volume survey of litteratura serpentium
■ Litteratura Serpentium, the magazine of the European Snake Society, starts at this very moment it's 30th volume. It is bilingual: Dutch and English. Infra you'll find a survey of the contents of the volumes from 1996. Of each volume, starting with volume 25, some articles will be available as pdf. You'll recognize these articles by the blue colour. Authors who have published their articles on their own site, are requested to send an URL to the webmaster. He will link the title(s) to the author's website.
A Python molurus bivittatus as a pet.
Taken from W.E.-Engelmann und F.J. Obst, Mit gespaltener Zunge. Page 194.

 
Volume 16, 1996
  • J. Baas, The fascinating China. Visit to a snake farm
  • John Bakker, Breeding results, Elaphe guttata emoryi
  • John Bakker, Breeding results, Elaphe guttata (snowcorn)
  • John Bakker, Breeding results, Elaphe guttata (albino redphase)
  • John Bakker, Breeding results, Elaphe guttata
  • John Bakker, Breeding results, Lampropeltis getulus californiae (albino gestreept)
  • Dick van den Berg, Additional remarks about the care of red-tail boas
  • Silvia Bloem & Johan Mavromichalis, Raising offspring of Epicrates striatus striatus
  • Steve Byrd, Care sheet for red-tail boas
  • Simon Fearn, Captive growth of a Carpet Python Morelia spilota
  • Freek Gillissen, Breeding results, Elaphe bimaculata
  • Rolf van der Goot, Cerastes vipera, the Sahara sand viper (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Steve Grenard, Reptile-associated salmonellosis
  • E. Hartloper, "More haste less speed..."
  • Kevin Hingley, Keeping and breeding the Ladder snake, Elaphe scalaris
  • Jan-Cor Jacobs, The realization of the venomous snake keepers dream
  • Pedro Janssen, Abstract of lecture: European vipers in the wild
  • Robert Jooris, Coluber gemonensis (Laurenti, 1768), teh only correct scientific name of the Balkan Whipsnake
  • Melissa Kaplan, Caring for Corn snake
  • Melissa Kaplan, An overview of natural history and care in captivity
  • Ron Kivit, Nutrition of snakes, an important issue on caring
  • H. Kratzer, Abstract of lecture: Sinfonie in Sand und Stein, Namibia
  • Rosier van de Kuil, Breeding results, Elaphe obsoleta quadrivittata - yellow ratsnake
  • C.M. Langeveld, abstract of lecture:caring and breeding Elaphe species
  • C.M. Langeveld, The Brazilian rainbow boa, a beautiful terrarium dweller (Epicrates cenchria Linnaeus, 1758)
  • José Lotte & Silvia Bloem, Taxonomy and determination
  • Joahn Mavromichalis & Silvia Bloem, Difficulties with obtaining sera
  • Jan van het Meer, The care, maintenance and breeding of Lampropeltis getulus californiae
  • Jan van het Meer, Breeding results, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis black
  • Jan van het Meer, Breeding results, Thamnophis marcianus marcianus
  • Jan van het Meer, Breeding results, Thamnophis sirtalis similis
  • Jan van het Meer, Keeping, breeding and caring for Lichanura
  • Jan van het Meer, A new method of breeding Thamnophis species
  • Marcel Schellekens, Registration of breeding results
  • H. Slegers, Bitis gabonica rhinoceros, the Gaboon viper
  • Trevor Smith, Abstract of lecture: An exciting new form of the Striped tailed rat snake, Elaphe taeniura - the Burmese blue
  • Pete Strimple, Crotalus scutulatus (Kennicot), the Mojave rattlesnake
  • Dinie Uneken, Breeding results, Thamnophis sauritus proximus
  • Dinie Uneken, Breeding results, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
  • Dinie Uneken, Breeding results, Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis black
  • Cécile van der Vlugt, René van der Vlugt, Marcel van der Voort, Editorial
  • Marcel van der Voort, Ancient herpetology 2: Ancient profylaxis
  • Marcel van der Voort, Herpetological gatherings 5: Drugs for a krait
  • Marcel van der Voort, Herpetological gatherings 6: About snakes and parricides
  • Anton van Woerkom, Bookreview: Der Konigspython - Plege und Zucht, by Andreas Kirschner & Hermann Seufer
  • Jeroen van Wijk, Experiences with a food refusing snake

