Christian Langner

• Alwetterzoo Münster

Iraq is part of the Palearctic Zoogeographic Region, with habitats from high mountains in the north covered by forests of oaks on hills, scrubland, and grasslands, to the semi-deserts and deserts along the alluvial marshlands) at the two big rivers, Euphrates and Tigris, in central and southern Iraq (Fig. 6.1). In addition to these natural habitats...

Schlagworte Plathelminthes Turbellaria Faunistik Neozoon Erstnachweis Neu für Deutschland Key words Plathelminthes Turbellaria Faunistic invasive species fi rst record new for Germany Kurzfassung Es wird über die Entdeckung der Landplanarie Marionfyfea adventor im westfälischen Münsterland berichtet. Der Fund stellt einen Erstnachweis der Art für D...

We report on numerous additional records and observations of Varanus nesterovi Böhme et al., 2015, and its chorological relationships (parapatry vs. sympatry) to its close relatives, viz. V. griseus griseus and V. g. caspius. The new distributional data and locality records do not only hint on various threats for V. nesterovi, but document also its...

Second documented record of Rana macrocnemis (sensu lato) bouLenger, 1885 for Iraq

We report about new localities of Neurergus derjugini from its South Western most edge of distribution in Iraq at Hawar and Zmnako

The European Union (EU) is one of the world's main importers of live reptiles and their parts and products (such as leather). Within the EU, Germany is also a central transit country in the reptile trade and thus bears a special responsibility for the protection of the traded species. The Washington Convention on International Trade in Endangered S...

Predation of a blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus) by ants of the genus Leptogenys

Observation of the consumption of a food component (lettuce) by Gehyra marginata unusual for Gekkota and not yet been documented

Reptile range extensions from Mexican state of Oaxaca

Evaluation of the Captive Breeding Potential of selected Reptile Taxa included in Appendices I and II at CITES CoP17

Obwohl über die Nachzucht der Schachbrettwühle schon an anderer Stelle (Goetz 2005) ausführlich berichtet wurde, möchten wir die damals aufgeführten Erkenntnisse nebst Ergänzungen des Erstautors an dieser Stelle erneut wiedergeben. Zum einen ist auch dem Erstautor zwischenzeitlich die Nachzucht geglückt, zum anderen möchten wir hier die Daten einer...

Five specimens (2 ♀, 3 ♂) of the gecko species Rhacodactylus leachianus were radio-tracked for 14 days on Île de Bayonnaise, New Caledonia. Using thermo-sensitive transmitters, specimens were mapped continuously every hour. All movements, behavioural expressions and core temperatures were manually recorded, while data loggers simultaneously recorde...

A short assessment of the behavior, habitat and habitat use of the sole member of its monotypic family, the Earless Monitor lizard Lanthanotus borneensis was undertaken for the first time. Field data of this important species were lacking for more than a century since its description in 1878. Nearly nothing is known about life history or even its n...