Norman Scott

<i>Ophiodes luciae</i> sp. nov. Suggested common name: Lucy's Worm Lizard Figs 1–2 <b>Holotype</b>. MNHNP 9685 (Figs. 1–2), adult female, collected in Departamento Presidente Hayes, 35 km NE and across the Paraguay River from Antequera, (Departamento San Pedro), Paraguay (23 ° 53 ' 18 "S, 57 ° 19 ' 23 "W) (Fig. 3), 22 January 1995 by E. Bongermini, T. Waller, R. Palacios, and P. Micucci. Field number ALA 2073. <b>Diagnosis</b>. The new species is placed in the genus <i>Ophiodes</i> by having plate <i>-</i> like scales on the top of the head, two pairs of scales between the rostral and the first unpaired plate, no external forelegs, and flap-like hind limbs. <i>Ophiodes luciae</i> is distinguished from other species of <i>Ophiodes</i> by a combination of 1) a uniform striped color pattern around the body, 2) an absence of black supralabial bars, 3) 171 dorsal scales between occipital and the vent, 4) 29 scales around midbody, and 5) a hind limb four scales long (Table 1). <i>Ophiodes luciae</i> with its coloration of faint homogeneous stripes can be distinguished from <i>O. intermedius</i>, with its distinct broad, dark, lateral stripes, and often narrow vertebral stripe (Fig. 4 A); from <i>O. vertebralis</i>, with its distinct dorsolateral dark and light stripes, from <i>O. fragilis</i> with its broad dark and pale lateral lines (Fig. 4 B); and from <i>O. striatus</i> with its well-defined light and dark body stripes (Fig. 4 C). Like <i>O. luciae</i>, <i>Ophiodes</i> sp. " 1 " has a series of narrow dark lines on the body and tail, but the stripes are darker and much more obvious in the latter; <i>Ophiodes</i> sp. " 2 " has 3 well-marked dorsolateral dark lines, the second broader than the other two; and <i>Ophiodes</i> sp. " 3 " has a broad olivebrown middorsal stripe that occupies three scale rows, and 3 narrower dark and light dorsolateral stripes (Fig. 4 D). <i>Ophiodes luciae</i> lacks the distinct black bars that are on the faces of all other <i>Ophiodes</i> except <i>O. vertebralis</i>. <i>Ophiodes luciae< [...]

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Abstract Iruegas-Buentello and Salinas-López (1989) described a new species of trematode parasite from the frog host" Rana pipiens" collected in Nuevo León, México. R. pipiens Schreber, 1782, is not found in Mexico. Assuming the parasites came from leopard frogs, the only species of the complex that is known to occur in Nuevo León is Rana berlandieri Baird, 1854 (Hillis, 1988).

... Tadpoles of B. marinus have been described elsewhere (Ruthven, 1919; Kenny, 1969; Duellman, 1978; Zug and Zug, 1979), but those of B. marmoreus and B. mazatlanensis have not. ... J. Herpetol. 27:285-293. KENNY, JS 1969. The Amphibia of Trinidad. ...

... diameter. Colette (1961) found correlations in several species of Cuban anoles between perch character-istics and morphological traits such as leg length, tail length, body size and number of toe lamellae. ... populations. Sexton et al. ...

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Imantodes inornatus and Imantodes cenchoa are currently recognized as occurring in Costa Rica. It has been suggested recently that I. cenchoa is actually a composite of two species, I. cenchoa and I. gemmistratus . AnaIysis of data on scalation and coloration for Costa Rican samples confirms that this complex is comprised of two species. One of these is clearly the wide-ranging I. cenchoa , which in Costa Rica occurs in the southwest Pacific Lowlands, Meseta Central, Atlantic lowlands and cordilleran slopes and just on to the Pacific slope in the northern mountains. It does not range into the northwestern (Pacific) lowlands. A second species occurs on the northwestern Pacific lowlands and in sympatry with cenchoa on the Meseta Central and at scattered localities in the Atlantic and southwest Pacific lowlands. The second form is allopatric to Panamanian gemmistratus and consistently differs from the latter in scalation. A review of other Central American and Mexican samples referred ...

FIGURE 3. Map of Paraguay (gray-shadowed) showing the type locality of Ophiodes luciae sp. nov. (black ring), and Paraguayan records of O. intermedius (red triangles), O. fragilis (blue circle), O. striatus (yellow rhombous –arrow indicates a photographic record from Artigas, Itapúa Department, taken from www.faunaparaguay.com/ophiodesstriatus.html–), and Ophiodes sp. "3" (green squares).

An old published record for “Crocodilurus” in Paraguay was almost certainly based on Dracaena paraguayensis Amaral, 1950. Thus, D. paraguayensis occurs from the Brazilian Pantanal south along the Paraguay River as far as Fuerte Olimpo, and Crocodilurus lacertinus (Daudin, 1802) remains restricted to the Amazon and Orinoco river drainages.

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We studied the reproduction of Pacific Pond Turtles, Actinemys marmorata, in four coastal creeks in central California. Ovigerous females had carapace lengths (CL) between 140 mm and 164 mm ( = 152 mm). Oviposition occurred from late April to mid-July. The number of eggs in 97 clutches varied between three and eight ( = 5.7), and 39 females laid 0-2

Ophiodes is a South American genus of legless diploglossid lizards. Four species have been formally described: O. intermedius, O. vertebralis, O. striatus, and O. fragilis; three additional species were described but not officially named in an unpublished dissertation. These species are referred to as Ophiodes sp. "1", Ophiodes sp. "2", and Ophiodes sp. "3". We recognize five species of Ophiodes in Paraguay, one widespread (O. intermedius) and four known from only one or two localities (O. fragilis, O. striatus, O. sp. "3", and an undescribed species, described herein). The new species described represents the fifth Paraguayan species and the eighth member of the genus. It is distinguished by a combination of the following characters: a high number of middorsal scales between occipital and cloacal opening (>165), 29 scale rows around midbody, the posterior limbs 4 scales long, and vertical black bars on the face absent.