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Volume 17, 1997
  • Gijs van Aken, Armature for heat lamps in the snake terrarium
  • Gijs van Aken, Alternative places for a terrarium
  • John Bakker, Striking nest behavior of Heterodon nasicus nasicus
  • David Blatchford, Bookreview: Snakes and snake hunting, by Carl Kauffeld; bookreview: The keeper and the kept by Carl Kauffeld
  • Graeme Blem, Big snakes
  • Joachim Bulian, Chondropythons from Bangkok?
  • Joachim Bulian, A problematic terrarium animal? Remarks on Chrysopelea ornata ornatissima
  • Beatty Dimit, The brown house snakes as pets
  • Beatty Dimit, Reincarnation: the return of Tut
  • Eddy Even, Blood pythons, Python curtus; subspecies, care and breeding
  • Elliot & Bruce Jacobson, Ophidian paramyxovirus (OPMV)
  • Lucien, Breeding report Morelia spilota mcdowelli
  • Chris Mattison, Bookreview: A guide to the snakes of Papua New Guinea, by Mark O'Shea
  • Johan Mavromichalis & Silvia Bloem, Description of the genus Aspidelaps and a successful breeding with Aspidelaps lubricus infuscatus
  • Johan Mavromichalis & Silvia Bloem, Extraordinary experiences with an adult female Python molurus bivittatus
  • Jan van het Meer, Eryx colubrinus (Stull, 1932)
  • Fausto Starace, Contribution to the study of the snakes of French Guyana II - The presence of Dipsas copei (Gunther, 1872)
  • Udo Strathemann, An outdoor enclosure - Planning, positioning, construction and description of an outdoor enclosure for breeding of water and other snakes from Nordic regions
  • John Tashjian, Phootozoographie
  • Jan van Tessel, Force-feeding
  • Jan van Tessel, Is it a male or a female?
  • Frits van Tricht, Serum bank
  • Marcel van der Voort, A snake with a prey gets heavy intestines
  • Marcel van der Voort, Ancient herpetology, part 3: Subservient serpents
  • Marcel van der Voort, Ancient herpetology, part 4: Final remarks

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Volume 18, 1998
  • Marcel Engelen, Quite frightening
  • Freek Gillisen & Hanneke Hul, Elaphe mandarina (Cantor 1842)
  • Gary Hesom, My first breeding results with Royal Pythons
  • Elliot Jacobson & Juergen Schumacher, Inclusion body disease virus
  • Johan Mavromichalis, Panic about salmonellosis in Beek en Donk
  • Johan Mavromichalis, Problems in getting sera; the consequences of an accident
  • Erik Nijhof, Snakes as carrion eaters
  • Harmen-Jan Platvoet, Successful breeding with Vipera latasti latasti after an autumn mating
  • Jan Ramaker, The virus: "A snake keeping passion"
  • Peet Smetsers, Successful breeding of Naja sputatrix, the spitting cobra (white phase)
  • Fausto Starace, Contribution to the study of the snakes of French Guyana III. The presence of Chironius exoletus (Linnaeus, 1758) in French-Guyana
  • Fausto Starace, Discussion of the genus Oxyrhopus (Wagler, 1830) in French Guyana
  • Pete Strimple, The cottonmouth or water moccasin Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacepčde), part 1
  • Pete Strimple, The cottonmouth or water moccasin Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacepčde), part 2
  • Pete Strimple, The cottonmouth or water moccasin Agkistrodon piscivorus (Lacepčde), partl 3
  • Jan van Tessel, Cutting claws
  • Rob Valentic, Experiences with a female Acantophis antarticus
  • Marcel van der Voort, Bookreview: Harry Greene, Snakes. The evolution of mystery in nature
  • Keith Werb, An Englishmen's story
  • Bruce Young, The acoustic biology of snakes

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Volume 19, 1999
  • John en Marion Bakker, Bitis arietans, the puff adder
  • John en Marion Bakker, Bitis gabonica, the Gaboon viper
  • John en Marion Bakker, Bitis nasicornus
  • Richard van Beusichem, Succesful breeding of the Russian rat snake (Elaphe schrencki schrencki)
  • Board of E.S.S., Animal Smuggling
  • Board of E.S.S., The rebirth of the Basilisc
  • Joachim Bulian, Observations on Boiga cyanea
  • Emanuele Cimatti, Notes on the captive reproduction of the African rock python, Python sebae sp.
  • Emanuele Cimatti, Elaphe scalaris meets Elaphe guttata
  • Emanuele Cimatti, Notes on natural hybridisation between Natrix natrix and Natrix tessellata
  • Cock Dekker, Travel impressions from Thailand
  • Eddy Even, Some remarkable snakes in Shanghai Zoo
  • J.-P. Gonzales, Reaction on hybridisation
  • Harry Greene, Snakes. The evolution of mystery in nature
  • Cees Hendriks, Anomalie by Eunectus notaeus offspring
  • Allen Hunter, Venomous snakes 1: The golden rules
  • Allen Hunter, Venomous snakes 2: Tools
  • Allen Hunter, Venomous snakes 3: Transport
  • Chris van Kalken, Breeding the yellow rat snake and the grey rat snake
  • Johan Mavromichalis, A snake eating corn snake?
  • Johan Mavromichalis, About hybrids and reptiles as colour-canaries
  • Jan van het Meer, Elaphe bimaculata
  • Gerard Nas, Vitamins and medicins
  • Jan Ramaker, Making an all-glass terrarium
  • Lucien Rooyendijk, Morelia spilota imbricata
  • Kurt Schwenk, The serpent's tongue
  • Nathalie Sie,Keeping and breeding of the eastern ringnecked snake (Diadophis punctatus punctatus)
  • Ton Snippe, Mulktiple-Nipple Mice for a stubborn ball python
  • Ton Snippe, Some observations on Dekay's worm-eating snake Storeria dekayi victa
  • Bryan Starrett, Metropolitan pitvipers, notes on the ecology, systematics and husbandry of two urban rattlesnakes, Crotalus mitchelli pyrrhus en Crotalus tigris
  • Pete Strimple, The cottonmouth or watermocassin, Agkistrodon piscivorus, deel 4
  • Jan van Tessel, On earwigs and snake eggs
  • Jan van Tessel, Dead animals
  • Marc Vervest, Afterbreed jungle corn snake
  • Marcel van der Voort, A misplaced blow
  • Ton Wijnen, For a moment I stood staggered
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Volume 20, 2000
  • Henriette Bakker, Egg binding in Lichanura trivirgata trivirgata
  • Dick van den Berg, Breeding report Boa constrictor
  • Joachim Bulian, Eat or be eaten
  • Emanuele Cimatti, Notes on captive feeding of the centipede snake (Scalecophis atrocinctus)
  • Emanuele Cimatti, A case of multiple egg clutches in an African brown house snake, (Lamprophis fuliginosus)
  • Cock Dekker, The escape of a Lampropeltis sinaloae
  • John van Hoorn, Boa constrictor stolen in Purmerend (The Netherlands)
  • Raymond Hoser, A new snake from Queensland, Australia
  • Raymond Hoser, A new species of snake (Serpentes: Elapidae) from Irian Jaya
  • Erna Joseph, Education about snakes in schools
  • Daan van Kampenhout, The snake as a spiritual force in traditional and nordic culture
  • Melissa Kaplan, The keeping of large pythons. Realities an responsabilities
  • Melissa Kaplan, Ophidiphobia and ophidiphobes
  • Wouter Kok, Breeding the ball python (Python regius Shaw, 1802)
  • Bilal Kutrup, Notes on the breeding and feeding of long-nosed Caucasian Viper (Vipera ammodytes transcaucasiana)
  • Johan en Anja Lanting, Cheating a serpent
  • Nico de Leeuw & Paul Floor, Climats, part 1
  • Nico de Leeuw & Paul Floor, Climats, 2
  • Johan Mavromichalis, An exceptional case
  • Johan Mavromichalis,  An adult Naja kaouhtia without a tongue
  • Johan Mavromichalis, Frozen chickens as a replacement food for large constrictors
  • Marylin Nissenson & Susan Jones, The snake observed
  • Piet Nuyten, Keeping and breeding snakes of the genus Lampropeltis
  • Wim Rheinhard, Experiences in keeping and breeding Elaphe hohenackeri
  • Andre en Yvonne Robben, Rabbit kills tiger python
  • Dieter Schmidt, Experiences with a privat serum depository
  • Hugo Sengers, Feeding behaviour of two Californian kingsnakes (Lampropeltis getulus californiae)
  • Amrita Sivanand, Serpent worship in India
  • Amrita Sivanand, The snake Kaliya subdued by lord Krishna
  • Ben van der Veen, My experiences with Corallus hortulanus hortulanus and Corallus hortulanus cooki
  • David Villareal & Romiro Galvan & Alan Kardon, The snakes of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
  • Marcel van der Voort, Bookreview of Marylin Nissenson & Susan Jones, Snake Charm
  • Marcel van der Voort, Snake handling believers
  • Marcel van der Voort, Dese strijt is ewelijc vast
  • Marcel van der Voort, Bookreview of Robert Twigger, The hunt for the world's longest python
  • Marcel van der Voort, Venom only exists in the imagination of the adder

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Volume 21, 2001
  • Gijs van Aken, Blood mites are no fun
  • Gijs van Aken, Bookreview of Peter Stafford, Snakes
  • Peter van Baren, The importance of quarantaine
  • Emanuele Cimatti, Personal experiences with two methods to control snake mites
  • Emanuele Cimatti, Captive keeping and breeding of the four-lined ratsnake (Elaphe quattuorlineata-spp.)
  • Emanuele Cimatti, Some observations on the captive breeding of the leopard ratsnake (Elaphe situla)
  • Emanuele Cimatti, A report on some snakes found in Namibia
  • Emanuele Cimatti, A snake park in Namibia
  • Jack van den Engh, Venomous snakes south of the Sahara, part 1
  • Jack van den Engh, Venomous snakes south of the Sahara, part 2
  • Jan-Cor Jacobs, All oiled up
  • Ron Kivit & Stephen Wiseman, The green tree python & emerald tree boa. Their Captive Husbandry and reproduction
  • Frank Migchelbrink, Bookreview of Ron Kivit & Stephen Wiseman, The green tree python & emerald tree boa. Their Captive Husbandry and reproduction
  • Johan Mavromichalis, Iodine as panacea
  • Johan Mavromichalis, Onions and snakes with a cold
  • Johan Mavromichalis, Can potasium permanganate be a first aid help by poisonous snakebites?
  • Harold van der Ploeg, Dumerili-boa's (Acrantophis (Boa) dumerili
  • Maarten de Ruiter, Nature, snake protection and snakes for pleasure
  • Sergei Ryabov, The Exotarium, Snake center in Russia
  • Sergei Ryabov, Persian ratsnake Elaphe persica (Werner, 1913): biology, keeping and reproduction in captivity
  • Nathalie Sie, Paramyxovirus in Boa constrictor constrictor
  • Nathalie Sie, Reptils and small children in the home-experiences of preventing a  salmonella infection
  • Peter Stafoord, Burrowing asps, abstract
  • Rene van der Vlugt, Viruses, the unknown pathogens
  • Aart van Wijk, Dice snakes in an outside terrarium
  • Wolfgang Wuster, Brian Bush, Keogh Scott, Mark O'Shea, Richard Shine, Taxonomic contributions in the 'amateur' literature: comments on recent descriptions of new genera and species by Raymond Hoser

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Snake at the feet of the cross, decorating the entrance of the town of Nesle, Picardy, France. Photo: Marcel van der Voort.

