Volume 7 (2014) 
 
 Javier Méndez-Narváez and Adolfo Amézquita. Physical combat in the poison-arrow frog, Kokoé-pá (Oophaga histrionica) from Arusi, Choco, Colombia. pp. 1-2 (published online 25 January 2014) 
 
 Vladimir Dinets, Adam Britton and Matthew Shirley. Climbing behaviour in extant crocodilians. pp. 3-7 (published online 25 January 2014) 
 
 Ilias Strachinis and Matt Wilson. New record of Typhlops vermicularis Merrem, 1820 from Symi island, Greece. pp. 9-10 (published online 25 January 2014) 
 
 Marcos Adriano Tortato, Raíssa Fries Bressan and Tobias Saraiva Kunz. Reproduction of two exotic species of Trachemys Agassiz, 1857 (Testudines, Emydidae) at Parque Estadual da Serra do Tabuleiro, state of Santa Catarina, southern Brazil. pp. 11-15 (published online 25 January 2014) 
 
 Erica Bianca Oliveira Baracho, Jucirlian Souza da Silva, Bruno Henrique Morais do Nascimento, Emanuel Masiero da Fonseca and Felipe de Medeiros Magalhães. Dendropsophus branneri (Cochran, 1948) (Anura: Hylidae) as prey to invertebrates in northeastern Brazil. pp. 17-19 (published online 25 January 2014) 
 
 Nicolas Dubos, Nicola Piludu, Raphali Rodlis Andriantsimanarilafy, Joseph Christian Randrianantoandro and Franco Andreone. New findings of Phelsuma grandis and P. laticauda (Sauria: Gekkonidae) at the southern edge of the range of the endangered Phelsuma serraticauda in eastern Madagascar. pp. 21-23 (published online 25 January 2014) 
 
 Aleksandar Simović, Nils Anderson, Marko Anđelković, Slađana Gvozdenović and Sonja Đorđević. Unusual amplexuses between anurans and caudates. pp. 25-29 (published online 25 January 2014) 
 
 Bruno F. Camera, Diones Krinski and Isabella A. Calvo. Diet of the Neotropical frog Leptodactylus mystaceus (Anura: Leptodactylidae). pp. 31-36 (published online 04 February 2014) 
 
 André Pedro Do Couto and Marcelo Menin. Predation on the lizard Alopoglossus angulatus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) by the Smoky Jungle Frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in Central Amazonia. pp. 37-39 (published online 04 February 2014) 
 
 James R. McCranie and Leonardo Valdés Orellana. New island records and updated nomenclature of amphibians and reptiles from the Islas de la Bahía, Honduras. pp. 41-49 (published online 04 February 2014) 
 
 Vinh Quang Luu, Canh Xuan Le, Huy Quang Do, Tuoi Thi Hoang, Truong Quang Nguyen, Michael Bonkowski and Thomas Ziegler. New records of amphibians from Thuong Tien Nature Reserve, Hoa Binh Province, Vietnam. pp. 51-48 (published online 04 February 2014) 
 
 N’Goran Germain Kouamé, Abouo Béatrice Adepo-Gourène, Jean Christophe B.Y.N. Konan, Mike Emmrich, Johannes Penner and Mark-Oliver Rödel. Second record of Hyperolius laurenti Schiøtz, 1967 (Anura: Hyperoliidae) in south-eastern Ivory Coast, with observations on the species’ variability, call characteristics and habitat. pp. 59-65 (published online 04 February 2014) 
 
 Joana Sabino-Pinto, Christopher J. Mayerl, Willem R.M. Meilink, Diana Grasso, Constantijn C.B. Raaijmakers, Valerio G. Russo, Maud Segal, Gwij Stegen, Jonathan Clegg, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Frank Glaw and Miguel Vences. Descriptions of the advertisement calls of three sympatric frog species in the subgenus Vatomantis (genus Gephyromantis) from Madagascar. pp. 67-73 (published online 04 February 2014) 
 
 Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Masoud Yousefi, Ali Khani and Eskandar Rastegar Pouyani. Snake fauna of Shirahmad wildlife refuge and Parvand protected area, Khorasan Razavi province, Iran. pp. 75-82 (published online 04 February 2014) 
 
 Daniel R. Lenger, Julia K. Berkey and Matthew B. Dugas. Predation on the toxic Oophaga pumilio (Anura: Dendrobatidae) by Rhadinaea decorata (Squamata: Collubridae). pp. 83-84 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 
 
