Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

This review summarises the current status of our knowledge of Angolan reptile diversity, and
places it into a historical context of understanding and growth. It is compared and contrasted …

Despite the fact that venom is an intrinsically ecological trait, the ecological perspective has
been widely neglected in toxinological research. This neglect has hindered our …

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 …

Wood mice of the genus Hylomyscus, are small-sized rodents widely distributed in lowland
and montane rainforests in tropical Africa, where they can be locally abundant. Recent …

We assess the phylogeographic structure and test several species delimitation methods in
the forest-living Pondo flat-gecko, Afroedura pondolia, by sampling specimens from across …

Molecular phylogenetics and the application of species delimitation methods have proven
useful in addressing limitations associated with morphology based taxonomy and have …

Atractaspidines are poorly studied, fossorial snakes that are found throughout Africa and
western Asia, including the Middle East. We employed concatenated gene-tree analyses …

Palparine and palparidiine antlions constitute an emblematic clade of large and
occasionally colourful insects that are only distributed in the western portion of the Eastern …

We investigate the phylogeographic structure of a fossorial forest‐living snake species, the
forest thread snake, Leptotyphlopssylvicolus Broadley & Wallach, 1997 by sampling …