Vol 9, No 1 (2014)

Table of Contents

Articles

New cranial characters in the tribe Hydropsini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Xenodontinae)
Diego Di Pietro, Leandro Alcalde, Jorge Williams
1-14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-12988
The tadpole of <em>Odontophrynus barrio</em> Cei, Ruiz, and Beçak, 1982 (Anura: Odontophrynidae): a comparison with the other tadpoles of the genus
Exequiel González, Guillermina Galvani, Eduardo Sanabria, Diego Barrasso, Leandro Alcalde, Lorena Quiroga
15-23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-12931
High levels of prevalence related to age and body condition: host-parasite interactions in a water frog <em>Pelophylax</em> kl <em>hispanicus</em>
Mar Comas, Alexis Ribas, Concetta Milazzo, Emilio Sperone, Sandro Tripepi
25-31
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13117
Microclimatic variation in multiple <em>Salamandra algira</em> populations along an altitudinal gradient: phenology and reproductive strategies
Daniel Escoriza, Jihene Ben Hassine
33-41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13406
Fire salamander (<em>Salamandra salamandra</em>) in Larzac plateau: low occurrence, pond-breeding and cohabitation of larvae with paedomorphic palmate newts (<em>Lissotriton helveticus</em>)
Mathieu Denoël, Laurane Winandy
43-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13541
Habitat selection in the fossorial toad <em>Pelobates fuscus insubricus</em> (Amphibia: Pelobatidae): does the soil affect species occurrence?
Loredana Carisio, Roberto Sacchi, Daniele Seglie, Roberto Sindaco
51-59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-12667
A new, recently extinct subspecies of the Kuroiwa’s Leopard Gecko, <em>Goniurosaurus kuroiwae</em> (Squamata: Eublepharidae), from Yoronjima Island of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan
Yasuyuki Nakamura, Akio Takahashi, Hidetoshi Ota
61-73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13269
First evidence of the effects of agricultural activities on gonadal form and function in <em>Rhinella fernandezae</em> and <em>Dendropsophus sanborni</em> (Amphibia: Anura) from Entre Ríos Province, Argentina
Laura Sanchez, Rafael Lajmanovich, Paola Peltzer, Adriana Manzano, Celina Junges, Andrés Attademo
75-88
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13759
A review of the genus <em>Gonionotophis</em> in north-eastern Africa (Squamata: Lamprophiidae)
Benedetto Lanza, Donald Broadley
89-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-11929

Book Review

Federico Chacón, Richard Dennis Johnson. Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica
Sebastiano Salvidio
129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-14038

Short Note

Observations on the use of tarantula burrows by the anurans <em>Leptodactylus bufonius</em> (Leptodactylidae) and <em>Rhinella major</em> (Bufonidae) in the Dry Chaco ecoregion of Bolivia
Christopher Schalk, Marco Sezano
99-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13606
A preliminary report of amphibian mortality patterns on railways
Karolina Budzik, Krystian Budzik
103-107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-12914
Meiotic behavior of two polyploid species of genus <em>Pleurodema</em> (Anura: Leiuperidae) from central Argentina
Nancy Salas, Julián Valetti, Pablo Grenat, Manuel Otero, Adolfo Martino
109-113
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-12658
Clutch size in wild populations of <em>Alytes muletensis</em>
Samuel Pinya, Valentín Pérez-Mellado
115-117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13105
Consequences of haemogregarine infection on the escape distance in the lacertid lizard, <em>Podarcis vaucheri</em>
Isabel Damas-Moreira, D. James Harris, Daniela Rosado, Isabel Tavares, João Maia, Daniele Salvi, Ana Perera
119-123
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13740
Death in the clouds: ranavirus associated mortality in assemblage of cloud forest amphibians in Nicaragua
Tariq Stark, Carlijn Laurijssens, Martijn Weterings, Annemarieke Spitzen-van der Sluijs, An Martel, Frank Pasmans
125-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-13516
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