 Benjamin Taylor and Charlie Gardner. Nectar feeding by the day gecko Phelsuma mutabilis (Squamata: Gekkonidae) on the mangrove tree Sonneratia alba (Lythraceae) in southwest Madagascar. pp. 85-87 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 Donald T. McKnight and Day B. Ligon. Shell and pattern abnormalities in a population of western chicken turtles (Deirochelys reticularia miaria). pp. 89-91 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 Nelson R. Silva, Paulo Robson Souza, Michele F. Gonçalves, Manoel F. Demétrio and Cynthia P. A. Prado. A voracious female during the courtship of Ceratophrys cranwelli (Anura: Ceratophryidae) in the Brazilian Chaco. pp. 93-95 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 Laura M. Falkenberg, Arielson S. Protázio, Ralph L. Albuquerque and Daniel O. Mesquita. Predation of Phyllomedusa nordestina (Anura: Hylidae) by Leptodeira annulata (Serpente: Dipsadidae) in a temporary pond. pp. 97-98 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 
 
 Ana Lúcia da Costa Prudente, Alessandro Costa Menks, Fernanda Magalhães da Silva and Gleomar Fabiano Maschio. Diet and reproduction of the Western Indigo Snake Drymarchon corais (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Brazilian Amazon. pp. 99-108 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 Melrose Roderick and Joyce Gross. The AmphibiaWeb app and use of mobile devices in research and outreach. pp. 109-113 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 Henrique Caldeira Costa, Diogo Borges Provete and Renato Neves Feio. A new prey record for the Banded Calico Snake Oxyrhopus petolarius (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). pp. 115-118 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 Vitor Freitas Oliveira, Tailise Marques Dias and Tiago Gomes dos Santos. Multiple amplexus and spawning in the leaf frog Phyllomedusa iheringii (Hylidae, Phyllomedusinae). pp. 119-120 (published online 17 February 2014) 
 
 
 
