Volume 2 (2009)

Evgeniy Simonov. Differences in habitat use, daily activity patterns and preferred ambient temperatures of adult and neonate Gloydius halys halys from an isolated population in southwest Siberia: preliminary data. pp. 1-7. (published online 06 January 2009)

Mirco Solé, Iuri R. Dias, Erika A. S. Rodrigues, Euvaldo Marciano-Jr, Samuel M. J. Branco, Kaoli P. Cavalcante and Dennis Rödder. Diet of Leptodactylus ocellatus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from a cacao plantation in southern Bahia, Brazil. pp. 9-15. (published online 13 February 2009)

Dennis Rödder, Dario Trautmann and Wolfgang Böhme. Notes on the reproductive mode of Melanoseps emmrichi Broadley 2006. pp.17-19. (published online 26 February)

Jesse Delia. Another crotaline prey item of the Neotropical snake Clelia clelia (Daudin 1803). pp. 21-22. (published online 26 February 2009)

Maciej Pabijan, Elzbieta Rozej and Maciej Bonk. An isolated locality of the alpine newt (Mesotriton alpestris Laurenti, 1768) in central Poland. pp. 23-26. (published online 06 April 2009)

Raoul H. Bain, Truong Q. Nguyen and Kien V. Doan. First record of Leptobrachium promustache from Vietnam. pp. 27-29. (published online 06 April 2009)

Steven Megson, Polly Mitchell, Jörn Köhler, Charles Marsh, Michael Franzen, Frank Glaw, Neil D’Cruze. A comprehensive survey of amphibians and reptiles in the extreme north of Madagascar. pp. 31- 44. (published online 07 April 2009)

Monique Hölting, Wolfgang Böhme and Andreas Schmitz. Range extension for the tree frog Leptopelis karissimbensis Ahl, 1929 in Rwanda (Anura: Arthroleptidae). pp. 45- 47. (published online 15 April 2009)

Mario Yánez-Muñoz, Pedro Pérez-Peña and Diego Cisneros-Heredia. New country records of Hyalinobatrachium iaspidiense (Amphibia, Anura, Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador and Peru. pp. 49-52. (published online 06 May 2009)

Devin Edmonds. Extended distribution of two frogs from Madagascar: Mantella crocea and Mantella manery (Anura: Mantellidae). pp. 53-57. (published online 12 May 2009)

Pedro Luiz Vieira Peloso, Marcelo José Sturaro, Gleomar Fabiano Maschio, Francílio da Silva Rodrigues and Ana Lucia da Costa Prudente. New records and distribution of the Toady leaf frog Phyllomedusa atelopoides (Anura, Hylidae). pp. 59-62. (published online 19 May 2009)

Katia Gomes Facure and Ariovaldo Antonio Giaretta. Semi-terrestrial tadpoles as a vertebrate prey of trap-jaw ants (Odontomachus, Formicidae). pp. 63-66. (published online 19 May 2009)

Elizângela S. Brito, Christine Strussmann and Clariana M. Baicere-Silva. Courtship behavior of Mesoclemmys vanderhaegei (Bour, 1973) (Testudines: Chelidae) under natural conditions in the Brazilian Cerrado. pp. 67-72. (published online 28 May 2009)

Philipp Wagner, Frank Glaw, Kathrin Glaw and Wolfgang Böhme: Studies on African Agama IV: First record of Agama agama (Sauria: Agamidae) from Madagascar and identity of the alien population on Grande Comore Island. pp. 73-77. (published online 02 June 2009)

Gerrut Norval, Charles R. Bursey, Stephen R. Goldberg and Jean-Jay Mao. The first record of Kiricephalus pattoni Stephens, 1908 as a parasite of Lycodon ruhstrati ruhstrati Fischer, 1886 from Chiayi County, Taiwan. pp. 79-80. (published online 09 June 2009)

D.M. Nayana Pradeep Kumara & Kanishka D.B. Ukuwela. A survey on the amphibians of Ambagamuwa, a tropical wet midland area in Sri Lanka. pp. 81-85. (published online 09 June 2009)

Timo Hartmann, Hun Chipich , Markus Handschuh, Nguyen Quang Truong and Wolfgang Böhme. First record of Tropidophorus cocincinensis Duméril and Bibron, 1839 from Cambodia. pp. 87-89. (published online 17 June 2009)

Ariovaldo Giaretta and Lucas Martins. Notes on the call and behavior of Arcovomer passarellii (Anura: Microhylidae). pp. 91-93. (published online 24 June 2009)

Olga Jovanovic, Miguel Vences, Goran Safarek, Falitiana C.E. Rabemananjara, Rainer Dolch. Predation upon Mantella aurantiaca in the Torotorofotsy wetlands, central-eastern Madagascar. pp. 95-97. (published online 10 July 2009)

Fausto E. Barbo, Murilo G. Rodrigues, Fernando M. Couto and Ricardo J. Sawaya. Predation on Leptodactylus marmoratus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) by the spider Ctenus medius (Araneae: Ctenidae) in the Atlantic Forest, southeast Brazil. pp. 99-100. (published online 19 July 2009)

Andreas Schlüter, Petra Löttker and Konrad Mebert. Use of an active nest of the leaf cutter ant Atta cephalotes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) as a breeding site of Lithodytes lineatus (Anura: Leptodactylidae). pp. 101-105. (published online 19 July 2009)

Alessandra Sicilia, Federico Marrone, Roberto Sindaco, Souad Turki and Marco Arculeo. Contribution to the knowledge of Tunisian amphibians: notes on distribution, habitat features and breeding phenology. pp. 107-132. (published online 04 August 2009)

Charles E. Williams. Occurrence of Glyptemys insculpta Le Conte in a stream impaired by abandoned mine drainage, Pennsylvania, USA. pp. 133-136 (published online 04 August 2009)

Michael F. Barej, Julia A. M. Wurstner, Wolfgang Böhme. Predation on the treefrog Leptopelis brevirostris (Anura: Arthroleptidae) by a wandering spider (Araneae: Ctenidae) in Cameroon. pp. 137-139 (published online 11 August 2009)

César Ayres. Post-Hatching behaviour of Iberian brown frog (Rana iberica Boulenger, 1879) tadpoles. pp. 141-142 (published online 11 August 2009)

Martin Jansen. Measuring temporal variation in calling intensity of a frog chorus with a data logging sound level meter: results from a pilot study in Bolivia. pp. 143-149 (published online 25 August 2009)

Gerrut Norval, Richard G. Robbins, Gennady Kolonin and Jean-Jay Mao. A record of tick nymphs parasitizing a Taiwanese rat snake (Orthriophis taeniurus friesi) and a Chinese cobra (Naja atra) from West-Central Taiwan. pp. 151-153 (published online 25 August 2009)

Ralf Hendrix, Wolfgang Böhme and Thomas Ziegler. The tadpole of the Helmeted Toad, Ingerophrynus galeatus (Günther, 1864), from Vietnam (Anura: Bufonidae) pp. 155-160 (published online 01 September 2009)

Angelika Knoll, Frank Glaw and Jörn Köhler. The Malagasy snake Pseudoxyrhopus ambreensis preys upon chameleon eggs by shell slitting. pp. 161-162 (published online 05 October 2009)

Henrique B. P. Braz, Cybele O. Araujo, Selma M. Almeida-Santos. Life history traits of the snake Phalotris lativittatus (Xenodontinae: Elapomorphini) from the Brazilian Cerrado pp. 163-164 (published online 05 October 2009)

Roger-Daniel Randrianiaina, Rocío Navarro Antúnez, Julia Canitz, Florian Forth, Inga Lemme, Brezo Rodríguez, Hagen Rinas, Robert Thänert, Paul Tröger, Natascha Westphal, Andrea Willim, Katharina C. Wollenberg, Axel Strauß, Miguel Vences. Vogue or adaptive character? A tadpole’s goatee helps to distinguish two cryptic treefrog species of the genus Boophis. pp. 165-173 (published online 08 October 2009)

Vincenzo Mercurio, Wolfgang Böhme, Bruno Streit. Reproductive diversity of Malawian anurans. pp. 175-183. (published online 17 October 2009)

Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Diego Armijos-Ojeda, Katiusca Valarezo. First country record of Pristimantis metabates (Duellman and Pramuk) and distribution extension of Pristimantis skydmainos (Flores and Rodríguez) in eastern Ecuador (Amphibia, Anura, Strabomantidae). pp. 185-188. (published online 29 October 2009)

Javier Sunyer, Guillermo Páiz, David Matthias Dehling, Gunther Köhler. A collection of amphibians from Río San Juan, southeastern Nicaragua. pp. 189-202. (published online 29 October 2009)

Gerrut Norval, Richard G. Robbins, Gennady Kolonin, Pei-Jung Shiao, Jean-Jay Mao. Unintentional transport of ticks into Taiwan on a king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah). pp. 203-206. (published online 29 October 2009)

Bertrand Razafimahatratra, Nandinanjakana Fatroandrianjafinonjasolomiovazo, Raphali Andriantsimanarilafy and Richard Jenkins. The status of Mantella milotympanum in the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor, eastern Madagascar. pp. 207-213. (published online 29 October 2009)

Emanuel Teixeira da Silva and Oswaldo Pinto Ribeiro Filho. Predation on juveniles of the invasive American Bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus (Anura, Ranidae) by native frog and snake species in South-eastern Brazil. pp. 215-218. (published online 22 November 2009)

Gerrut Norval, Jean-Jay Mao, Charles R. Bursey and Stephen R. Goldberg. A deformed hind limb of an invasive free-living brown anole Anolis sagrei Duméril & Bibron, 1837) from Hualien City, Taiwan. pp. 219-221. (published online 22 November 2009)

Philip-Sebastian Gehring. A remarkable case of malformation in a free-living individual of Furcifer pardalis (Cuvier, 1829) from northern Madagascar. pp. 223-225. (published online 10 December 2009)

Paulo Nogueira Costa, Thiago Silva-Soares and Luna Barreto Bernstein. Defensive behaviour of Proceratophrys boiei (Wied-Neuwied, 1824) (Amphibia, Anura, Cycloramphidae). pp. 227-229. (published online 10 December 2009)

Enrique García-Muñoz, Francisco Ceacero and Luis Pedrajas. Notes on the reproductive biology and conservation of Pseudoepidalea brongersmai. pp. 231-233. (published online 10 December 2009)

Fábio Maffei, Gerson Rodrigues do Nascimento and Domingos Garrone Neto. Predation on the lizard Ameiva ameiva (Sauria: Teiidae) by a coral snake Micrurus frontalis (Serpentes: Elapidae) in Brazil. pp. 235-237. (published online 11 December 2009)

Charlie Gardner, Louise Jasper. The urban herpetofauna of Toliara, southwest Madagascar. pp. 239-242. (published online 21 December 2009)

Aaron M. Bauer, Stacie A. Hathaway and Robert N. Fisher. Polydactyly in the Central Pacific Gecko, Lepidodactylus sp. (Squamata: Gekkonidae). pp. 243-246. (published online 24 December 2009)

Jin-Hsiang Wu, Gerrut Norval, and Jean-Jay Mao. An instance of predation on a Stejneger’s grass lizard (Takydromus stejnegeri) by a house cat (Felis catus) in an urban setting in Yunlin County, Taiwan. pp. 247-248. (published online 24 December 2009)