Annual report 2006 Department of Zoology ( Overige Zoology ) - Reptiles and Amphibians Staff Researcher / Curator Arntzen, Dr. J.W. (32 hours per week, from August 1 for 36 hours per week) Associates: Michels, Mr. J.P. Ross, Mr. F.D. Sparreboom, Prof. Dr. M. (application pending) Student trainees: Bosman, Mr. N., MSc-student at the University of Tilburg (co-supervisors Dr. A. van den Bosch and Dr. C. Sporleder) Curado, Mr. N., MSc-student at the IBL, University of Leiden (co-supervisor Dr. K. Musters) Gelder, Mrs. E. van, MSc-student from University of Leiden Loman, Mrs. J, MSc-student from University of Leiden Negga, Mr. H., MSc-student at the ITC, Enschede (co-supervisor Dr. B. Toxopeus & Dr. K. de Bie) Ramaelo, Mr. A., MSc-student at the ITC, Enschede (co-supervisor Dr. B. Toxopeus & Dr. K. de Bie) Rotteveel, Mr. E., MSc-student from University of Leiden Themudo, Mr. G., PhD-student from University of Porto, Portugal Vonk, Mr. F., BSc-student from University of Leiden Wielstra, Mr. B., MSc-student from University of Leiden Vacancy, PhD-student at the ITC, Enschede (co-supervisor Dr. B. Toxopeus) Introduction The year 2006 has seen the further dismantling of working conditions relating to the R&A collection. In particular, the arrangement and promise in which Scientific Collection Manager Mrs Gassó- Miracle would be working on the type catalogue of the reptiles for two days a week was terminated through action of Dr. R. Dekker, Head of Collections, without consultation of the R&A Researcher / Curator.
Research Collection based projects Landmark morphometry of Podarcis lizards (Loman, Rotteveel and van Gelder) Management and maintenance of the collection locality unknown including chamaeleons that were later made available for student research projects (e.g. the IBED 201 course from November 20 to December 1) Fieldwork Veluwe, Maart 30 with Mrs F. Poot, Prof. M. Richardson & Mr. P. Niemantsverdriet Mayenne, France April 24 28 (see report submitted) Turkey, May 23-June 14 (see report submitted) Thesis defense. principal opponent Dr. F. Söderman at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden on May 19 Visitors Mr. N. Poyarkov from Moscow State University from December 8-22 Dr. J. Vörös from Hungarian National History Museum, Budapest, from July 5-7 Dr. G. Wallis from Dunedin University from June 15-19 Presentations given by Arntzen Naturalis colloquium, March 2 Enclaves, GIS and population genetics in amphibian biogeography Uppsala University, Sweden, May 18 From descriptive to predictive distribution maps : testing the models Trabzon University, Turkey, June 2 Enclaves, GIS and population genetics in amphibian biogeography Aydin University, Turkey, June 13 From descriptive to predictive distribution maps : testing the models Presentations given by others Erp, M. van: Bootstrapping Multilingual Geographical Gazetteers from Corpora. Proceedings of the 11th ESSLLI Student Session, Malaga, Spain, 31 July - 11 August 2006.