 R. Graham Reynolds, Alberto R. Puente-Rolón, Mike Barandiaran and Liam J. Revell. Hispaniolan Boa (Chilabothrus striatus) on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. pp. 121-122 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 Carlos R. Santos-Silva, Igor S. Andrade, Maria L. N. Araújo, Lívia Claudia S. Barros, Lidiane Gomes and Stephen F. Ferrari. Predation of six anuran species by the banded cat-eyed snake, Leptodeira annulata (Serpentes: Dipsadidae), in the Caatinga scrub of northeastern Bahia, Brazil. pp. 123-126 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 Elham Rezazadeh, Ramin Mohammadi Alucheh and Haji Gholi Kami. A preliminary study on the Mediterranean spur-thighed tortoise Testudo graeca Linnaeus, 1758 from northwestern Iran. pp. 127-133 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Lucas Ferrante, Mario Sacramento and Ariadne Angulo. Defensive behaviour in Aplastodiscus leucopygius (Cruz and Peixoto, 1985) (Anura: Hylidae). pp. 135-138 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 Sharma Vivek, Meena Dinesh, Kumawat Rakesh Kumar, Yadav Divaker and K.K. Sharma. Interspecies mating interactions between Duttaphrynus stomaticus (Marbled Toad) and Sphaerotheca breviceps (Indian burrowing frog) at the central Aravalli foothills, Rajasthan, India. pp. 139-140 (corrected verson published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 Daniel Jablonski and Petr Balej. Case of defensive behavior in Pelobates syriacus (Amphibia: Pelobatidae). pp. 141-143 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Boey Yee Cheng, Siew Por Wong and Gary A. Dykes. Salmonella associated with captive and wild lizards in Malaysia. pp. 145-147 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Sam Hyde Roberts and Charlotte Daly. First record of Petter’s chameleon, Furcifer petteri (Brygoo & Domergue, 1966) from Nosy Be Island, Northwest Madagascar. pp. 149-151 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Steven Poe and Beeling Armijo. Lack of effect of herpetological collecting on the population structure of a community of Anolis (Squamata: Dactyloidae) in a disturbed habitat. pp. 153-157 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 Roberta Bisconti, Gaetano Aloise, Paolo Cipriani and Daniele Canestrelli. Predation by the Italian pool frog Pelophylax lessonae bergeri on the Valais shrew, Sorex antinorii. pp. 159-160 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 Ricardo Rocha and Rui Rebelo. Evidence of long-term stability in the iris pattern of Tarentola geckos. pp. 161-163 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 Leejiah Dorward. Predation of Elaphe dione (Pallas, 1773) by Dolichophis caspius (Gmelin, 1789) (Squamata: Colubridae). pp. 165-166 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Lourdes Y. Echevarría. Distribution extension of the endemic lizard Macropholidus huancabambae (Reeder, 1996) (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). pp. 167-168 (published online 11 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Edélcio Muscat, Elsie Laura Rotenberg and Carlos Alberto Chagas. Predation of Scinax littoralis (Anura: Hylidae) by Eriophora fuliginea (Arenae: Araneidae) in Southeastern Brazil. pp. 169-170 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Donald T. McKnight, Joshua R. Harmon, Jennifer L. McKnight and Day B. Ligon. Notes on the diets of seven sympatric snakes in the genera Agkistrodon, Nerodia, Sistrurus, and Thamnophis. pp. 171-177 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 Carlos Eduardo Domingos Cintra, Helder Lúcio Rodrigues da Silva and Nelson Jorge da Silva Junior. First record of Lithodytes lineatus (Schneider, 1799) (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in the state of Tocantins, ecotone zone Amazon-Cerrado biomes, with notes on its natural history. pp. 179-184 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Thomas Ziegler, Dao Thi Anh Tran, Truong Quang Nguyen, Ronith Gila Bina Perl, Lea Wirk, Magdalena Kulisch, Tanja Lehmann, Anna Rauhaus, Tao Thien Nguyen, Quyet Khac Le and Thanh Ngoc Vu. New amphibian and reptile records from Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam. pp. 185-201 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Rafael de Fraga, Miquéias Ferrão, and Vinícius Tadeu de Carvalho. Geographic range extension of the Toad Leaf Frog Phyllomedusa atelopoides Duellman, Cadle and Cannatella, 1988 (Anura, Hylidae). pp. 203-205 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Jeffrey W. Streicher, Jacobo Reyes-Velasco, Christian L. Cox, Jonathan A. Campbell and Oscar Flores-Villela. Additional distributional records of a recently described Mexican toad species, Incilius mccoyi (Anura: Bufonidae). pp. 207-210 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
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 Daniel Oliveira Santana, Crizanto Brito De-Carvalho, Stéphanie Menezes Rocha, Evellyn Borges de Freitas and Renato Gomes Faria. Trachemys dorbigni (Duméril & Bibron, 1835) (Testudines: Emydidae) recorded in an artificial pond in northeastern Brazil. pp. 211-213 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 Tailise Marques Dias, Rogério Pereira Bastos, Mariana Nascimento Siqueira and Alessandro Ribeiro Morais. The release call of Hypsiboas goianus (B. Lutz, 1968) (Anura: Hylidae) from Central Brazil. pp. 215-217 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Etielle Barroso de Andrade, José Roberto S. Almeida Leite and Gilda Vasconcellos de Andrade. Anurans from the municipality of Ilha Grande, Parnaíba River Delta, Piauí, northeastern Brazil. pp. 219-226 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Richard Matthew Lehtinen. Confirmation of nest building in a population of the gladiator frog Hypsiboas crepitans (Anura, Hylidae) from the island of Tobago (West Indies). pp. 227-229 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 Mauro Sérgio Cruz Souza Lima, Jonas Pederassi and Carlos Alberto dos Santos Souza. Anurans of Serra D’Água, Northwest of Cunhambebe State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp. 231-233 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 Kent Ryan Caldwell, Xi Hong, Andrew M. Brinker and Dominic J. Yurk. Utilisation of weep holes in retaining walls by the Japanese gecko (Gekko japonicus Dumeril & Bibron, 1836) in Fukuoka, Japan. pp. 235-240 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 Golusu Baburao and Bhava Mothilal Krishna Kumar. New locality record of Treutler’s gecko Hemidactylus treutleri Mahony, 2009 in Andhra Pradesh, India. pp. 241-243 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 Najmeh Sadeghi, Mehdi Rajabizadeh, Nasrullah Rastegar-Pouyani and Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani. Updated distribution of Eirenis collaris (Ménétriés, 1832) (Serpentes; Colubridae) in Iran. pp. 245-246 (published online 16 April 2014) 
 
 Alexandra Lima, Aurélien Miralles, Frank Glaw, Juliane Ahlburg, Miriam Börner, Jan Felix Hoven, Bastian Kruse, Florian Küssner, Mandy Ludwig, Franziska Molde, Annika-Marisa Michel, Katrin Müller, Supak Panpeng, Carmen Schneider, Julia Worm and Miguel Vences. A preliminary assessment of morphological differentiation between two common Malagasy skink species, Trachylepis elegans and T. gravenhorstii. pp. 247-260 (published online 25 April 2014) 
 
