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- December 8th, 2020, 8:25 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 352
- December 7th, 2020, 11:36 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
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- Views: 352
- December 7th, 2020, 8:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 352
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Thank you very much!!!
herpfriend wrote: ↑December 7th, 2020, 8:51 pmThis may help:
http://www.ebeltz.net/herps/etymain.html#Snakes
- December 7th, 2020, 8:42 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 352
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Wow, JEFF! That is beyond awesome. I imagine you're fluent in both Latin and Greek? My Latin is rather unfluent, although over the years and due to my interest in biology, my vocabulary has increased from my high school days when my most hated subject was Latin. And boy, was I bad at it. My father h...
- December 7th, 2020, 4:30 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 352
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Thank you very much!
- December 7th, 2020, 4:13 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 352
Re: Etymology of snake genera
Hi Bill,
no, I want to know what the names mean, e.g.:
Pseudagkistrodon:from Greek "pseudes", "false", and "Agkistrodon", a genus of American pit vipers. The name Agkistrodon comes from the Greek words ankistron ('fishhook') and odon 'tooth' and is likely a reference to the fangs.
Thank you!
no, I want to know what the names mean, e.g.:
Pseudagkistrodon:from Greek "pseudes", "false", and "Agkistrodon", a genus of American pit vipers. The name Agkistrodon comes from the Greek words ankistron ('fishhook') and odon 'tooth' and is likely a reference to the fangs.
Thank you!
- December 7th, 2020, 12:00 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
- Replies: 13
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Re: Eastern Ghats Herping Trip Report ! (Images Up)
Hot damn! This is exactly what the forum needed! Thank you very much for taking the time, and for having the balls to travel 250 km on that moped! Iron Ass of the Year, haha! I loved that little black-and-red bandit lizard. And the scenery shots. And everything else!
Cheers from Taiwan!
Hans
Cheers from Taiwan!
Hans
- December 6th, 2020, 11:51 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Etymology of snake genera
- Replies: 12
- Views: 352
Etymology of snake genera
Hello all,
I need help with the etymology of a few snake genera. Would anybody know of a website where I can research this? Or can answer directly?
In particular:
Hypsiscopus
Gonyosoma
Fowlea
Thanks a lot!
Hans
I need help with the etymology of a few snake genera. Would anybody know of a website where I can research this? Or can answer directly?

In particular:
Hypsiscopus
Gonyosoma
Fowlea
Thanks a lot!
Hans
- November 13th, 2020, 3:33 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you, Kris - JUST DO IT - the herping world needs more reports! Thanks for the teaser, Hans, looking forward to the book. As I guess pretty much everyone else around here I've always been a fan of your writing but this is good even by your standards. Inspires me to get started on my own reports...
- November 13th, 2020, 2:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you very much, Kelly, that's the nicest thing anybody has said to me in a while...I'll strive to live up to it!
- November 10th, 2020, 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
- November 9th, 2020, 10:59 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Hi guys, I'm very sorry to reply this late - all FHF notification mails have been ending up in my Spam folder since October, and only now I've discovered them there! Thank you for your compliments and your explanations regarding the fate of this forum. It's very sad, to say the least - this was alwa...
- November 9th, 2020, 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Amazing finds in this summer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 566
Re: Amazing finds in this summer
Hi Jerry, I'm back in Taiwan. Fantastic shots, Jerry!! After all these years, I have yet to see a Daboia and a Rein Snake, let alone one of those damn 100-pacers that have kept eluding me for a solid 13 years now (while everyone else seems to trip over them every time they hit the mountains). @Jimi,...
- October 8th, 2020, 9:47 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Amazing finds in this summer
- Replies: 5
- Views: 566
Re: Amazing finds in this summer
Fantastic shots, Jerry!! After all these years, I have yet to see a Daboia and a Rein Snake, let alone one of those damn 100-pacers that have kept eluding me for a solid 13 years now (while everyone else seems to trip over them every time they hit the mountains). @Jimi, you must come here. Everythin...
- October 8th, 2020, 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you both for your replies, guys! "Lunatic fringe"...what's that about?
- October 5th, 2020, 8:05 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you! By the way, what happened to all the traffic here on FHF? Looks pretty deserted these days. Does the pandemic keep people from herping, or have they moved to a hipper place I haven't heard about yet?

