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General

Daltry, J.C., W. Wüster & R.S. Thorpe. 1996. Diet and snake venom evolution. Nature, 379: 537-540.

Dowling, H. G., C. A. Hass, S. B. Hedges & R. Highton. 1996. Snake relationships revealed by slow-evolving proteins: a preliminary survey. J. Zool. (London) 240:1-28.
Hedges, S. B., C. A. Hass & T. K. Maugel. 1989. Physiological color change in snakes. J. Herpetology 23:450-455.
Heise, P. J., H. G. Dowling, L. R. Maxson & S. B. Hedges. 1995. Higher-level snake phylogeny inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences of 12SrRNA and 16SrRNA genes. Mol. Biol. Evol. 12:259-265.
Highton, R., S. B. Hedges, C. A. Hass & H. G. Dowling. 2002. Snake relationships revealed by slowly-evolving proteins: further analysis and a reply. Herpetologica 58: 270-275.
Kley, N. J. 2001. Prey transport mechanisms in blindsnakes and the evolution of unilateral feeding systems in snakes. American Zoologist 41, 1321-1337.
Kley, N. J. & E.L. Brainerd. 1999. Feeding by mandibular raking in a snake. Nature 402, 369-370.

Thorpe, R.S., R.P. Brown, A. Malhotra & W. Wüster. 1991. Geographic variation and population systematics: distinguishing between ecogenetics and phylogenetics. Bolletino di Zoologia, 58:329-335.

Tucker, J.K. 1995. Notes on Road-Killed Snakes and Their Implications on Habitat Modification Due to Summer Flooding on the Mississippi River in West Central Illinois. Trans. Illinois State Acad. Sci., 88(1/2): 61-71.
Vidal, N. & S. B. Hedges. 2002. Higher-level relationships of snakes inferred from four nuclear and mitochondrial genes. C. R. Biologies 325:977-985.
Vidal, N. & S. B. Hedges. 2002. Higher-level relationships of caenophidian snakes inferred from four nuclear and mitochondrial genes. C. R. Biologies 325:987-995.

Wüster, W. 1996. Systematics, venom variation and toxinology: bridging gaps between evolutionary biology and biomedical science. Toxicon, 34(7): 733.

Wüster, W. 1996. Venomous snake systematics: implications for snakebite treatment and toxinology. Toxicon, 34: 143.

Wüster, W., J.C. Daltry & R.S. Thorpe. 1999. Can diet explain intraspecific venom variation? Reply to Sasa. Toxicon, 37: 253-258.

Wüster, W., P. Golay & D.A. Warrell. 1997. Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics. Toxicon, 35(3): 319-340.

Wüster, W., P. Golay & D.A. Warrell. 1998. Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics, No. 2. Toxicon, 36(2): 299-307.

Wüster, W., P. Golay & D.A. Warrell. 1999. Synopsis of recent developments in venomous snake systematics, No. 3. Toxicon 37(8): 1123-1129.

Wüster, W. & C.J. McCarthy. 1996. Venomous snake systematics: implications for snakebite treatment and toxinology. In C. Bon & M. Goyffon (Eds.), Envenomings and their Treatments: 13-23. Fondation Mérieux, Lyon.

 

Boidae
Dorcas, M.E. & C.R. Peterson. 1997. Heat-body Temperature Differences in Free-ranging Rubber Boas. J. Herpetol., 31(1): 87-93.
Henderson, R. W. & S. B. Hedges. 1995. Origin of West Indian populations of the geographically widespread boa Corallus enydris inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 4:88-92.
Rodríguez-Robles, J.A., C.J. Bell & H.W. Greene. 1999. Gape size and evolution of diet in snakes: feeding ecology of erycine boas. Journal of Zoology (London), 248(1):49-58.
Rodríguez-Robles, J.A., G.R. Stewart & T.J. Papenfuss. 2001. Mitochondrial DNA-based phylogeography of North American rubber boas, Charina bottae (Serpentes: Boidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 18(2):227-237.
 

Colubridae
Colli, G. R. & A. K. Péres Jr. 1997. Geographic distribution: Chironius flavolineatus. Herpetological Review 28(3): 158.

Daltry, J.C. & W. Wüster. 2002. A new species of wolf snake (Serpentes: Colubridae: Lycodon) from the Cardamom Mountains, southwestern Cambodia. Herpetologica 58(4): 498-504.