 Thiago A. Dorigo, Davor Vrcibradic, Vitor N. T. Borges-Junior and Carlos F. D. Rocha. New records of anuran predation by snakes of the genus Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 (Colubridae: Dipsadinae) in the Atlantic rainforest of southeastern Brazil. pp. 261-264 (published online 25 April 2014) 
 
 Børre K. Dervo, Jon Museth, Jostein Skurdal, Ole Kristian Berg and Morten Kraabøl. Comparison of active and passive sampling methods for detecting and monitoring the smooth newt (Lissotriton vulgaris) and the endangered northern crested newt (Triturus cristatus). pp. 265-272 (published online 25 April 2014) 
 
 Serena Najara Migliore, Henrique Bartolomeu Braz and Selma Maria Almeida-Santos. Reproductive aspects of two Enyalius lizards from the Atlantic forest in Southeastern Brazil. pp. 273-276 (published online 25 April 2014) 
 
 
 
 Albert Martínez-Silvestre, Fèlix Amat and Salvador Carranza. Natural incidence of body abnormalities in the Montseny newt, Calotriton arnoldi Carranza and Amat, 2005. pp. 277-279 (published online 25 April 2014) 
 
 Alfredo M. Beraún, Vilma Durán, Silvana C. Álvarez and Pablo J. Venegas. Distribution extension and an updated map for Pristimantis corrugatus, P. schultei and P. wagteri in northern Peru. (Amphibia, Anura, Craugastoridae). pp. 281-285 (published online 11 May 2014) 
 
 Davidson Sodré, Adriano Augusto Vilhena Martins and Marcelo Vallinoto. Heterospecific amplexus between the frog Leptodactylus macrosternum (Anura: Leptodactylidae) and the toad Rhinella cf. granulosa (Anura: Bufonidae). pp. 287-288 (published online 11 May 2014) 
 
 Meghan Jensen and Amy McMillan. Evidence of Native Lamprey Parasitism on the Eastern Hellbender. pp. 289-290 (published online 11 May 2014) 
 
 Luiz F. Ribeiro, Patrícia R. Ströher, Carina R. Firkowski, Felipe A. Cini, Marcos R. Bornschein and Marcio R. Pie. Brachycephalus pernix (Anura: Brachycephalidae), a new host of Ophiotaenia (Eucestoda: Proteocephalidea). pp. 291-294 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Daniel Jablonski, Daniel Frynta and Gabriel Martínez del Mármol Marín. New records of the Awl-headed Snake (Lytorhynchus diadema) from northeastern Morocco. pp. 295-297 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Javier Méndez-Narváez, Jhon Jairo Ospina-Sarria and Wilmar Bolívar-G. Diet and trophic ecology of Leptodactylus fragilis (Leptodactylidae) and Dendropsophus columbianus (Anura: Hylidae) in a disturbed area in southwestern Colombia. pp. 299-305 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Richard P.J.H. Struijk, Wilbert Bosman and Jöran Janse. Cannibalism in Bombina variegata Linnaeus, 1758 in Wahlwiller, Limburg Province, the Netherlands. pp. 307-308 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Igor Joventino Roberto, Thieres Pinto, Álcio Schlickmann and Andressa Fraga. From Amazonia to the semi-arid: the unexpected record of Gonatodes humeralis (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) for the Caatinga Biome. pp. 309-311 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Guillermo A. Woolrich-Piña, Julio A. Lemos-Espinal, Geoffrey R. Smith, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Silva and Luis Oliver-López. Male and female reproductive cycles of Xenosaurus rectocollaris (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from the Tehuacan Valley, Puebla, Mexico. pp. 313-317 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Shashank Balakrishna and Nitin Achari. Preliminary observations on the ovipositional behavior of the Peninsular Rock Agama Psammophilus dorsalis (Gray, 1831) from Savandurga forest area of Southwestern Karnataka, India. pp. 319-322 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Marco Sannolo and Francesca Gatti and Stefano Scali. First record of thanatosis behaviour in Malpolon monspessulanus (Squamata: Colubridae) pp. 323 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 João Paulo Vasconcelos, Geandre de Lira Sousa, José Roberto Souza Almeida Leite and Etielle Barroso de Andrade. New record and geographic distribution map of Physalaemus centralis (Anura: Leptodactylidae), in Piauí, northeastern Brazil. pp. 325-327 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Rafael Parelli Bovo, Eliziane Garcia de Oliveira and Lucas Nicioli Bandeira. Predation on two Dendropsophus species (Anura: Hylidae) by a pisaurid spider in the Atlantic forest, southeastern Brazil. pp. 329-331 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Guilherme Augusto Bortolotto and Maria do Socorro Santos dos Reis. Flipper lack in Chelonia mydas (Cheloniidae). pp. 333-334 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Pedro da Costa Silva and Robert W. Henderson. Mating behavior of Amazon Treeboas, Corallus hortulanus (Squamata: Boidae), on Batatas Island, Piauí, Brazil. pp. 335-336 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 
 