- October 5th, 2020, 2:59 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you, Bill! Will do!
- October 4th, 2020, 9:26 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
Re: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Thank you, Bill. Here you go. No pix , though - the ones available online outpretty the ones I took back then :) ========================================================================================== In December 2013, the cover photo of the august Herpetological Review shook the world of reptile...
- October 4th, 2020, 6:56 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
- Replies: 20
- Views: 937
Bornean Earless Monitor (Lanthanotus borneensis) - THE BOOK
Hey everyone, I haven't been very active here the past few years, due to our relocation to Taiwan and the lesser amount of time I could dedicate to herping in either Borneo or Taiwan, and due to a thousand other factors, some tragic, some boring. The good news , though, is that I've finished 80% of ...
- November 12th, 2019, 12:45 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Moving back to Taiwan, plus a great Christmas book gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1370
Moving back to Taiwan, plus a great Christmas book gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
The holiday season is yet again upon us. What better gift for your herping friends (or yourself) than this wonderfully enlightening, hilarious, and strange book? A Cobra Hijacked My Camera Bag! Snakes and Stories from Taiwan Thanks, again, for letting me plug my stuff here with shameless abandon :-)...
- November 11th, 2019, 8:32 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: The day the music died.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4410
Re: The day the music died.
Wow, that's almost been a decade now?
- September 30th, 2019, 12:53 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18381
Re: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
Thank you, Frank! Hi Hans I have been to CR last year. Not especialy for snakes but birds and reptiles. Monteverde is beautifull i recommend that. Arenal observatory lodge is also beautifull. They have a frog pond. You can go there by night and find lots of frogs and snakes. The saripiqui area has l...
- September 4th, 2019, 1:11 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18381
Re: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
Thank you very much! I will second La Tarde ecolodge. Fantastic place. Gary Kritzinger is also great, but he is now in South Africa. Miguel Jimenez in LaFortuna is also a wonderful guide. And Cesar Barrio Amoros who runs DOC FROG Adventures. Lastly, if you into amphibeans, Brian Kubicki at CRARC is ...
- June 30th, 2019, 9:56 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18381
Re: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
Hi all,
thank you very much for taking the time to post all your wonderful tips! I'll spend a few days now researching all this and will come back with a tentative agenda for you to check
Thanks again!!
Hans
thank you very much for taking the time to post all your wonderful tips! I'll spend a few days now researching all this and will come back with a tentative agenda for you to check

Thanks again!!
Hans
- June 19th, 2019, 2:37 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Tips for Costa Rica, please!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18381
Tips for Costa Rica, please!
Hi all, we're planning to do our annual wildlife watching trip next year between January and June, and we picked Costa Rica. We have ten days in-country, we want to go see everything from bugs to reptiles (avian included) and from lowland to cloud forests, and we have no bloody idea where to start (...
- February 20th, 2019, 9:14 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nepal Lizard ID, please!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6797
- February 20th, 2019, 12:19 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nepal Lizard ID, please!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6797
Re: Nepal Lizard ID, please!
Hi guys, thank you very much!! As for my experiences in Nepal, check my Facebook wall for starters. There's a bird album, a general album, a Dulit album, and others. After our wildlife trip to Chitwan NP, I spent an extra three weeks alone in Kathmandu, waiting for a new passport. And I got adopted ...
- February 18th, 2019, 4:41 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Nepal Lizard ID, please!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6797
Nepal Lizard ID, please!
Hi all,
would anyone be able to identify this ca. 15-20 cm long lizard we found basking on a wall close to the Gurkha Museum in Pokhara, Nepal?
Hans Thanks very much in advance!
Cheers,
Hans
would anyone be able to identify this ca. 15-20 cm long lizard we found basking on a wall close to the Gurkha Museum in Pokhara, Nepal?
Hans Thanks very much in advance!
Cheers,
Hans
- January 4th, 2019, 4:56 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: The Mysterious Dinner Snake (Genus?)
- Replies: 0
- Views: 16173
- December 18th, 2018, 4:50 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Reticulated Siren - New Salamander Found in Southern US
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5175
- November 25th, 2018, 8:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11891
Re: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yours
Thank you very much for your patronage!! Northern Taiwan, where I am now, is a tad cold now, only bamboo vipers (Viridovipera steijnegeri) are still out and about. But I saw my first Grey-capped (Pygmy) Woodpecker yesterday in the Central Mountains, so not all is lost 
Thanks again!
Cheers
Hans

