Herpetology Notes https://herpetologynotes.org/index.php/hn <p><em>Herpetology Notes </em>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, <em>Amphibia-Reptilia</em>. Processing, editing, and typesetting of manuscripts is carried out by an international editorial team. The current rejection rate is around 30%.</p> Societas Europaea Herpetologica en-US Herpetology Notes 2071-5773 Rescue records of Leith’s Sandsnake, <em>Psammophis leithii</em> Günther, 1869, from Surat, Gujarat, India with some additional insights on pholidosis and natural history https://herpetologynotes.org/index.php/hn/article/view/3 Mehul Thakur Dikansh S. Parmar Hinrich Kaiser Copyright (c) 2025 Herpetology Notes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2025-03-13 2025-03-13 18 169–173 169–173 Communal nesting behaviour of female American Alligators, <em>Alligator mississippiensis</em> (Daudin, 1801) in southeastern Oklahoma, USA https://herpetologynotes.org/index.php/hn/article/view/33 Eric C.K. Gren Jake A. Pruett Jared P. Wood Tim M. Patton Copyright (c) 2025 Herpetology Notes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2025-03-24 2025-03-24 18 215–219 215–219 <p>Tail movements as an anti-predatory behaviour in <em>Hynobius okiensis</em> Sato, 1940<p> https://herpetologynotes.org/index.php/hn/article/view/36 Ama¨ël Borzée Yucheol Shin Taiji Shiraishi Copyright (c) 2025 Herpetology Notes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2025-03-26 2025-03-26 18 225 227 First record of <em>Trimerodytes praemaxillaris</em> (Angel, 1929) from Xaisomboun Province, Laos, with additional comments on morphology, natural history, and the type locality https://herpetologynotes.org/index.php/hn/article/view/38 <p>We describe the discovery of the 11th specimen of <em>Trimerodytes premaxillaris</em> and use this opportunity to make some clarifying remarks about the history of the species, its type locality, morphology, and natural history. The snake was found at the southernmost locality for the species and represents a new provincial record for Laos. It was in the process of swallowing a juvenile spiny bream (<em>Scaphiodonichthys acanthopterus</em>), the first identifiable prey for this snake. The snake was a female carrying two oviductal eggs indicating that the reproductive season of the species likely coincides with the monsoon season. This correlates with the collection of the hatchling type specimens in late 1925 or early 1926. Finally, we provide some additional detail regarding this species’ scale and colour pattern, as well as a more detailed account of the type locality and the time when the syntypes were collected.</p> Yanpeng Shen Christine M. Kaiser Kanto Nishikawa Daosavanh Sanamxay Phouth Inthavong Hinrich Kaiser Copyright (c) 2025 Herpetology Notes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 2025-03-05 2025-03-05 18 143–153 143–153