 Bhava Mothilal Krishnakumar. First observation on breeding habits of Indian Bridal Snake Dryocalamus nympha (Daudin, 1803). pp. 337-338 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Manuel Iturriaga. Autohemorrhaging behavior in the Cuban Dwarf Boa Tropidophis melanurus Schlegel, 1837 (Serpentes: Tropidophiidae). pp. 339-341 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 
 
 Serge Herilala Ndriantsoa, Tsanta Rakotonanahary, Jeff Dawson and Devin Edmonds. Predation of the Critically Endangered Boophis williamsi by Boophis goudotii at Ankaratra Massif, Madagascar. pp. 343-345 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Helena Nery Alves-Pinto, Vanessa Kruth Verdade and Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues. Morphometric variation of Pipa pipa (Linnaeus, 1758) (Anura: Pipidae) with notes on diet and gonad development. pp. 347-353 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 
 
 Diêgo Alves Teles, Mario Eduardo Santos Cabral, João Antonio de Araujo-Filho, Diógenes de Queiroz Dias, Robson Waldemar Ávila and Waltécio de Oliveira Almeida. Helminths of Leptodactylus vastus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) in an area of Caatinga, Brazil. pp. 355-356 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Rosa Hermina de Oliveira, Marciana Claudio da Silva and Robson Waldemar Ávila. Predation of Leptodactylus macrosternum Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926 (Anura: Leptodactylidae) by Lygophis dilepis Cope, 1862 (Squamata: Dipsadidae). pp. 357-358 (published online 26 May 2014) 
 
 Mark R. Herse and Julie M. Ray. A review and correction of data on a poorly known leaf litter snake, Trimetopon slevini (Dunn, 1940), from Panama, including additional data on defensive behaviours. pp. 359-361 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 
 
 Marcio Mageski, Rodrigo Barbosa Ferreira, Cássio Zocca, Rogério Luiz Teixeira and Dennis Rödder. The unusual occurrence of a population of Dendropsophus elegans (Anura: Hylidae) in an inselberg of southeastern Brazil. pp. 363-365 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 Vassia Spaneli and Petros Lymberakis. First record of Stellagama stellio (Linnaeus, 1758) from Crete, Greece. pp. 367-369 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 
 
 Fábio Maffei, Marcio Bolfarini and Flávio Kulaif Ubaid. Predation of Scinax fuscovarius (Anura: Hylidae) by two invertebrates in Southeastern Brazil. pp. 371-374 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 Ivan Ineich, Laurent Chirio, Maurice Ascani, Thomas Rabeil and John Newby. Herpetofauna of Termit Massif and neighbour areas in Tenere Desert, southeastern Niger, West Africa. pp. 375-390 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 Ricardo Lourenço-de-Moraes,Vinicius Guerra Batista and Rodrigo Barbosa Ferreira. Defensive behaviors of Leptodactylus chaquensis (Anura: Leptodactylidae). pp. 391-392 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 Claudio Borteiro, Diego Baldo, Tobias Saraiva Kunz, Renata Perez, Rodrigo Petry Eltz and Francisco Kolenc. Contracting behaviour in three species of Phyllomedusa (Anura: Hylidae: Phyllomedusinae). pp. 393-395 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
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 Simon Dieckmann, Gerrut Norval and Jean-Jay Mao. A description of a clutch of the Indo-Chinese rat snake, Ptyas korros (Schlegel, 1837), with notes on an instance of twinning. pp. 397-399 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 
 
 Panagiotis Kornilios. First report of piebaldism in scolecophidians: a case of Typhlops vermicularis (Squamata: Typhlopidae). pp. 401-403 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 
 
 Maria Juliana Borges-Leite, João Fabrício Mota Rodrigues and Diva Maria Borges-Nojosa. Herpetofauna of a coastal region of northeastern Brazil. pp. 405-413 (published online 18 June 2014) 
 
 Jillian C. Newman, Christopher J. Thawley, and Tracy Langkilde. Red imported fire ant predation on eggs of the eastern fence lizard. pp. 415-418 (published online 05 July 2014) 
 
 Vinh Quang Luu, Thomas Calame, Truong Quang Nguyen, Annemarie Ohler, Michael Bonkowski and Thomas Ziegler. First records of Gracixalus supercornutus (Orlov, Ho and Nguyen, 2004) and Rhacophorus maximus Günther, 1858 from Laos. pp. 419-423 (published online 05 July 2014) 
 