Poyarkov, N.: Differentiation of the Hynobiidae :East Asian salamanders : an evolutionary perspective, colloquium at Naturalis, December 12 2006 Poyarkov, N.: Intraspecific differentiation and cytochrome-b based phylogeography of the Banded newt Triturus vittatus talk at Naturalis December 13, 2006 Sporleder, C. M. van Erp, T. Porcelijn, A. van den Bosch and J. W. Arntzen: Identifying Named Entities in Text Databases from the Natural History Domain. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-06), Genoa, Italy, 2006 Sporleder, C., M. Marieke van Erp, T. Porcelijn & A. van den Bosch: Spotting the 'Odd-oneout': Data-Driven Error Detection and Correction in Textual Databases. Proceedings of the EACL 2006 Workshop on Adaptive Text Extraction and Mining (ATEM-06), Trento, Italy, 2006 Sporleder, C., M. van Erp, T. Porcelijn & A. van den Bosch: Correcting Wrong-Column' Errors in Text Databases. Proceedings of the Annual Machine Learning Conference of Belgium and The Netherlands (Benelearn-06), Ghent, Belgium, 2006 Services and other activities Editorial, review and support services: Associate Scientific Editor of the 'Herpetological Journal', member of the editorial Board of the 'Zeitschrift fur Feldherpetologie' and (new) Contributions to Zoology. Grant applications were assessed for the British Research Organizations BBSRC, British Ecological Society and NERC. Chapter reviewer for the RAVON Atlas (n=2) Participator and reviewer in the IUCN s Global Amphibian Assessment. Manuscripts were reviewed for colleagues and for the following journals: Australian Journal Zoology, Biology Letters, Contributions to Zoology (n=2), Journal Natural History, Molecular Ecology (n=3), Salamandra and Zootaxa. Every other week a 'Moleculair Overleg' was held with alternately the discussion of techniques and current progress and the discussion of scientific research papers Organisation of a two-week practical for six students in the 'Cursus IB201' of the Institute for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, with R. de Jong and C. Fransen Internal supervisor at Naturalis for the NWO- 'MITCH' (Mining for Information in Texts from the Cultural Heritage) project that aims to extract and make available information from fieldbooks and registers from the Reptile and Amphibian collections of Naturalis. Funding is guaranteed from May 2005-April 2009, including the employment of an MSc-student (Mr. N. Bosman), a PhD-student (Mrs. M. van Erp), a postdoc (Dr. C. Sporleder) and a scientific programmer (Mr. S. Hunt)
Assistance of police and customs officers on the topics of i) crocodile leather, ii) snake leather and iii) Geochelone sulcata List of publications. Part A - published and in press SCI-listed journals Alexandrino, J., N. Ferrand & J. W. Arntzen (2006) Morphological variation in two genetically distinct groups of the golden-striped salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica (Amphibia: Urodela). Contributions to Zoology 74 : 213-222 Arntzen, J. W. (2006) From descriptive to predictive distribution models : a working example with Iberian amphibians and reptiles. Frontiers in Zoology 8 : 3 [available on line, 12 printed pages] Steinfartz, S., S. Vicario, J. W., Arntzen & A. Caccone (2006) A Bayesian approach on molecules, morphology and behavior: reconsidering phylogenetic and evolutionary patterns of the Salamandridae with emphasis on Triturus newts. Journal Experimental Zoology (Mol. Devol. Evol.). 306B [available on line, 24 printed pages] Espregueira Themudo, G. & J. W. Arntzen (in press) Molecular identification of marbled newts and a justification of the Triturus marmoratus and T. pygmaeus species status. Herpetological Journal Book chapters Alexandrino, J., J. Teixeira, J.W. Arntzen & N. Ferrand (2006) The historical biogeography and conservation of the Golden-striped salamander (Chioglossa lusitanica): Integrating ecological, phenotypic and genetic data. Pp. 189-205 in: Phylogeography in southern European refugia: evolutionary perspectives on the origin and conservation of European biodiversity. Editors S. Weiss & N. Ferrand. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands Arntzen, J. W. & P. Sá-Sousa (in press) Morphological and genetic differentiation of lizards (Podarcis bocagei and P. hispanica) over the Ria de Arosa archipelago (Galicia, Spain) under vicariance and occasional dispersal. In: Land-water distributions as motor of evolution. Editor W. Renema. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands Arntzen, J. W. & J. Teixeira (2006) History and new developments in the mapping and modelling of the distribution of the Golden-striped Salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica. Pp. 113-126 in Areale und Verbreitungsmuster : Genese und Analyse. Editors M. Schlupmann & H.-K. Nettmann. Laurenti-Verlag, Bielefeld