Fry, B.G., W. Wüster, S.F.R. Ramjan, T. Jackson, P. Martelli & R.M. Kini. 2003. Analysis of Colubroidea snake venoms by liquid chromatography with mass spectrogramy: evolutionary and toxinological implications. Rapid Comm. Mass Spectrometry, 17: 2047-2062.
Hedges, S. B. 1977. The presence of the scarlet kingsnake, Lampropeltis triangulum elapsoides Holbrook (Reptilia, Serpentes, Colubridae), in the Florida Keys. Herpetol. Rev. 8(4):125-126.
Hedges, S. B. & O. H. Garrido. 1992. Cuban snakes of the genus Arrhyton: Two new species and a reconsideration of A. redimitum Cope. Herpetologica 48:168-177.
Jackson, K. and G. Perry. 2000. Changes in intestinal morphology following feeding in the Brown Treesnake, Boiga irregularis. Journal of Herpetology 34:459-462.
Janzen, F.J., J.G. Krenz, T.S. Haselkorn, E.D. Brodie, Jr. & E.D. Brodie, III. 2002. Molecular phylogeography of common garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis) in western North America: implications for regional historical forces. Mol. Ecol., 11: 1739-1751.
Jayne, B.C., H.K. Voris & P.K.L. Ng. 2002. Snake circumvents constraints on prey size. Nature 418:143.
Kley, N.J. & E.L. Brainerd. 2002. Post-cranial prey transport mechanisms in the black pinesnake, Pituophis melanoleucus lodingi: an x-ray videographic study. Zoology, 105: 153-164.
Krysko, K.L. 2001. Ecology, Conservation, and Morphological and Molecular Systematics of the Kingsnake, Lampropeltis getula (Serpentes: Colubridae). Diss. Univ. Florida, 159 pp.
Krysko, K.L. 2003. Reproduction in the Madagascar leaf-nosed snake, Langaha madagascariensis (Serpentes: Colubridae: Pseudoxyrhophiinae). Afr. J. Herpetol., 52(1): 61-68.
Krysko, K.L., L.E. Krysko & B. Dierking. 1998. Lampropeltis getula floridana. Combat Ritual. Herpetol. Rev., 29(2): 104.
Krysko, K.L., L.E. Krysko & C. Hurt. 2000. Reproduction and Distribution of the South Florida Mole Kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster occipitolineata) from Central Peninsular Florida. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc., 116(4): 344-347.
Perry, G., E.W. Campbell, III, G.H. Rodda & T.H. Fritts. 1998. Managing island biotas: Brown Treesnake control using barrier technology. Pp. 138-143 in R.O. Baker and A.C. Crabb, Eds. Proceedings of the 18th Vertebrate Pest Management Conference. University of California, Davis.
Rodríguez-Robles, J.A. 2002. Feeding ecology of North American gopher snakes (Pituophis catenifer, Colubridae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 77(2):165-183.
Rodríguez-Robles, J.A., D.F. DeNardo & R.E. Staub. 1999. Phylogeography of the California mountain kingsnake, Lampropeltis zonata (Colubridae). Molecular Ecology, 8(11):1923-1934.
Rodríguez-Robles, J.A. & H.W. Greene. 1999. Food habits of the long-nosed snake (Rhinocheilus lecontei), a "specialist" predator? Journal of Zoology (London), 248(4):489-499.
Rodríguez-Robles, J.A. & J.M. De Jesús-Escobar. 1999. Molecular systematics of New World lampropeltinine snakes (Colubridae): implications for biogeography and evolution of food habits. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 68(3):355-385.
Rodríguez-Robles, J.A. & J.M. De Jesús-Escobar. 2000. Molecular systematics of New World gopher, bull, and pinesnakes (Pituophis: Colubridae), a transcontinental species complex. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 14(1):35-50.
Vidal, N., S. G. Kindl, A. Wong & S. B. Hedges. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships of xenodontine snakes inferred from 12S and 16S ribosomal RNA sequences. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 14:389-402.
Villa, J. 1970. The Snake Hydromorphus in Nicaragua, with a Description of its Hemipenis. Carib. J. Sci., 10(3/4): 119-121.

