Angola has experienced an incredible increase of the knowledge its herpetofauna over past decade. However, accurate biodiversity inventories remain deficient for certain regions particular conservation interest. We therefore provide updated checklist Iona National Park’s herpetofauna, with 75 recorded species, including five amphibians and 70 reptiles, 40 these first time in Park. The...

Introduction: Worldwide, six genera of the class Hydrozoa are recognized in continental waters: cosmopolitan Hydra, colonial Cordylophora and Pachycordyle, medusae Craspedacusta Limnocnida little polyp Calpasoma. Even though interest cnidarians has grown recent years, those restricted to freshwater continue be relegated there is even published information on ubiquity certain species. In Neotrop...

Spondyloarthropathy has been reported among modern individuals of several species of ursid. Prehistoric cervical vertebra of black bear (Ursus americanus) recovered from an archaeological site in northwestern Oregon are fused and distorted, indicating spondyloarthropathy in this species has some time depth. Inventory of this disease among paleozoological remains may reveal unknown details of di...