Comprehensive assessments of species’ extinction risks have documented the extinction
crisis 1 and underpinned strategies for reducing those risks 2. Global assessments reveal that, …

The Australian snakes that have been included in Aspidomorphus differ markedly from that
genus, particularly in hemipenial morphology and in the absence of a muscular slip from the …

Amphibious animals may be subject to strong but conflicting selective pressures to enhance
locomotor performance both on land and in the water. Biomechanical models suggest that …

The sea krait Laticauda colubrina is the most widespread member of its genus, extending
from the Bay of Bengal through much of Asia and the Indo-Malayan Archipelago to New …

Striking faunal turnover across Asia and Australasia, most famously along the eastern edge
of the Sunda Shelf or ‘Wallace's Line’, has been a focus of biogeographic research for over …

We evaluated the influence of uncertainty, based on variation in expert opinion, on assessment
of conservation status of Australian amphibians. We examined relationships between …

The Weipa region has a rich and diverse herpetofauna of which many species are shared
both with New Guinea and other regions of northern Australia. Twenty native species of frogs …

Oreophryne known from high elevations (2800–3900 m) in the mountains of New Guinea (Indonesia:
Papua, and western Papua New Guinea) comprises six species, five described …

Because the antipredator behavior that an animal displays depends upon the context in
which it encounters the predator, apparent interspecific differences in antipredator tactics may …

This seventh edition includes an extra 168 species described since the sixth edition was
published in 2000, with a further 10 species and 2 genera described in 2013 included as an …