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Voris’ Mud Snake Enhydris maculosa: Gyi, 1970: 114 [In part.]. Figure 16. Enhydris vorisi Murphy, 2007: 171. Holotype: KU 92465. Type Locality: Maubin, Irrawaddy Division, Myanmar. Gyiophis vorisi Murphy and Voris, 2014:22. Distribution: Known only from the vicinity of Maubin in the Ayeyarwady River Delta, Myanmar (Murphy, 2007). Diagnosis: Two pairs of chin shields, 142…

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Blanford’s Mud Snake Hypsirhina maculata Blanford, 1879b: 130. Holotype: Das et al. (1998: 39) gives the number as ZSI8207. Type locality: In 1879a Blanford gave the type locality as “Bassein in Pegu” in 1879b he states “Pegu…in the neighbourhood of Bassein.” Das et al. (1998: 39) suggests “Pegu… (probably in the neighborhood of Bassein) is…

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Bushmaster – due out on June 2, 2015 – is the story of one man’s obsession with an enigmatic and deadly reptile. Raymond Ditmars (1876-1942), the first curator of reptiles at New York’s world-famous Bronx Zoo, popularised cold-blooded animals as never before. His love for snakes, insects and other misunderstood creatures was conveyed in books, lectures, and pioneering…

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Estimated phylogeny of squamate reptiles from  likelihood analysis of combined morphological  and molecular data, after removal of four “rogue”  fossil taxa. Red dots indicate clades with  bootstrap values from 90–100%, black dots  indicate values from 70–89% (values not shown; for bootstrap values for all branches  see. Fossil taxa are indicated with “≪” and green  branches. The four…

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The invasive Burmese python (Python molurus bivittatus or Python bivittatus) has been suspected in the drastic decline of mammal populations in Everglades National Park (ENP) over the last several decades, The park is globally recognized for its unique biotic communities, sits at the southern end of the Greater Everglades Ecosystem (GEE), a vast freshwater wetland (≈10 000…

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A previously undiscovered species of crocodile-like amphibian that lived during the rise of dinosaurs was among Earth’s top predators more than 200 million years ago. Paleontologists identified the prehistoric species — which looked like giant salamanders — after excavating bones buried on the site of an ancient lake in southern Portugal. The species was part…

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A) Fimbrios klossi, Paksong, Champasak Province.  B) Parafimbrios lao, from the Muang Ngoi, Ngoi  District, Louangphabang Province, Laos.  Photo Credit: A. Teynié. The Asian family Xenodermatidae includes five genera: Xenodermus Reinhardt, 1836 (1 species), Achalinus, Fimbrios, Stoliczkaia, and Xylophis, and hold a total of 17 species. The Philippine genus Oxyrhabdium has been removed from the…

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Here are the articulated cranium and lower jaws shown in oblique right lateral view (A). Right facial skeleton and skull roof shown in “exploded” view to illustrate the nature of sutural contacts (B); the left side of the cranium (braincase omitted) is shown in internal view (C). The right lower jaw in “exploded” view to…

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Many chameleons have the remarkable ability to make rapid and complex color changes in their social interactions. In a collaboration between biology sections researchers and physics at the Faculty of Science of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) results in the discovery of the mechanisms governing the phenomenon. In the study published by Nature Communications, the group co-led by…

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