zassi-Boulou, Hocraiche Mercia Ngouala, David C. Blackburn

31-37
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Predation on the Indian House Gecko, Hemidactylus flaviviridis Rüppell, 1835, by the huntsman spider Heteropoda venatoria in Kolkata, India

Saheba Khatun, Aniruddha Mitra

5–6
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Arboreal behaviour in Ocellated Lizards, Timon lepidus (Daudin, 1802): can trees play a role in species conservation?

Przemysław Zdunek, Grégory Deso, Matthieu Berroneau, Julien Renet, Elisa Leplat, Alexandre Roux, Alexandre Braut, Jean Nicolas, Auxence Foreau, Olivier Calvez

39-47
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The largest Eastern Newts, Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820), are found at high elevation in North Carolina

Hayleigh R. Locke, Maxwell Ramey, Jon M. Davenport, Dustin S. Siegel

17-19
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Courtship and mating behaviour of the Kenyan Rock Agama, Agama lionotus elgonis Lönnberg, 1922, and a new locality record in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Przemysław Zdunek, Philipp Wagner

99-101
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Yellow is the new green: abnormal colouration of Pelophylax sp. in Latvia and Lithuania

Alessandro Di Marzio, Rebeka ´Šķērstiņa, Elza Birbele

55-59
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New and recurrent morphological abnormalities in amphibians from northwest Mexico

Héctor A. Castro-Bastidas, Carolina Sedano-Camacho, Eduardo G. Santos-García, Perla M. Meza-Inostroza, Marcos Bucio-Pacheco, David R. Aguillón-Gutiérrez

11-14
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First record of the Southern White-lipped Mud Turtle, Kinosternon (Cryptochelys) leucostomum postinguinale (Cope, 1887), in Manabí Province, Ecuador

Moira L. M. Wiedebusch, Fernanda Rodriguez-Zambrano, Andrea E. Narváez

75-78
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First report of flavinistic albinism in Calamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955

Oliver Christopher, Gabrielle Poh, Robbin Tan, Catherine Tan, Md Azlan Mairin, Steven Wong, Frederic Griesbaum

7–9
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Predation of the threadsnake Epictia borapeliotes (Vanzolini, 1996) by Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira) in Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil

Alice C.B. de Souza, Hilda R. Silva de Melo, Mauro Pichorim

107–109
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Predation of Ameivula nigrigula (Arias et al., 2011) and Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758) by Jaguarundi cats, Herpailurus yagouaroundi (Saint-Hilaire, 1803), in the Caatinga morphoclimatic domain, Brazil

Gabriela Felix-Nascimento, Jacquelline G. N. Oliveira, Fabrício L. Silva, Judith R. M. Souza, Beatriz C. F. Luz, Dayane F. Oliveira, Leonardo B. Ribeiro, Patrícia A. Nicola, Luiz Cezar M. Pereira, Fabiano M. Vieira

93-97
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First record of the non-native Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834) on Rhodes Island, Greece

Konstantinos Kalaentzis, Paraskevi Louizidou

111–114
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Consumption of a Rough Earthsnake, Virginia striatula (Linnaeus, 1766), by a Green Sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, in Brazos County, Texas, USA

Rose C. Blanchard, Alberth H. Rojas-Carranza

89-92
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First record of symmetrical red stripes on a Common European Toad, Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758), from Germany

Anika Sander, Jörg Beckmann, Philipp Wagner

115–117
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First case of erythristic Common Frog, Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758, in Latvia

Alessandro Di Marzio, Rebeka Šķērstiņa , Elza Birbele

49–50
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Where giants meet: the first photographic record of the Asian Water Monitor, Varanus salvator (Laurenti, 1768), on Komodo Island, Indonesia, with notes on natural history

Zichen Qiao, Mingeun Cho, Jahiding Jahiding, Tianwei Kou

69-73
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A frog-eat-frog novelty: first record of “reverse age-class cannibalism” in the Arabian Toad, Sclerophrys arabica (Heyden, 1827), from King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Royal Natural Reserve, Saudi Arabia

Mohammad A. Abdulhakeem, Ahmed M. Almalki, Hinrich Kaiser, Wael M. Shohdi

83–87
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Adult aggression toward hatchlings in Yellow Land Iguanas, Conolophus subcristatus (Gray, 1831), on Wolf Volcano, Isabela Island, Galápagos

Jorge Carrión-Tacuri, Janai Yépez-Ruiz, Walter Chimborazo, Christian Sevilla, James P. Gibbs

