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Cover Journal of Herpetology
Publication Date: 01 Sept 2024
Print ISSN: 0022-1511
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ECOLOGY

Subterranean Refuge Use by Burmese Pythons (Python Bivittatus) in Southwestern Florida

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DOI: 10.1670/21-064
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Mesoclemmys gibba 58-04

Image and text by William W. Lamar

The Gibba Toad-headed Turtle (Mesoclemmys gibba) is a wide-ranging South American species in the lowlands of the Orinoco and Amazon Basins. A relatively small-bodied species with carapace length rarely exceeding 35 cm, the nocturnal M. gibba inhabits rainforest streams, hardpan pools of shallow water in gallery forests, and Mauritia palm swamps. Diet consists primarily of small invertebrates and mollusks. Owing in part to their foul-smelling defensive musk, they are not used as food by local populations of people. Photograph taken in Avispas Cocha, Río Tigre, Loreto, Peru.

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Invasion Histories Differ Markedly Among the Four Anolis Lizard Species Introduced to Bermuda

Sozos N. Michaelides,
James T. Stroud,
Sean T. Giery,
Brian E. Smith,
Richard E. Glor, and
Jason J. Kolbe

The Tadpole of Scinax cretatus (Hylidae: Scinaxini)

Yhasmynn Pensee Pinheiro Campos,
Katyuscia Araujo-Vieira,
Gabriel Novaes-E-Fagundes,
Lucas Rafael Uchôa,
Etielle Barroso De Andrade,
Juliana Zina,
Mirco Solé, and
Caio Vinicius De Mira-Mendes

Tadpole Food Consumption Decreases with Increasing Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection Intensity

Joseph A. DeMarchi,
Jordan R. Gaston,
Amanda N. Spadaro,
Claire A. Porterfield, and
Matthew D. Venesky
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