Rocio Aguilar

Monash University (Australia) · School of Biological Sciences, Clayton

The inner ear labyrinth is an organ able to perceive balance and spatial orientation, but the drivers of its morphological variation across and within vertebrate lineages are unclear. We assess two competing hypotheses whether this organ, and specifically the semicircular canals, modifies its shape as a functional adaptation to ecology and locomoti...

In 2020, the Reptile Database (RDB) and AmphibiaWeb (AW) celebrated their 25th and 20th anniversaries, respectively. Here, we briefly review their history and highlight the biodiversity informatics context in which AmphibiaWeb and the Reptile Database have grown for a quarter century. More specifically, we outline the similarities and differences o...

Our knowledge of the conservation status of reptiles, the most diverse class of terrestrial vertebrates, has improved dramatically over the past decade, but still lags behind that of the other tetrapod groups. Here, we conduct the first comprehensive evaluation (~92% of the world's ~1714 described species) of the conservation 1 Joint senior authors...

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High-resolution X-ray microcomputed tomography, or microCT (μCT), enables the digital imaging of whole objects in three dimensions. The power of μCT to visualize internal features without disarticulation makes it particularly valuable for the study of museum collections, which house millions of physical specimens documenting the spatio-temporal pat...

High-resolution X-ray microcomputed tomography, or microCT (μCT), enables the digital imaging of whole objects in three dimensions. The power of μCT to visualise internal features without disarticulation makes it particularly valuable for the study of museum collections, which house millions of physical specimens documenting the spatio-temporal pat...

Background: Species of Schellackia Reichenow, 1919 have been described from the blood of reptiles distributed worldwide. Recently, Schellackia spp. detected in European and Asian lizards have been molecularly characterised. However, parasites detected in American lizard hosts remain uncharacterised. Thus, phylogenetic affinities between the Old and...

Con el objetivo de divulgar y difundir a cerca de la biodiversidad de la herpetofauna de la Eco región del Monte en el NE de la provincia de Mendoza‚ Argentina‚ es que realizamos esta actualización taxonómica y Guía de Campo sobre las especies de anfibios y reptiles presentes en la Reserva de Biósfera Ñacuñán. Se realizó una actualización taxonómic...

Biodiversidad de la herpetofauna del desierto frio patagonico dentro del Distrito Payunia, Provincia de Mendoza. Fotos, dscripcion de las especies, toxicidad y estado de conservacion. Fe de errata de la 1ra edicion: foto de Philodryas patagoniensis corresponde a P. trilineata y se agrega la foto de la primera.

Biodiversidad de la herpetofauna del desierto frio patagonico dentro del Distrito Payunia, Provincia de Mendoza. Fotos, dscripcion de las especies, toxicidad y estado de conservacion. Fe de errata de la 1ra edicion: foto de Philodryas patagoniensis corresponde a P. trilineata y se agrega la foto de la primera.

1ra Edicion del Afiche sobre la herpetofauna de la Reserva de la Biósfera de Ñacuñán, Ecoregión del Monte, Mendoza, Argentina. Biodiversidad de anfibios y reptiles, con fotos, descripciones sobre la biologia, toxicidad y estado de conservacion de las especies.

1ra Edicion de la herpetofauna de la Reserva de la Biósfera de Ñacuñán, Ecoregión del Monte, Mendoza, Argentina. Guia de campo sobre la biodiversidad de anfibios y reptiles, con foots, descripciones osbre la biologia, toxicidad y estado de conservacion de las especies.

This paper is a review of the biodiversity of herpetofauna described so far to Ñacuñán Biosphere Reserve. It provides updates on the current taxonomic nomenclature and conservation status of the species of amphibians and reptiles cited for the reserve. It is also addressed the list of specimens from the reserve that are fixed within the herpetologi...

The thermal quality of diurnal refuges is important to the performance and survival of nocturnal reptiles. We studied refuge use on both slopes of an east–west-oriented hill by the thigmothermic gecko Homonota darwini, the southernmost-distributed nocturnal lizard in the world, in the vicinity of Bariloche, Rio Negro, in the Patagonia of Argentina....

The thermal quality of diurnal refuges is important to the performance and survival of nocturnal reptiles. We studied refuge use on both slopes of an east–west-oriented hill by the thigmothermic gecko Homonota darwini, the southernmost-distributed nocturnal lizard in the world, in the vicinity of Bariloche, Rio Negro, in the Patagonia of Argentina....