79-82
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Caudal regeneration in introduced and native populations of the Italian Wall Lizard, Podarcis siculus (Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810), in California, USA, and Taormina, Italy, with reports of tail bifurcation

Alyssa Head, Maelstrom J. Lee, Amber L. Singh, Kinsey M. Brock

51-53
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First sightings of axanthism in the Lacertidae, observed in the Greek endemic Erhard’s Wall Lizard, Podarcis erhardii (Bedriaga, 1882)

Rory Mendelow, Kinsey M. Brock

1–3
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First record of fossorial foam nesting in the Forest Green Treefrog, Zhangixalus arboreus (Okada and Kawano, 1924) in Japan

Masaya Miyata, Koruri Fukai, Takeshi Fujita, Harue Abe

65–67
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A rare record of a midge biting Nidirana shyhhuangi Lin et al., 2025 in Taiwan

JhYu You, Yuan Teng Wang, Ming-Feng Chuang

15-16
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Herpetology Notes

About the Journal

Announcements

Welcome to the NEW Herpetology Notes website!

Current Issue

Short Articles

Observation of limb abnormalities in Indirana chiravasi Padhye et al., 2014 from the Western Ghats region of Goa, India

Postprandial refuge selection strategy in the Montpellier Snake, Malpolon monspessulanus (Hermann, 1804), in a human-altered landscape

First records of axanthism in African Reed Frogs (genus Hyperolius) and an updated checklist of axanthic amphibians

Predation on the Indian House Gecko, Hemidactylus flaviviridis Rüppell, 1835, by the huntsman spider Heteropoda venatoria in Kolkata, India

Arboreal behaviour in Ocellated Lizards, Timon lepidus (Daudin, 1802): can trees play a role in species conservation?

The largest Eastern Newts, Notophthalmus viridescens (Rafinesque, 1820), are found at high elevation in North Carolina

Courtship and mating behaviour of the Kenyan Rock Agama, Agama lionotus elgonis Lönnberg, 1922, and a new locality record in Lake Manyara National Park, Tanzania

Yellow is the new green: abnormal colouration of Pelophylax sp. in Latvia and Lithuania

New and recurrent morphological abnormalities in amphibians from northwest Mexico

First record of the Southern White-lipped Mud Turtle, Kinosternon (Cryptochelys) leucostomum postinguinale (Cope, 1887), in Manabí Province, Ecuador

First report of flavinistic albinism in Calamaria schmidti Marx & Inger, 1955

Predation of the threadsnake Epictia borapeliotes (Vanzolini, 1996) by Guira Cuckoo (Guira guira) in Rio Grande do Norte, northeastern Brazil

Predation of Ameivula nigrigula (Arias et al., 2011) and Iguana iguana (Linnaeus, 1758) by Jaguarundi cats, Herpailurus yagouaroundi (Saint-Hilaire, 1803), in the Caatinga morphoclimatic domain, Brazil

First record of the non-native Chinese Stripe-necked Turtle Mauremys sinensis (Gray, 1834) on Rhodes Island, Greece

Consumption of a Rough Earthsnake, Virginia striatula (Linnaeus, 1766), by a Green Sunfish, Lepomis cyanellus, in Brazos County, Texas, USA

First record of symmetrical red stripes on a Common European Toad, Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758), from Germany

First case of erythristic Common Frog, Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758, in Latvia

Where giants meet: the first photographic record of the Asian Water Monitor, Varanus salvator (Laurenti, 1768), on Komodo Island, Indonesia, with notes on natural history

A frog-eat-frog novelty: first record of “reverse age-class cannibalism” in the Arabian Toad, Sclerophrys arabica (Heyden, 1827), from King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Royal Natural Reserve, Saudi Arabia

Adult aggression toward hatchlings in Yellow Land Iguanas, Conolophus subcristatus (Gray, 1831), on Wolf Volcano, Isabela Island, Galápagos

Caudal regeneration in introduced and native populations of the Italian Wall Lizard, Podarcis siculus (Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1810), in California, USA, and Taormina, Italy, with reports of tail bifurcation

First sightings of axanthism in the Lacertidae, observed in the Greek endemic Erhard’s Wall Lizard, Podarcis erhardii (Bedriaga, 1882)

First record of fossorial foam nesting in the Forest Green Treefrog, Zhangixalus arboreus (Okada and Kawano, 1924) in Japan

A rare record of a midge biting Nidirana shyhhuangi Lin et al., 2025 in Taiwan

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