Herpetology Notes

Communal nesting behaviour of female American Alligators, Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin, 1801) in southeastern Oklahoma, USA

Eric C.K. Gren, Jake A. Pruett, Jared P. Wood, Tim M. Patton — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Tail movements as an anti-predatory behaviour in Hynobius okiensis Sato, 1940

Ama¨ël Borzée, Yucheol Shin, Taiji Shiraishi — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Rescue records of Leith’s Sandsnake, Psammophis leithii Günther, 1869, from Surat, Gujarat, India with some additional insights on pholidosis and natural history

Mehul Thakur, Dikansh S. Parmar, Hinrich Kaiser — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

First record of Trimerodytes praemaxillaris (Angel, 1929) from Xaisomboun Province, Laos, with additional comments on morphology, natural history, and the type locality

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

We describe the discovery of the 11th specimen of Trimerodytes premaxillaris 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 (Scaphiodonichthys acanthopterus), 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.