 David Chiszar, Bryon K. Shipley, Hobart M. Smith, Kevin Fitzgerald and Anthony J. Saviola. Straightness-of-path during and after vernal migration in prairie rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis, in eastern Colorado. pp. 425-436 (published online 05 July 2014) 
 
 Renato Augusto Martins, André Moreira Assalim and Flavio de Barros Molina. The presence of the Red-eared slider, Trachemys scripta elegans (Wied, 1838) (Testudines, Emydidae), an invasive species, in the Paraibuna river basin, Southeastern Brazil. pp. 437-441 (published online 05 July 2014) 
 
 
 
 Ibere Farina Machado, Daniel Bühler, Michelle Abadie, Alfredo P. Santos-Jr Júnior and Raquel Rocha Santos. Distribution extension of Vitreorana uranoscopa (Anura: Centrolenidae) in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil. pp. 443-446 (published online 05 July 2014) 
 
 Kadaba Shamanna Seshadri. Display behaviour in response to a perceived threat by Indian short-headed kukri snake Oligodon brevicaudus (Günther, 1862) (Squamata: Colubridae). pp. 447-450 (published online 18 August 2014) 
 
 Darciane Maria de Amorim, Igor Joventino Roberto and Robson Waldemar Ávila. Distribution extension of Amphisbaena ibijara Rodrigues, Andrade & Lima, 2003 (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae). pp. 451-452 (published online 18 August 2014) 
 
 Frederico de A. Menezes Daniela Gennari P. Toledo and Valdir J. Germano. Erythrolamprus miliaris orinus Cope, 1868 (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Xenodontinae): Melanism. pp. 453-454 (published online 18 August 2014) 
 
 
 
 André Felipe Barreto-Lima and Luciano Alves dos Anjos. Occurrence of Strongyluris oscari (Nematoda; Heterakidae) in Enyalius bilineatus (Squamata: Leiosaurinae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. pp. 455-456 (published online 18 August 2014) 
 
 
 
 Marco Antonio de Freitas, Tayse Farias Samantha Oliveira e Sousa, Ruhan Saldanha Vieira, Geraldo Jorge Barbosa de Moura and Vivian Uhlig. First record of Phyllomedusa vaillantii Boulenger, 1882 (Amphibia: Anura) for the state of Maranhão, Brazil. pp. 457-459 (published online 25 August 2014) 
 
 Sebastian Wolf. Pond breeders and phytotelm dwellers in a heavily threatened habitat: the amphibians of a littoral forest remnant on Madagascar’s Masoala Peninsula. pp. 461-470 (published online 25 August 2014) 
 
 Bradley E. Carlson, Jennie Williams and Jason Langshaw. Is synchronized ecdysis in wild ratsnakes (Pantherophis alleghaniensis) linked to humidity? pp. 471-473 (published online 25 August 2014) 
 
 Arthur Diesel Abegg, Conrado Mario da Rosa, Camila Pivetta Cavalheiro, Flora Roncolatto Ortiz and Leandro Malta Borges. Partial albinism in Sibynomorphus ventrimaculatus (Boulenger, 1885) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) in Rio Grande do Sul state, Brazil. pp. 475-476 (published online 25 August 2014) 
 
 Francesca Gatti and Marco Sannolo. Two cases of polydactyly in the Italian crested newt, Triturus carnifex. pp. 477-478 (published online 25 August 2014) 
 
 
 
 Nathocley Mendes Venancio, André Luis Botelho de Moura, Thaline de Freitas Brito, Tomaz Nascimento de Melo and Moisés Barbosa de Souza. First record of Cruziohyla craspedopus (Anura: Hylidae) for the State of Acre, with an updated distribution map. pp. 479-480 (published online 25 August 2014) 
 
 Lesly Lujan and Pablo J. Venegas. Pristimantis divnae Lehr and von May, 2009 (Anura: Craugastoridae): geographic range extension. pp. 505-508 (published online 25 August 2014) . 
 
 
 
 Gwendola K. Tkaczenko, Adeline C. Fischer and Robbie Weterings. Prey preference of the Common House Geckos Hemidactylus frenatus and Hemidactylus platyurus. pp. 483-488 (published online 25 August 2014) . 
 
 
 
 Manuella Folly, Juliana Kirchmeyer, Marcia dos Reis Gomes, Fabio Hepp, Joice Ruggeri, Cyro de Luna- Dias, Andressa M. Bezerra, Lucas C. Amaral and Sergio P. de Carvalho-e-Silva. Amphibians from the Centro Marista São José das Paineiras, in Mendes, and surrounding municipalities, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. pp. 489-499 (published online 25 August 2014). 
 
