Leptodactylus validus and tadpoles on Tobago. JCM The very abundant whistling frog, Leptodactylus validus , has been long considered a...

A Tobago specimen. JCM Treeboas of the genus Corallus (subfamily Boinae), had a Gondwanan origin. As noted in the previous post...

 Ruschenberg's treeboa from the Frenchman's River, Tobago. JCM Nine species of  Neotropical treeboas in the genus Corallu s ran...

The following is from the Trinidad Express. The Tucker Valley Bushmaster, Lachesis muta . The small headed treefrog, Dendropsophs microcep...

Erythrolamprus reginae . JCM Using eight mitochondrial and nuclear genes Gazziotin et al . present a phylogenetic analysis of the New Wo...

The following story is from Newsday  - September 10, 2012 Beach goers at Manzanilla Beach were called into action last week, when they ...

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...