The US Endangered Species Act (ESA) allows listing of subspecies and other grou**s
below the rank of species. This provides the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National …

The Handbook of Venoms and Toxins of Reptiles offers" one-stop shop**" to all biologists,
biochemists, toxicologists, physicians, clinicians, and epidemiologists, and informed …

The Western Rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis sensu lato, now including Crotalus oreganus) is
broadly distributed across the western half of the United States, northwestern Mexico and …

Natural history collections are essential to a wide variety of studies in biology because they
maintain large collections of specimens and associated data, including genetic material (eg …

Aim Several studies have found that more accurate predictive models of species'
occurrences can be developed for rarer species; however, one recent study found the …

Destruction of habitat due to urban sprawl, pollution, and deforestation has caused
population declines or even extinction of many of the world's approximately 2,600 snake …

Abstract Spotted and Northern Dusky Salamanders (Desmognathus conanti and D. fuscus)
have a long and complex taxonomic history. At least 10 other currently recognized species …

The Australian snake fauna is unique in harbouring more venomous species than non-
venomous ones. Although taxonomic research on the elapid snakes of Australia goes back …

This is the first guide yet produced to the amphibians and reptiles of New York State, a large
and heavily populated state that hosts a surprisingly diverse and interesting community of …

Previously, we found that phrynosomatid lizards, a diverse group common in the
southwestern USA, vary markedly in fiber-type composition of the iliofibularis (a hindlimb …