A tiger python as a pet. Taken from Camilla Paul-Stengel, Schlangenspuren. Reptilien in der Kukturgeschichte. Page 10.
Volume 22, 2002
  • G. de Nas, Food refusal
  • Jan van Tessel, A tooth for wiilow
  • Gijs van Aken, Snakes, frogs and a good night's rest
  • Marcel van der Voort, The older the stories, the bigger the snakes
  • Joachim Bulian, A visit to Pata Zoo in Bangkok
  • Stefan Broghammer, Ranching programs run in the native countries & field studies made in the wild
  • John Dhont, All about ball pythons
  • Jan-Cor Jacobs, Bookreview of Stefan Broghammer, Königspythons: Lebensraum, Pflege und Zucht / Ball Pythons: habtitat, care and breeding
  • Wouter Kok, Care sheet Python regius
  • Sergei Ryabov, Breeding of black mangrove snake, Boiga dendrophila gemmicincta (Dumeril, Bibron et Dumeril, 1954)
  • Tibor Kovács, What happened to the Hungarian meadow viper?
  • Johan De Smedt, Care and breeding Vipera kaznakovi
  • Ebele Zuidema, The Cuban Boa (Epicrates angulifer)
  • Jan-Cor Jacobs, Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis
  • Jan-Cor Jacobs, Bookreview of Johan De Smedt, Die europäischen Vipern. Artbestimmung, Systematik, Haltung und Zucht.
  • Marjon Jasker, Care sheet Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis
  • Jack van den Engh, The application of potasium permanganate (KMN)4 as first aid measure in snakebite: a fiction?
  • Gijs van Aken, Snake, rattle and roll
  • John Murphy & Harold Voris, Aquatic snakes with crustacean eating habits elude herpetologists for two centuries
  • A. Verveen, Able bodied Boa constrictor in 3D
  • Marcel van der Voort, Of men who are afraid to deflower their wives
  • Emanuele Cimatti, Care sheet Lamprophis fuliginosus

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St.-Michael slaughtering the devil in
dragon disguise. Cathedral of
St.-Quentin, France.
Photo: Marcel van der Voort.
Volume 23, 2003

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Coatlicue,
the snake goddess of the Maya's


Click here for a video film
of the encircling serpent
Volume 24, 2004

  • Erik Attmarsson, The reproductive husbandry of a group of Burmese pythons, Python molurus bivittatus

  • Emanuele Cimatti, Breeding data of the aesculapian ratsnake (Elaphe longissima longissima)

  • Andreas Gumprecht, Euprepiophis mandarinus

  • Raymond Hoser Feeding innovations for snakes

  • Raymond Hoser, ‘Strictly nocturnal’ snakes … are they also diurnal?

  • Raymond Hoser, A new solution to a series of old problems... The best water containers yet for snake cages

  • Jan-Cor Jacobs, The Eastern-African eggsnake Dasypeltis medici (lamuensis)

  • A.J.R. van Leeuwen, The relevance of ultraviolet light for snakes

  • Jukka Lindgren, UV-lamps for terrariums. Their spectral characteristics and efficiency in promoting vitamin D3 synthesis by UVB irradiation

  • Marc Mense, A Review of the Australo-Papuan Carpet Python complex (Morelia bredli, Morelia carinata and  Morelia spilota), with a key to the species.

  • Piet Nuijten, The keeping and breeding of carpet pythons from Indonesia (Irian Jaya)

  • Bernd Skubowius, Keeping and breeding Pine Snakes Pituophis melanoleucus

  • Tamás Tóth and Balázs Farkas, The Bosnian adder (Vipera berus bosniensis) in southwestern Hungary

  • A.A. Verveen, Postscript to the article of Jukka Lindgrend

  • Marcel van der Voort, Snakes and death

  • Marcel van der Voort, A mobile snake exhibition in France

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Breeding albino Burmese python.
Photo: Erik Attmarsson.


Euprepiophis mandarina.
Photo Andreas Gumprecht.
 
Volume 25, 2005

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Bothrops moojeni.
Photo: Armando Pradas del Rio.

Volume 26, 2006

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Photo: Pedro Janssen
Volume 27, 2007
  • Cesare Colli, Breeding Malpolon monspessulanus monspessulanus (Montpellier snake)
  • Cesare Colli, A case of cannibalism in captivity on balkan whip snake Hierophis gemonensis
  • Raymond Hoser, Reaction to Mark Lukas, The genus Antaresia. Small but real pythons
  • Craig van Rensburg, The Lebombo or Intermediate Shield Cobra, Aspidelaps scutatus intermedius – (Serpentes: Elapidae). Captive husbandry, reproduction and maintenance of young.
  • Bernd Skubowius, Bull snakes (Pituophis catenifer sayi), the keeping of this variable species
  • Charles Smith, Sexual Dimorphism and Growth in the Boa Constrictor. Part 1. Introduction; Scalation; Length-Weight Relationship
  • Charles Smith, Sexual Dimorphism and Growth in the Boa Constrictor. Part 2
  • Charles R. Smith, Sexual Dimorphism and Growth in the Boa Constrictor 3. Discussion
  • Paul Greig Smith, Andaman Adventure April 2007: A Colours Herpetological Holiday
  • A.A. Verveen en Jeroen Rouwkema, The iridescent epidermis of Boa constrictor
  • A.A. Verveen, An unexpected examine
  • Dick Visser , Building a special enclosure for venomous snakes, safe for both the keeper and the animals in 6 chapters. Part 4
  • Dick Visser, Viridovipera vogeli. Captive husbandry and reproduction. Part 1
  • Dick Visser, Viridovipera vogeli. Captive husbandry and reproduction. Part 2
  • Freek Vonk, Snake venom in medical science
  • Marcel van der Voort, Strange people

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Malpolon monspessulanus
monspessulanus.
Foto: Cesare Colli.
VOLUME 28 (2008)

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Eastern Brown Snakes.
Photo: Raymond Hoser.

VOLUME 29 (2009)
Volume 30 (2010)  

Issue 1

  • Aelian

  • Klaus Bonny, Taxonomy of West Indian species of the genus Boa
  • Fangio Devisch, Rhynchophis boulengeri
  • Eke Hagedoorn, Bert Verveen (emeritus professor of fysiology) and Little Oval
  • Raymond Hoser, Artificial insemination – update
  • Raymond Hoser, Pain is the main driver for venomous snakebites in humans. Part 1
  • Raymond Hoser, Pain is the main driver for venomous snakebites in humans. Part 2
  • Raymond Hoser, Pain is the main driver for venomous snakebites in humans. Part 3
  • Ruud de Lang, The reticulated python (Broghammerus reticulatus) and man (Homo sapiens) eat each other: animals, enjoy your meal!
  • Marc Mense, Colour and pattern variants in Carpet Pythons (Morelia spilota)
  • Bill Townsend, Rosy Boas: A Southern California Legend
  • Robby van der Velden, (Breeding)experience with the Chinese twin-spotted ratsnake (Elaphe bimaculata)
  • Robby van der Velden, Keeping and breeding Eryx (Gongylophis) conicus
  • A.A. Verveen, Ecdysis cycle of a giant snake (Boa constrictor): How often does a boa shed its skin? Part 2
  • A.A. Verveen, Ecdysis cycle of a giant snake (Boa constrictor) 3. How much food does Boa constrictor consume per shedding cycle?
  • A.A. Verveen, Ecdysis cycle of a giant snake (Boa constrictor), part 4. The colours of the skin.
  • A.A. Verveen, Audubon’s tale of the chase of the Rattlesnake (1827)
  • A.A. Verveen, Book review: Klaus Bonny, 2007. Die Gattung Boa.Taxonomie und Fortpflanzung
  • André Weima, Care and Breeding of Pseudocerastes cerastes persicus in captivity

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Rhynchophis boulengeri
Photo: Fangio Devisch







 

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Boa orophias.
Photo: Klaus Bonny.
Volume 31 (2011)  

Issue 1

  • Steven Bol, Exciting observations on two sympatric garter snakes in ‘La Laguna de Chapala’, Mexico
  • Paul Storm, The Viperine Snake (Natrix maura) in nature and in the terrarium
  • Marcel van der Voort, Snakes on your plate

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Viperine Snake inside the egg.
Photo: Paul Storm.