Two recent papers document male parental care in the Tobago glassfrog population. Murphy et al (2012) reported males attending nests wh...

Another species of frog we found in Lopinot Valley on Thursday morning was the Whistling Frog, Leptodactylus fuscus . Whistling frogs lay th...

This morning a walk in Lopinot Valley produced several frog nests after last night's rain. Below is a photo of a nest made by the túngar...

Roger Downie and I will be giving an update on the T&T herpetofauna on this topic on June 14 at the TTFNC meeting in Port of Spain. Chec...

The following story is from the Trinidad Express Newspapers . The common name mapepire balsain refers to Bothrops sp., mapepire zanana re...

Oxyrhopus petolarius, JCM In zoology, the Principle of Priority is one of the guiding principles of the International Code of Zoolog...

Marisora aurulae  Copeoglossum aurae As of today the two species of skinks on Trinidad and Tobago have new genera and new epith...

The Neotropics are well known for their confused skink fauna composed of 26 species in the genus Mabuya, they have a conservative body plan,...

Melanism is the increase of the black pigment melanin, in the skin of animals. Melanin plays a role in several physiological processes incl...

The Trinidad Guardian (March 3) carried the following story by Michelle Loubon Beaches along Trinidad’s east coast like Grande Riviere, Ma...

The first report of a large leptodactylid frog from Trinidad was made by R. R. Mole and F. W. Urich (1894) when they listed Leptodactylus pe...

The Machete couesse or Neotropical Whipsnake (Mastigodryas boddaerti) is an often seen Trinidad snake because it is terrestrial, diurnal, a...