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• Documenting mating behavior in a rare dwarf gecko: first field data on Lygodactylus wetzeli (Smith, Martin & Swain 1977) (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

  Pier Cacciali, Lorena Sforza, Pamela Reyes, Pamela Marchi

• Albinism in a juvenile rhesus macaque Macaca mulatta (Zimmermann 1780) from the Brahmaputra Valley of Assam, India (Primates: Cercopithecidae)

  Neeraj Bora, Sanghamitra Buragohain, Deep Jyoti Borah, Chiranjib Bora, Sandip Choudhury, Jyotismita Das

• Diplacodes lefebvrii (Rambur 1842) in Sicily with first evidence of reproduction (Odonata: Libellulidae)

  Andrea Cusmano, Andrea Corso, Salvatore Surdo

• First record of Petrorhagia dubia (Raf.) G. López & Romo (Caryophyllaceae) in Lombardy

  Lara A. Quaglini, Gabriele Galasso

• The Whale Bone Seat of Great Yarmouth

  Raffaele d’Isa

• Living near humans: new diet items for the Big-headed Treefrog Polypedates megacephalus (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) and its tadpoles in Vietnam

  Tran Thinh Gia

• Monitoring without being monitored: how the Pallas’s cat Otocolobus manul (Pallas 1776) avails of rocks

  Tiziano Londei

• New reproductive locations for the common spadefoot toad Pelobates fuscus (Anura: Pelobatidae) in Como province, Italy

  Nicola Larroux, Daniele Seglie, Alberto Ferrario, Paolo Eusebio Bergò, Riccardo Cavalcante, Andrea Mologni, Giovanni Soldato

• First evidence of Sette Fratelli cave salamander Speleomantes sarrabusensis (Urodela: Plethodontidae) consumption by the Sardinian grass snake Natrix helvetica cetti (Squamata: Natricidae)

  Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola, Sergio Mezzadri, Anna Cerullo

• First record of Pancratium maritimum L. (Amaryllidaceae) for the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Italy

  Manuela Davanzo, Giosuè Cuccurullo, Elena Zwirner, Davide Scridel

• Observations about Neomys milleri (Mammalia: Soricidae) predation on Austropotamobius pallipes (Crustacea: Astacidae)

  Fabio Ballanti, Armando Nappi

• Observations on the breeding biology of the Luzon flameback Chrysocolaptes haematribon (Wagler 1827) (Piciformes: Picidae) with notes on active nest defense against dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis (Linnaeus 1766) (Coraciiformes: Coraciidae)

  Vince Angelo G. Gicaraya, Carmela P. Española

• Demographic explosion of the brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives 1891 (Decapoda: Penaeidae) in the central and northern Adriatic: implications for ecosystems and fisheries

  Francesco Tiralongo, Homa Nik Zad, Alberto Felici