Editor, Dr. Aaron
Bauer (aaron.bauer@villanova.edu)
Geckos
Department of Biology, Villanova
University 800 Lancaster Avenue Villanova, Pennsylvania
19085 USA
Editor, Dr. David Gower (d.gower@nhm.ac.uk)
Asian snakes only
Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London,
SW7 5BD
UK
Editor, Dr. S.
Carranza (salvador.carranza@ibe.upf-csic.es) All
the other reptile groups
Institute of Evolutionary Biology
(CSIC-UPF) Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta, 37-49
E-08003 Barcelona Spain
Editor, Mr. Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia (diegofrancisco_cisneros@yahoo.com)
Snakes (except Asian snakes)
Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Colegio de
Ciencias Biológicas & Ambientales, Campus Cumbayá,
Edif. Darwin, of. DW-010A, calle Diego de Robles y Vía
Interoceánica, Casilla Postal 17-1200-841, Quito, Ecuador
Editor,
Uwe Fritz (Uwe.Fritz@senckenberg.de)
Testudines
Extraordinary Professor, University
of Leipzig , Museum of Zoology (Museum fuer Tierkunde),
Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden, A. B.
Meyer Building, D-01109 Dresden, Germany
Editor,
L. Lee Grismer
(lgrismer@lasierra.edu)
Skinks
Department of Biology, La Sierra University, 4500
Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, CA 92515-8247, USA
Editor, Dr. Roger
Benson (rbb27@cam.ac.uk)
Fossil Reptiles
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge,
Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, UK
2012
Article
Zootaxa
3178: 57–62 (31 Jan. 2012) 1 plate; 27 references Accepted: 6
Dec. 2011
Molecular evidence on the
systematic position of the lance-headed pitviper Protobothrops
maolanensis Yang et
al., 2011
QIN LIU (China), EDWARD A. MYERS (USA), GUANG H. ZHONG (China), JIAN HU (China),
HUI ZHAO (China) & PENG GUO (China)
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Zootaxa
3172: 39–54 (25 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 31 references Accepted: 02
Dec. 2011
The unexpected discovery of blind snakes (Serpentes:
Typhlopidae) in Micronesia:
two new species of Ramphotyphlops
from the Caroline
Islands
ADDISON
H. WYNN (USA), ROBERT P. REYNOLDS (USA), DONALD W. BUDEN (FSM),
MARJORIE FALANRUW (FSM)
& BRIAN LYNCH (FSM)
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Zootaxa
3166: 1–33 (19 Jan. 2012) 20 plates; 63 references Accepted: 15
Nov. 2011
A new aetosaur genus (Archosauria:
Pseudosuchia) from the early Late Triassic of
southern Brazil
JULIA B. DESOJO, MARTÍN D. EZCURRA, & EDIO E. KISCHLAT (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
3163: 1–32 (17 Jan. 2012) 16 plates; 74 references Accepted: 28
Oct. 2011
Taxonomic study and
morphology based phylogeny of the patagonic clade
Liolaemus
melanops group (Iguania: Liolaemidae), with the
description of three new
taxa
ABDALA C. S., R. V. SEMHAN, D. L. MORENO AZOCAR, M. BONINO,
M. M. PAZ & F. CRUZ (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
3158: 1–19 (12 Jan. 2012) 5 plate; 63 references Accepted: 10
Oct. 2011
A new rhamphorhynchid (Pterosauria:
Rhamphorhynchidae) from the Middle/Upper
Jurassic of Qinglong, Hebei Province, China
JUNCHANG LÜ (China), DAVID M. UNWIN (UK), BO ZHAO
(China), CHUNLING GAO (China) & CAIZHI SHEN
(China)
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2011
Editorial
Zootaxa
3148: 61–62 (23 Dec. 2011)
Order Testudines Batsch, 1788. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal
biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic
richness
UWE FRITZ
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Monograph
Zootaxa
3146: 1–63 (23 Dec. 2011) 28 plates; 168 references
Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
Revision of the genus Cyrtodactylus
Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Australia
GLENN SHEA, PATRICK COUPER,
JESSICA WORTHINGTON WILMER & ANDREW AMEY
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Zootaxa
3129: 51–61 (14 Dec. 2011) 6 plates; 22 references
Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
Another new Gekko species
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern Vietnam
TRUNG MY PHUNG (Vietnam) &
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
3129: 39–50 (14 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
A new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Huong Son limestone forest,
Hanoi, northern Vietnam
VINH QUANG LUU (Vietnam), TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam), HUY QUANG DO
(Vietnam) & THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
3125: 51–63 (09 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 65 references
Accepted: 02 Nov. 2011
A new karstic cave-dwelling Cyrtodactylus
Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
from Northern Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) & CHAN KIN ONN (USA)
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Zootaxa
3123: 32–48 (08 Dec. 2011) 5 plates; 62 references
Accepted: 18 Oct. 2011
New species of lizard from
the magellanicus clade of the Liolaemus lineomaculatus
section (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from southern Patagonia
MARIA FLORENCIA BREITMAN (Argentina), CRISTIAN HERNÁN FULVIO PÉREZ
(Argentina), MICAELA PARRA (Argentina), MARIANA MORANDO (Argentina), JACK WALTER
SITES, JR. (USA) & LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
3120: 43–54 (06 Dec. 2011) 07 plates; 28 references
Accepted: 11 Oct. 2011
Description of a new and
critically endangered species of Atheris (Serpentes: Viperidae)
from the Southern Highlands of Tanzania, with an overview of the country’s
tree viper fauna
MICHELE MENEGON (UK), TIM R.B. DAVENPORT (Tanzania) & KIM M. HOWELL
(Tanzania)
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Zootaxa
3120: 29–42 (06 Dec. 2011) 09 plates; 08 references
Accepted: 17 Oct. 2011
A new species of anole
related to Anolis altae from Volcán Tenorio, Costa Rica
(Reptilia, Squamata, Polychrotidae)
GUNTHER KÖHLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
3120: 01–28 (06 Dec. 2011) 08 plates; 71 references
Accepted: 18 Oct. 2011
Two new species of lizards
from the Liolaemus lineomaculatus section
(Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from southern Patagonia
MARIA FLORENCIA BREITMAN (Argentina), MICAELA PARRA (Argentina), CRISTIAN
HERNÁN FULVIO PÉREZ (Argentina) & JACK WALTER SITES, JR (USA)
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Zootaxa
3114: 57–62 (30 Nov. 2011) 04 plates; 14 references
Accepted: 28 Oct. 2011
Eremias papenfussi sp.
nov., a new lacertid lizard (Sauria: Lacertidae)
from Tehran Province, Iran
OMID MOZAFFARI (Iran), FARAHAM AHMADZADEH (Germany)
& JAMES F. PARHAM (USA)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa
3111: 67–68 (28 Nov. 2011) 0 plates; 6 references
Accepted: 18 Oct. 2011
The name-bearing type of Oligodon
quadrilineatus (Jan & Sordelli, 1865) (Squamata:
Colubridae)
PATRICK DAVID (France) , GERNOT VOGEL (Germany), JOHAN VAN
ROOIJEN (The Netherlands) &
LAURE PIERRE (France)
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Zootaxa
3109: 39–48 (24 Nov. 2011) 06 plates; 14
references
Accepted: 17 Oct. 2011
A distinctive new species of
wood lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides)
from the Yanachaga Chemillen National Park in central Peru
PABLO J. VENEGAS, VILMA DURAN, CAROLL Z. LANDAURO & LESLY LUJAN (Peru)
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Zootaxa
3098: 26–46 (15 Nov. 2011) 8 plates; 35 references
Accepted: 14 Sep. 2011
Systematics of north
African Agama (Reptilia:
Agamidae): a new species from the
central Saharan mountains
PHILIPPE GENIEZ (France), JOSÉ M. PADIAL (USA) &
PIERRE-ANDRÉ CROCHET (France)
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Zootaxa
3092: 1–25 (07 Nov. 2011) 12 plates; 49
references
Accepted: 10 Oct. 2011
Hemipenial morphology in the
North American snake genus Phyllorhynchus
(Serpentes: Colubridae), with a review of and
comparisons with
natricid hemipenes
JOHN E. CADLE (USA)
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Zootaxa
3085: 1–33 (31 Oct. 2011) 12 plates; 89 references
Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
A new sauropod (Macronaria,
Titanosauria) from the Adamantina Formation, Bauru
Group, Upper Cretaceous of Brazil and the phylogenetic
relationships of
Aeolosaurini
RODRIGO M. SANTUCCI & ANTONIO C. DE ARRUDA-CAMPOS
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa
3042: 37–67 (27 Sep. 2011) 4 plates; 82 references
Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
Taxonomic revision of Hemidactylus
brookii Gray: a re-examination of the type
series and some Asian synonyms, and a discussion of the
obscure species Hemidactylus
subtriedrus Jerdon (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)
STEPHEN MAHONY (India)
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Zootaxa
3037: 37–44 (21 Sep. 2011) 3 plates; 19 references
Accepted: 24 Aug. 2011
A new species of Tantilla of
the taeniata species
group (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae, Colubrinae) from
northeastern Honduras
JAMES R. MCCRANIE (USA)
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Zootaxa
3028: 1–64 (15 Sep. 2011) 14 plates; 317 references
Accepted: 02 Aug. 2011
Verified non-indigenous amphibians and reptiles in Florida from 1863 through
2010: Outlining the invasion process and identifying invasion pathways and
stages
KENNETH L. KRYSKO, JOSEPH P. BURGESS,
MICHAEL R. ROCHFORD, CHRISTOPHER R. GILLETTE, DANIEL CUEVA, KEVIN M. ENGE, LOUIS
A. SOMMA, JENNIFER L. STABILE, DUSTIN C. SMITH, JOSEPH A. WASILEWSKI, GUY N.
KIECKHEFER III, MICHAEL C. GRANATOSKY & STUART V. NIELSEN
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Zootaxa
3027: 63–64 (14 Sep. 2011) 0 plates; 16 references Accepted: 25
Aug 2011
The type species of the threadsnake genus Tricheilostoma
Jan revisited (Squamata, Leptotyphlopidae)
S. BLAIR HEDGES (USA)
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Zootaxa
3022: 39–57 (12 Sep. 2011) 9 plates; 42 references
Accepted: 01 Aug. 2011
A new leaf tailed gecko species from northern Madagascar with a
preliminary assessment of molecular and morphological variability in the Uroplatus
ebenaui group
FANOMEZANA MIHAJA RATSOAVINA (Germany), EDWARD E. LOUIS JR. (USA), ANGELICA
CROTTINI (Germany), ROGER-DANIEL RANDRIANIAINA (Germany), FRANK GLAW (Germany)
& MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)
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Zootaxa
3022: 1–21 (12 Sep. 2011) 11 plates; 47 references
Accepted: 01 Jul. 2011
Two new species of Cnemidophorus (Squamata:
Teiidae) of the C. ocellifer group,
from Bahia, Brazil
FEDERICO ARIAS (Argentina), CELSO MORATO
DE CARVALHO (Brazil), MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES (Brazil) & HUSSAM ZAHER
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa
3018: 1–12 (08 Sep. 2011) 6 plates; 18 references
Accepted: 01 Aug. 2011
A new species of the genus Gonatodes
Fitzinger, 1843 (Reptilia: Sphaerodactylidae)
from central Guyana, northern South America
PHILIPPE J. R. KOK (Belgium)
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Zootaxa
3015: 66–68 (06 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 17 references Accepted: 02
Aug 2011
Misconceptions about the taxonomy and distribution of Caiman
crocodilus chiapasius and C.
crocodilus fuscus (Reptilia: Crocodylia: Alligatoridae)
ARMANDO H. ESCOBEDO-GALVÁN,
FABIO G. CUPUL-MAGAŃA & JULIÁN A. VELASCO (Mexico)
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Zootaxa
3015: 6 1–65 (06 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 01 Aug. 2011
Taxonomic status of Anolis
baccatus Bocourt 1873 (Reptilia, Squamata, Polychrotidae)
GUNTHER KÖHLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
3010: 31–46 (31 Aug. 2011) 5 plates; 40 references
Accepted: 1 Aug. 2011
A new species of Liolaemus (Squamata,
Iguania, Liolaemini) endemic to the Auca Mahuida volcano, northwestern
Patagonia, Argentina
LORENA ELIZABETH MARTINEZ (Argentina),
LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA (Argentina), CRISTIAN HER-NAN FULVIO PEREZ (Argentina),
DANIEL ROBERTO PEREZ (Argentina), JACK W. SITES, JR. (USA) & MARIANA MORANDO
(Argentina)
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Zootaxa
3010: 20–30 (31 Aug. 2011) 6 plates; 31 references Accepted: 12
May 2011
A new species of Underwoodisaurus (Squamata:
Gekkota: Carphodactylidae) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia
PAUL DOUGHTY & PAUL M. OLIVER
(Australia)
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Zootaxa
3002: 1–16 (24 Aug. 2011) 6 plates; 72 references
Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
A new species of chameleon (Sauria:
Chamaeleonidae) from the highlands of northwest Kenya JAN
STIPALA (UK), NICOLA LUTZMÁNN (Germany), PATRICK K. MALONZA (Kenya), LUCA
BORGH-ESIO (USA), PAUL WILKINSON (UK), BRENDAN GODLEY (UK), MATTHEW R. EVANS
(UK)
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Zootaxa
3001: 57–64 (23 Aug. 2011) 2 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 22 Jul. 2011
Systematics and molecular phylogenetics of
Asian snail-eating snakes (Pareatidae)
YUHONG GUO (China), YUNKE WU (USA),
SHUNPING HE (China), HAITAO SHI (China) & ERMI ZHAO (China)
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Zootaxa
2992: 1–51 (11 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 83 references
Accepted: 3 May 2011
On the need to follow rigorously the Rules
of the Code for the subsequent
designation of a nucleospecies (type species) for a nominal genus which lacked
one: the case of the nominal genus Trimeresurus
Lacépčde, 1804 (Reptilia: Squamata: Viperidae)
PATRICK DAVID (France), GERNOT VOGEL (Germany) & ALAIN DUBOIS (France)
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Zootaxa
2989: 1–50 (09 Aug. 2011) 14 plates; 278 references
Accepted: 30 May 2011
Phylogeny, taxonomy, and zoogeography of the
genus Gekko Laurenti,
1768 with the
revalidation of G.
reevesii Gray,
1831 (Sauria: Gekkonidae)
HERBERT RÖSLER (Germany), AARON M. BAUER (USA), MATTHEW
P. HEINICKE (USA), ELI GREENBAUM
(USA), TODD JACKMAN (USA), TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam)
& THOMAS ZIEGLER
(Germany)
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Zootaxa
2982: 59–68 (02 Aug. 2011) 5 plates; 17 references
Accepted: 30 Jun. 2011
A new species of the genus Lycodon (Squamata,
Colubridae) from Sichuan Province, China
JUN ZHANG (China), KE JIANG, GERNOT VOGEL (Germany) & DINGQI RAO (China)
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Zootaxa
2982: 40–48 (02 Aug. 2011) 5 plates; 24 references
Accepted: 23 May 2011
Deciphering the cryptic species diversity
of dull-coloured day geckos Phelsuma (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Madagascar, with description of a new species
ANGELICA CROTTINI (Germany),
PHILIP-SEBASTIAN GEHRING (Germany), FRANK GLAW (Ger-many), D. JAMES HARRIS
(Portugal), ALEXANDRA LIMA (Portugal) & MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2968: 26–38 (18 Jul. 2011) 7 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 30 May 2011
A new species of the Liolaemus
darwinii group (Iguania: Liolaemidae)
from Salta Province, Argentina
CRISTIAN SIMÓN ABDALA, ANDRÉS SEBASTIÁN QUINTEROS, FEDERICO ARIAS, SABRINA
PORTELLI & ANTONIO PALAVECINO
(Argentina)
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Zootaxa
2963: 1–47 (12 Jul. 2011) 26 plates; 76 references
Accepted: 23 May 2011
A new specimen of Chasmosaurus
belli (Ornithischia:
Ceratopsidae), a
revision of the genus, and the utility of postcrania in
the taxonomy and
systematics of ceratopsid dinosaurs
SUSANNAH C. R. MAIDMENT & PAUL M. BARRETT (UK)
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Zootaxa
2942: 57–68 (06 Jul. 2011) 5 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 30 May 2011
New species of Blaesodactylus
(Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Ankarafantsika National
Park in north-western Madagascar
AARON M. BAUER (USA), FRANK GLAW (Germany),
PHILIP-SEBASTIAN GEHRING (Germany) & MIGUEL
VENCES (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2936: 59–68 (01 Jul. 2011) 3 plates; 40 references
Accepted: 20 Jun. 2011
A new species of pitviper of the genus Protobothrops
from China
(Squamata: Viperidae)
JIAN-HUAN YANG (P.R. China), NIKOLAI L. ORLOV (Russia)
& YING-YONG WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
2930: 60–68 (27 Jun. 2011) 6 plates; 20 references
Accepted: 30 May 2011
A new species of Tropidurus
(Squamata, Tropiduridae) of the semitaeniatus
group from a semiarid area in Northeastern
Brazil
DANIEL CUNHA PASSOS, DANIEL CASSIANO LIMA & DIVA MARIA BORGES-NOJOSA
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2930: 22–32 (27 Jun. 2011) 5 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
A new species of
bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus,
Gekkonidae) from
the North Papuan Mountains
PAUL OLIVER (Australia), KELIOPAS KREY (Indonesia), MUMPUNI (Indonesia) &
STEPHEN RICHARDS (Australia)
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Zootaxa
2930: 1–21 (27 Jun. 2011) 9 plates; 72 references
Accepted: 23 May 2011
A new species of karst
dwelling Cyrtodactylus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from
northwestern Laos
NICOLE SCHNEIDER (Germany), TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam), ANDREAS SCHMITZ
(Switzerland), PHOUTHONE KINGSADA (Laos),
MARKUS AUER (Germany) & THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2924: 22–32 (20 Jun. 2011) 7 plates; 15 references
Accepted: 30 May 2011
A new species of
angular-toed gecko, genus Cyrtopodion
(Squamata: Gekkonidae), from southern Iran
FARAHAM AHMADZADEH (Iran), MORRIS FLECKS (Germany), FARHANG TORKI (Iran) &
WOLFGANG BÖHME (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2924: 1–21 (20 Jun. 2011) 9 plates; 33 references
Accepted: 30 May 2011
Two new mountain
lizard species of the Phymaturus genus
(Squamata: Iguania) from
northwestern Patagonia, Argentina
LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA, CRISTIAN HERNAN FULVIO PEREZ, DANIEL ROBERTO PEREZ &
MARIANA MORANDO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
2918: 47–67 (14 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 37 references
Accepted: 03 May 2011
A new large and
colorful skink of the genus Amphiglossus from
Madagascar revealed
by morphology and multilocus molecular study
AURÉLIEN MIRALLES (Germany), ACHILLE P. RASELIMANANA (Madagascar), DOMOINA
RAKOTOMALALA (Madagascar), MIGUEL VENCES
(Germany) & DAVID R. VIEITES (Spain)
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Zootaxa
2918: 1–14 (14 Jun. 2011) 7 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 12 Apr. 2011
A new genus and
species of cryptic Asian green pitviper (Serpentes:
Viperidae: Crotalinae) from southwest China
PENG GUO & YUEZHAO WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
2894: 58–68 (27 May 2011) 6 plates; 24
references
Accepted: 3 May 2011
Review of the genus
Dopasia Gray,
1853 (Squamata: Anguidae) in
the Indochina subregion
TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam), WOLFGANG BÖHME (Germany), TAO THIEN NGUYEN
(Vietnam), QUYET KHAC LE (Vietnam), KRISTIAN
ROBERT PAHL (Germany), TANJA HAUS (Germany) & THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2894: 21–38 (27 May 2011) 6 plates; 45
references
Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
High genetic differentiation within the Hemidactylus
turcicus complex (Reptilia:
Gekkonidae) in the Levant, with comments on the
phylogeny and systematics of the genus
JIŘÍ MORAVEC
(Czech Republic), LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL (Czech Republic), ZUAIR S. AMR (Jordan),
DAVID JANDZIK (Slovakia), JIŘÍ
ŠMÍD (Czech Republic) & VÁCLAV GVOŽDÍK (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa
2894: 1–20 (27 May 2011) 12 plates; 65
references
Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
Sea snakes (Serpentes: subfamilies
Hydrophiinae and Laticaudinae) in Vietnam: a
comprehensive checklist and an updated identification key
ARNE REDSTED RASMUSSEN (Denmark), JOHAN ELMBERG (Sweden), PETER GRAVLUND
(Denmark) & IVAN INEICH (France)
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Zootaxa
2890: 53–64 (25 May 2011) 5 plates; 29 references
Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Gekko canaensis sp.