Wüster, W. & M.J. Cox. 1992. Defensive hemipenis display in the Kukri snake Oligodon cyclurus. Journal of Herpetology, 26(2): 238-241.

Wüster, W., J.L. Yrausquin & A. Mijares-Urrutia. 2001. A new species of indigo snake from northwestern Venezuela (Serpentes: Colubridae: Drymarchon). Herpetological Journal 11: 157-165.

Zug, G. R., S. B. Hedges & S. Sunkel. 1979. Variation in reproductive parameters of three neotropical snakes, Coniophanes fissidens, Dipsas catesbyi, and Imantodes cenchoa. Smithsonian Contr. Zool. 300:1-20.
 

Elapidae

Chan-Ard, T., B.L. Stuart & W. Wüster. 2000. First record of Indochinese spitting cobra Naja siamensis Laurenti (Serpentes: Elapidae) from Laos, with comments on the genus in the country. Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society, 48(1): 149-152.

Fry, B.G., J.C. Wikramaratina, W.C. Hodgson, P.F. Alewood, R.M. Kini, H. Ho & W. Wüster. 2002. Electrospray liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry fingerprinting of Acanthophis (death adder) venoms: taxonomic and toxinological implications. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 16: 600-608.

Fry, B.G., W. Wüster, R.M. Kini, V. Brusic, A. Khan, D. Venkataraman & A.P. Rooney. 2003. Molecular Evolution and Phylogeny of Elapid Snake Venom Three-Finger Toxins. J. Mol. Evol., 57: 110-129.
Keogh, J.S. 1998. Molecular phylogeny of elapid snakes and a consideration of their biogeographic history. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 63:177-203.
Keogh, J.S. 1999. Evolutionary implications of hemipenial morphology in the terrestrial Australian elapid snakes. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 125:239-278.
Keogh, J.S, I.A.W. Scott & J.D Scanlon. 2000. Molecular phylogeny of viviparous Australian elapid snakes: Affinities of Echiopsis atriceps (Storr, 1980) and Drysdalia coronata (Schlegel, 1837), with description of a new genus. Journal of Zoology, London 252:317-326.
Krysko, K.L. & K.R. Abdelfattah. 2002. Micrurus fulvius. Prey. Herpetol. Rev., 33(1): 57-58.
Scott I.A.W., C. Hayes, J.S. Keogh & J.K. Webb. 2001. Isolation and characterization of novel microsatellite markers from the Australian tiger snakes (Elapidae: Notechis) and amplification in the closely related genus Hoplocephalus. Molecular Ecology Notes 1:117-120.
Slowinski, J. & J.S Keogh. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships of elapid snakes based on cytochrome b mtDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15:157-164.

Slowinski, J.B. & W. Wüster. 2000. A new cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Myanmar (Burma). Herpetologica, 56(2): 257-270.

Wüster, W. 1996. Taxonomic changes and toxinology: systematic revisions of the Asiatic cobras (Naja naja species complex). Toxicon, 34(4): 399-406.

Wüster, W. 1996. The status of the cobras of the genus Naja Laurenti, 1768 (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) on the island of Sulawesi. The Snake, 27(2): 85-90.

Wüster, W. & D.G. Broadley. 2003. A new species of spitting cobra (Naja) from north-eastern Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae). J. Zool., London, 259: 345-359.

Wüster, W. & R.S. Thorpe. 1987. Geographic variation in the cobras of the genus Naja in southeast Asia: a multivariate analysis. In J.J. van Gelder, H. Strijbosch & P.J.M. Bergers (Eds.): Proceedings of the 4th Ordinary General Meeting of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica: 449-452. Faculty of Sciences, Nijmegen.

Wüster, W. & R.S. Thorpe. 1990. Systematics and biogeography of the Asiatic cobra (Naja naja) species complex in the Philippine Islands. In G. Peters & R. Hutterer (Eds.), Vertebrates in the Tropics: 333-344. Museum A. Koenig, Bonn.

Wüster, W. & R.S. Thorpe. 1991. Asiatic cobras: systematics and snakebite. Experientia, 47: 205-209.

Wüster, W. & R.S. Thorpe. 1994. Naja siamensis, a cryptic species of venomous snake revealed by mtDNA sequencing. Experientia, 50: 75-79.