 Anthony Santana Ferreira, Adilson De Oliveira Silva, Breno Moura Da Conceiçao, Danielle De Souza Cardoso, Poliana Santos and Renato Gomes Faria. Predation on Tropidurus semitaeniatus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) by Acanthoscurria natalensis (Aranea: Theraphosidae) in the semiarid Caatinga region of northeastern Brazil. pp. 501-503 (published online 25 August 2014) . 
 
 
 
 Amanda Saldanha Barbosa, Mateus de Oliveira, Ana Lusia Leal, Carine Von Mühlen, Claudia Sabrina Spindler and Mirco Solé. Diet of Hypsiboas leptolineatus (Braun and Braun, 1977) (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae) during the breeding season. pp. 505-508 (published online 25 August 2014) . 
 
 
 
 Magaly Holden, Francis Girard and Ivan Ineich. Eggs and hatchlings of Hemiphyllodactylus typus Bleeker, 1860 (Gekkonidae) on a small islet in New Caledonia. pp. 509-516 (published online 01 September 2014) . 
 
 Sonia Cortés Bedoya, Juan C. Mantilla-Castaño and Iván M. Pareja-Márquez. Necrophiliac and interspecific amplexus in Dendropsophus columbianus (Anura: Hylidae) in the Central Cordillera of Colombia. pp. 515-516 (published online 01 September 2014) . 
 
 Miguel Machado and Victor Mendes Lipinski. Predation event on tadpole of Scinax aromothyella (Anura: Hylidae) by the fishing spider Thaumasia velox (Araneae: Pisauridae) in a rainforest of southern Brazil. pp. 517-518 (published online 08 September 2014) . 
 
 
 
 Shashank Balakrishna. Predation of Black rat Rattus rattus (Rodentia: Muridae) by the Rock lizard Psammophilus dorsalis (Squamata: Agamidae) from sub-urban Bangalore, Karnataka. pp. 519-520 (published online 08 September 2014) . 
 
 
 
 Elvis Almeida Pereira Silva, Emanuel Teixeira da Silva, Renata Magalhães Pirani and Sarah Mângia. Distress calls of two species of the Bokermannohyla circumdata group (Amphibia, Anura, Hylidae). pp. 521-524 (published online 08 September 2014) . 
 
 Javier Torres and Martín Acosta. Predation attempt by Anolis porcatus (Sauria, Dactyloidae) on Mus musculus (Rodentia, Muridae). pp. 525-526 (published online 08 September 2014) . 
 
 Javier Torres, Carlos Pérez-Penichet and Orlando Torres. Predation attempt by Tropidophis melanurus (Serpentes, Tropidophiidae) on Anolis porcus (Sauria, Dactyloidae). pp. 527-529 (published online 08 September 2014) . 
 
 
 
 Guilherme de Toledo Figueiredo, Diego José Santana and Luiz dos Anjos. New records and distribution map of Scinax rizibilis (Bokermann, 1964). pp. 531-534 (published online 08 September 2014) . 
 
 Katie A. H. Bell and Patrick T. Gregory. White blood cells in Northwestern Gartersnakes (Thamnophis ordinoides). pp. 535-541 (published online 12 September 2014) . 
 
 
 
 
 
 (new contents are being added to the new Herpetology Notes website as of September 2014: http://biotaxa.org/hn/index) 
 
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 Crocodiles can climb trees. And they do it well, too: Some of the toothy reptiles have been spotted as high as 32 feet up a tree. 
 
 That’s not somewhere a normally aquatic crocodile ends up by accident. 
 
 Once considered a characteristic of extinct crocodilians, this proclivity for scampering up trees is common in today’s crocodiles, a team of scientists reports in Herpetology Notes [pdf]. That’s surprising, because crocodiles don’t really have the anatomic adaptations needed to easily grip tree branches and scale tree trunks in the way that sloths or monkeys do. But various sightings suggested that the reptiles, and their alligator friends, were somehow managing to become tree-borne. 
 
 To determine just how frequently crocodiles climb into trees, the team looked in several places. The first was published scientific literature — all three references, one of which, dating back to 1972, described how baby crocodiles could “climb into bushes, up trees and even hang on reeds like chameleons.” 
 
 The second? Anecdotal reports from around the world describing crocodiles and alligators in trees. Turns out, the behavior has been seen quite a bit by people living in crocodile-rich areas. Among other places, arboreal crocodilians have been spotted in the mangrove swamps near Tulum, Mexico; in Mississippi (photo, above); in Colombia, where juveniles can be found 30 feet up; and along the Nile. 
 
