The advanced snakes (Alethinophidia) include the extant snakes with a highly evolved head
morphology providing increased gape and jaw flexibility. Along with other physiological and …

Popular species names have always been based on human relationships with things
around them, usually reflecting species' external morphology, behavior or even the habitat …

Despite the recent advances in the systematics of snakes, the diversity of several
Neotropical groups of species remains poorly understood. The lack of studies focused on …

Slugs can be important agricultural pests in tropical regions. They are also intermediate
hosts of parasitic nematodes, such as Angiostrongylus costaricensis and A. cantonensis …

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

We assessed the current knowledge on non-avian reptile species composition in the state of
Rio de Janeiro (RJ), southeastern Brazil. We used published data in indexed journals and …

Currently the Atlantic Forest hotspot has less than 11% of its original coverage. However
approximately 300 species of reptiles are known to inhabit this ecoregion, of which 34% are …

 Abstract A molecular phylogeny of the Neotropical snail-eating snakes (tribe Dipsadini
Bonaparte, 1838) is presented that includes 60 of the 133 species currently recognized …

Advanced endoglyptodont snakes share a complex but homologous venom delivery system
associated with the upper jaw and its dentition. Recently, a remarkable novel lower jaw …

A hitherto unknown feeding mode among snakes is described for the colubrid snake
Oligodon fasciolatus in Northeast Thailand. Three cases of O. fasciolatus using enlarged …