Wüster, W., R.S. Thorpe, M.J. Cox, P. Jintakune & J. Nabhitabhata. 1995. Population systematics of the snake genus Naja (Reptilia: Serpentes: Elapidae) in Indochina: multivariate morphometrics and comparative mitochondrial DNA sequencing (cytochrome oxidase I). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 8: 493-510.

Wüster, W., D.A. Warrell, M.J. Cox, P. Jintakune & J. Nabhitabhata. 1997. Redescription of Naja siamensis Laurenti, 1768 (Serpentes: Elapidae), a widely overlooked spitting cobra from Southeast Asia: geographic variation, medical importance and designation of a neotype. Journal of Zoology, 243: 771-788

 

Pythonidae
Gorzula, S., W.O. Nsiah & W. Oduro. 1997. Survey of the Status and Management of the Royal Python (Python regius) in Ghana. CITES, Geneve, 55 pp.
 

Tropidophiidae
Hedges, S. B., A. R. Estrada & L. M. Diaz. 1999. A new snake (Tropidophis) from western Cuba. Copeia 1999:376-381.
Hedges, S. B. & O. H. Garrido. 1992. A new species of Tropidophis from Cuba (Serpentes, Tropidophiidae). Copeia 1992:820-825.
Hedges, S. B. & O. H. Garrido. 1999. A new snake of the genus Tropidophis (Tropidophiidae) from central Cuba. J. Herpetology 33:436-441.
Hedges, S. B. & O. H. Garrido. 2002. A new snake of the genus Tropidophis (Tropidophiidae) from Eastern Cuba. J. Herpetology 36:157-161.
Hedges, S. B., O. H. Garrido & L. M. Diaz. 2001. A new banded snake of the genus Tropidophis (Tropidophiidae) from North-Central Cuba. J. Herpetology 35:615-617.
 

Typhlopidae
Hedges, S. B. and R. Thomas. 1991. Cryptic species of snakes (Typhlopidae: Typhlops) from the Puerto Rico Bank detected by protein electrophoresis. Herpetologica 47:448-459.
 

Viperidae (43)
Boyer, L.V., S.A. Seifert, R.F. Clark, J.T. McNally, S.R. Williams, S.P. Nordt, F.G. Walther & R.C. Dart. 1999. Recurrent and Persistens Coagulopathy Following Pit Viper Envenomation. Arch. Int. Med., 159: 706-710.
Chijiwa, T., M. Deshimaur, I. Nobuhisa, M. Nakai, T. Ogawa, N. Oda, K-I. Nakashima, Y. Fukumaki, Y. Shimohigashi, S. Hattori & M. Ohno. 2000. Regional evolution of venom-gland phospholipase A2 isoenzymes of Trimeresurus flavoviridis snakes in the southwestern islands of Japan. Biochem. J., 347: 491-499.

Daltry, J.C., G. Ponnudurai, C.K. Shin, N.-H. Tan, R.S. Thorpe & W. Wüster. 1996. Electrophoretic profiles and biological activities: intraspecific variation in the venom of the Malayan pit viper (Calloselasma rhodostoma) Toxicon, 34: 67-79.

Daltry, J.C., T. Ross, R.S. Thorpe & W. Wüster. 1998. Evidence that humidity influences snake activity patterns: a field study of the Malayan pit viper Calloselasma rhodostoma. Ecography, 21(1): 25-34.

Daltry, J.C., W. Wüster & R.S. Thorpe. 1998. Intraspecific variation in the feeding ecology of the crotaline snake Calloselasma rhodostoma in Southeast Asia. Journal of Herpetology, 32(5): 198-205.

Grenard, S. 2000. Is rattlesnake venom evolving? Nat. Hist., 109(6): 44-46.
Keogh, J.S. & V. Wallach. 1999. Allometry and sexual dimorphism in the lung morphology of prairie rattlesnakes, Crotalus viridis viridis. Amphibia-Reptilia 20:377-399.
Koldkjær, P, T. Wang, E.W. Taylor & A.S. Abe. 2000. Red blood cells from the South American rattlesnake (Crotalus durissus terrificus) regulate volume incompletely following osmotic shrinkage and swelling in vitro. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 127A: 49-54.
McCranie, J.R. 2001. Benque Viojo and Porthidium yucatanicum (Squamata: Viperidae) in Belize. Carib. J. Sci., 37(3/4): 284-285.
Moon, B.R. 2001. Muscle physiology and the evolution of the rattling system in rattlesnakes. Journal of Herpetology 35: 497-500.
Moon, B.R., T.J. LaDuc, R. Dudley & A. Chang. 2002. A Twist to the Rattlesnake Tail. Pp. 63-76. In: Aerts, P., K. D'Aoút, A. Herrel & R. Van Damme (eds.). Topics in Functional and Ecological Vertebrate Morphology.
Moon, B.R., J.J. Hopp & K.E. Conley. 2002 Mechanical tradeoffs explain how performance increases without increasing cost in rattlesnake tailshaker muscle. Journal of Experimental Biology, 205(5): 667-675.

Pook, C.E., W. Wüster & R.S. Thorpe. 2000. Historical biogeography of the western rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus viridis), inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequence information. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 15(2): 269-282.

Puorto, G., M.G. Salomão, R.D.G. Theakston, R.S. Thorpe, D.A. Warrell & W. Wüster. 2001. Combining mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphological data to infer species boundaries: phylogeography of lanceheaded pitvipers in the Brazilian Atlantic forest, and the status of Bothrops pradoi (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae). Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 14(4): 527-538.

Reinert, H.K., L.M. Bushar, G.L. Rocco, M. Goode & R.A. Odum. 2002. Distribution of the Aruba Island Rattlesnake, Crotalus unicolor, on Aruba, Dutch West Indies. Carib. J. Sci., 38(1/2): 126-128.

Salomão, M.G., W. Wüster, R.S. Thorpe & B.B.B.S.P. 1997. DNA evolution of South American pitvipers of the genus Bothrops. In R.S. Thorpe, W. Wüster & A. Malhotra (Eds.), Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, No. 70, Pp. 89-98. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Wang, T., A.S. Abe and M.L. Glass. 1998. Effects of temperature on lung and blood gases in the South American rattlesnake, Crotalus durissus terrificus. Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology 121A: 7-11

Wüster, W. 1998. Comment on the proposed conservation of the specific and subspecific names of Trigonocephalus pulcher Peters, 1862 and Bothrops albocarinatus Shreve, 1934 (Reptilia, Serpentes) by the designation of a neotype for T. pulcher. (Case 2921; see BZN 54: 35-38). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 55: 34-36.

Wüster, W. 2000. Predence of names in wide use over disused synonyms or homonyms in accordance with Article 23.9 of the Code. Reptilia, Serpentes (1) Trigonocephalus caribbaeus Garman, 1887. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 57(1): 9.

Wüster, W., S. Otsuka, R.S. Thorpe & A. Malhotra. 1992. Morphological variation in Russell's viper in Burma and Thailand. Herpetological Journal, 2: 99-101.

Wüster, W., S. Pierini & G. Puorto. 1994. Geographic Distribution: Bothrops moojeni. Herpetological Review, 25: 166.

Wüster, W., M.G. Salomão, G.J. Duckett, R.S. Thorpe & B.B.B.S.P. 1999. Mitochondrial DNA evolution of the Bothrops atrox species complex (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae). Kaupia, 8: 135-144.

Wüster, W., M.G. Salomão, R.S. Thorpe, G. Puorto, M.F.D. Furtado, S.A. Hoge, R.D.G. Theakston & D.A. Warrell. 1997. Systematics of the Bothrops atrox species complex: insights from multivariate analysis and mitochondrial DNA sequence information. In R.S. Thorpe, W. Wüster & A. Malhotra (Eds.), Venomous Snakes: Ecology, Evolution and Snakebite. Symposia of the Zoological Society of London, No. 70, Pp. 99-113. Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Wüster, W., R.S. Thorpe, G. Puorto & B.B.B.S.P. 1996. Systematics of the Bothrops atrox complex (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) in Brasil: a multivariate analysis. Herpetologica, 52: 263-271.

Yamanouye, N., L.R.G. Britto, S.M. Carneiro & R.P. Markus. 1997. Control of Venom Production and Secretion by Sympathetic outflow in the Snake Bothrops jararaca. J. Exp. Biol., 200: 2547-2556.
Young, B., Jaggers, J., Nejman, N. and Kley, N. J. (2001). Buccal expansion during hissing in the puff adder, Bitis arietans. Copeia 2000, 270-273.