torquatus during bipedality and other lizards such as
Basiliscus, Anolis, Varanus, Uranoscodon, Dipsosaurus and Callisaurus (see Barbour, 1943; Snyder, 1967; Howland et al., 1990; Irschick and Jayne, 1999; Hsieh, 2003) it is clear that each one of these lizards uses different strategies during their bipedal running.
basiliscus (six females, mean snoutvent length, [SVL] = 1003 mm [+ or -] 214 SD, range: 805-1280 mm; six males, SVL = 970 mm [+ or -] 156 SD, range: 760-1225 mm; and 32 juveniles, SVL = 317 mm [+ or -] 24 SD, range: 285-395 mm) were examined from the herpetology collections of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco (CAS) and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles (LACM).
Murrus commits civil war against his own body after the poison of the king-snake races through his spear; despite the soldier's best attempt to kill the
basiliscus, Murrus is forced to turn his sword upon himself--to engage in that act of civil war that has been the subject of Lucan's poem from the beginning--in order to survive.
After studying
Basiliscus basiliscus plucked from the jungles of Costa Rica, the researchers found that most of the lizard's support comes from a well-timed foot stroke.
En cambio,
Basiliscus vittatus, Gerrhonotus liocephalus y Scincella assatus se registraron solo en BT, BPE y BE, respectivamente.
Growth ecology of a tropical lizard
Basiliscus basiliscus.
La no variacion en la dieta de la nutria, entre temporadas climaticas, en la cuenca del rio La Vieja, puede considerarse normal, debido a que diversas investigaciones, en diferentes lagos han concluido, que no existe variacion mensual o inter-anual de la composicion de la dieta en nutrias, pero si, entre sectores del lago (CARVALHO-JUNIOR et al., 2010a; CARVALHO-JUNIOR et al., 2010b); sin embargo, MAYORVICTORIA & BOTERO-BOTERO (2010), encontraron variacion de la dieta, entre temporadas climaticas para el rio Roble, pero siempre los peces, fueron el item mas consumido y la diferencia, se dio, por la aparicion de insectos acuaticos (Corydalus sp.) y reptiles (
Basiliscus sp.), en algunas de las dos temporadas.
Varias especies presentaron amplia distribucion, se encontraron en casi todos los tipos de habitats, como es el caso de Gonatodes albogularis, Cnemidophorus lemniscatus, Ameiva ameiva, Leptodeira septentrionalis, Thamnodynastes gambotensis,
Basiliscus basiliscus, Tupinambis teguixin, Anolis tropidogaster, Anolis auratus, Imantodes cenchoa, Leptophis ahaetulla, Bothrops asper, Iguana iguana, Thecadactylus rapicaudus y Tretioscincus bifasciatus.
Las especies mas abundantes en esta investigacion fueron
Basiliscus basiliscus, que represento el 14,49% (N=30) del total de especies registradas, seguido por Anolis granuliceps y Anolis maculiventris, con el 12,56 y 11,59%, respectivamente.