Accurate and detailed species distribution maps are fundamental for documenting and
interpreting biological diversity. For snakes, an ecologically diverse group of reptiles …

Our goal is to provide a current list of reptile species of Paraguay, with maps of their known
occurrences. Surprisingly little research has been conducted on the reptile fauna of …

The functions of bright bands in coral and other snakes have long been a puzzle. The most
common opinion is that coral snakes display aposematic marks and that other red and black …

Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species, published in 2014, was the
first catalogue of its kind and covered all living and fossil snakes described between 1758 …

Studying species interactions in nature often requires elaborated logistics and intense
fieldwork. The difficulties in such task might hinder our ability to answer questions on how …

A checklist of the amphibians and reptiles of 35 localities situated in the northern Peruvian
dry forest valley of the Marañón River and its tributaries, containing 14 species of …

Abstract Information about the snake diversity and their natural history from the Atlantic forest
domain in Brazil refer mostly to inland forests than to coastal region. Within the state of …

Most Neotropical colubrid snakes belong to a single, well‐supported lineage. Relationships
between the major constituents of this clade remain. Here, we explore the phylogenetic …

Sexual dimorphism is a common phenomenon among snakes, with female snakes being
larger than male snakes as a recurrent pattern. However, species that show male-male …

Pseudoautotomy (no spontaneous tail breakage without regeneration) occurs in the snakes
Drymoluber brazili (Gomes, 1918) and Drymoluber dichrous (Peters, 1863) throughout their …