 Next, the scientists set out to collect a few observations of their own. In Australia, they saw crocodiles in trees — and spotted one individual attempting to scale a chain-link fence. In the Everglades and Central America, many crocodiles were spotted basking on the concealed lower branches of mangrove trees. At some of these sites, the only way the reptiles could have reached their resting spot was by climbing up the tree trunk itself. And in Africa, Nile crocodiles and their relatives were seen just as frequently in trees as were some birds. In many instances, these reptiles were lying on tree limbs that were nowhere near the water. One was spotted on a log 13 feet above the water and 16 feet from the riverbank. “To reach this site the crocodile would have had to scale a [13-foot] completely vertical bank and then walk amongst the branches to reach the end of the tree,” the authors reported. 
 
 Overall, the team found crocodiles in trees, day and night, pretty much everywhere they looked. They suggest the behavior exists as a means for regulating body temperature and surveying the environment. But the crocodiles are skittish — most promptly fell off their logs or dove into the water as observers approached. 

 University of Tennessee study finds crocodiles climb trees 
 
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 When most people envision crocodiles and alligators, they think of them waddling on the ground or wading in water -- not climbing trees. However, a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, study has found that the reptiles can climb trees as far as the crowns. Vladimir Dinets, a research assistant professor in the Department of Psychology, is the first to thoroughly study the tree-climbing and -basking behavior. The research is published in the journal Herpetology. 
 
 Dinets and his colleagues observed crocodilian species on three continents -- Australia, Africa and North America -- and examined previous studies and anecdotal observations. They found that four species climbed trees -- usually above water -- but how far they ventured upward and outward varied by their sizes. The smaller crocodilians were able to climb higher and further than the larger ones. Some species were observed climbing as far as four meters high in a tree and five meters down a branch. 
 
 "Climbing a steep hill or steep branch is mechanically similar, assuming the branch is wide enough to walk on," the authors wrote. "Still, the ability to climb vertically is a measure of crocodiles' spectacular agility on land." 
 
 The crocodilians seen climbing trees, whether at night or during the day, were skittish of being approached, jumping or falling into the water when an approaching observer was as far as 10 meters away. This response led the researchers to believe that the tree climbing and basking are driven by two conditions: thermoregulation and surveillance of habitat. 
 
 "The most frequent observations of tree-basking were in areas where there were few places to bask on the ground, implying that the individuals needed alternatives for regulating their body temperature," the authors wrote. "Likewise, their wary nature suggests that climbing leads to improved site surveillance of potential threats and prey." 
 
 The data suggests that at least some crocodilian species are able to climb trees despite lacking any obvious morphological adaptations to do so. 
 
 "These results should be taken into account by paleontologists who look at changes in fossils to shed light on behavior," said Dinets. "This is especially true for those studying extinct crocodiles or other Archosaurian taxa." 
 
 Dinets collaborated with Adam Britton from Charles Darwin University in Australia and Matthew Shirley from the University of Florida. 
 
 Research by Dinets published in 2013 found another surprising crocodilian characteristic -- the use of lures such as sticks to hunt prey. More of his research can be found in his book "Dragon Songs."
– As far as discoveries go, this is a somewhat terrifying one, assuming one has a healthy respect for crocodiles on the ground: They can climb and perch in trees. And they can really climb, with researchers spotting them more than a dozen feet from the ground. While anecdotal reports have placed the reptiles in trees in Mississippi, Colombia, and along the Nile, only three references to such behavior appear in scientific literature. And so researchers set out to determine whether it was a regular practice, observing crocodilians (which includes crocs and alligators) on three continents: Australia, Africa, and North America. What they found, as reported in Herpetology Notes: Four species were identified as able to climb trees, and were spotted, in once case, as high as 13 feet above the ground—and as far as 16 feet down a branch. Getting there meant scaling "a completely vertical bank and then [walking] amongst the branches to reach the end of the tree," wrote the team, led by University of Tennessee researcher Vladimir Dinets. Another wild observation, per Wired: Along the Nile, crocodiles were seen in the trees as often as some birds were. The crocodiles were observed climbing trees (and, in one case in Australia, trying to climb a chain-link fence) during day and night, typically in "areas where there were few places to bask on the ground, implying that the individuals needed alternatives for regulating their body temperature," they wrote, per e! Science News. Smaller crocs could go higher and further than their larger counterparts, and all were somewhat skittish: When approached, they jumped or fell into the water. (Dinets made waves with this crocodile study last year.)