nov. (Squamata: Gekkonidae), a new gecko from Southern
Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) & TONY GAMBLE (USA)
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Zootaxa
2881: 51–68 (17 May 2011) 8 plates; 13 references
Accepted: 21 Apr. 2011
Two new species of Rhinophis
Hemprich (Serpentes: Uropeltidae)
from Sri Lanka
DAVID J. GOWER (UK) & KALANA MADUWAGE (Sri Lanka)
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Zootaxa
2876: 1–16 (12 May 2011) 7 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 25 Feb. 2011
A molecular phylogeny of the “Madascincus
polleni species complex”, with
description of a new species of scincid lizard from the coastal dune area
of northern Madagascar
AURÉLIEN MIRALLES, JÖRN KÖHLER, FRANK GLAW & MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2871: 19–42 (9 May 2011) 11 plates; 78 references
Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
Campinasuchus
dinizi gen. et sp. nov.,
a new Late Cretaceous baurusuchid (Crocodyliformes)
from the Bauru Basin, Brazil
ISMAR DE SOUZA CARVALHO (Brazil), VICENTE DE PAULA ANTUNES TEIXEIRA (Brazil),
MARA LÚCIA DA FONSECA FERRAZ (Brazil), LUIZ
CARLOS BORGES RIBEIRO (Brazil), AGUSTÍN GUILLERMO
MARTINELLI (Brazil), FRANCISCO MACEDO NETO (Brazil), JOSEPH J. W. SERTICH
(USA), GABRIEL CARDOSO CUNHA (Brazil), ISABELLA
CARDOSO CUNHA (Brazil) & PATRÍCIA FONSECA
FERRAZ (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2869: 1–36 (6 May 2011) 16 plates; 56 references
Accepted: 28 Mar. 2011
Taxonomic revision of
the geckos of the Gonatodes concinnatus complex
(Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae), with description
of two new species
MARCELO JOSÉ STURARO & TERESA C.S. AVILA-PIRES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2838: 65–78 (29 Apr. 2011) 4 plates; 47 references
Accepted: 5 Jan. 2011
A new bent-toed gecko
of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray,
1827 (Reptilia, Gekkonidae)
from Mount Tompotika, eastern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia
DJOKO T. ISKANDAR, ANGGA RACHMANSAH & UMILAELA (Indonesia)
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Zootaxa
2834: 33–46 (27 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 54 references
Accepted: 28 Mar. 2011
Cyrtodactylus
martini, another
new karst-dwelling Cyrtodactylus Gray,
1827 (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Northwestern Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam)
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Zootaxa
2833: 29–40 (27 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 41 references
Accepted: 28 Mar. 2011
A new species of the
genus Cyrtodactylus Gray,
1827 from central Laos (Squamata:
Gekkonidae)
PATRICK DAVID (France), TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam), NICOLE SCHNEIDER
(Germany) & THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2828: 58–68 (21 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 36
references
Accepted: 2 Feb. 2011
A new species of Dibamus
(Squamata:
Dibamidae) from Phnom Samkos Wildlife
Sanctuary, southwestern
Cardamom Mountains, Cambodia
THY NEANG (Cambodia), JEREMY HOLDEN (Cambodia), TOBY
EASTOE (Cambodia), RATHEA SENG (Cambodia),
SAVENG ITH (Cambodia) & L. LEE GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
2827: 54–68 (21 Apr. 2011) 10 plates; 55 references
Accepted: 10
Mar. 2011
A new specimen of
the theropod dinosaur Baryonyx
from the early
Cretaceous of
Portugal and taxonomic validity of Suchosaurus
OCTÁVIO MATEUS, RICARDO ARAÚJO, CARLOS NATÁRIO &
RUI CASTANHINHA (Portugal)
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Zootaxa
2826: 1–44 (20 Apr. 2011) 22 plates; 111 references
Accepted: 2 Feb. 2011
Annotated checklist and
distribution of the Socotran Archipelago Herpetofauna
(Reptilia)
EDOARDO RAZZETTI (Italy), ROBERTO SINDACO (Italy),
CRISTINA GRIECO (Italy), FRANCESCA PELLA
(Italy), UGO ZILIANI (Italy), FABIO PUPIN (Italy), ELISA
RISERVATO (Italy), DANIELE PELLITTERI-ROSA (Italy), LUCA
BUTIKOFER (Italy), AHMED SAEED SULEIMAN (Yemen), BADAR
AWADH AL-ASEILY
(Yemen), CATERINA CARUGATI (Italy), ELEONORA BONCOMPAGNI
(Italy) & MAURO FASOLA
(Italy)
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Zootaxa
2809: 20–32 (5 Apr. 2011) 7 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
On the species
identities of a complex Liolaemus
fauna from the
Altiplano and
Atacama Desert: insights on Liolaemus
stolzmanni, L.
reichei, L. jamesi pachecoi,
and L.
poconchilensis (Squamata:
Liolaemidae)
ROBERTO LANGSTROTH P. (USA)
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Zootaxa
2807: 29–40 (1 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 21 references
Accepted: 15 Feb. 2011
A new species of the
genus Lycodon (Boie, 1826) from the southwestern
mountains of China (Squamata: Colubridae)
GERNOT VOGEL (Germany) & JIAN LUO (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
2799: 29–40 (24 Mar. 2011) 7 plates; 25 references
Accepted: 24
Feb. 2011
Peninsular Malaysia’s first
limbless lizard: a new species of skink of the genus
Larutia (Böhme) from Pulau
Pinang with a phylogeny of the genus
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), EVAN QUAH SENG HUAT (Malaysia),
CAMERON D. SILER (USA), CHAN, K.O. (Malaysia), PERRY L.
WOOD, JR. (USA), JESSE L. GRISMER (USA), SHAHRUL ANUAR
MOHD SAH (Malaysia)
& NORHAYATI AHMAD (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
2799: 1–14 (24 Mar. 2011) 5 plates; 61 references
Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
On some taxonomic and
nomenclatural problems in Indian species of the genus
Oligodon Fitzinger,
1826 (Squamata: Colubridae)
PATRICK DAVID (France), INDRANEIL DAS (Malaysia) &
GERNOT VOGEL (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2791: 41–53 (15 Mar. 2011) 8 plates; 46
references
Accepted: 2 Feb. 2011
Competing generic concepts for Blanding’s,
Pacific and European pond turtles (Emydoidea,
Actinemys and Emys)—Which
is best?
UWE FRITZ (Germany), CHRISTIAN SCHMIDT (Germany) &
CARL H. ERNST (USA)
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Zootaxa
2789: 35–48 (11 Mar. 2011) 5 plates; 39 references
Accepted: 2 Feb. 2011
A new species of Liolaemus
of the Liolaemus
montanus section
(Iguania: Liolaemidae)
from Northwestern Argentina
ANDRÉS SEBASTIÁN QUINTEROS & CRISTIAN SIMÓN ABDALA
(Argentina)
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Zootaxa
2787: 37–54 (10 Mar. 2011) 10 plates; 33 references
Accepted: 2 Feb. 2011
Two new species of Cnemidophorus
(Squamata: Teiidae)
from the Caatinga, Northwest
Brazil
FEDERICO ARIAS (Argentina), CELSO MORATO DE CARVALHO
(Brazil), MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES &
HUSSAM ZAHER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2785: 61–68 (8 Mar. 2011) 2 plates; 19 references
Accepted: 28 Jan. 2010
Revision of the diagnostic
characters of Opisthotropis
maculosa Stuart
and
Chuaynkern, 2007 with notes on its
distribution and variation, and
a key to the genus Opisthotropis
(Squamata:
Natricidae)
JIAN-HUAN YANG, YING-YONG WANG, BING ZHANG, MICHAEL
WAI-NENG LAU & WEN-HAO CHOU
(China)
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Zootaxa
2783: 52–68 (4 Mar. 2011) 12 plates; 48 references
Accepted: 21 Jan. 2011
The taxonomy of species
assigned to Camptosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda)
ANDREW T. MCDONALD (USA)
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Zootaxa
2782: 1–33 (3 Mar. 2011) 10 plates; 70 references
Accepted: 12 Jan. 2011
Phylogeography and taxonomic
revision of the New Zealand cryptic skink
(Oligosoma
inconspicuum;
Reptilia: Scincidae) species complex
DAVID G. CHAPPLE (Australia), TRENT P. BELL (New Zealand),
STEPHANIE N.J. CHAPPLE (Australia), KIMBERLY
A. MILLER (Australia), CHARLES H. DAUGHERTY (New Zealand)
& GEOFF B. PATTERSON (New
Zealand)
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Zootaxa
2772: 61–66 (23 Feb. 2011) 1 plates; 21 references
Accepted: 12 Jan. 2011
Debating Liolaemidae
diversity and classification, and a bit more:
A response to Lobo et
al.
DANIEL PINCHEIRA-DONOSO (UK)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa
2765: 61–68 (15 Feb. 2011) 3 plates; 20 references
Accepted: 12 Jan. 2011
Revised diagnoses of
Hadrosaurus foulkii
Leidy, 1858 (the
type genus and species
of Hadrosauridae Cope, 1869) and Claosaurus
agilis Marsh, 1872
(Dinosauria: Ornithopoda)
from the Late Cretaceous of North America
ALBERT PRIETO-MÁRQUEZ (USA)
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Zootaxa
2765: 47–57 (15 Feb. 2011) 2 plates; 15 references
Accepted: 23 Nov. 2010
A new Emoia
samoensis group
lizard (Squamata: Scincidae)
from the Cook Islands,
South-central Pacific
GEORGE R. ZUG, ALISON M. HAMILTON & CHRISTOPHER C.
AUSTIN (USA)
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Zootaxa
2765: 2 1–37 (15 Feb. 2011) 10 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 12 Jan. 2011
A new cryptic
rock-dwelling Hemidactylus
(Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from
south India
ISHAN AGARWAL (India), VARAD B. GIRI (India) & AARON
M. BAUER (USA)
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Zootaxa
2758: 43–56 (7 Feb. 2011) 5 plates; 39 references
Accepted: 22 Dec. 2010
A new species of the
genus Opisthotropis
Günther, 1872 (Squamata:
Natricidae) from
the highlands of Kon Tum Province, Vietnam
PATRICK DAVID (France), CUONG THE PHAM (Vietnam), TRUONG
QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam) & THOMAS
ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2757: 1–23 (4 Feb. 2011) 8 plates; 28 references
Accepted: 22 Dec. 2010
Two new species of
pitviper of the genus Cryptelytrops
Cope 1860 (Squamata:
Viperidae: Crotalinae)
from Southeast Asia
ANITA MALHOTRA (UK), ROGER S. THORPE (UK), MRINALINI (UK)
& BRYAN L. STUART (USA)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa
2755: 66–68 (2 Feb. 2011) 0 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 15 Jan. 2011
The species
diversity of the genus Gallotia
(Sauria:
Lacertidae) during the Holocene
on La Gomera (Canary Islands) and the Latin names of
Gomeran giant lizards
JOSÉ A. MATEO (Spain), PIERRE-ANDRÉ CROCHET (France)
& OSCAR M. AFONSO (Spain)
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Zootaxa
2752: 1–44 (31 Jan. 2011) 11 plates; 91 references
Accepted: 23 Nov. 2010
A systematic
revision of Neotropical lizards in the clade Hoplocercinae
(Squamata: Iguania)
OMAR TORRES-CARVAJAL (Ecuador), RICHARD ETHERIDGE (USA)
& KEVIN DE QUEIROZ (USA)
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Zootaxa
2737: 61–68 (12 Jan. 2011) 4 plates; 21 references
Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
A new species of Bachia
Gray, 1845 (Squamata:
Gymnophthalmidae) from
the Cerrado of Midwestern Brazil
JOSEANA LUISA DE FREITAS, CHRISTINE STRÜSSMANN, MARCOS
ANDRÉ DE CARVALHO, RICARDO
ALEXANDRE KAWASHITA-RIBEIRO & TAMÍ MOTT (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2730: 44–56 (24 Dec. 2010) 2 plates; 58 references
Accepted: 30 Nov. 2010
A new cave-dwelling
species of Cyrtodactylus
Gray, 1827
(Squamata: Gekkonidae)
from Khammouane Province, southern Laos
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) & OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS
(Belgium)
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Zootaxa
2724: 1–28 (16 Dec. 2010) 14 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 12 Nov. 2010
Taxonomy of the Threadsnakes
of the tribe Epictini
(Squamata: Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae)
in Colombia
ROBERTA RICHARD PINTO (Brazil), PAULO PASSOS (Brazil),
JOSÉ RANCES CAICEDO PORTILLA (Colombia),
JUAN CAMILO ARREDONDO (Brazil) & RONALDO FERNANDES
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2719: 62–68 (10 Dec. 2010) 4 plates; 13 references
Accepted: 24 Nov. 2010
A new species of Dendrophidion
(Serpentes:
Colubridae) from the Atlantic Rain
Forest of Northeastern
Brazil
ELIZA MARIA XAVIER FREIRE, ULISSES CARAMASCHI &
UBIRATAN GONÇALVES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2718: 23–38 (9 Dec. 2010) 9 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
Cryptic species and
hybridization in the Anolis
polylepis complex,
with the description of a
new species from the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica (Squamata:
Polychrotidae)
GUNTHER KÖHLER, D. MATTHIAS DEHLING & JOHANNES
KÖHLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2715: 36–44 (7 Dec. 2010) 3 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 23 Nov. 2010
Studies on African Agama
VIII. A new
subspecies of Agama
caudospinosa Meek,
1910 (Sauria: Agamidae)
PHILIPP WAGNER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2694: 57–58 (2 Dec. 2010) 0 plates; 17 references
Accepted: 18 Nov. 2010
Misconceptions about the
ability of researchers to relocate the holotype of the
Galapagos pink land iguana through the
use of a passive integrated transponder
MICHAEL G. FRICK (USA)
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Zootaxa
2691: 57–66 (30 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 12 Nov. 2010
A new species of Dipsas
Laurenti from the
Atlantic Forest of Brazil
(Serpentes: Dipsadidae)
DANIEL S. FERNANDES, OTAVIO A. V. MARQUES & ANTÔNIO
J. S. ARGÔLO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2690: 53–58 (29 Nov. 2010) 2 plates; 9 references
Accepted: 12 Nov. 2010
A third new species of snake
of the genus Omoadiphas
(Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae,
Dipsadinae) from Honduras
JAMES R. MCCRANIE (USA) & GUSTAVO A. CRUZ DÍAZ
(Honduras)
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Zootaxa
2676: 45–56 (15 Nov. 2010) 8 plates; 24 references
Accepted: 25 Oct. 2010
A new eucryptodiran turtle from the Early
Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of western
Liaoning, China
CHANG-FU ZHOU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
2671: 40–52 (9 Nov. 2010) 7 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 16 Oct. 2010
Gekko lauhachindai sp.
nov., a new cave-dwelling gecko (Reptilia:
Gekkonidae) from central Thailand
NONN PANITVONG, MONTRI SUMONTHA, KANOKORN KONLEK &
KIRATI KUNYA (Thailand)
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Zootaxa
2671: 1–16 (9 Nov. 2010) 7 plates; 28 references
Accepted: 18 Oct. 2010
A new non-sexually
dichromatic species of the genus Gonatodes
(Sauria: Sphaerodactylidae)
from Sierra de Perijá, Venezuela
FERNANDO J. M. ROJAS-RUNJAIC, EDWIN E. INFANTE-RIVERO,
PEDRO CABELLO & PABLO VELOZO
(Venezuela)
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Zootaxa
2667: 28–42 (4 Nov. 2010) 6 plates; 35 references
Accepted: 7 Oct. 2010
A new species of the Liolaemus
elongatus clade (Reptilia:
Iguania: Liolaemini)
from Cordillera del Viento, northwestern
Patagonia, Neuquén, Argentina
LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA (Argentina), MARIANA MORANDO
(Argentina), DANIEL ROBERTO PEREZ
(Argentina) & JACK W. SITES, JR (USA)
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Zootaxa
2665: 29–50 (3 Nov. 2010) 0 plates; 131
references
Accepted: 8 Sep. 2010
On the identity of Monsieur
Dussumier’s Dutch tortoise and the lectotype of
Testudo dussumieri Gray, 1831
J. FRAZIER (USA) & PAT MATYOT (Seychelles)
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Zootaxa
2657: 47–54 (26 Oct. 2010) 4 plates; 13 references
Accepted: 7 Oct. 2010
A new species of
night lizard of the genus Lepidophyma
(Squamata:
Xantusiidae) from southern
Puebla, México
URI OMAR GARCÍA-VÁZQUEZ, LUIS CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ &
JOSÉ LUIS AGUILAR-LÓPEZ (Mexico)
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Zootaxa
2657: 33–46 (26 Oct. 2010) 3 plates; 49 references
Accepted: 4 Oct. 2010
A phylogenetic reassessment
of African fossorial skinks in the subfamily
Acontinae (Squamata: Scincidae): evidence
for parallelism and polyphyly
TRIP LAMB, SAYANTAN BISWAS & AARON M. BAUER (USA)
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Zootaxa
2652: 1–16 (21 Oct. 2010) 9 plates; 73 references
Accepted: 20 Sep. 2010
A new species of Cyrtodactylus
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Laos
TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam), PHOUTHONE KINGSADA (Laos),
HERBERT RÖSLER (Germany), MARKUS AUER (Germany) &
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2636: 59–64 (5 Oct. 2010) 2 plates; 21 references
Accepted: 9 Sep. 2010
Phylogenetic relationships of
the gecko genus Carinatogecko
(Reptilia: Gekkonidae)
JAN ČERVENKA,
DANIEL FRYNTA & LUKÁŠ KRATOCHVÍL (Czech Republic)
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Zootaxa
2636: 1–20 (5 Oct. 2010) 7 plates; 31 references
Accepted: 1 Sep. 2010
Studies on Pakistan
Lizards: Cyrtopodion baturense (Khan and Baig 1992)
and Cyrtopodion walli (Ingoldby 1922) (Sauria:
Gekkonidae)
KURT AUFFENBERG (USA), KENNETH L. KRYSKO (USA) &
HAFIZUR REHMAN (Pakistan)
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Zootaxa
2625: 40–52 (24 Sep. 2010) 7 plates; 56 references
Accepted: 16 Aug. 2010
A new spiny,
prehensile-tailed species of Cyrtodactylus
(Squamata:
Gekkonidae)
from Peninsular Malaysia with a
preliminary hypothesis of relationships based on
morphology
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), SHAHRUL ANUAR (Malaysia), EVAN QUAH
(Malaysia), MOHD ABDUL MUIN
(Malaysia), CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia), JESSE L. GRISMER
(USA) & NORHAYATI AHMAD (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
2611: 31–44 (14 Sep. 2010) 8 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 4
Aug. 2010
A new species of Chironius
Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata:
Colubridae) from the Pantepui
region, northeastern South America
PHILIPPE J. R. KOK (Belgium)
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Zootaxa
2604: 37–51 (7 Sep. 2010) 4 plates; 60 references
Accepted: 22
Jul. 2010
A new species of Cyrtodactylus
Gray, 1827 (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) in Phu Quoc
National Park, Kien Giang Biosphere Reserve, Southwestern
Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam), L. LEE GRISMER (USA) & JESSE L.
GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
2604: 1–19 (7 Sep. 2010) 5 plates; 40 references
Accepted: 26
Jul. 2010
Chelonian type specimens at the Oxford
University Museum
MAŁGOSIA NOWAK-KEMP (UK) & UWE FRITZ (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2600: 66–68 (1 Sep. 2010) 0 plates; 33
references
Accepted: 11
Aug. 2010
More notes on Alfredo Dugčs’ names for Mexican
reptilian taxa
OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA, VICTOR HUGO REYNOSO & GLORIA MAGAŃA-COTA (Mexico)
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Zootaxa
2578: 47–61 (27 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 27 references
Accepted: 30
Jun. 2010
A new species of Pygopus
(Pygopodidae;
Gekkota; Squamata) from
north-eastern Queensland
PAUL M. OLIVER, PATRICK COUPER & ANDREW AMEY
(Australia)
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Zootaxa
2577: 46–56 (26 Aug. 2010) 4 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 26
Jul. 2010
A new species of dactyloid
anole (SQUAMATA: IGUANIDAE)
from the western Andes of Ecuador
FERNANDO P. AYALA-VARELA (Ecuador) & JULIÁN ANDRÉS
VELASCO (Colombia)
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Zootaxa
2576: 59–68 (25 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 26
Jul. 2010
A new endemic rock Gecko Cnemaspis
Strauch 1887 (Squamata:
Gekkonidae)
from Gunung Jerai, Kedah, northwestern
Peninsular Malaysia
CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia), L. LEE GRISMER (USA), SHAHRUL
ANUAR (Malaysia), EVAN QUAH (Malaysia),
MOHD ABDUL MUIN (Malaysia), ANNA E. SAVAGE (USA), JESSE L.
GRISMER (USA), NORHAYATI
AHMAD (Malaysia), ANA-CAROLINE REMIGIO (USA) & LEE F.
GREER (USA)
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Zootaxa
2576: 1–55 (25 Aug. 2010) 23 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 26
Jul. 2010
A revision and redescription
of the rock gecko Cnemaspis
siamensis (Taylor
1925) (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from
Peninsular Thailand with descriptions of seven
new species
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), MONTRI SUMONTHA (Thailand), MICHAEL
COTA (Thailand), JESSE L. GRISMER
(USA), ERRY L. WOOD, JR. (USA), OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS
(Belgium) & KIRATI KUNYA
(Thailand)
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Zootaxa
2570: 4 1–50 (18 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 29 references
Accepted: 26 Jul. 2010
Cyrtodactylus
dumnuii (Squamata:
Gekkonidae), a new cave-dwelling gecko
from Chiang Mai Province,
Thailand
AARON M. BAUER (USA), KIRATI KUNYA (Thailand), MONTRI
SUMONTHA (Thailand), PIYAWAN
NIYOMWAN (Thailand), OLIVIER S.G. PAUWELS (Belgium), LAWAN
CHANHOME (Thailand)
& TUNYAKORN KUNYA (Thailand)
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Zootaxa
2569: 55–66 (17 Aug. 2010) 3 plates; 17 references
Accepted: 26 Jul. 2010
Another new,
diminutive Rock Gecko (Cnemaspis
Strauch) from
Peninsular Malaysia
and a discussion of resource partitioning in sympatric
species pairs
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia), EVAN QUAH
(Malaysia), MOHD ABDUL MUIN
(Malaysia), ANNA E. SAVAGE (USA), JESSE L. GRISMER (USA),
NORHAYATI AHMAD (Malaysia),
LEE F. GREER III (USA) & ANA-CAROLINE REMEGIO (USA)
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Zootaxa
2569: 44–54 (17 Aug. 2010) 6 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 26 Jul. 2010
A new two-pored Amphisbaena
Linnaeus from the
endangered Brazilian Cerrado
biome (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae)
PEDRO H. PINNA, ANDRÉ F. MENDONÇA, ADRIANA BOCCHIGLIERI
& DANIEL S. FERNANDES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2569: 1–43 (17 Aug. 2010) 5 plates; 99 references
Accepted: 22 Jul. 2010
A new basal iguanodont (Dinosauria:
Ornithischia) from the Wealden
(Lower Cretaceous) of England
ANDREW T. MCDONALD (USA), PAUL M. BARRETT (UK) &
SANDRA D. CHAPMAN (UK)
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Zootaxa
2554: 62–64 (30 Jul. 2010) 1 plates; 17 references
Accepted: 22
May 2010
Molecular phylogeography of
a widespread Malagasy leaf chameleon species,
Brookesia superciliaris
FANOMEZANA M. RATSOAVINA (Germany), PHILIP-SEBASTIAN
GEHRING (Germany), FREDDY J. RANAIVOARISOA (Madagascar),
TSILAVO H. RAFELIARISOA (Madagascar), ANGELICA CROTTINI
(Germany), EDWARD E. LOUIS JR. (USA) & MIGUEL VENCES
(Germany)
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Zootaxa
2549: 1–30 (26 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 136 references
Accepted: 26
May 2010
A critical review and
systematic discussion of recent classification proposals
for liolaemid lizards
FERNANDO LOBO (Argentina), ROBERT E. ESPINOZA (USA) &
SEBASTIAN QUINTEROS (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
2534 57–66 (13 Jul. 2010) 5 plates; 21
references
Accepted: 25 Jun. 2010
A second specimen of Manchurochelys
manchoukuoensis Endo & Shikama,
1942 (Testudines: Eucryptodira) from the Early
Cretaceous Yixian Formation of
western Liaoning, China
CHANG-FU ZHOU (China)
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Erratum
Zootaxa 2514: 68 (22 Jun.
2010)
Erratum: KARNS, D.R., LUKOSCHEK, V., OSTERHAGE, J.,
MURPHY, J.C. & VORIS, H.K.
(2010) Phylogeny and biogeography of the Enhydris
clade (Serpentes: Homalopsidae). Zootaxa,
2452, 18–30.
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Zootaxa
2514 1–23 (22 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 73 references
Accepted: 22 May 2010
Systematic and taxomonic
revaluation of four little known Asian agamid
species, Calotes
kingdonwardi Smith,
1935, Japalura
kaulbacki Smith,
1937, Salea
kakhienensis Anderson,
1879 and the monotypic genus Mictopholis
Smith, 1935
(Reptilia: Agamidae)
STEPHEN MAHONY (India)
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Zootaxa
2508: 1–29 (16 Jun. 2010) 14 plates; 110 references
Accepted: 8 May 2010
Cytotaxonomy and DNA
taxonomy of lizards (Squamata, Sauria) from a tropical
dry forest in the Chamela-Cuixmala Biosphere Reserve on the coast of Jalisco,
Mexico
RICCARDO CASTIGLIA (Italy), FLAVIA ANNESI (Italy),
ALEXANDRA M.R. BEZERRA (Brazil), ANDRÉS
GARCÍA (Mexico) & OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA (Mexico)
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Zootaxa
2504: 47–60 (14 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 50 references
Accepted: 6 May 2010
A new species of Cyrtodactylus
Gray, 1826 (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Khanh
Hoa province, Southern Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) & CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
2501: 54–60 (10 Jun. 2010) 5 plates; 17 references
Accepted: 5 May 2010
A new poreless
species of Gekko Laurenti,
1768 (Gekkonidae: Squamata) from
An Giang Province,
southern Vietnam
NGUYEN NGOC SANG (Vietnam)
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Zootaxa
2500: 58–68 (9 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 39 references
Accepted: 20 Apr. 2010
Systematics of the Podarcis
hispanicus-complex
(Sauria, Lacertidae) II: the
valid name of the
north-eastern Spanish form
JULIEN P. RENOULT, PHILIPPE GENIEZ, PAUL BACQUET, CLAUDE
P. GUILLAUME, & PIERREANDRE CROCHET
(France)
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Zootaxa
2496: 1–37 (7 Jun. 2010) 0 plates; 190 references
Accepted: 15 Mar. 2010
Diversity of Australasian
freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and
keys to species
ARTHUR GEORGES & SCOTT THOMSON (Australia)
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Zootaxa
2492: 1–27 (2 Jun. 2010) 0 plates; 78 references
Accepted: 20 Apr. 2010
A tentative species list of
the European herpetofauna (Amphibia and Reptilia)
— an update
JEROEN SPEYBROECK (Belgium), WOUTER BEUKEMA (The
Netherlands) & PIERRE-ANDRÉ CROCHET
(France)
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Zootaxa
2489: 47–66 (31 May 2010) 10 plates; 51 references
Accepted: 8 Apr. 2010
A taxonomy of iguanodontians
(Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the lower
Wealden Group (Cretaceous:
Valanginian) of southern England
DAVID B. NORMAN (UK)
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Zootaxa
2488: 22–38 (31 May 2010) 6 plates; 31 references
Accepted: 20 Apr. 2010
A new cryptic species
of Acanthosaura Gray,
1831 (Squamata: Agamidae) from
Thailand and Cambodia
PERRY L. WOOD JR (USA), L. LEE GRISMER (USA), JESSE L.
GRISMER (USA), THY NEANG (Cambodia),
THOU CHAV (Cambodia), & JERMEY HOLDEN (UK)
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Zootaxa
2475: 55–63 (17 May 2010) 2 plates; 28
references
Accepted: 17 Mar. 2010
The first record of
the genus Cnemaspis Strauch
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Laos
with the description of a new species
L. LEE GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
2452: 18–30 (12 May 2010) 3 plates; 45
references
Accepted: 25 Mar. 2010
Phylogeny and
biogeography of the Enhydris
clade (Serpentes:
Homalopsidae)
DARYL R. KARNS, VIMOKSALEHI LUKOSCHEK, JENNIFER OSTERHAGE,
JOHN C. MURPHY & HAROLD
K. VORIS (USA)
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Zootaxa
2452: 1–17 (12 May 2010) 4 plates; 38
references
Accepted: 13 Apr. 2010
Glishades ericksoni,
a new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the
Late Cretaceous of North
America
ALBERT PRIETO-MÁRQUEZ (USA)
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Zootaxa
2450: 1–25 (10 May 2010) 9 plates; 95
references
Accepted: 7 Apr. 2010
An abelisauroid dinosaur
with a non-atrophied manus from the Late Cretaceous
Pari Aike Formation of southern Patagonia
MARTÍN D. EZCURRA, FEDERICO L. AGNOLIN & FERNANDO E. NOVAS (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 2447:
1–52 (6 May 2010) 6 plates; 358 references
Accepted: 16 Mar. 2010
The
nomenclatural status of the nomina of amphibians and
reptiles created by Garsault
(1764), with a parsimonious solution to an old
nomenclatural problem regarding
the genus Bufo (Amphibia,
Anura), comments on the taxonomy of this
genus, and comments on some nomina created by Laurenti
(1768)
ALAIN DUBOIS & ROGER BOUR (France)
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Zootaxa 2446:
1–54 (6 May 2010) 34 plates; 123 references
Accepted: 15
Mar. 2010
Unravelling
the underestimated diversity of Philippine water monitor
lizards (Squamata:
Varanus salvator complex),
with the description of two new species and
a new subspecies
ANDRÉ KOCH, MAREN GAULKE & WOLFGANG BÖHME (GERMANY)
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Zootaxa
2440: 60–68 (29 Apr. 2010) 1 plates; 34 references
Accepted: 15
Mar. 2010
On the type selection and re-typification of two
monitor lizard taxa (Squamata:
Varanidae): Monitor
bivittatus celebensis Schlegel, 1844 and
Monitor kordensis
Meyer,
1874; with some comments and corrections on other name-bearing type specimens
WOLFGANG BÖHME & ANDRÉ KOCH (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2440: 49–59 (29 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 35 references
Accepted: 15
Mar. 2010
Liolaemus goetschi (Iguania:
Liolaemidae): redescription and phylogenetic relationships
within the L. boulengeri group
JAVIER NORI, CRISTIAN SIMÓN ABDALA & GUSTAVO JOSÉ SCROCCHI (Agrentina)
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Zootaxa
2439: 53–68 (28 Apr. 2010) 3 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 15
Mar. 2010
A new species of the
genus Tropidophorus
Duméril &
Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria:
Scincidae) from Vietnam
TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam), TAO THIEN NGUYEN (Vietnam),
ANDREAS SCHMITZ (Switzerland),
NIKOLAI L. ORLOV (Russia) & THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2434: 47–59 (23 Apr. 2010) 7 plates; 34 references
Accepted: 15
Mar. 2010
A new species of Liolaemus
(Reptilia: Squamata) from southwestern
Rio Negro province,
northern Patagonia, Argentina
LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA (Argentina), CRISTIAN HERNAN FULVIO PEREZ (Argentina),
MARIANA MORANDO (Argentina) & JACK
WALTER SITES, JR. (USA)
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Zootaxa
2434: 17–32 (23 Apr. 2010) 12 plates; 37 references
Accepted: 15
Mar. 2010
A new melanistic species of monitor lizard (Reptilia:
Squamata: Varanidae)
from Sanana Island, Indonesia
VALTER S-Ĺ WEIJOLA (Finland) & SAMUEL S. SWEET (USA)
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Zootaxa
2433: 62–68 (22 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 13 references
Accepted: 15
Mar. 2010
A new species of Proablepharus
(Scincidae:
Lygosominae) from Mt Surprise,
north-eastern Queensland,
Australia
PATRICK J. COUPER, COLIN J. LIMPUS, KEITH R. MCDONALD
& ANDREW P. AMEY (Australia)
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Zootaxa
2433: 47–61 (22 Apr. 2010) 5 plates; 28 references
Accepted: 15
Mar. 2010
Who’s your mommy?
Identifying maternal ancestors of asexual species of
Leiolepis Cuvier, 1829 and the
description of a new endemic species of asexual
Leiolepis Cuvier,
1829 from Southern Vietnam
JESSE L. GRISMER & L. LEE GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
2433: 1–24 (22 Apr. 2010) 6 plates; 75 references
Accepted: 12
Mar. 2010
Systematics, natural
history, and hemipenial morphology of Dendrophidion
brunneum (Günther)
(Serpentes: Colubridae), a poorly known snake from the
Andes of Ecuador and Peru
JOHN E. CADLE (USA)
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Zootaxa
2429: 1–28 (19 Apr. 2010) 9 plates; 90 references
Accepted: 1
Mar. 2010
Phylogenetic
systematics of day geckos, genus Phelsuma,
based on molecular
and morphological data (Squamata:
Gekkonidae)
SARA ROCHA (Portugal), HERBERT RÖSLER (Germany),
PHILIP-SEBASTIAN GEHRING (Germany),
FRANK GLAW (Germany), DAVID POSADA (GERMANY), D. JAMES
HARRIS (PORTUGAL),
& MIGUEL VENCES (GERMANY)
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Zootaxa
2419: 5 1–62 (6 Apr. 2010) 2 plates; 30 references Accepted: 12
Feb. 2010
Another new Rock Gecko (genus Cnemaspis Strauch
1887) from Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia
L. LEE GRISMER (USA) & CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
2413: 20–36 (29 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 43 references
Accepted: 15
Feb. 2010
A third new Cyrtodactylus
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Phong Nha-Ke
Bang National
Park, Truong Son Range, Vietnam
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany), ROMAN NAZAROV (Russia), NIKOLAI ORLOV (Russia), TRUONG
QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam), THANH NGOC VU (Vietnam),
KIEN NGOC DANG (Vietnam), TRI HUY DINH
(Vietnam), ANDREAS SCHMITZ (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa
2413: 1–19 (29 Mar. 2010) 8 plates; 44 references
Accepted: 15
Feb. 2010
A basal parvicursorine (Theropoda: Alvarezsauridae)
from the Upper
Cretaceous of China
XING XU, DE-YOU WANG, CORWIN SULLIVAN, DAVID W. E. HONE, FENG-LU HAN, RONG-HAO
YAN & FU-MING DU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
2403: 1–9 (19 Mar. 2010) 2 plates; 28 references
Accepted: 3 Feb. 2010
A new dromaeosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from
the Upper Cretaceous
Wulansuhai Formation of Inner Mongolia,
China
XING XU (China), JONAH N. CHOINIERE (USA), MICHAEL PITTMAN (UK), QINGWEI TAN
(China), DONG XIAO (China), ZHIQUAN LI (China), LIN
TAN (China), JAMES M. CLARK (USA), MARK A.
NORELL (USA), DAVID W. E. HONE (China) & CORWIN SULLIVAN (China)
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Zootaxa
2396: 37–49 (11 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 20 references
Accepted: 4 Feb.
2010
A new species of Gekko
(Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from central Luzon Island,
Philippines
CHARLES W. LINKEM (USA), CAMERON D. SILER (USA), ARVIN C.
DIESMOS (Philippines), EMERSON
SY (Philippines) & RAFE M. BROWN (USA)
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Zootaxa
2393: 59–68 (9 Mar. 2010) 3 plates; 19 references
Accepted: 17 Dec.
2009
New localities of endangered Chinese turtles from
museum specimens and the
practical and ethical challenges using and
reporting natural history collection
data
JONATHAN J. FONG (USA) & GE-XIA QIAO (China)
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Zootaxa
2393: 33–45 (9 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 27 references
Accepted: 21 Jan.
2010
Morphological and
molecular assessment of the Diplodactylus
savagei species
complex in the Pilbara region, Western
Australia, with a description of a new species
PAUL DOUGHTY, MITZY PEPPER & J. SCOTT KEOGH (Australia)
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Zootaxa
2393: 17–32 (9 Mar. 2010) 4 plates; 44 references
Accepted: 4 Jan.
2010
Lizards at the end of
the world: Two new species of Phymaturus of
the patagonicus
clade (Squamata, Liolaemidae) revealed in
southern Patagonia of Argentina
JOSÉ ALEJANDRO SCOLARO (Argentina) & DANIEL PINCHEIRA-DONOSO (UK)
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Zootaxa
2390: 49–68 (5 Mar. 2010) 6 plates; 55 references
Accepted: 4 Jan. 2010
Phylogeny-based species delimitation of southern
Philippines bent-toed geckos
and a new species of Cyrtodactylus
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from western
Mindanao and the Sulu Archipelago
LUKE J. WELTON (USA), CAMERON D. SILER (Philippines), ARVIN C. DIESMOS
(Philippines) & RAFE M. BROWN (USA)
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Zootaxa
2389: 47–56 (5 Mar. 2010) 3 plates; 19 references
Accepted: 4 Jan. 2010
A new insular species
of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from northeastern
Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia
CHAN KIN ONN & NORHAYATI AHMAD (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
2370: 53–64 (25 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 29 references
Accepted: 31 Dec. 2009
Cyrtodactylus
auribalteatus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae), a new cave-dwelling gecko
from Phitsanulok Province, Thailand
MONTRI SUMONTHA, NONN PANITVONG & GRIDSADA DEEIN (Thailand)
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Monograph
Zootaxa
2364: 1–63 (19 Feb. 2010) 20 plates; 105 references Accepted: 21
Jan. 2010
Taxonomic revision of the
Brazilian Atlantic Forest Atractus
(Reptilia: Serpentes: Dipsadidae)
PAULO PASSOS, RONALDO FERNANDES, RENATO S. BÉRNILS
& JULIO C. DE MOURA-LEITE
(Brazil)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa
2354: 67–68 (9 Feb. 2010) 1 plates; 15 references
Accepted: 4
Jan. 2010
The untold story on the ecological and phylogenetic
complexity of the
Uruguayan reptile fauna
DANIEL PINCHEIRA-DONOSO (UK)
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Zootaxa
2354: 45–55 (9 Feb. 2010) 4 plates; 25 references
Accepted: 5
Jan. 2010
On the status and
relationships of the gecko species Gehyra
barea Kopstein
1926, with description of new specimens and a
range extension
PAUL OLIVER (Australia), MARK SISTROM (Australia), BURHAN TJATURADI (Indonesia),
KELIOPAS KREY (Indonesia) & STEPHEN RICHARDS
(Australia)
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Zootaxa
2354: 1–18 (9 Feb. 2010) 7 plates; 47 references
Accepted: 5
Jan. 2010
A revision of the
Central American species related to Anolis
pentaprion with the
resurrection of A.
beckeri and the description of a new
species (Squamata: Polychrotidae)
GUNTHER KÖHLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2352: 46–58 (5 Feb. 2010) 8 plates; 21 references
Accepted: 4
Jan. 2009
A colorful new species
of insular rock gecko (Cnemaspis Strauch
1887) from southern
Vietnam
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) & JESSE L. GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
2346: 17–28 (28 Jan. 2010) 3 plates; 38 references Accepted: 24
Dec. 2009
A new species of Gekko
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tŕ
Kóu Nature Reserve, Binh
Thuan Province, Southern Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) & TONY GAMBLE (USA)
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Zootaxa
2336: 51–60 (15 Jan. 2010) 4 plates; 33 references Accepted: 21
Oct. 2009
A new species of Cyrtodactylus
(Reptilia: Squamata: Geckkonidae) from
Xizang Autonomous
Region, China
LEI SHI & HUI ZHAO (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
2334: 59–68 (13 Jan. 2010) 1 plates; 31 references
Accepted: 4 Jan. 2009
The original descriptions of
reptiles
PETER UETZ (USA)
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Zootaxa
2334: 1–46 (13 Jan. 2010) 15 plates; 131 references Accepted: 24
Nov. 2009
The osteology of Shaochilong
maortuensis, a carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria:
Theropoda) from the Late Cretaceous of Asia
STEPHEN L. BRUSATTE (USA), DANIEL J. CHURE (USA), ROGER B. J. BENSON (UK) &
XING XU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
2329: 56–68 (6 Jan. 2010) 5 plates; 37 references Accepted: 23
Nov. 2009
A new species of the
genus Gekko Laurenti
(Squamata: Sauria: Gekkonidae)
from Vietnam with remarks
on G. japonicus (Schlegel)
HERBERT RÖSLER (Germany), TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN (Vietnam),
KIEN VAN DOAN (Vietnam), CUC
THU HO (Vietnam), TAO THIEN NGUYEN (Vietnam) & THOMAS
ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2312: 39-48 (16 Dec. 2009) 5 plates; 29 references
Accepted: 23 Nov. 2009
Lerista karlschmidti (Marx
and Hosmer, 1959) (Sauria: Scincidae):
re-examination of the type series, reassignment
of a paratype
and distribution notes
PATRICK J. COUPER & ANDREW P. AMEY (Australia)
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Zootaxa
2312: 27-38 (16 Dec. 2009) 3 plates; 29 references
Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
A new, diminutive, upland Sphenomorphus
Fitzinger 1843 (Squamata:
Scincidae) from the Belum-Temengor Forest
Complex, Peninsular Malaysia
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), NORHAYATI AHMAD (Malaysia) & CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa 2307:
68 (9 Dec. 2009)
Erratum—MASROOR, R.
(2009) A new arboreal species of Cyrtopodion (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from
Deh Akro-II Wetlands Complex, Sindh, Pakistan. Zootaxa,
2243, 57–67.
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Zootaxa
2294: 23-38 (20 Nov. 2009) 4 plates; 65 references
Accepted: 6 Oct. 2009
A new mid-altitude rainforest
species of Typhlops
(Serpentes:
Typhlopidae)
from Madagascar with notes
on the taxonomic status of T.
boettgeri Boulenger,
T. microcephalus Werner,
and T. capensis Rendahl
VAN WALLACH (USA) & FRANK GLAW (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2293: 1-34 (19 Nov. 2009) 18 plates; 57 references
Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
Pacific lowland snakes of the
genus Atractus (Serpentes:
Dipsadidae), with
description of three new
species
PAULO PASSOS (Brazil), JONH JAIRO MUESES-CISNEROS
Colombia), JOHN D. LYNCH (Colombia),
RONALDO FERNANDES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2290: 65-68 (16 Nov. 2009) 1 plates; 9 references
Accepted: 7 Oct. 2009
A new species of Malagasy
blind snake of the genus Typhlops
Oppel
(Serpentes: Typhlopidae)
JULIEN P. RENOULT (France) & ACHILLE P. RASELIMANANA
(Madagascar)
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Zootaxa
2283: 1-15 (6 Nov. 2009) 8 plates; 46 references
Accepted: 3 Oct. 2009
The rare Andean pitviper Rhinocerophis
jonathani (Serpentes:
Viperidae:
Crotalinae): redescription
with comments on its systematics and biogeography
PAOLA A. CARRASCO (Argentina), MICHAEL B. HARVEY (USA)
& ARTURO MUŃOZ SARAVIA (Bolivia)
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Zootaxa
2277: 14-32 (30 Oct. 2009) 8 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
Molecular phylogeny of
Australian Gehyra (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) and
taxonomic revision of Gehyra
variegata in
south-eastern Australia
MARK J. SISTROM, MARK N. HUTCHINSON, RHONDA G. HUTCHINSON
& STEPHEN C. DONNELLAN
(Australia)
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Zootaxa
2271: 43-56 (22 Oct. 2009) 14 plates; 31 references
Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
The Barrier skink Oligosoma
judgei n. sp. (Reptilia:
Scincidae) from the Darran
and Takitimu Mountains,
South Island, New Zealand
GEOFF B PATTERSON & TRENT P BELL (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa
2269: 43-52 (21 Oct. 2009) 4 plates; 32 references
Accepted: 19 Sep. 2009
High haplotype diversity in a
microendemic Malagasy gecko species,
Lygodactylus mirabilis (Pasteur,
1962)
YLENIA CHIARI (USA), DAVID R. VIEITES (Spain), JERRY GUO
(USA), PARFAIT BORA (Madagascar),
MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2269: 32-42 (21 Oct. 2009) 6 plates; 27 references
Accepted: 19 Jun. 2009
A distinctive new species of
chameleon of the genus Furcifer
(Squamata:
Chamaeleonidae) from the
Montagne d’Ambre rainforest of northern Madagascar
FRANK GLAW, JÖRN KÖHLER & MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2255: 1-100 (8 Oct. 2009) 19 plates; 639 references
Accepted: 10 Sep. 2009
A
review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes:
Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with
the description of two new genera and a new species
DONALD G. BROADLEY (Zimbabwe) & VAN WALLACH (USA)
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Zootaxa
2246: 21-31 (5 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 26 references
Accepted: 18 Aug. 2009
A new species of karst dwelling Cnemaspis
Strauch 1887
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Sarawak, Borneo
L. LEE GRISMER (USA) & CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
2246: 1-20 (5 Oct. 2009) 7 plates; 49 references
Accepted: 31 Aug. 2009
A new species of Eremiascincus
(Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the
Great
Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Western
Australia and reassignment of eight species
from Glaphyromorphus to
Eremiascincus
SVEN MECKE (Germany), PAUL DOUGHTY (Australia) & STEPHEN C. DONNELLAN
(Australia)
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Zootaxa
2244: 1-50 (1 Oct. 2009) 13 plates; 181 references
Accepted: 3 Sep. 2009
Molecular phylogeny,
classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family
Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia,
Squamata)
SOLNY A. ADALSTEINSSON (USA), WILLIAM R. BRANCH (South
Africa), SÉBASTIEN TRAPE (France),
LAURIE J. VITT (USA) & S. BLAIR HEDGES (USA)
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Zootaxa
2243: 57-67 (30 Sep. 2009) 3 plates; 14 references
Accepted: 17 Aug. 2009
A new arboreal species of Cyrtopodion
(Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from
Deh Akro-II Wetlands
Complex, Sindh, Pakistan
RAFAQAT MASROOR (Pakistan)
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Zootaxa
2241: 22-32 (28 Sep. 2009) 3 plates; 45 references
Accepted: 7 Sep. 2009
Systematics of the Common
Kingsnake (Lampropeltis
getula; Serpentes:
Colubridae) and the burden
of heritage in taxonomy
R. ALEXANDER PYRON & FRANK T. BURBRINK (USA)
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Zootaxa
2238: 33-42 (23 Sep. 2009) 3 plates; 33 references
Accepted: 31 Aug. 2009
A new species of Gekko
Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Dong Nai
Province, Southeastern
Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) , AARON M. BAUER (USA), PERRY L.
WOOD JR. (USA) & JESSE L. GRISMER
(USA)
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Zootaxa
2236: 26-36 (21 Sep. 2009) 1 plates; 81 references
Accepted: 14 Aug. 2009
In praise of subgenera: taxonomic status of cobras
of the genus Naja Laurenti
(Serpentes:
Elapidae)
VAN WALLACH (USA), WOLFGANG WÜSTER (UK) & DONALD G. BROADLEY (Zimbabwe)
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Zootaxa
2236: 1-25 (21 Sep. 2009) 9 plates; 89
references
Accepted: 14 Aug. 2009
Phylogeography and systematic revision of the
Egyptian cobra (Serpentes:
Elapidae:
Naja haje)
species complex, with the description of a new species from
West
Africa
JEAN-FRANÇOIS TRAPE (Senegal), LAURENT CHIRIO (France), DONALD G. BROADLEY
(Zimbabwe) & WOLFGANG WÜSTER (UK)
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Zootaxa
2234: 56-68 (17 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 34 references
Accepted: 17 Aug. 2009
Evidence of cryptic
speciation in a fossorial reptile: description of a new
species
of
Blanus (Squamata:
Amphisbaenia: Blanidae) from the Iberian Peninsula
EVA M. ALBERT & ADRIÁN FERNÁNDEZ (Spain)
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Zootaxa
2234: 39-55 (17 Sep. 2009) 6 plates; 43 references
Accepted: 31 Aug. 2009
A new species of Liolaemus
from Ańelo sand
dunes, northern Patagonia,
Neuquén,
Argentina, and molecular phylogenetic relationships of the
Liolaemus wiegmannii
species group (Squamata, Iguania, Liolaemini)
LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA (Argentina), MARIANA MORANDO
(Argentina), DANIEL ROBERTO PEREZ
(Argentina) & JACK W. SITES, JR. (USA)
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Zootaxa
2233: 57-68 (16 Sep. 2009) 5 plates; 31 references
Accepted: 31 Aug. 2009
A new subspecies of Batagur
affinis (Cantor,
1847), one of the world’s most
critically
endangered chelonians (Testudines: Geoemydidae)
PETER PRASCHAG (USA), ROHAN HOLLOWAY (Australia), ARTHUR
GEORGES (Australia), MARTIN
PÄCKERT (Germany), ANNA K. HUNDSDÖRFER (Germany) &
UWE FRITZ (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2232: 1-28 (15 Sep. 2009) 9 plates; 48 references
Accepted: 4 Aug. 2009
A taxonomic revision of the
South Asian hump-nosed pit vipers
(Squamata:
Viperidae: Hypnale)
KALANA MADUWAGE, ANJANA SILVA, KELUM MANAMENDRA-ARACHCHI
& ROHAN PETHIYAGODA
(Sri Lanka)
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Zootaxa
2227: 1-31 (10 Sep. 2009) 14 plates; 33 references
Accepted: 17 Aug. 2009
Systematics of the Carlia
‘fusca’
complex (Reptilia:
Scincidae) from northern
Australia
S.C. DONNELLAN, P.J. COUPER, K. M. SAINT & L. WHEATON
(Australia)
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Zootaxa
2226: 43-57 (10 Sep. 2009) 9 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 17 Aug. 2009
A new species of dwarf
chameleon (Sauria; Chamaeleonidae, Bradypodion
Fitzinger)
from KwaZulu Natal South Africa with notes on recent
climatic shifts and
their influence on speciation in the genus
COLIN R. TILBURY & KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY (South Africa)
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Zootaxa
2226: 1-18 (10 Sep. 2009) 7 plates; 75 references
Accepted: 18 Aug. 2009
A quarter millenium of uses
and misuses of the turtle name Testudo
scabra:
Identification
of the type specimens of T.
scabra Linnaeus
1758 (= Rhinoclemmys
punctularia) and T.
scripta Thunberg in
Schoepff 1792
(= Trachemys
scripta scripta)
ANDERS G.J. RHODIN & JOHN L. CARR (USA)
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Zootaxa
2222: 31-45 (7 Sep. 2009) 10 plates; 53 references
Accepted: 31 Jul. 2009
Description of a new species
of Xenopholis (Serpentes:
Colubridae) from the
Cerrado
of Bolivia, with comments on Xenopholis
scalaris in
Bolivia
MARTIN JANSEN (Germany), LUCINDO GONZALES ÁLVAREZ
(Bolivia) & GUNTHER KÖHLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2222: 1-16 (7 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 37 references
Accepted: 20 Aug. 2009
Barrosasaurus casamiquelai
gen. et sp. nov.,
a new titanosaur (Dinosauria,
Sauropoda)
from the Anacleto Formation (Late Cretaceous: early
Campanian) of
Sierra Barrosa (Neuquén, Argentina)
LEONARDO SALGADO & RODOLFO A. CORIA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
2212: 41-61 (28 Aug. 2009) 5 plates; 61 references
Accepted: 18 Jul. 2009
A new species of Japalura
(Reptilia:
Agamidae) from northeast India with a
discussion
of the similar species Japalura
sagittifera Smith,
1940 and Japalura
planidorsata Jerdon,
1870
STEPHEN MAHONY (India)
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Zootaxa
2209: 57-64 (26 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
The status of the nomina Trapelus
savignyi Audouin,
1827
and
Agama savignii Duméril
& Bibron, 1837 and
the valid nomen of the Savigny’s Agama (Sauria: Agamidae)
PHILIPP WAGNER (Germany) & PIERRE-ANDRÉ CROCHET
(France)
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Zootaxa
2203: 31-48 (19 Aug. 2009) 10 plates; 48 references
Accepted: 22 Jul. 2009
Morphological variation and
systematics of Dipsas
catesbyi (Sentzen,
1796) and
Dipsas
pavonina Schlegel, 1837 (Serpentes: Dipsadinae)
ANA CAROLINE DE LIMA & ANA LÚCIA DA COSTA PRUDENTE
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2201: 1-10 (18 Aug. 2009) 6 plates; 12 references
Accepted: 19
Jun. 2009
Conolophus marthae sp.nov.
(Squamata, Iguanidae), a new species of land
iguana
from the Galápagos archipelago
GABRIELE GENTILE (Italy) & HOWARD SNELL (USA)
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Zootaxa
2198: 1-15 (14 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 36
references Accepted: 4
Jun. 2009
The terrestrial herpetofauna
of Torres and Banks Groups (northern Vanuatu),
with
report of a new species for Vanuatu
IVAN INEICH (France)
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Zootaxa
2196: 19-30 (13 Aug. 2009) 9 plates; 23
references Accepted: 3
Jun. 2009
A new species of Calamaria
(Squamata:
Colubridae) similar to C.
ceramensis de
Rooij,
1913, from the Banggai Islands, east of Sulawesi,
Indonesia
ANDRÉ KOCH (Germany), EVY ARIDA (Germany), JIMMY A.
MCGUIRE (USA), DJOKO T. ISKANDAR
(Indonesia) & WOLFGANG BÖHME (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2195: 61-68 (12 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 27 references
Accepted: 12
Jun. 2009
A new species of cryptically
coloured day gecko (Phelsuma)
from the Tsingy de
Bemaraha
National Park in western Madagascar
FRANK GLAW, JÖRN KÖHLER & MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2173: 66-68 (31 Jul. 2009) 0 plates; 7 references
Accepted: 28
May 2009
On the status of the snake
genera Erythrolamprus
Boie, Liophis
Wagler and
Lygophis
Fitzinger (Serpentes, Xenodontinae)
FELIPE F. CURCIO, VÍTOR DE Q. PIACENTINI & DANIEL S.
FERNANDES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2173: 19-30 (31 Jul. 2009) 6 plates; 27 references
Accepted: 17
Jun. 2009
A new limb-reduced skink (Scincidae:
Lerista)
from the dry rainforest of north
Queensland,
Australia
ANDREW P. AMEY & PATRICK J. COUPER (Australia)
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Zootaxa
2167: 25-46 (24 Jul. 2009) 16 plates; 28 references
Accepted: 12
Jun. 2009
Taxonomic revision of the
stone geckos (Squamata: Diplodactylidae:
Diplodactylus)
of southern Australia
MARK N. HUTCHINSON, PAUL DOUGHTY & PAUL M. OLIVER
(Australia)
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Zootaxa
2165: 52-58 (22 Jul. 2009) 4 plates; 21 references
Accepted: 20
Jun. 2009
A new Amphisbaena
with
chevron-shaped anterior body annuli from state of
Pernambuco:
Brazil (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae)
TAMÍ MOTT, MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES & EDNILZA
MARANHĂO DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2164: 49-60 (21 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 39 references
Accepted: 18
Jun. 2009
A new ground-dwelling species
of Cnemaspis Strauch
(Squamata: Gekkonidae)
from
the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India
VARAD B. GIRI (India), AARON M. BAUER (USA) & KSHAMATA
S. GAIKWAD (India)
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Zootaxa
2161: 20-32 (17 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 42 references
Accepted: 26
May 2009
A new species of the Cyrtodactylus
irregularis complex
(Squamata: Gekkonidae)
from
southern Vietnam
PETER GEISSLER (Germany), ROMAN NAZAROV (Russia), NIKOLAI
L. ORLOV (Russia), WOLFGANG
BÖHME (Germany), TRUNG MY PHUNG (Vietnam), TRUONG QUANG
NGUYEN (Vietnam) &
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2161: 33-46 (17 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 44 references
Accepted: 18
Jun. 2009
Description
of a new species of Eumeces (Sauria: Scincidae)
from Pakistan
RAFAQAT MASROOR (Pakistan)
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Zootaxa
2153: 55-68 (9 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 42 references
Accepted: 4
Apr. 2009
Interrelationships
and history of the slit-eared skinks (Gongylomorphus,
Scincidae) of the Mascarene islands,
based on mitochondrial DNA and nuclear gene
sequences
J. J. AUSTIN (Australia), E. N. ARNOLD (UK) & C. G. JONES (UK)
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Zootaxa
2124: 51-62 (3 Jun. 2009) 5 plates; 52 references
Accepted: 11 May 2009
Cyrtodactylus
erythrops (Squamata:
Gekkonidae), a new cave-dwelling gecko
from Mae Hong Son
Province, Thailand
AARON M. BAUER (USA), KIRATI KUNYA (Thailand), MONTRI
SUMONTHA (Thailand), PIYAWAN NIYOMWAN
(Thailand) , NONN PANITVONG (Thailand), OLIVIER S.G.
PAUWELS (Belgium), LAWAN
CHANHOME (Thailand) & TUNYAKORN KUNYA (Thailand)
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Zootaxa
2115: 47-55 (22 May 2009) 2 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
A new species of bent-toed
gecko (Cyrtodactylus:
Gekkonidae) from Seram
Island,
Indonesia
PAUL OLIVER (Australia), PAUL EDGAR (UK), MUMPUNI
(Indonesia), DJOKO T. ISKANDAR (Indonesia)
& RON LILLEY (Indonesia)
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Zootaxa
2113: 41-54 (20 May 2009) 9 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 10 Apr. 2009
A new
species of Atheris (Serpentes: Viperidae) from
northern Mozambique
WILLIAM R. BRANCH (South Africa) & JULIAN BAYLISS (UK)
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Zootaxa
2103: 1-76 (11 May 2009) 32 plates; 56 references
Accepted: 21 Apr. 2009
Review of the systematics,
morphology and distribution of Malagasy dwarf
geckos,
genera Lygodactylus
and Microscalabotes
(Squamata:
Gekkonidae)
MARTA PUENTE (Spain), FRANK GLAW (Germany), DAVID R.
VIEITES (Spain) & MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)
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Zootaxa
2095: 8-20 (8 May 2009) 5 plates; 33 references
Accepted: 14 Apr. 2009
New species of Ptychozoon
(Sauria:
Gekkonidae) from the Nicobar Archipelago,
Indian
Ocean
INDRANEIL DAS (Malaysia) & S. P. VIJAYAKUMAR (India)
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Zootaxa
2088: 15-23 (1 May 2009) 5 plates; 26 references
Accepted: 16 Mar. 2009
A new species of Dibamus
(Squamata:
Dibamidae) from Pulau Simeuleu,
Mentawai
Archipelago, Indonesia
INDRANEIL DAS (Malaysia) & KELVIN K. P. LIM
(Singapore)
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Zootaxa
2079: 1-56 (22 Apr. 2009) 33 plates; 173 references
Accepted: 11 Mar. 2009
The anatomy and phylogenetic position of the
Triassic dinosaur
Staurikosaurus
pricei Colbert, 1970
JONATHAS DE SOUZA BITTENCOURT & ALEXANDER WILHELM ARMIN KELLNER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2079: 57-68 (22 Apr. 2009) 3 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 16 Mar. 2009
A re-appraisal of the
systematics of the African genus Chamaeleo
(Reptilia:
Chamaeleonidae)
COLIN R. TILBURY & KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY (South Africa)
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2072: 31-55 (14 Apr. 2009) 9 plates; 50 references
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Cranial anatomy of Jeholosaurus
shangyuanensis (Dinosauria:
Ornithischia)
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Cretaceous of China
PAUL M. BARRETT (UK) & FENG-LU HAN (China)
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2067: 1-28 (8 Apr. 2009) 4 plates; 103 references
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Molecular phylogeny,
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Tribe Alsophiini (Squamata, Dipsadidae, Xenodontinae)
S. BLAIR HEDGES (USA), ARNAUD COULOUX (France) &
NICOLAS VIDAL (France)
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2060: 1-21 (1 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 57 references
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Relationships, evolution and
biogeography of Semaphore geckos, Pristurus
(Squamata,
Sphaerodactylidae) based on morphology
E.N. ARNOLD (UK)
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Zootaxa
2053: 32-42 (25 Mar. 2009) 3 plates; 34 references
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Myuchelys gen.
nov. —a new genus for Elseya
latisternum and
related forms of
Australian freshwater
turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae)
SCOTT THOMSON & ARTHUR GEORGES (Australia)
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Zootaxa
2050: 1-30 (23 Mar. 2009) 17 plates; 86 references
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A review of the African red–flanked
skinks of the Lygosoma
fernandi (BURTON,
1836) species group (Squamata:
Scincidae) and the role of climate change in their
speciation
PHILIPP WAGNER, WOLFGANG BÖHME (Germany), OLIVIER S. G.
PAUWELS (Gabon) & ANDREAS
SCHMITZ (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa
2045: 33-42 (18 Mar. 2009) 3 plates; 30 references
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Notes on distribution,
variation and characterization of Erythrolamprus
pseudocorallus Roze,
1959 (Serpentes: Colubridae) with
the first records from Colombia
FELIPE FRANCO CURCIO (Brazil), SANTIAGO J. SÁNCHEZ-PACHECO
(Brazil), JONH JAIRO
MUESES-CISNEROS (Colombia) & MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES
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2044: 1-22 (18 Mar. 2009) 14 plates; 23 references
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A new species of Rhinophis
Hemprich, 1820 (Reptilia:
Serpentes: Uropeltidae)
from Rakwana massif, Sri
Lanka
L. J. MENDIS WICKRAMASINGHE, DULAN RANGA VIDANAPATHIRANA,
NETHU WICKRAMASINGHE & P.
NAYANAKA RANWELLA (Sri Lanka)
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2030: 49-58 (9 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 58 references
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A new crocodyliform from the
Alcântara Formation (Cenomanian),
Cajual Island, Brazil
ALEXANDER W. A. KELLNER, ANDRÉ E. P. PINHEIRO, SERGIO A.
K. AZEVEDO, DEISE D. R. HENRIQUES,
LUCIANA BARBOSA DE CARVALHO & GUSTAVO R. OLIVEIRA
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Zootaxa
2028: 59-66 (6 Mar. 2009) 2 plates; 14 references
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Taxonomy of the Cuban blind
snakes (Scolecophidia, Typhlopidae),
with the description of a
new large species
MICHEL DOMÍNGUEZ (Cuba) & LUIS V. MORENO (Spain)
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2028: 41-50 (6 Mar. 2009) 6 plates; 16 references
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Kinyongia asheorum sp.
n., a new montane chameleon from the Nyiro Range,
northern Kenya (Squamata:
Chamaeleonidae)
PETR NECAS (Czech), ROBERTO SINDACO (Italy), LUDĚK
KOŘENÝ
(Czech), JANA KOPEČNÁ
(Czech), PATRICK KENYATTA
MALONZA (Kenya) & DAVID MODRÝ (Czech)
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2028: 31-40 (6 Mar. 2009) 8 plates; 17 references
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First record of the genus Aristelliger
(Squamata:
Sphaerodactylidae) in Cuba,
with the description of a
new species
LUIS M. DÍAZ (Cuba) & S. BLAIR HEDGES (USA)
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Zootaxa
2027: 28-42 (4 Mar. 2009) 5 plates; 52 references
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Molecular phylogenetics and
taxonomy of leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylidae:
Phyllodactylus)
inhabiting the peninsula of Baja California
CHRISTOPHER BLAIR (Canada), FAUSTO R. MÉNDEZ DE LA CRUZ
(Mexico), ANDRE NGO (Canada),
JOHAN LINDELL (Sweden), AMY LATHROP (Canada) & ROBERT
W. MURPHY (Canada)
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2021: 42-56 (27 Feb. 2009) 5 plates; 38 references
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A new species of the genus Phymaturus
of the flagellifer
group from
Central-Western Mendoza,
Argentina (Reptilia: Iguania: Liolaemidae)
VALERIA CORBALÁN, ALEJANDRO SCOLARO & GUILLERMO
DEBANDI (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
2019: 40-56 (23 Feb. 2009) 6 plates; 14 references
Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
Two new diminutive species of
Cnemaspis Strauch
1887 (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Peninsular
Malaysia
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), NORHAYATI AHMAD (Malaysia), CHAN KIN
ONN (Malaysia), DAICUS BELABUT
(Malaysia), MUIN, M. A. (Malaysia), PERRY L. WOOD, JR
(USA), & JESSE L. GRISMER (USA)
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2018: 58-68 (23 Feb. 2009) 10 plates; 25 references
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A reassessment of Cuora
cyclornata Blanck,
McCord and Le, 2006
(Testudines, Geoemydidae) and a
plea for taxonomic stability
PHILLIP Q. SPINKS, ROBERT C. THOMSON & H. BRADLEY
SHAFFER (USA)
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2018: 1-24 (23 Feb. 2009) 1 plates; 140 references
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A proposed higher taxonomy of
anomodont therapsids
CHRISTIAN F. KAMMERER & KENNETH D. ANGIELCZYK (USA)
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2013: 17-29 (16 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 18 references
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A new microteiid lizard of
the genus Acratosaura
(Squamata:
Gymnophthalmidae) from Serra do
Sincorá, State of Bahia, Brazil
MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES, JOSÉ CASSIMIRO, MARCO ANTONIO
DE FREITAS & THAÍS
FIGUEIREDO SANTOS SILV (Brazil)
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2012: 28-46 (16 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 51 references
Accepted: 10 Dec. 2008
Two new montane species of Acanthosaura
Gray, 1831
(Squamata: Agamidae) from
Peninsular Malaysia
PERRY L. WOOD JR. (USA), JESSE L. GRISMER (USA), L. LEE GRISMER (USA), NORHAYATI
AHMAD (Malaysia), & CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia)
& AARON M. BAUER (USA)
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2012: 47-68 (16 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 6 references
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Three rare and enigmatic South American skinks
AURÉLIEN MIRALLES (France), JUAN CARLOS CHAPARRO (Peru) & MICHAEL B. HARVEY
(USA)
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Zootaxa
2008: 29-37 (11 Feb. 2009) 6 plates; 8 references
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Further specimens and phylogenetic position of the
recently described leaf
turtle species Cyclemys
gemeli (Testudines: Geoemydidae)
PETER PRASCHAG (Austria), ANNA K. HUNDSDÖRFER (Germany) & UWE FRITZ
(Germany)
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Zootaxa
2008: 38-52 (11 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 58 references
Accepted: 18 Nov. 2008
A new species of lizard genus
Gymnodactylus Spix,
1825 (Squamata: Gekkota:
Phyllodactylidae) from Serra do
Sincorá, northeastern Brazil, and the status of
G. carvalhoi
Vanzolini, 2005
JOSÉ CASSIMIRO & MIGUEL T. RODRIGUES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
2008: 53-60 (11 Feb. 2009) 3 plates; 20 references
Accepted: 15 Dec. 2008
A new species of Pareas
(Serpentes:
Colubridae: Pareatinae) from the
Gaoligong Mountains, southwestern
China
KEJI GUO & XUEJIAN DENG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
2005: 1-23 (9 Feb. 2009) 0 plates; 53 references
Accepted: 17 Dec. 2008
A checklist of the Amphibians
and Reptiles of Costa Rica:
Additions and nomenclatural revisions
JAY M. SAVAGE & FEDERICO BOLAŃOS (Costa Rica)
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Zootaxa
1992: 53-67 (2 Feb. 2009) 9 plates; 21 references
Accepted: 10 Dec. 2008
Lizard in the clouds: a new highland
genus and species of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Squamata)
from Maringma tepui, western Guyana
Philippe J. R. Kok (Belgium)
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Zootaxa
1988: 61-68 (27 Jan. 2009) 2 plates; 14 references
Accepted: 9 Dec. 2008
New species of Phrynocephalus (Squamata,
Agamidae) from Qinghai, Northwest China
Xiang Ji, Yue-Zhao Wang & Zheng Wang (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
1973: 51-60 (9 Jan. 2009) 3 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 10 Nov. 2008
Morphological variation in Thermophis
Malnate (Serpentes: Colubridae),
with an expanded description of T.
zhaoermii
PENG GUO, SHAO YING LIU, SONG HUANG, MIAO HE, ZHI YU SUN, JIN CHAO FENG &
ER MI ZHAO (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
1969: 59-68 (5 Jan. 2009) 5 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 7 Nov. 2008
Rediscovery and redescription
of the Andean earth-snake Atractus wagleri
(Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae)
PAULO PASSOS (Brazil) & JUAN C. ARREDONDO(Colombia)
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Zootaxa
1967: 53-62 (19 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 35 references Accepted: 1
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A new endemic cave dwelling species of Cyrtodactylus
Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in Kien Giang Biosphere
Reserve, Southwestern Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam), L. LEE GRISMER (USA)
& JESSE L. GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
1965: 1-49 (17 Dec. 2008) 34 plates; 44 references Accepted: 22
Oct. 2008
A revision of the Oligodon taeniatus
(Günther, 1861) group (Squamata: Colubridae) , with the
description of three new species from the Indochinese
Region
PATRICK DAVID (France), GERNOT VOGEL (Germany) & JOHAN
VAN ROOIJEN (The Netherlands)
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Zootaxa
1948: 57-68 (3 Dec. 2008) 7 plates; 19 references
Accepted: 17 Nov. 2008
A new species of jumping pitviper of the genus Atropoides (Serpentes:
Viperidae: Crotalinae) from the Sierra de Botaderos and the Sierra La Muralla,
Honduras
ERIC N. SMITH (USA) & JORGE A. FERRARI-CASTRO (Honduras)
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1945: 51-66 (28 Nov. 2008) 2 plates; 51 references Accepted: 11
Nov. 2008
Dissecting the major African snake radiation: a molecular
phylogeny of
the Lamprophiidae Fitzinger (Serpentes, Caenophidia)
NICOLAS VIDAL (France), WILLIAM R. BRANCH
(South Africa), OLIVIER S.G. PAUWELS (Belgium),
S. BLAIR HEDGES (USA), DONALD G. BROADLEY (Zimbabwe),
MICHAEL WINK (Germany), CORINNE CRUAUD
(France), ULRICH JOGER (Germany) & ZOLTÁN
TAMÁS NAGY (Belgium)
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Zootaxa
1942: 1-68 (26 Nov. 2008) 19 plates; 156 references Accepted: 4 Aug. 2008
Herpetological results of the 2002 expedition
to Sarisarińama, a tepui in Venezuelan Guayana, with
the description of five new species
CESAR L. BARRIO-AMOROS & CHARLES BREWER-CARIAS
(Venezuela)
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1940: 25-40 (24 Nov. 2008) 2 plates; 19 references Accepted: 25
Sept. 2008
Rediscovery and redescription of the type of Philodryas laticeps Werner,
1900 and the taxonomic status of P. oligolepis Gomes, 1921 (Serpentes,
Colubridae)
HUSSAM ZAHER (Brasil), GUSTAVO SCROCCHI (Argentina) &
ROBERTA MASIERO Brasil)
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Zootaxa
1939: 19-37 (21 Nov. 2008) 33 plates; 44 references
Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
A new species of the genus Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826
(Squamata: Colubridae) from southern Vietnam and Cambodia
PATRICK DAVID (France), GERNOT VOGEL (Germany) & OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS
(Belgium)
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Zootaxa
1939: 38-50 (21 Nov. 2008) 3 plates; 34 references
Accepted: 22 Oct. 2008
A new fragment for the understanding of the puzzling evolutive process of the Phymaturus
genus: a new species of the patagonicus group from Patagonia, Argentina (Reptilia:
Iguania: Liolaemidae)
JOSÉ ALEJANDRO SCOLARO & NORA RUTH IBARGÜENGOYTÍA (Argentina)
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1932: 18-26 (14 Nov. 2008) 4 plates; 18 references Accepted: 22
Oct. 2008
The largest blindsnake in Mesoamerica: a new
species of Typhlops (Squamata: Typhlopidae)
from an isolated karstic mountain in Honduras
JOSIAH H. TOWNSEND (USA), LARRY DAVID WILSON
(Honduras), LORRAINE P. KETZLER (Honduras)& ILEANA R.
LUQUE-MONTES (Honduras)
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Zootaxa
1931: 1-24 (12 Nov. 2008) 10 plates; 57 references
Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
The distribution, taxonomy, and redescription of
the geckos Cnemaspis affinis (Stoliczka 1887) and C. flavolineata (Nicholls
1949) with descriptions of a new montane species and two new lowland, karst-
dwelling species from Peninsular Malaysia
L. Lee Grismer (USA), JESSE L. GRISMER
(USA), PERRY L. WOOD, JR (USA) & Chan Kin Onn (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
1931: 25-36 (12 Nov. 2008) 1 plate; 74 references
Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Middle Eastern geckos of the genus Cyrtopodion
and their selected relatives
JAN CERVENKA, LUKAS KRATOCHVIL & DANIEL FRYNTA (Czech Rep.)
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Zootaxa
1931: 57-67 (12 Nov. 2008) 2 plates; 59 references Accepted: 7
Oct. 2008
A redescription of 'Megalosaurus' hesperis
(Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Inferior Oolite (Bajocian, Middle Jurassic) of
Dorset, United Kingdom
Roger B. J. Benson (UK)
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Zootaxa
1930: 18-38 (12 Nov. 2008) 8 plates; 62 references
Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
New pored Leposternon (Squamata, Amphisbaenia) from Brazilian Cerrado
SÍRIA RIBEIRO, WILIAN VAZ-SILVA & ALFREDO P. SANTOS-JR (Brazil)
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1925: 39-50 (7 Nov. 2008) 1 plate; 25 references
Accepted: 18 Sept. 2008
Gecko on the rocks: an enigmatic new species of Gonatodes
(Sphaerodactylidae) from Inselbergs of the
Venezuelan Guayana
GILSON A. RIVAS (Venezuela) & WALTER E. SCHARGEL
(USA)
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Zootaxa
1924: 53-68 (5 Nov. 2008) 7 plates; 19 references
Accepted: 30 Sept. 2008
A new insular species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from the Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah,
Peninsular Malaysia
L. LEE GRISMER (USA) & NORHAYATI AHMAD
(Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
1921: 1-23 (3 Nov. 2008) 9 plates; 39 references
Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
Three new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia),
JESSE L. GRISMER (USA), PERRY L. WOOD, JR.
(USA) & DAICUS BELABUT (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
1918: 26-38 (29 Oct. 2008) 6 plates; 39 references
Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
A new arboreal Lepidodactylus (Reptilia:
Gekkonidae) from Espiritu Santo Island, Vanuatu: from egg to holotype
IVAN INEICH (France)
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Zootaxa
1918: 39-44 (29 Oct. 2008) 2 plates; 7 references
Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
Redescription of Anolis rubribarbaris (Kuhler, McCranie, & Wilson
1999), a poorly-known Mesoamerican cloud forest anole (Squamata: Polychrotidae)
JOSIAH H. TOWNSEND (USA), LARRY DAVID WILSON (Honduras), ILEANA R. LUQUE-MONTES
(Honduras) & LORRAINE P. KETZLER (Honduras)
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1909: 1-15 (20 Oct. 2008) 10 plates; 19 references
Accepted: 30 Sept. 2008
A new highland species of Arthrosaura Boulenger, 1885 (Squamata:
Gymnophthalmidae) from Maringma tepui on the border of
Guyana and Brazil
PHILIPPE J. R. KOK (Belgium)
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Zootaxa
1909: 37-51 (20 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 37 references
Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Two new cave-dwelling species of Cyrtodactylus
Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Southwestern
Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam)
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Zootaxa
1894: 59-68 (8 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 17 references
Accepted: 31 Jul. 2008
A new species of large Cyrtodactylus
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Melanesia
PAUL OLIVER (Australia),
BURHAN TJATURADI (Indonesia), MUMPUNI (Indonesia),
KELIOPAS KREY (Indonesia) & STEPHEN
RICHARDS (Australia)
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Zootaxa
1893: 65-68 (6 Oct. 2008) 1 plates; 2 7 references Accepted: 18
Aug. 2008
Comments on "Chersine Merrem, 1820 and Chersina
Gray, 1831: a nomenclatural survey by Bour & Ohler,
Zootaxa, 1752: 66–68"
UWE FRITZ & OTTO KRAUS (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1883: 1-27 (24 Sept. 2008) 1 plate; 26 references
Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
Taxonomic partitioning of Cyrtodactylus
louisiadensis (Lacertilia:
Gekkonidae)
from Papua New Guinea
FRED KRAUS
(USA)
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1882: 57-68 (22 Sept. 2008) 11 plates; 31 references
Accepted: 27 Jul. 2008
A rare alpine skink Oligosoma pikitanga n.
sp. (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Llawrenny Peaks, Fiordland,
New Zealand
TRENT P BELL &
GEOFF B PATTERSON (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa
1877: 49-58 (10 Sept. 2008) 5 plates; 19 references
Accepted: 29 Jul. 2008
A new species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia
CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia) & L. LEE GRISMER (USA)
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1875: 39-50 (12 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 31 Jul. 2008
A new species of the lizard genus Bachia (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)
from the Cerrados of Central Brazil
Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, AGUSTÍN CAMACHO, PEDRO MURILO SALES NUNES, RENATO
SOUSA RECODER, MAURO TEIXEIRA JR., PAULA H. VALDUJO, JOSÉ MÁRIO B. GHELLERE,
TAMÍ MOTT & CRISTIANO NOGUEIRA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1875: 51-68 (12 Sept. 2008) 4 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 22 Jul. 2008
A new species of karst dwelling gecko (genus Cnemaspis
Strauch 1887) from the border region of Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia),
NUROLHUDA NASIR (Malaysia) & MONTRI SUMONTHA (Thailand)
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Zootaxa
1873: 50-60 (10 Sept. 2008) 5 plates; 41 references
Accepted: 28 Aug. 2008
A new genus and species of eyelid-less and limb reduced
gymnophthalmid lizard from northeastern Brazil (Squamata,
Gymnophthalmidae)
MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES & EDNILZA MARANHĂO DOS SANTOS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1863: 1-120 (3 Sep. 2008) 23 plates; 152 references
Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
A phylogeny of Plesiosauria (Sauropterygia) and its bearing on the systematic
status of Leptocleidus Andrews, 1922
Patrick S. Druckenmiller & Anthony P. Russell (Canada)
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Zootaxa
1860: 28-34 (1 Sep. 2008) 0 plates; 40 references
Accepted: 11 Jul. 2008
A revised and updated checklist of the lizards of
Peninsular Malaysia
L. LEE GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
1857: 33-43 (27 Aug. 2008) 9 plates; 17 references Accepted: 8
Jul. 2008
A new species of Cyrtopodion (Sauria: Gekkonidae)
from the northern areas of Pakistan
RAFAQAT MASROOR (Pakistan)
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Zootaxa
1847: 62-68 (11 Aug. 2008) 4 plates; 14 references
Accepted: 14 May 2008
A 100 million year old gecko with sophisticated
adhesive toe pads, preserved in amber from Myanmar
E. NICHOLAS ARNOLD (UK) & GEORGE POINAR (USA)
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Zootaxa
1847: 19-33 (11 Aug. 2008) 8 plates; 29 references
Accepted: 4 Jun. 2008
A new species of coralsnake of the genus Calliophis
(Squamata: Elapidae) from the Central Province of Sri
Lanka
ERIC N. SMITH (USA), KELUM MANAMENDRA-ARACHCHI (Sri Lanka)
& RUCHIRA SOMAWEERA (Sri Lanka)
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Zootaxa
1841: 1-30 (4 Aug. 2008) 7 plates; 170 references
Accepted: 15 Jul. 2008
At the lower size limit in snakes: two new species
of threadsnakes (Squamata: Leptotyphlopidae: Leptotyphlops)
from the Lesser Antilles
S. BLAIR HEDGES (USA)
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Zootaxa
1828: 43-56 (23 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 37 references
Accepted: 8 Jul. 2008
Redescription and biogeography of Mabuya
cochabambae Dunn with comments on Bolivian congeners
(Lacertilia: Scincidae)
MICHAEL B. HARVEY (USA), RODRIGO AGUAYO (Boliva)
& AURELIEN MIRALLES (France)
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Zootaxa
1813: 1-18 (30 Jun. 2008) 15 plates; 41 references
Accepted: 14 May 2008
A primitive istiodactylid pterosaur
(Pterodactyloidea) from the Jiufotang Formation
(Early Cretaceous), northeast China
XIAOLIN WANG (P.R. China), DIOGENES DE ALMEIDA CAMPOS
(Brazil), ZHONGHE ZHOU (P.R. China) & ALEXANDER W. A.
KELLNER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1800: 1-85 (16 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 613 references
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A monographic catalogue on the systematics and
phylogeny of the South
American iguanian lizard family Liolaemidae
(Squamata, Iguania)
DANIEL PINCHEIRA-DONOSO (UK), J. ALEJANDRO SCOLARO (Argentina) & PIOTR
SURA (Poland)
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Zootaxa
1788: 21-36 (9 Jun. 2008) 5 plates; 20 references
Accepted: 14 May 2008
A new species of velvet gecko (Diplodactylidae:
Oedura) from north-east Queensland, Australia
CONRAD J. HOSKIN & MEGAN HIGGIE (Australia)
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Zootaxa
1786: 48-60 (9 Jun. 2008) 2 plates; 40 references
Accepted: 7 May 2008
When starvation challenges the tradition of niche conservatism: On a new
species of the saxicolous genus Phymaturus from
Patagonia Argentina with pseudoarboreal foraging
behaviour (Iguania, Liolaemidae)
JOSE ALEJANDRO SCOLARO (Argentina), NORA RUTH IBARGUENGOYTIA
(Argentina) & DANIEL PINCHEIRA-DONOSO (UK)
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Zootaxa
1778: 59-68 (28 May 2008) 2 plates; 25 references
Accepted: 15 Apr. 2008
New species of Gekko (Squamata: Sauria:
Gekkonidae) from China: morphological and molecular evidence
KAIYA ZHOU & QIUXIAN WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa
1771: 1-15 (19 May 2008) 3 plates; 26 references
Accepted: 12 Mar. 2008
A new species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Pulau Perhentian Besar, Terengganu, Peninsular
Malaysia
L. LEE GRISMER (USA) & CHAN KIN ONN (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
1771: 16-30 (19 May 2008) 9 plates; 27 references
Accepted: 25 Mar. 2008
A new species of Goniurosaurus from Cat Ba
Island, Hai Phong, northern Vietnam (Squamata: Eublepharidae)
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany), NGUYEN QUANG TRUONG (Vietnam), ANDREAS SCHMITZ
(Switzerland), ROSWITHA STENKE (Vietnam) & HERBERT ROSLER
(Germany)
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Zootaxa
1764: 66-68 (7 May 2008) 1 plates; 8 references
Accepted: 2 Apr. 2008
Rediscovery of the holotype of Ditaxodon
taeniatus (Peters in Hensel, 1868) (Serpentes:
Colubridae) and invalidation of the neotype designation
RENATO S. BERNILS (Brazil), CHRISTOPH
KUCHARZEWSKI (Germany), JULIO CESAR DE
MOURA-LEITE (Germany) & AXEL KWET (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1758: 61-68 (28 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 26
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Accepted: 12 Mar. 2008
Naming one of the world's rarest chelonians, the southern Batagur
PETER PRASCHAG (Austria), ROBERT S. SOMMER (Germany),
COLIN MCCARTHY (UK), RICHARD GEMEL (Austria) & UWE
FRITZ (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1752: 66-68 (18 Apr. 2008) 0 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 12 Mar. 2008
Chersine
Merrem, 1820 and Chersina Gray, 1831: a
nomenclatural survey
Roger Bour & Annemarie Ohler (France)
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Zootaxa
1750: 59-67 (16 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 9 references
Accepted: 25 Mar. 2008
A new species of night-lizard of the genus Lepidophyma
(Squamata: Xantusiidae) from the Cuicatlan Valley, Oaxaca,
Mexico
LUIS CANSECO-MARQUEZ, GUADALUPE GUTIIEREZ-MAYEN &
ANDRES ALBERTO MENDOZA-HERNANDEZ (Mexico)
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Zootaxa
1750: 32-42 (16 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 54 references
Accepted: 26 Mar. 2008
A new red-eyed Gekko (Reptilia: Gekkonidae)
from Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand
Aaron M. Bauer (USA), Montri Sumontha (Thailand), & Olivier S. G. Pauwels
(Belgium)
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Zootaxa
1743: 43-52 (7 Apr. 2008) 4 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 7 Feb. 2008
A new gecko of the genus Tarentola
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Eastern Cuba
LUIS M. DIAZ (Cuba)
& S. BLAIR HEDGES (USA)
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Zootaxa
1743: 53-61 (7 Apr. 2008) 3 plates; 27 references
Accepted: 3 Mar. 2008
Morphological variation in Xenoxybelis boulengeri (Procter, 1923)
(Serpentes, Xenodontinae, Philodryadini)
ANA LUCIA DA COSTA PRUDENTE, MARCIO ANDRE AMORIM DA SILVA, WALDIMA ALVES DA
ROCHA & FRANCISCO LUIS FRANCO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1729: 37-48 (20 Mar. 2008) 9 plates; 35
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Accepted: 13 Feb. 2008
A new species of the snake genus Fimbrios from
Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Truong Son, central
Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae)
THOMAS ZIEGLER (GERMANY), PATRICK DAVID (FRANCE), AURELIEN
MIRALLES (FRANCE), DOAN VAN KIEN (VIETNAM) &
NGUYEN QUANG TRUONG (VIETNAM)
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Zootaxa
1729: 8-22 (20 Mar. 2008) 8 plates; 62
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Accepted: 6 Dec. 2007
A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Malaysia including a
literature survey of mensural and meristic data in the
genus
HERBERT ROSLER & FRANK GLAW (GERMANY)
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Zootaxa
1721: 65-68 (7 Mar. 2008) 1 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 18 Jan. 2008
On the type specimens of the recently described
Sulawesi pitviper Tropidolaemus laticinctus
Kuch, Gumprecht & Melaun 2007 (Squamata:
Viperidae)
ANDRE KOCH (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1719: 53-60 (5 Mar. 2008) 6 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 4 Jan. 2008
New species of Luperosaurus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from the Crocker Range Park, Sabah, Malaysia (Borneo)
INDRANEIL DAS, MAKLARIN LAKIM & PIUS KANDAUNG (Malaysia)
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Zootaxa
1717: 51-67 (3 Mar. 2008) 9 plates; 41 references
Accepted: 18 Jan. 2007
Redescription of Liolaemus dorbignyi
Koslowsky, 1898 and description of a new species of Liolaemus
(Iguania: Liolaemidae)
ANDRES SEBASTIAN QUINTEROS, CRISTIAN SIMON ABDALA &
FERNANDO JOSE LOBO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1715: 57-68 (29 Feb. 2008) 2 plates; 27 references
Accepted: 11 Jan. 2008
A new species of insular pitviper of the genus Cryptelytrops
(Squamata: Viperidae) from southern Vietnam
L. LEE GRISMER (USA), NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) & JESSE
L. GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
1715: 27-42 (29 Feb. 2008) 12 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
Descriptions of two new species of Cyrtodactylus
Gray 1827 (Squamata : Gekkonidae) endemic to
southern Vietnam
NGO VAN TRI (Vietnam) & AARON M. BAUER
(USA)
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Zootaxa
1705: 40-50 (18 Feb. 2008) 7 plates; 17 references
Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
A new Nactus gecko (Gekkonidae) and a new Leiolopisma
skink (Scincidae) from La Reunion, Indian Ocean,
based on recent fossil remains and ancient DNA
sequence
E. NICHOLAS ARNOLD (UK) & ROGER BOUR (France)
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Zootaxa
1703: 25-46 (13 Feb. 2008) 7 plates; 37 references
Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
Systematic status and correct nomen of the western
North African cat snake: Telescopus tripolitanus (Werner, 1909)
(Serpentes: Colubridae), with comments on the other taxa in the dhara-obtusus
group
PIERRE-ANDRE CROCHET (France), JENS B. RASMUSSEN (Denmark), THOMAS WILMS
(Germany), PHILIPPE GENIEZ (France), JEAN-FRANCOIS TRAPE (Senegal) &
WOLFGANG BOHME (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1703: 47-61 (13 Feb. 2008) 3 plates; 63 references
Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
Origin of the eastern brownsnake, Pseudonaja
textilis (Dumeril, Bibron and Dumeril) (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae)
in New Guinea: evidence of multiple dispersals from
Australia, and comments on the status of Pseudonaja textilis pughi Hoser
2003
DAVID J. WILLIAMS (Australia), MARK O'SHEA (Australia), ROLAND L. DAGUERRE (UK),
CATHARINE E. POOK (UK), WOLFGANG WUSTER (UK), CHRISTOPHER J. HAYDEN (USA), JOHN
D. MCVAY (USA), OWEN PAIVA (Papua New Guinea), TEATULOHI MATAINAHO (Papua New
Guinea), KENNETH D. WINKEL (Australia) & CHRISTOPHER C. AUSTIN (USA)
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Zootaxa
1700: 21-34 (7 Feb. 2008) 11 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
A new ground-dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Maharashtra, with a key to the Hemidactylus of India
VARAD B. GIRI (India) & AARON M. BAUER (USA)
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Zootaxa
1700: 35-52 (7 Feb. 2008) 8 plates; 64 references
Accepted: 28 Nov. 2007
A new species of Eutropis (Squamata:
Scincidae) from Sri Lanka
INDRANEIL DAS (Malaysia), ANSLEM DE SILVA (Sri Lanka) & CHRISTOPHER C.
AUSTIN (USA)
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Zootaxa
1700: 53-62 (7 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 11 references
Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
A new Petracola and re-description of P.
ventrimaculatus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)
David Kizirian, Sarah Bayefsky-Anand, April Eriksson, MINH LE & Maureen A.
Donnelly (USA)
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Zootaxa
1691: 53-66 (29 Jan. 2008) 1 plates; 36
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Accepted: 25 Nov. 2007
A new species of insular
skink (Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger 1843) from the
Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, West Malaysia with the first
report of the herpetofauna of Pulau Singa Besar and an
updated checklist of the herpetofauna of Pulau Langkawi
L. LEE GRISMER (USA)
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Zootaxa
1685: 55-66 (21 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 52 references
Accepted: 28 Nov. 2007
Taxonomic revision of
the Neotropical water snake Hydrops triangularis
(Serpentes, Colubridae)
NELSON R. DE ALBUQUERQUE & THALES DE
LEMA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1674: 27-37 (7 Jan. 2008) 6 plates; 13 references
Accepted: 21 Nov. 2007
A new, brightly colored species of Pseudoboa
Schneider, 1801 from the Amazon Basin (Serpentes,
Xenodontinae)
HUSSAM ZAHER, MARIA ERMELINDA OLIVEIRA & FRANCISCO LUIS
FRANCO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1644: 1-40 (23 Nov. 2007) 30 plates; 73 references
Accepted: 27 Sep. 2007
Revision of the Tropidolaemus wagleri-complex
(Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae). I. Definition of
included taxa and redescription of Tropidolaemus wagleri
(Boie, 1827)
GERNOT VOGEL (Germany), PATRICK DAVID (France), MARIO LUTZ
(Philippines), JOHAN VAN ROOIJEN (The Netherlands) &
NICOLAS VIDAL (France)
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Zootaxa
1613: 1-22 (12 Oct. 2007) 8 plates; 83 references
Accepted: 31 Aug. 2007
Genetic and morphological differentiation of
Mosor rock lizards, Dinarolacerta mosorensis
(Kolombatovic, 1886),
with the description of a new species from the Prokletije
Mountain Massif (Montenegro) (Squamata: Lacertidae)
KATARINA LJUBISAVLJEVIC
(Serbia), OSCAR ARRIBAS (Spain), GEORG
DZUKIC (Serbia) & SALVADOR CARRANZA
(Spain)
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Zootaxa
1613: 57-65 (12 Oct. 2007) 5 plates; 25 references
Accepted: 28 Aug. 2007
A new species of Hydrodynastes Fitzinger,
1843 from central Brazil (Serpentes: Colubridae:
Xenodontinae)
FRANCISCO L. FRANCO, DANIEL S. FERNANDES & BRUNO M.
BENTIM (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1612: 1-24 (10 Oct. 2007) 15 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 24 Aug. 2007
Two new species of Lankascincus (Squamata:
Scincidae) from Sripada Sanctuary (Peak
Wilderness), in Sri Lanka
L. J. MENDIS WICKRAMASINGHE, ROSHAN RODRIGO, NIHAL
DAYAWANSA & U. L. D. JAYANTHA (Sri Lanka)
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Zootaxa
1609: 53-68 (8 Oct. 2007) 3 plates; 57 references
Accepted: 10 Sep. 2007
Molecular phylogeny of the Sceloporus torquatus species-group
(Squamata: Phrynosomatidae)
NORBERTO MARTINEZ-MENDEZ & FAUSTO R. MENDEZ-DE
LA CRUZ (Mexico)
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Zootaxa
1607: 35-46 (3 Oct. 2007) 3 plates; 25 references
Accepted: 24 Aug. 2007
Montealtosuchus
arrudacamposi, a new peirosaurid crocodile
(Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Late Cretaceous Adamantina
Formation of Brazil
ISMAR DE SOUZA CARVALHO, FELIPE MESQUITA DE VASCONCELLOS
& SANDRA APARECIDA SIMIONATO TAVARES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1587: 27-41 (17 Sep. 2007) 6 plates; 25 references
Accepted: 25 Aug. 2007
A new velvet Gecko (Gekkonidae: Oedura)
from south-east Queensland, Australia
PATRICK J. COUPER (Australia), LAUREN D. KEIM (Australia)
& CONRAD J. HOSKIN (Australia)
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Zootaxa
1582: 1-17 (12 Sep. 2007) 11 plates; 54 references
Accepted: 3 Aug. 2007
Achillesaurus manazzonei, a new alvarezsaurid theropod
(Dinosauria) from the Late Cretaceous Bajo de la Carpa
Formation, Rio Negro Province, Argentina
AGUSTIN G. MARTINELLI & EZEQUIEL I. VERA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1538: 1-84 (30 Jul. 2007) 38 plates; 102 references
Accepted: 9 May 2007
Phylogeny of the boulengeri
group (Iguania:
Liolaemidae, Liolaemus)
based on morphological
and molecular characters
CRISTIAN SIMON ABDALA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1532: 51-68 (26 Jul. 2007) 7 plates; 65 references
Accepted: 20 Jun. 2007
Get an eyeful of this: a new species of giant
spitting cobra from eastern and north-eastern Africa
(Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja)
WOLFGANG WUSTER (UK) & DONALD G. BROADLEY (Zimbabwe)
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Zootaxa
1524: 47-55 (9 Jul. 2007) 4 plates; 15 references
Accepted: 9 May 2007
A new species of Phymaturus from rocky outcrops in the central
steppe of Rio Negro province, Patagonia Argentina
(Reptilia: Iguania: Liolaemidae)
JOSE ALEJANDRO SCOLARO & NORA RUTH IBARGUENGOYTIA
(Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1517: 53-62 (28 Jun. 2007) 4 plates; 24
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Accepted: 9 May 2007
Phylogenetic relationships and classification of
the Malagasy pseudoxyrhophiine snake genera Geodipsas
and Compsophis based on morphological and
molecular data
FRANK GLAW (Germany), ZOLTAN T. NAGY (Belgium) &
MIGUEL VENCES (GERMANY)
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Zootaxa
1515: 31-68 (25 Jun. 2007) 13 plates; 125
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Accepted: 9 May 2007
A review of East and Central African species of Letheobia Cope,
revived from the synonymy of Rhinotyphlops Fitzinger,
with descriptions of five new species (Serpentes:
Typhlopidae)
DONALD. G. BROADLEY (Zimbabwe) &
VAN WALLACH (USA)
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Zootaxa
1514: 1-36 (25 Jun. 2007) 27 plates; 137
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Accepted: 23 Apr. 2007
An account of the generic and specific names, and type specimens of
viperid taxa described by Albert Franz Theodor
Reuss (Squamata: Viperidae)
LASZLO KRECSAK (Hungary)
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Zootaxa
1501: 1-30 (7 Jun. 2007) 6 plates; 33 references
Accepted: 7 Mar. 2007
A revision of the Venezuelan Anoles I: A new Anolis species from
the Andes of Venezuela with the redescription of Anolis jacare Boulenger
1903 (Reptilia: Polychrotidae) and the clarification of the status of Anolis
nigropunctatus Williams 1974
GABRIEL N. UGUETO (USA), GILSON RIVAS FUENMAYOR (Venezuela),
TITO BARROS (Venezuela), SANTIAGO J. SÁNCHEZ-PACHECO (Colombia)
& JUAN E. GARCÍA-PÉREZ (Venezuela)
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Zootaxa
1493: 1-40 (31 May 2007) 21 plates; 89 references
Accepted: 12 Mar. 2007
The diversity of a snake community in a karst
forest ecosystem in the central Truong Son, Vietnam, with
an identification key
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany), RALF HENDRIX (Germany),
VU NGOC THANH (Vietnam), MARTINA VOGT (Vietnam),
BERNHARD FORSTER (Vietnam) & DANG NGOC KIEN
(Vietnam)
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Zootaxa
1493: 41-51 (31 May 2007) 2 plates; 49 references
Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
A phylogeny of the enigmatic Madagascan geckos of
the genus Uroplatus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
ELI GREENBAUM (USA), AARON M. BAUER (USA),
TODD R. JACKMAN (USA), MIGUEL VENCES (Germany)
& FRANK GLAW (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1493: 66-68 (31 May 2007) 0 plates; 4 references
Accepted: 26 Apr. 2007
The taxonomic status of the Venezuelan snakes Atractus
matthewi and A. nororientalis (Serpentes,
Colubridae)
PHILIPPE J. R. KOK (Belgium), GILSON A. RIVAS
FUENMAYOR (Venezuela) and OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS
(Belgium)
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Zootaxa
1490: 1-63 (31 May 2007) 31 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 20 Mar. 2007
Review of the genus Cnemaspis
Strauch, 1887 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in Sri Lanka with
the description of five new species
L. J. MENDIS WICKRAMASINGHE & D. A. I. MUNINDRADASA
(Sir Lanka)
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Zootaxa
1472: 1-28 (14 May 2007) 6 plates; 93
references
Accepted: 17 Mar. 2007
A review of the subgenus Euprepiosaurus of
Varanus (Squamata: Varanidae): morphological and molecular phylogeny,
distribution and zoogeography, with an identification key for the
members of the V. indicus and the V. prasinus species
groups
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany), ANDREAS SCHMITZ (Switzerland),
ANDRE KOCH (Germany) & WOLFGANG BOHME (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1470: 35-46 (10 May 2007) 4 plates; 24
references
Accepted: 12 Feb. 2007
Redescription and variation of Micrurus
paraensis Cunha & Nascimento 1973 (Serpentes:
Elapidae)
DARLAN TAVARES FEITOSA,
ANA LUCIA DA COSTA PRUDENTE & ANA CAROLINE DE LIMA
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1470: 47-57 (10 May 2007) 7 plates; 16
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Accepted: 13 Feb. 2007
A new species of Leiosaurus (Iguania:
Leiosauridae) from central-western Argentina
ALEJANDRO LASPIUR, JUAN CARLOS ACOSTA
& CRISTIAN S. ABDALA (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1462: 41-60 (30 Apr. 2007) 12 plates; 16 references
Accepted: 14 Mar. 2007
A new species of the natricine snake genus
Amphiesma from
the Indochinese Region
(Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae)
PATRICK DAVID (France), RAOUL H. BAIN (USA), NGUYEN QUANG
TRUONG (Vietnam), NIKOLAI L. ORLOV (Russia), GERNOT
VOGEL (Germany), VU NGOC THANH(Vietnam) & THOMAS
ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1452: 25-42 (19 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 57
references
Accepted: 14 Mar. 2007
The limits of
polymorphism in Liolaemus
rothi: Molecular
and phenotypic evidence
for a new species of the Liolaemus
boulengeri clade
(Iguanidae, Liolaemini)
from boreal Patagonia of Chile
DANIEL PINCHEIRA-DONOSO (UK), J. ALEJANDRO SCOLARO
(Argentina) & JAMES A. SCHULTE II (USA)
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Zootaxa
1452: 43-54 (19 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 22
references
Accepted: 15 Mar. 2007
A new species of Liolaemus
(Reptilia:
Squamata: Liolaemini) from southern
Mendoza province,
Argentina
LUCIANO JAVIER AVILA (Argentina), MARIANA MORANDO
(Argentina), CRISTIAN HERNAN FULVIO PEREZ
(Argentina)&JACK W. SITES, JR. (USA)
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Zootaxa
1452: 55-68 (19 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 32
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Accepted: 15 Mar. 2007
Iguanian
species-richness in the Andes of boreal Patagonia:
Evidence for an additional
new Liolaemus lizard
from Argentina lacking precloacal glands (Iguania,
Liolaeminae)
DANIEL PINCHEIRA-DONOSO (UK)& J. ALEJANDRO SCOLARO
(Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1447: 1-26 (12 Apr. 2007) 10 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 24 Jan. 2007
A new species of coralsnake (Micrurus:
Elapidae) from southern Brazil
MARCOS DI-BERNARDO, MARCIO BORGES-MARTINS & NELSON JORGE DA SILVA, JR.