Thanks again!
Cheers
Hans
- November 15th, 2018, 7:21 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11891
Re: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yours
I re-read your book all the time, Hans. Cannot wait for the new one. Thank you too, Zach! I'm making good progress, actually. We're back in Northern Taiwan for two months, since Malaysia observes school holidays now, and the place where I live, as magically beautiful as it is , in winter it's the w...
- November 11th, 2018, 11:20 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11891
Re: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yours
Thank you!Fieldherper wrote:Great Book and highly recommended. ! I too am awaiting the second book.
FH
- November 9th, 2018, 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yourself)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 11891
Re: Great Christmas gift for your herping friends (and yours
I said it before, and imma say it again: The holiday season is upon us. What better gift for your herping friends (or yourself) than this wonderful book? A Cobra Hijacked My Camera Bag! Snakes and Stories from Taiwan Thanks for your continuous support :-) Cheers from Taiwan Hans PS: For those who've...
- September 27th, 2018, 4:49 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Singapore customs vs. snake hook
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12057
Re: Singapore customs vs. snake hook
Tell us!Martti Niskanen wrote:The immigration-process at the land-border is interesting to say the least.
- September 26th, 2018, 10:24 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Taiwan 2017 roundup
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16086
Re: Taiwan 2017 roundup
What a haul! Love the ferret-badger ... great shots! How did he allow you to get this close, and why did he hold still this long?
- September 11th, 2018, 8:10 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Back to Borneo, part 5 of 5: Danum Valley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15605
Re: Back to Borneo, part 5 of 5: Danum Valley
I HEARD THAT!Ribbit wrote:You didn't. I did. (Shhh, don't tell Hans.)
- August 31st, 2018, 8:35 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Singapore customs vs. snake hook
- Replies: 3
- Views: 12057
Re: Singapore customs vs. snake hook
Lots of Singaporean herpers visit Borneo, where I live, and bring their own snake hooks. I don't think there should be an issue. Parangs, however, they will confiscate, even from check-in luggage.
- August 31st, 2018, 8:29 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Back to Borneo, part 5 of 5: Danum Valley
- Replies: 14
- Views: 15605
Re: Back to Borneo, part 5 of 5: Danum Valley
Wonderful stuff! That Aphaniotis ornata is amazing ... reminds me of the leaf-nose lizards in Sri Lanka. Didn't know these existed in Borneo!
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for sharing!
- April 11th, 2018, 5:21 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Photos from my New Guinea trip
- Replies: 0
- Views: 5613
Photos from my New Guinea trip
Hi all, I just came back from a ten-day field trip to West Papua, the Indonesian side of New Guinea. It was technically a birding trip, as we (my uncle and I) stayed in a birding lodge and did the whole up-at-oh-four-hundred-and-straight-into-the-mud-without-tea thing every day. But this was also ou...
- April 11th, 2018, 4:34 am
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo report Part 1
- Replies: 8
- Views: 9194
Re: Borneo report Part 1
Very nice post! Envy you the Xenodermus ! As far as I know, Camponotus gigas was recently given the new and IMHO much cooler name Dinomyrmex gigas . Yes, that's "Terror Ant" :-) That horned frog...are you sure it was nasuta ? There are so many different hornies these days... Excellent tarsier shots,...
- March 1st, 2018, 2:28 am
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Cheap and awesome birding camera
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18323
Re: Cheap and awesome birding camera
Ha! No way!!! 

- February 27th, 2018, 10:46 pm
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: HELP! Two binocular questions
- Replies: 18
- Views: 33885
Re: HELP! Two binocular questions
Cool! Glad everything worked out! Yeah, Zeiss, Leica, Swarovski are expensive, but you know what they say: cry once, enjoy forever. Looking forward to your mail!
- February 27th, 2018, 10:45 pm
- Forum: Bird Forum
- Topic: Cheap and awesome birding camera
- Replies: 3
- Views: 18323
Cheap and awesome birding camera
If you're looking for a really nice and almost cheap birding camera you won't have to hock the farm for, look into the Nikon Coolpix P900. Just bought one for my upcoming Papua trip, and it's badass. 83x magnification (equivalent to a four thousand mm lens, half of that from optics), and a really as...
- February 6th, 2018, 9:03 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #24: The Coral Snake Mistake
- Replies: 48
- Views: 25466
Re: Borneo Dispatches #24: The Coral Snake Mistake
What thread is that?WSTREPS wrote:This ties in with the somewhat recent thread about mimicry that unfortunately became overly convoluted thanks in part to the MonarchzMan and his serious case of Dunning–Kruger effect.
- February 5th, 2018, 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Borneo Dispatches #24: The Coral Snake Mistake
- Replies: 48
- Views: 25466
Re: Borneo Dispatches #24: The Coral Snake Mistake
Russell's Viper....you win 

- July 19th, 2017, 12:47 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida war
- Replies: 12
- Views: 17720
Re: Famed snake trackers from India latest weapon in Florida
"I've got nothing against foreigners, some of my best friends are foreigners, but these particular foreigners aren't from here!"
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- Geriatrix
- June 14th, 2017, 10:04 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Going the Extra Mile - DOR live birth
- Replies: 25
- Views: 19295
Re: Going the Extra Mile - DOR live birth
Never seen anything like it - excellent job!
- May 31st, 2017, 11:10 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Field Guide for New Guinea?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6181
Re: Field Guide for New Guinea?
Thanks very much for the tips and the encouragement, Curtis and intermedius! I had actually also ordered Beehler's book...you can't have too many field guides! As for O'Shea's material, I had a look at the website, and while it is very interesting indeed, I still have to find a way to operate it so ...
- May 27th, 2017, 8:33 pm
- Forum: The Forum
- Topic: Malaysia 2017, part 7: Bako, or, the Surprise Ending
- Replies: 16
- Views: 12275
Re: Malaysia 2017, part 7: Bako, or, the Surprise Ending
T. purp doesn't exist in Borneo.Did you see any other herps from boats, like Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus?