HERP.NET DEFINITIVE SCIENTIFIC PAPERS BY THE SNAKE MAN RAYMOND HOSER DEALING WITH REPTILES AND OTHER WILDLIFE, GLOBALLY ORDERED BY DATE. (OVER 150 - DATED IN REVERSE ORDER - RECENT FIRST). |
2011-2017 Papers.
Most of the over 150 papers listed and downloadable below deal with material NOT related to the systematics of reptiles or other wildlife.
2010 and 2011 Paper (one only).
Rare cases of 'climbing' in Copperheads and Eastern Brown Snakes.
Victorian Naturalist 127(2):58-60.
2009 Papers.
Beating the cold:group hibernation in a species of small skink.
Victorian Naturalist 126 (2):51.
Night movements in diurnal skinks.
Victorian Naturalist (Australia)(February)126:1:27.
Pain makes venomous snakes bite humans.
Australasian Journal of Herpetology 5 (2009):1-21.
One or two mutations doesn’t make a new species … The taxonomy of Copperheads (Austrelaps)(Serpentes:Elapidae).
Australasian Journal of Herpetology 1 (2009):1-28.
2008 Papers.
2007 Papers.
Oversized fangs in Australian elapids - The Consequences.
Monitor - Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society (June 2007) 16 (1):6-9.
Wells and Wellington - It's time to bury the hatchet!
Calodema (5 April, 2007):1-9.
Garbage Guts - Australian Tiger Snakes.
Reptiles (USA) (March, 2007)15(3):48-60.
2006 Papers.
Breaking the rules - Male Tiger Snakes Don't Fight.
Herptile (2006) 31 (1):27-32.
2005 Papers.
Copperhead (Austrelaps superbus), lack of immunity to it's venom..
Herpetofauna (2005) 35(2):118-119.
Balling as a defence mechanism for snakes.
Boydii (Spring 2005):16.
Tail Thrashing in Australian elapid snakes.
Litteratura Serpentium (March 2005) 25(1):12-18.
2004 Papers.
Silcone snakes cause sensation in Australia and elsewhere..
Hard Evidence (November 2004) 4(6):25-29.
Husbandry and breeding of Death Adders.
Reptiles (September 2004):48-60.
Feeding innovations for snakes.
Litteratura Serpentium (March 2004):33-47.
Further notes on fish feeding Australian reptiles.
Herptile 29:1 (March 2004):13-20.
Snake mites - How to get rid of them.
Herptile 28(4):146-155,168-176.
Why do Death Adders and other snakes store their feces.
Herptile 28(4):cover, 177-180.
Reovirus - Successful treatment of small elapids.
Crocodilian 4(3):23-27.
Incubation of lace monitor (Varanus varius) eggs.
Herpetofauna 33(1):26-28.
A new subspecies of elapid (Serpentes:Elapidae) from New Guinea.
Boydii:Journal of the Herpetological Association of Queensland Incorporated - Autumn 2003, pages 2-4.
2002 Papers.
Night feeding on a road by a frog Helioporus australiacus.
Herpetofauna 32(2):100-101.
2001 Papers.
Big Brown Snakes - The Cynic speaks.
Crocodilian 2 (8), February, p. 9.
2000 Papers.
Letter to the editor - wildlife laws.
Herptile 25 (4), December, pp. 179-181.
A new snake from Irian Jaya.
Litteratura Serpentium, December 20(6):178-186.
Cash for Scientific names: proposed outlawing of the practice.
Crocodilian, 2(7) November.
A revision of the Australasian Pythons.
Ophidia Review, 1(1) October, pp.7-21.
Herpetology in Genoa - Victoria.
The Reptilian (UK), 6(3 and 4).
1999 Papers.
Herpetology in Australia
- More Good News.
The Reptilian (UK).
New distribution information
on Pailsus snakes and herp news.
Monitor 10 (2/3), pp. 130-136.
Comments on comments on
Pailsus pailsei.
Monitor 10(2/3). pp. 120-122.
Australia's Dwarf Pythons (Genus: Antaresia).
Monitor (Australia) 10 (2/3), pp. 24-32.
Ant-hill Pythons in the wild
and captivity.
Monitor 10 (2/3) October 1999, pp. 33-37.
Colour change in Death Adders (Acanthophis antarcticus).
Monitor (Australia), 10(1), p. 4 and 31.
1998 Papers.
Herping On the Basalt - Melbourne
- Victoria - Australia.
The Reptilian (UK), Vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 47-53.
A new species of Elapid
Snake from Queensland Australia.
Monitor, 10(1), pp. 5-9, 31.
1997 Papers.
Herpetology in Australia
- Some Good News.
The Reptilian (UK), 5(4), pp. 19-23.
1996 Papers.
A prey record of the Common Brown Snake Pseudonaja textilis for the Eastern Blue-tongue Tiliqua scincoides - Monitor - Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society Incorporated 8 (2):85-86 and A prey record of the Eastern Blue-tongue Tiliqua scincoides for the Common Brown Snake Pseudonaja textilis by Rob Valentic - Monitor - Journal of the Victorian Herpetological Society Incorporated 8 (2):84.
Pdf file only - (294 k total)
Australian Frog Decline.
The Reptilian (UK), 4(3), pp. 19-25.
Australia - Land of Goannas
and Bureaucrats.
The Reptilian (UK), 4(4), pp. 7-21.
Rubbish tips and Reptiles.
The Reptilian (UK), 4(5), pp. 24-38 and cover.
Immunity of Snakes to their
own venom - new cases.
Herpetofauna
(Australia), 26(1), pp. 26-27.
1995 Papers.
Death Adders - Genus Acanthophis.
The Reptilian 3(4), pp. 7-21 and 3(5), pp. 27-34.
Collecting reptiles in the
Pilbara Region of Western Australia.
The Reptilian
(UK), 4(2), pp. 25-35.
1994 Papers.
Sydney's 1994 Bushfires
- Effects on Reptiles.
Herptile (UK), June, 19(2), pp. 61-66.
Reptile Keeping in the Australian
State of Victoria.
The Reptilian (UK), 2 (7), pp. 20-21.
The Australian Lace Monitor
Goanna Varanus varius in captivity.
Varanews
(USA), 4(1), pp. 3-5.
1993 Papers.
Children's Pythons and Lookalikes.
The Reptilian (UK), 1 (7), pp. 10-15, 20-21.
1992 Papers.
Reptile Thefts, wildlife
crimes, etc, in Australia.
The Reptilian (UK), 1(8), pp. 33-35.
What happens when you don't cut your nails? - They Grow (Lizards).
The Reptilian (UK), 1992, p. 8.
1991 Papers.
Sydney's Snakes.
Litteratura Serpentium, Vol. 11, no's 3-6, pp. 56-67, 78-87, 101-113, 125-130.
An Aggregation of Eastern
Brown Snakes (Pseudonaja textilis).
Herpetofauna
(Australia), 21(2), p. 38.
1990 Papers.
Melbourne's Snakes.
Litteratura Serpentium, 10(2), pp. 82-92 and 10(3), 122-145.
1989 Paper.
Australian Reptile Conservation Update.
The Herptile - Journal of the International Herpetological Society, 14 (4) December, pp. 146-154.
Pdf file only - (1.65 mb)
1988 Papers.
Some further comments in relation to Australian pythons (Boidae) and their classification.
Herptile -
Journal of the International Herpetological Society (UK), 13 (1), pp. 13-18.
Pdf file only - (2.7 mb)
Conservation of Australian snakes, other reptiles and frogs
Litteratura Serpentium 8 (1): 12-40 (Feb 1998).
Pdf file only -(1.14 mb)
1987 Papers.
More about pelvic spurs in Australian pythons and pygopodids.
Herptile -
Journal of the International Herpetological Society (UK), 12 (2), pp. 65-67.
Pdf file only - (1.5 mb)
1985 Papers.
1984 Paper.
1983 Paper.
1982 Papers.
1981 Papers.
Photographing Reptiles.
Journal of the Northern Ohio Association of Herpetologists (NOAH), 7(2) 1981, pp. 23-28.
Pdf file only - (295 k)
1980 Papers.
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Snakeman Raymond Hoser has been an active herpetologist for over 50 years and published over 300 major papers in journals worldwide and named more species and genera of reptile than anyone else born since 1900. He has written nine major books including the definitive works Australian Reptiles and Frogs, Endangered Animals of Australia and the controversial best sellers Smuggled - The Underground Trade in Australia's Wildlife and Smuggled:2 - Wildlife Trafficking, Crime and Corruption in Australia and others.
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