Herpetology Notes

JOURNAL INFORMATION

Herpetology Notes is an online-only and open access journal, published by the Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH). Processing, editing, and typesetting of manuscripts is carried out by an international editorial team, and articles are published online as PDF files as soon as the layout is created and approved by authors. The journal is hosted on the SEH web server and the Biotaxa manuscript processing system. The open-access publication fee is €100 for articles of five or fewer printed pages. For specific information on publishing in the journal, including the fees for longer manuscripts or complex tables and the fee reduction for SEH members, please visit the Author Guidelines. The format of recent papers published in Herpetology Notes should be consulted before submitting a manuscript. 

Current articles are available for free download on the Herpetology Notes website. Back issues are available in the Herpetology Notes archives.

All articles published in Herpetology Notes will have consecutive page numbers and papers will be published in one annual volume. Contents are indexed on Scopus and Google Scholar. All contributions to Herpetology Notes must be in English.

Herpetology Notes has the International Standard Serial Number ISSN 2071-5773 

SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL

The goal of Herpetology Notes is to offer a global forum for fast and straightforward publication of natural history observations that otherwise may remain unpublished or in the grey literature. Herpetology Notes aims to publish all kinds of descriptive papers on the natural history and distribution of amphibians and reptiles. Being an online-only journal, papers that include taxonomic decisions (such a descriptions of new species) are not accepted. Descriptive papers on the morphology or genetic variability (including DNA barcoding), marker development (e.g., microsatellite loci) are also appreciated, but some of these may also be suitable as short notes in Amphibia-Reptilia.

EDITORIAL TEAM

Editor-in-Chief (Fourth Co-Editor of SEH): Hinrich Kaiser, Victor Valley College, Victorville, California, USA. Hinrich works on the systematics and conservation of South and Southeast Asian amphibians and reptiles, while also helping safeguard herpetological science from the effects of taxonomic vandalism.

Managing Editor for Finances: Anamarija Žagar, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Anamarija works on the ecophysiology of ectotherms and interspecific interactions of reptiles, with a particular focus on lizards, while also engaging in national conservation management of reptiles and citizen science.

Managing Editor for Technology: Robin Suyesh, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India

Managing Editor for Publication: Bina Perl, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. Bina works on the phylogeography, natural history and ecology of amphibians, with a particular focus on amphibian conservation.

Assistant Managing Editor for Publication: Christine M. Kaiser, Museum Koenig, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Bonn, Germany. Chris has broad interests in herpetology that include systematics, ecology, and conservation with a primary focus on Southeast Asian reptiles.

Copyeditors: Deyatima Ghosh, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Matthijs van den Burg, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO), The Hague, The Netherlands. Thijs works mainly on tropical herpetofauna, with a particular focus on iguanas, whilst also working on quality of publicly available genetic data.

Associate Editors

Arnaud Badiane, Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, Lyon, France. Arnaud works on the evolution of coloration in lizards, on reptile conservation, and on evolutionary innovations in insects.

Andressa Bezerra, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Andressa works on neuroanatomy, behaviour, and natural history of tropical amphibians and reptiles.

Amaël Borzée, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China. Amaël works on the natural history and conservation of amphibians in northeast Asia.

Idriss Bouam, University of Batna 2, Batna, Algeria. Idriss works on the taxonomy, ecology, and natural history of North African herpetofauna.

Andre Bruinjé, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Posadas, Argentina. Andre works on sensory ecology and reproductive behaviour of South American amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on bioacoustics, visual communication and animal colouration.

Tuliana O. Brunes, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal. Tuliana works on the phylogeny, phylogeography, niche modelling, and species delimitation of neotropical amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on frogs and parthenogenetic lizards, while also serving as a wildlife specialist in environmental consultancy.

Hugo Cabral, Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay, Asunción, Paraguay. Hugo works on the taxonomy and natural history of neotropical amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on snakes.

Timothy J. Colston, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA. Tim studies diversification of reptiles and amphibians, including taxonomy and systematics, and the influence of the microbiome on host ecology and evolution.

Werner Conradie, Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld), Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Werner mainly focus on the taxonomy, natural history, distribution and conservation of African amphibians and reptiles.

Javier E. Cortés-Suárez, Reserva Privada “El Rocio”, Santa Sofía, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Javier works on the natural history, ecology and ethnobiology of tropical herpetology, with a particular interest on amphibian abnormalities.

Angelica Crottini, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal. 

Andrew Durso, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, USA

Jesse Erens, Universität Trier, Trier, Germany. Jesse is broadly interested in the ecology, evolution and natural history of amphibians and reptiles. His research focuses on understanding how species respond to ongoing environmental change to aid in their conservation.

