Jackie ChildersNatural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Jackie Childers
Doctor of Philosophy
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Jackie Childers is currently located in southern California, where she holds a joint position as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology.
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The genus Pedioplanis reaches its northernmost limit in western Angola, where it is represented by three species, Pedioplanis benguelensis, P. haackei and P. huntleyi. The taxonomic status of P. benguelensis remains problematic, mainly due to the vague original escription and the loss of the original type material. Here we provide a revision of the...
The lacertid genus Pedioplanis is a moderately speciose group of small-bodied, cryptically-colored lizards found in arid habitats throughout southern Africa. Previous phylogenetic work on Pedioplanis has determined its placement within the broader context of the Lacertidae, but interspecific relations within the genus remain unsettled, particularly...
Data relating to the Sandveld lizards (Nucras) occurring in Namibia, southwest Africa are reviewed. In particular, we investigated records of N. holubi, a chiefly southeastern African species, and attempted to identify recently collected material that could not be assigned to any species currently recognized in Namibia. A phylogenetic analysis of N...
Natural history note on the first confirmed account of a Pacific Giant Salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) predating on a snake (Thamnophis elegans). The record is based on a historical photograph from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ) Archives and from field notes from Gordon Guillion recorded in September 1949 in Humboldt Co., California. Th...
A striking new sandveld lizard of the Nucras tessellata group is described from the Lambert’s Bay Strandveld of the Western Cape Province, South Africa. It is sister to the clade N. livida + N. tessellata, and is phenetically most similar to N. tessellata, from which it differs in its more elongate body and possibly increased number of presacral ve...
Ameiva corax is a diurnal, widely foraging lizard endemic to a small (<2 ha) Caribbean island and is known for social foraging, whereby individuals aggregate at large food items (e.g., bird eggs and cactus fruits). We characterized the social network for A. corax through focal observations and surveys, which delineated associations for 82 known ind...
We characterised behavioural variation between adult male, adult female and juvenile Meroles cuneirostris, a diurnal lacertid lizard endemic to the Namib Desert. Variation in microhabitat preference was significant between age classes, as adults spent more time underneath vegetative cover than juveniles. Movement patterns varied between demographic...
Natural history note on an observed cannibalism event by an adult female Meroles cuneirostris on a juvenile conspecific in December 2011, at the Gobabeb Training and Research Centre, Erongo, Namibia.
