We describe a new species of leaf-toed gecko of the genus Phyllodactylus from María
Cleofas Island, the smallest island of Tres Marías Archipelago, Nayarit, México. Genomic …

Niche partitioning is an important mechanism for allowing ecologically similar species to
coexist, contributing to biodiversity and the functioning of ecological communities. Species …

Anatomy compromises the precision and accuracy of measurements made of the body
length and head size of live snakes. Body measures (snout‐vent length, SVL) incorporate …

Island ecosystems provide valuable opportunities to explore some aspects associated with
resource partitioning. While some ecological studies have suggested that island populations …

In response to the growing number of amphibian and reptiles species in decline, many
conservation managers have implemented captive breeding and headstarting programs in …

Visual acuity and sensitivity positively correlate to eye size in vertebrates, and eye size
relates to the ecology of colubrid snakes. We investigated whether eye morphology of North …

Accepted: 24. September 2019/Available online: 25. September 2019/Printed: June 2020
Abstract. Herein, we report keratophagy in two lizard species, Norops nebulosus and …

Gape-limited predators, such as snakes, might rely on phenotypic plasticity to cope with
variation in prey size, but experimental studies have found mixed evidence for plasticity in …

Jade BS Mourão et al. 150 below the Equator, and the error was perpetuated when these
locality data were later plotted by Nogueira et al.(2019) in their Atlas of Brazilian snakes …

The vertebrate skull is considered as phylogenetically conserved, but shows extensive
diversification in many clades due to various environmental, climate and habitat influences …