Tibisay Escalona, Universidade de Porto, Porto, Portugal. Tibisay works on life-history strategies and natural history of reptiles, with a particular focus on chelonians, while also conserving biodiversity from climate change.

Paolo Faraone, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy. Paolo works on natural history and phylogeography of Mediterranean amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on snakes and alien species.

Alex Figueroa, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore. Alex works on the systematics and natural history of Southeast Asian herpetofauna and is currently serving as the Secretary of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.

Rodrigo Gonzalez, Museu de História Natural do Ceará Prof. Dias da Rocha, Pacoti, Brazil. Rodrigo works on the taxonomy and natural history of neotropical snakes. He is also interested in herpetological collections.

Marco González-Santoro, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Marco is a Colombian researcher interested in the interplay between sexual selection, sensory ecology and behavior shaping the incredible diversity of neotropical amphibians.

Russell Gray, Save Vietnam’s Wildlife, Cuc Phuong, Nho Quan, Ninh Binh, Vietnam

Frederic Griesbaum, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. Frederic works at the Museum of Natural History in Berlin, Germany. As a PhD student of Mark-Oliver Rödel, he currently works on convergent evolution in frogs. Before, he has studied the ecology and taxonomy of various herp taxa. His biogeographic focus lies in Southeast Asia and Europe.

Jordy Groffen, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. Jordy studies aspects of conservation, climate change, adaptation physiology, with the focus on breeding behaviour and the use of artificial shelters for herpetological fauna.

Vinicius Guerra, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. Vinicius works on the natural history, community ecology and conservation of tropical amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on anuran bioacoustics.

Fábio Hepp, Una Goiânia, Goiânia, Brazil. Fábio works on behaviour, taxonomy, and natural history of tropical amphibians, with a particular focus on bioacoustics and behavioural homology.

Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran. Saeed works on the taxonomy, molecular phylogeny and conservation biology of Iranian amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on lizards and amphibians.

Michael J. Jowers, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain. Michael works on the taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of tropical amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on northern South America and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

Fulvio Licata, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Porto, Portugal. Fulvio works on the ecology and natural history of desert amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on assessing the impacts of human-induced environmental changes on native herpetofauna.

Caio V. de Mira-Mendes, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil. Caio works on the natural history and taxonomy of tropical amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on tadpoles.

Eric Munscher, SWCA Environmental Consultants, Houston, Texas, USA. Eric works on the long-term population demographic studies of freshwater turtle species across North and Central America.

Renato C. Nali, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil. Renato studies the evolutionary and behavioral ecology of frogs, with a primary focus on sexual selection, reproductive strategies, and their ecological implications.

Kanto Nishikawa, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. Kanto works on the taxonomy and natural history of Asian amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on salamanders and caecilians.

Fabrício H. Oda, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. Fabrício works with a particular focus on ecology, natural history and parasitology of neotropical amphibians and reptiles, while also exploring the ecology and natural history of fish, birds and mammals.

Daniela Pareja-Mejía, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil. Daniela works on behavior and spatial ecology of amphibians in the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. She is also in charge of SAVE THE FROGS Ecuador.

Rishab Pillai, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. Rishab works on the functional morphology of vertebrates, specifically, how morphology influences movement. Additionally, he is interested how ecology shapes morphological evolution.

Pedro Pinna, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Pedro works on the taxonomy, systematics, morphology and natural history of tropical amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on squamate reptiles.

Julie Ray, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA. Julie works on the taxonomy and natural history of New World temperate and tropical amphibians and reptiles, with a particular focus on snakes. She especially focuses on ecology, diet, defensive behaviors, and phenology.

Omar Rojas-Padilla, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil. Omar works on the taxonomy and systematics of amphibian species of the Amazon and Atlantic Forest, and is also interested in the natural history, distribution, and evolution of these organisms.

Benjamin Tapley, Zoological Society of London, London Zoo, London, United Kingdom. Ben's primary interests include EDGE species, the conservation breeding and captive management of amphibians and reptiles and conservation prioritisation. Ben is actively working on reptile and amphibian conservation projects in India, Vietnam, China, and the Eastern Caribbean.

Ashish Thomas, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Ashish works on the natural history, ecology, evolution and conservation of amphibians of Western Ghats of India.

Anyelet Valencia-Aguilar, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil. Anyelet works on the behavioral ecology and olfactory system of tropical amphibians, with a particular focus on anurans.

Yunke Wu, US Department of Agriculture, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, USA. Yunke works on molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of Asian amphibians and reptiles, with a focus on Asian salamandrids.