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NATIONAL & KAPODISTRIAN UNI\'ERSITY OF ATHENS DEP. OF BIOLOGY

SECTION OF'ANIMAL & HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

HERPETOLOGIA CAI{DIANAEdited bv

Petros LymberakisUniversity of Crete, Natural History Museum of Crete, P.O. Box 2208,

71409 Irakleio, Greece

e-mail: lyberis@nhmc.uoc.gr

Efstratios ValakosUniversity of Athens, Depafiment of Biology, Section of Animal and Human Physiology,

Panepistimioupolis, Ilissia GR 157-11 Athens, Greece

e-mail :evalakos@biology.uoa. gr

Panagiotis PafilisUniversity of Athens, Department of Biolology, Section of Animal and Human Physiology,

Panepistimioupolis, Ilissia GR 157-71 Athens, Greece

e-mail: eadam@tee.gr

Moisis MylonasUniversity of Crete, Natural History Museum of Crete, P.O. Box 2208,

71409 Irakleio, Greece

e-mail : director@nhrnc.uoc.gr

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CONTENTS

The Role of Phylogenetics in Evolutionary EcologyEric Pianka ....1 - 20

Bioacoustic studies in European anuransHans Schneider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21 - 32

Status and conservation of the European leaf-toed gecko Euleptes europaectin NW ItalyAndrea Allosia, Luca Braida, Tania Braida & Sebastiano SaIvidio.................33- 38

Sexual differences in geographic variation of some morphological charactersin Echis coloratus (Viperidae, Ophidia)Gergely Babocsay.. . . . . . . . . . . . .39 - 42

The amphibian cutaneous glands: some aspects of their structureand adaptive roleR. Brizzi, G. Delfino, S. Jantra, B.B. Alvarez, D.M. Sever .......... 43 - 49

Secretory granules with repetitive substructure in serous cutaneous glandsof anuransG. Delfino, R. Brizzi, S. Jantra, B.B. Alvarez, D.M. Sever ...............................51 - 55

Preliminary results on the feeding ecology of the African ChameleonChamaeleo africanus Laurenti, 1768 from the southwestem Peloponnese, Greece.Dimaki M. H, Valakos E. D., Legakis A., Chondropoulos B.& Bonett i A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 - 63

Differences of growth in three relict populations of Lacerta viridis(Laurenti, 1768)Kerst in Etbing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65 - j3

Notes on color patterns, morphometric traits and taxonomic status of theneotropical arboreal lizar d Tro p i dur u s (: (Ir ac entro n ) az ureum w er n er i(Iguania: Tropdiduridae).Ellinger N. , G. Schlatte & N. Jerome .75 - 7l

Explosive breeding in five tropical anuran speciesBrigi t te Gottsberger, Edi th Gruber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . j9 - 8 l

LongeviSz and age at sexual maturity in Rana latastei (Amphibia, Anura)by skeletochronologyGuarino F.M. & Mazzott i S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83 - 88

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Genetic structure of the Triturus cristatus superspecies in the czech Republic

AleS Hor6k and Jaroslav Pif1ek.......... '89 - 92

Morphometric data on triploid water frogs of the system Rana epeirotica

and Rana balcanica in Greece

Pasqualina Kyriakopoulou, Sklavounou and Eleni Vasara """"93 - 95

On sustainable utilization of the leopard totloise Geochelone pardalis in

populations ofeastetn Africa: size frequency, latitude and ecology97 - 10sMichael R.K. Lambert .............

Morphological studies on grass snakes, Natrix natrix (L')

in a Hungarian PoPulationNagy Zol t in t t t<orsOs,Z. . . . . . ' . . . . - - . . """"""""" '10'1 - 114

The impact of climate on breeding activity and larval development in

the common road Bufo bufo. . . . . . . . . . .115 - 119C. J. Reading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Sexual dimorphism in italian wall lizard (Podarcis sicula

(Rafinesque-Schmaltz, 1 8 1 0)

StaSa Tome

An isolated Adder (Vipera berus) population in Hungary

Uloari B.,Laz5nyil., Farkas B., Kors6s Z. """""""" """""""127 - 135

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