Cobras are among the most widely known venomous snakes, and yet their taxonomy
remains incompletely understood, particularly in Africa. Here, we use a combination of …

A substantial number of changes to the composition of the herpetofauna of the Mexican state
of Oaxaca, including taxonomic additions and deletions, have occurred in the five years …

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 …

The morphological reexamination of specimens previously identified as Laonice
bahusiensis Söderström, 1920 from North European and Mediterranean collections …

Allopatry among closely related congeners is common, but is sometimes an artifact
attributable to geographic sampling bias. In newly recognized zones of sympatry …

Vague geospatial biodiversity data can lead to confusion regarding the biogeography of
poorly-known species, and also complicate efforts for their conservation. The Guatemalan …

Invasive mammals are implicated in the decline or extinction of numerous insular vertebrate
species worldwide, yet rediscoveries of supposedly extinct vertebrates occur regularly. In …

We reviewed museum collections and the literature and found that published sources
underreport the locality-level distribution of the elegant coralsnake, Micrurus elegans, a …

The Spiny lizards with black nuchal collar bordering light lines contrasting deeply, belonging
to torquatus group of Sceloporus found in northeastern in below elevations (< 1500 m asl) …

Many herpetofaunal species in Mesoamerica are known to science from few specimens, and
hence their morphological variation remains poorly characterized (Bezy and Camarillo R …