Soares, C., A. Alves de Matos, A. Loureiro, J.W. Arntzen & M.A. Carretero (2006) Amphibian mortality in Peneda-Gerês National Park, northern Portugal. PP 39-41 and 79-80 in: Actas of the Symposium on Declining Amphibian Populations, Editor D. Sanuy, Lleida University and Asociación Herpetológica Española, Malaga, Spain Not-SCI-listed journals Soares, C., F. Álvares, A. Loureiro, N. Sillero, J. W. Arntzen & J. C. Brito (2005 not listed previously) Atlas of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Peneda-Gerês National Park, Portugal. Herpetozoa 18 : 155-170 Sporleder, C., M. van Erp, T. Porcelijn, A. van den Bosch, J. W. Arntzen & E. van Nieukerken: Cleaning and Enriching Research Data on Reptiles and Amphibians. The MITCH Pilot Project and nulmeting. Technical Report, ILK 06-01, Tilburg University, 2006 List of publications. Part B - submitted SCI-listed journals publications Gassó i Miracle, E., L. W. van den Hoek Ostende & J. W. Arntzen (2007) Type specimens of amphibians in the National Museum of Natural History, Leiden, The Netherlands. Submitted to Zootaxa Espregueira Themudo, G. & J. W. Arntzen (2007) Newts under siege : Range exp;ansion of Triturus pygmaeus isolates population of its sister species. Submitted to Diversity and Distributions Arntzen, J.W., D.S.J. Groenenberg, J. Alexandrino, N. Ferrand & F. Sequeira (2007). Geographical variation in the Golden-striped salamander, Chioglossa lusitanica Bocage, 1864 and the description of a newly recognized subspecies. Submitted to Journal of Natural History Non-SCI-listed journals and internet website publications Arntzen, J. W. & G. Themudo (2007) Distribution of Triturus marmoratus and T. pygmaeus. In 'Atlas of the amphibians and reptiles of Portugal' (ed. A. Loureiro et al.) Arntzen, J. W., M. Garcia-Paris, I. Martinez-Solana, F. Sequeira & J. Teixeira (2007) Chapters on Chioglossa lusitanica and Alytes dickhilleni. In 'Important herpetological areas in Europe' (ed. A. H. P. Stumpel). Alterra - Green World Research, Wageningen, The Netherlands Arntzen, J.W. & G. Smit (2007) Triturus cristatus (Laurenti 1768) - noordelijke kamsalamander. RAVON atlas amfibieen en reptielen van Nederland
Lanza, B., E. Gentile & J. W. Arntzen (2007) Vertebral numbers in the Caudata of the western Palaearctic (Amphibia). Submitted to Atti Museum Milano N. S. [manuscript of 98 pages] List of publications. Part C - Publications by third parties, at least in part based upon Naturalismaterial (including older publications not listed previously) Frost, D.R., Grant, T., Faivovich, J., Bain, R.H., Haas, A., Haddad, C.F.B., De Sa, R.O., Channing, A., Wilkinson, M., Donnellan, S.C., Raxworthy, C.J., Campbell, J.A., Blotto, B.L., Moler, P., Drewes, R.C., Nussbaum, R.A., Lynch, J.D., Green, D.M. and Wheeler, W.C. (2006) Bulletin American Museum Natural History 299 : 6-262 Guenther, R. & R. Knop (2006) A new species of Xenobatrachus (Anura, Microhylidae) with a striking resemblance to Xenorhina bouwensi. Zootaxa 1268 : 39-57 Hallerman, J. (2005) A taxonomic review of the genus Bronchocela (Squamata : Agamidae), with description of a new species from Vietnam. Russian Journal Herpetology 12 : 167-182 Heyer, W. R. (2005) Variation and taxonomic clarification of the large species of the Leptodacatylus pentadactylus species group (Amphibia : Leptodactylidae) from Middle America, northern South America, and Amazonioa. Arquivos de Zoologia 37 : 269-348 Manthey, U. & W. Denzer (2006) A revision of the Melanesian-Australian angle head lizards of the genus Hypselurus (Sauria : Agamidae : Amphibolurinae), with description of four new species and one new subspecies. Hamadryad 30 : 1-40 Ohler, A.. & M. Delorme (2006) Well known does not mean well studied : Morphological and molecular support for existence of sibling species in the Javanese gliding frog Rhacophorus reinwardtii (Amphibia, Anura). Compres Rendus Biologies 329 : 86-97 Zug, G. R. & A. Allison (2006) New Carlia fusca complex lizards (Reptilia : Squamata : Scincidae) from New Guinea, Papua-Indonesia. Zootaxa 1237 : 27-44 Citations J. W. Arntzen: 1124 (increase of 126 relative to the same time last year) ======= Compiled by J. W. Arntzen, Leiden, December 19, 2007