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offer a global forum for fast and straightforward publication of natural history observations that otherwise may remain unpublished or in the grey literature.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
Managing Editor for Finances: Anamarija Žagar, National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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
Assistant Managing Editor for Publication: Christine M. Kaiser, Museum Koenig, Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Bonn, Germany
Copyeditors: Deyatima Ghosh, Thijs van den Burg
Associate Editors
Robson Ávila, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
Arnaud Badiane, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
Justin M. Bernstein, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA
Andressa Bezerra, Instituto Vital Brazil, Xerém, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Amaël Borzée, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China
Idriss Bouam, University of Batna 2, Batna, Algeria
Andre Bruinjé, Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Posadas, Argentina
Tuliana O. Brunes, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
Hugo Cabral, Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay, Asunción, Paraguay
Timothy J. Colston, University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, USA
Werner Conradie, Port Elizabeth Museum (Bayworld), Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Javier E. Cortés-Suárez, Reserva Privada “El Rocio”, Santa Sofía, Boyacá Department, Colombia
Angelica Crottini, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal
Maximilian Dehling, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany
Andrew Durso, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida, USA
Jesse Erens, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Alex Figueroa, Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Singapore
Rodrigo Gonzalez, Museu de História Natural do Ceará Prof. Dias da Rocha, Pacoti, Brazil
Marco González-Santoro, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Russell Gray, Save Vietnam’s Wildlife, Cuc Phuong, Nho Quan, Ninh Binh, Vietnam
Vinicius Guerra, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
Fábio Hepp, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran
Michael J. Jowers, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Fulvio Licata, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Porto, Portugal
Caio V. de Mira-Mendes, Universidade Estadual do Maranhão, São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil
Zeeshan Mirza, Max Planck Institute for Biology, Tübingen, Germany
Nitya P. Mohanty, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Eric Munscher, SWCA Environmental Consultants, Houston, Texas, USA
Renato C. Nali, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Kanto Nishikawa, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Fabrício H. Oda, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Daniela Pareja-Mejía, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil
Harshil Patel, Thackeray Wildlife Foundation, Mumbai, India
Pedro Pinna, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Julie Ray, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, Nevada, USA
Omar Rojas-Padilla, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Ilhéus, Bahia
Benjamin Tapley, Zoological Society of London, London Zoo, London, United Kingdom
Ashish Thomas, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Anyelet Valencia-Aguilar, Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany
Yunke Wu, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA