ISSN 1827-9635 (print) © Firenze University Press ISSN 1827-9643 (online) www.fupress.com/ah Acta Herpetologica 17(1): 3, 2022 DOI: 10.36253/a_h-13069 Editorial XI International Symposium on the Mediterranean Lacertid Lizards Marco Mangiacotti1, Pietro Lo Cascio2, Claudia Corti2, Marta Biaggini2, Miguel Angel Carretero2, Pet- ros Lymberakis2 1 Editor in Chief, Acta Herpetologica 2 The organising committee of the XI International Symposium on the Mediterranean Lacertid Lizards It has been a long time since an Editorial opened a new issue of Acta Herpetologica (it was 2012, volume 7, first issue). The occasion is to inform the readers that the journal of the Societas Herpetologica Italica is pleased to host, from the present issue on (and, possibly, in the coming two), some contributions presented during the last “International Symposium on the Mediterranean Lac- ertid Lizards”, held (on line, sigh!) in Lipari last Septem- ber 2021. The International Symposium on the Mediterrane- an Lacertid Lizards was conceived during the 1st World Congress of Herpetology held in Canterbury (UK) in 1989 to share scientific results, project ideas, conserva- tion initiatives, recruit new enthusiastic students and, overall, enjoying what we are most passionate about studying Lacertid lizards in the Mediterranean and sur- rounding areas. The 1st Symposium took place in Myt- ilini, Lesvos (Greece) in 1992. The idea of informally joining scientists, students and conservationists across the Mediterranean and beyond in a stimulating ambient was so successfully that it has become an appointment every, more or less, three years: Faro (Portugal), 1995; Čres (Croatia), 1998; Maó, Menorca (Spain), 2001; Lipari (Italy), 2004; Mytilíni, Lesvos (Greece), 2008; Palma, Mallorca (Spain), 2010; Koper, (Slovenia) 2013; Limassol (Cyprus), 2016; Tel Aviv (Israel), 2018. The last one has been hold online from the Island of Lipari (Sicily, Italy) in 2021 in an unusual form due to pandemic, but shar- ing the same spirit as always. Considering that promoting the study of amphibians and reptiles and the growth of young herpetologists has always been also one of the SHI goals, AH has welcomed the request by the Organization Committee to give the opportunity to publish some of the contributions of the XI Symposium (according to the peer-review standard). You will find such contributions, along with the “normal” ones, marked as follows: “Presented at the XI International Symposium on the Mediterranean Lacertid Lizards, Lipari 27-28th September 2021”. Enjoy the reading! XI International Symposium on the Mediterranean Lacertid Lizards Marco Mangiacotti1, Pietro Lo Cascio2, Claudia Corti2, Marta Biaggini2, Miguel Angel Carretero2, Petros Lymberakis2 The directional testes asymmetry increases with temperature in seven plateau brown frog (Rana kukunoris) populations Hai Ying Li1, Man Jun Shang2, Jie Guo2, Bo Jun Chen2, Peng Zhen Chen2, Tong Lei Yu1,* Influence of tail injury on the development of Neotropical elegant treefrog tadpoles Ana Glaucia da Silva Martins1,#, Raoni Rebouças2,3,*,#, Isaias Santos1, Adão Henrique Rosa Domingos1, Luís Felipe Toledo2 The effect of weight and prey species on gut passage time in an endemic gecko Quedenfeldtia moerens (Chabanaud, 1916) from Morocco Jalal Mouadi1,*, Panayiotis Pafilis2, Abderrafea Elbahi3, zahra Okba3, Hassan ElOuizgani3, El Hassan El Mouden4, Mohamed Aourir1 A contribution to the knowledge on the diet and food preferences of Darevskia praticola (Reptilia: Lacertidae)§ Emiliya Vacheva*, Borislav Naumov First report on two loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nests in the Aeolian Archipelago (Southern Italy) Monica Francesca Blasi1,*, Sandra Hochscheid2, Roberta Bardelli3, Chiara Bruno1, Carolina Melodia1, Perla Salzeri1, Paolo De Rosa4 and Paolo Madonia5 Threatened and extinct amphibians and reptiles in Italian natural history collections are useful conservation tools Franco Andreone1,*, Ivano Ansaloni2, Enrico Bellia3, Andrea Benocci4, Carlotta Betto5, Gabriella Bianchi6, Giovanni Boano7, Antonio Borzatti de Loewenstern8, Rino Brancato9, Nicola Bressi10, Stefano Bulla11, Massimo Capula12, Vincenzo Caputo Barucchi13, P Re-description of external morphology and factors affecting body and tail shape of the stone frog tadpoles’ Brena da Silva Gonçalves1,*, Carla. D. Hendges2, Bruno Madalozzo2, Tiago G. Santos2,3 Preliminary data on the diet of Chalcides chalcides (Squamata: Scincidae) from Northern Italy Andrea Ciracì1, Edoardo Razzetti2, Maurizio Pavesi3, Daniele Pellitteri-Rosa4,* The high diversity and phylogenetic signal of antipredator mechanisms of the horned frog species of Proceratophrys Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Amphibia: Anura: Odontophrynidae) Cássio Zocca1,2,*, Ricardo Lourenço-de-Moraes3, Felipe S. Campos4, Rodrigo B. Ferreira1,2,5