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1446: 1-20 (12 Apr. 2007) 13 plates; 45 references
Accepted: 7
Mar. 2007
A new species of Temple Pitviper (Tropidolaemus
Wagler, 1830) from Sulawesi, Indonesia
(Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae)
ULRICH KUCH, ANDREAS GUMPRECHT &
CHRISTIAN MELAUN (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1445: 35-48 (9 Apr. 2007) 9 plates; 50
references Accepted: 13
Feb. 2007
Another new Cyrtodactylus
(Squamata: Gekkonidae)
from Phong Nha - Ke Bang National
Park, central Truong Son, Vietnam
ASTRID HEIDRICH (Germany),
HERBERT ROSLER (Germany),
VU NGOC THANH (Vietnam), WOLFGANG BOHME (Germany) &
THOMAS ZIEGLER (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1430: 1-86 (22 Mar. 2007) 26 plates; 168 references
Accepted: 27
Feb. 2007
Systematics of the Palaearctic and
Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini
(Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae),
with descriptions of eight new
genera
E. NICHOLAS ARNOLD
(UK), OSCAR ARRIBAS (Spain) & SALVADOR CARRANZA
(Spain)
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Zootaxa
1426: 1-26 (15 Mar. 2007) 17 plates; 72 references
Accepted: 29
Nov. 2006
The identity of the Javan Krait, Bungarus
javanicus Kopstein,
1932
(Squamata: Elapidae): evidence from
mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence analyses
and morphology
ULRICH KUCH &
DIETRICH MEBS (Germany)
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Zootaxa
1426: 68 (15 Mar. 2007) 2 references
Accepted: 7 Mar. 2007
Corrections to species names
recently placed in Kinyongia
and Nadzikambia
(Reptilia: Chamaeleonidae)
COLIN R. TILBURY, KRYSTAL A.
TOLLEY & WILLIAM R.
BRANCH (South Africa)
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Zootaxa
1425: 53-61 (15 Mar. 2007) 7 plates; 24 references
Accepted: 2
Feb. 2007
A new
side-necked turtle (Pleurodira, Pelomedusoides) from the
Santana Formation
(Early Cretaceous), Araripe Basin, Northeastern Brazil
GUSTAVO RIBEIRO DE
OLIVEIRA & ALEXANDER
WILHELM ARMIN KELLNER (Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1425: 63-68 (15 Mar. 2007) 2 plates; 8 references
Accepted: 2
Feb. 2007
A new
species of Cyrtodactylus
(Squamata: Gekkonidae)
from western Papua New Guinea
FRED KRAUS
(USA)
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Zootaxa
1422: 45-58 (8 Mar. 2007) 7 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 12
Feb. 2007
A new species of taipan
(Elapidae: Oxyuranus)
from central Australia
PAUL DOUGHTY, BRAD MARYAN, STEPHEN C.
DONNELLAN & MARK N. HUTCHINSON
(Australia)
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Zootaxa
1408: 1-78 (15 Feb. 2007) 12 plates; 185 references
Accepted: 13 Dec. 2006
A revision of the genus Leptotyphlops in
northeastern Africa and southwestern Arabia (Serpentes:
Leptotyphlopidae)
D.G. BROADLEY & V. WALLACH
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Zootaxa
1402: 59-68 (1 Feb. 2007) 4 plates; 35
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Accepted: 29 Nov. 2006
Rediscovery of the enigmatic blind snake genus Xenotyphlops
in northern Madagascar, with description of a new species
(Serpentes: Typhlopidae)
V. WALLACH (USA), V. MERCURIO (Germany) & F.
ANDREONE (Italy)
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Zootaxa
1400: 1-26 (29 Jan. 2007) 11 plates; 22 references
Accepted: 9 Dec. 2006
Eleven new species of snakes of the genus Typhlops
(Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Hispaniola and Cuba
R. THOMAS & S.B.
HEDGES (USA)
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Zootaxa
1399: 57-68 (29 Jan. 2007) 9 plates; 38 references
Accepted: 20 Dec. 2006
A new species of Rhynchocalamus
(Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae) from Turkey
K. OLGUN, A. AVCI, C. ILGAZ,
N. UZUM & C. YILMAZ (Turkey)
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Zootaxa
1399: 1-56 (29 Jan. 2007) 146 references
Accepted: 10 Nov. 2006
Catalogue of the available scientific
species-group names for lizards of the genus Phrynocephalus Kaup, 1825
(Reptilia, Sauria, Agamidae)
A.V. BARABANOV & N.B. ANANJEVA (Russia)
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Zootaxa
1395: 1-31 (22 Jan. 2007) 87 references
Accepted: 29 Nov. 2006
A checklist and key to the snakes of the genus Geophis
(Squamata: Colubridae: Dipsadinae), with commentary on
distribution and conservation
L.D. WILSON & J.H. TOWNSEND
(USA)
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Zootaxa
1394: 25-45 (18 Jan. 2007) 16 plates; 43 references
Accepted: 29 Nov. 2006
A new species of Dendrelaphis
(Serpentes: Colubridae) from Southeast Asia
G. Vogel (Germany) & J.
VAN ROOIJEN (The Netherlands)
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Zootaxa
1394: 1-23 (18 Jan. 2007) 5 plates; 38 references
Accepted: 10 Nov. 2006
A new polytypic species of the genus Uromastyx
Merrem 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Leiolepidinae)
from southwestern Arabia
T.M. WILMS
(Germany) & A. SCHMITZ (Switzerland)
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Zootaxa
1393: 19-26 (18 Jan. 2007) 2 plates; 13 references
Accepted: 23 Nov. 2006
A new species of Liotyphlops
(Serpentes: Anomalepididae) from the Atlantic Rain Forest
of Northeastern Brazil
E.M.X. FREIRE, U. CARAMASCHI & A.J.S. ARGOLO
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa
1387: 27-38 (8 Jan. 2007) 12 plates; 26 references
Accepted: 10 Nov. 2006
A new subspecies, Eumeces schneiderii barani n.
ssp (Reptilia: Sauria: Scincidae) from Turkey
Y. KUMLUTAS, H. ARIKAN, C. ILGAZ &
Y. KASKA (Turkey)
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2006
Zootaxa
1378: 19-35 (11 Dec. 2006) 6 plates; 57 references
Accepted: 30 Oct. 2006
A new snake of the genus Atractus Wagler,
1828 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae) from Kaieteur
National Park, Guyana, northeastern South America
P.J.R. KOK (Belgium)
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Zootaxa
1369: 19-33 (30 Nov. 2006) 7 plates; 21 references
Accepted: 26 Oct. 2006
A new species of Cnemaspis (Sauria: Gekkonidae)
from Sri Lanka
L.J.M. WICKRAMASINGHE (Turkey)
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Zootaxa
1363: 23-38 (23 Nov. 2006) 3 plates; 47 references
Accepted: 5 Oct. 2006
A review of the systematics of the genus Bradypodion
(Sauria: Chamaeleonidae), with the description of two new genera
C.R. TILBURY , K.A. TOLLEY & W.R. BRANCH
(South Africa)
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Zootaxa
1361: 33-43 (20 Nov. 2006) 5 plates; 24 references
Accepted: 16 Oct. 2006
A new species of Liolaemus (Reptilia:
Iguanidae) from San Guillermo National Park, western
Argentina
J.C. MONGUILLOT, M.R. CABRERA, J.C.
ACOSTA & J. VILLAVICENCIO (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1317: 57-68 (21 Sept. 2006) 5 plates; 12
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17 Jul. 2006
A new species of Semaphore gecko Pristurus
(Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Mauretania, represents a
4700km range extension for genus
P. GENIEZ (France)& E.N.
ARNOLD (UK)
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Zootaxa
1317: 21-33 (21 Sept. 2006) 3 plates; 16 references Accepted:
21 Aug. 2006
A new species of the Liolaemus
darwinii group (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from Catamarca
Province, Argentina
C.S. ABDALA & J.M.D. GÓMEZ (Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1313: 1-38 (14 Sept. 2006) 9 plates; 37 references Accepted:
16 Aug. 2006
A new species of Varanus Merrem (Squamata: Varanidae) from the Pilbara
region of Western Australia, with observations on sexual dimorphism in closely
related species
K.P. APLIN, A.J. FITCH & D.J. KING (Australia)
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Zootaxa
1305: 1-19 (31 Aug. 2006) 4 plates; 23 references Accepted:
13 Jun. 2006
A new species of pitviper of the genus Popeia (Squamata:
Viperidae) from Pulau Tioman, Pahang, West Malaysia
L.L. GRISMER, J.L. GRISMER & J.A. MCGUIRE (USA)
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Zootaxa
1297: 17-22 (17 Aug. 2006) 1 plate; 14 references
Accepted: 27 Jul. 2006
The neotype of the type species of the neotropical
iguanian genus
Phymaturus:
a critical commentary on a recent opinion of the
International
Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
J.M. CEI & J.A. SCOLARO
(Argentina)
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Zootaxa
1293: 1-78 (14 Aug. 2006) 31
plates; 103 references Accepted:
20 Jul. 2006
A revision of the Trimeresurus
puniceus-complex (Serpentes: Viperidae:
Crotalinae) based on morphological and molecular data
P. DAVID (France), G. VOGEL (Germany), S.P.
VIJAYAKUMAR (India) & N. VIDAL (France)
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Zootaxa
1285: 21-29 (11 Aug. 2006)
4 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 30 Jun. 2006
A new species of Atractus
Wagler, 1828
(Serpentes: Colubridae) from
Eastern Amazonia, Brazil
A.L.D.C. PRUDENTE
& M.C. DOS SANTOS-COSTA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1271: 1-27 (24
Jul. 2006) 7 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 30 Jun. 2006
Taxonomic summary of Conopsis,
Günther, 1858 (Serpentes:
Colubridae)
I. GOYENECHEA &
O. FLORES-VILLELA (Mexico)
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Zootaxa 1247:
59-68 (29
Jun. 2006) 3 plates; 18
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Accepted: 1 Jun. 2006
A new species of Cyrtodactylus
(Lacertilia:
Gekkonidae) from Papua
New Guinea
F. KRAUS & A.
ALLISON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1242: 1-20 (23
Jun. 2006) 6 plates; 55 references
Accepted:
25 May 2006
A review of the gekkotan lizards of
Bénin, with the description of a new
species of Hemidactylus (Squamata:
Gekkonidae)
A.M. BAUER (USA), S. TCHIBOZO ( (Benin),
O.S.G. PAUWELS (Belgium) &
G. LENGLET (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 1240:
1-55 (21
Jun. 2006) 10 plates; 82 references
Accepted:
17 Mar. 2006
Description of a new endemic species of
mountain lizard from Northwestern
Spain: Iberolacerta
galani sp. nov.
(Squamata : Lacertidae)
O. ARRIBAS (Spain), S.
CARRANZA (Spain) & G.
ODIERNA (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1237:
27-44 (19
Jun. 2006) 5 plates; 9 references
Accepted:
4 May 2006
New Carlia
fusca complex lizards
(Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from
New Guinea, Papua-Indonesia
G.R. ZUG &
A. ALLISON (USA)
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Zootaxa 1225: 39-56 (5
Jun. 2006) 10 plates; 58 references
Accepted: 10 Apr. 2006
A new natricine snake of the genus Amphiesma
(Squamata: Colubridae:
Natricinae) from the central Truong Son, Vietnam
T. ZIEGLER (Germany) & L.K. QUYET
(Vietnm)
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Zootaxa 1205:
55-68 (18
May 2006) 5 plates; 14
references
Accepted: 10 Apr. 2006
Muscular characters in the phylogeny of Liolaemus
(Squamata: Iguania:
Liolaemidae): a reappraisal
V. ABDALA, C. ABDALA
& M.J. TULLI (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1201:
63-68 (15 May 2006) 21
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Accepted: 7 Apr. 2006
The new sauropod from Spain: Galveosaurus
or Galvesaurus?
B. SÁNCHEZ-HERNÁNDEZ
(UK)
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Zootaxa 1193:
1-39 (4 May 2006) 12 plates; 75
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Accepted: 24 Jan. 2006
Morphological systematics of kingsnakes,
Lampropeltis
getula complex
(Serpentes: Colubridae), in the eastern United States
K.L. KRYSKO &
W.S. JUDD (USA)
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Zootaxa 1188:
1-22 (28 Apr. 2006) 8 plates; 38 references
Accepted: 16 Mar. 2006
Speciation in the "Várzéa"
flooded forest: a new Mabuya
(Squamata, Scincidae) from
Western Amazonia
A. MIRALLES (France),
C.L. BARRIO-AMORÓS (Venezuela),
G. RIVAS (Venezuela)
& J.C. CHAPARRO-AUZA (Peru)
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Zootaxa 1133: 61-68 (23 Feb. 2006) 1
plate; 4 references
Accepted: 6 Jan. 2006
A new species of Liolaemus
from central steppes of Chubut, Patagonia
Argentina (Reptilia: Iguania: Iguanidae)
J.A. SCOLARO & J.M. CEI
(Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1106: 35-43 (10 Jan. 2006) 2
plates; 19 references
Accepted: 7 Nov. 2005
A new Andean species of Liolaemus
of the darwinii
Complex (Reptilia:
Iguanidae)
MARIO R. CABRERA &
JULIO C. MONGUILLOT (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1093: 61-68 (8 Dec. 2005)
3 plates; 8 references
Accepted: 13 Oct. 2005
Description of a new Geodipsas
snake from northern
Madagascar (Squamata:
Colubridae)
V. MERCURIO & F.
ANDREONE (Italy)
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Zootaxa 1073: 31-35 (1 Nov. 2005) 1
plate; 7 references
Accepted: 10 Sept. 2005
Rediscovery and
redescription of the Malagasy dwarf gecko Lygodactylus
klemmeri
M. PUENTE (Spain), A.P. RASELIMANANA (Madagascar)
& M. VENCES (The Netherlands)
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Zootaxa 1061: 1-28 (11 Oct. 2005)
7 plates; 13 references
Accepted: 20 Sept. 2005
The genus Nactus
(Lacertilia:
Gekkonidae): a phylogenetic analysis
and description of two new species from
the Papuan Region
F. KRAUS
(USA)
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Zootaxa 1042: 1-26 (30 Aug. 2005)
15 plates; 35 references
Accepted: 29 Jun. 2005
On the cranial morphology of Elapomorphus,
Phalotris and Apostolepis (Serpentes:
Colubridae), and its phylogenetic significance
C. HOFSTADLER-DEIQUES
& T. DE LEMA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1042: 27-38 (30 Aug. 2005)
6 plates; 23 references
Accepted: 28 Jul. 2005
A new species of reed snake, Calamaria
(Squamata: Colubridae),
from the Central Truong Son
(Annamite mountain range), Vietnam
T. ZIEGLER (Germany)
& LE KHAC QUYET (Vietnam)
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Zootaxa 1038: 1-10 (19 Aug. 2005)
10
plates; 27 references
Accepted: 19 Jul. 2005
An electrophoretic comparison of the venoms of
a colubrid and various
viperid snakes from Turkey and Cyprus, with some taxonomic
and phylogenetic implications
H. ARIKAN, B. GÖÇMEN,
A. MERMER & H. BAHAR (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1034: 1-20 (11 Aug. 2005) 8
plates; 48 references
Accepted: 5 Jul. 2005
Galveosaurus herreroi, a
new sauropod dinosaur from Villar del Arzobispo
Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Spain
B. SANCHEZ-HERNANDEZ (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1013: 19-34 (30 Jun. 2005)
9 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 15 Jun. 2005
Geographical variation and
taxonomy of the snail-eating snake Dipsas
albifrons (Sauvage,
1884), with comments on the systematic status
of Dipsas
albifrons cavalheiroi Hoge,
1950 (Serpentes:
Colubridae: Dipsadinae)
P. PASSOS, R.
FERNANDES & M. PORTO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 953: 1-14 (22
Apr. 2005) 5 plates; 35 references
Accepted:
7 Apr. 2005
Variation and taxonomic status of the aquatic
coral snake Micrurus
surinamensis (Cuvier, 1817) (Serpentes:
Elapidae)
P. PASSOS & D.S. FERNANDES (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 895: 1-11 (10
Mar. 2005) 2 plates; 30 references
Accepted: 2 Mar. 2005
A new species of Mabuya
(Squamata, Scincidae) from
the Venezuelan Andes
A. MIRALLES (France), G. RIVAS (Venezuela)
& W.E. SCHARGEL (USA)
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Zootaxa 863:
1-28 (18
Feb. 2005) 2 plates; 104 references
Accepted: 5 Dec. 2004
Molecular review of the genus Panaspis
sensu lato (Reptilia:
Scincidae) in
Cameroon, with special reference to the status of the
proposed subgenera
A. SCHMITZ (Switzerland),
I. INEICH (France) & L. CHIRIO (France)
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2004
Zootaxa 792:
1-11 (24
December 2004) 4 plates, 17 references
Accepted: 16 Dec. 2004
A new species of Hoplodactylus
(Reptilia:
Pygopodidae) from the Takitimu
Mountains, South Island, New Zealand
T.R. JEWELL & R.A.B. LESCHEN (New Zealand)
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Zootaxa 772:
1-11 (14
December 2004) 3 plates; 26 references
Accepted: 1 Dec. 2004
Cyrtodactylus thirakhupti (Squamata:
Gekkonidae), a
new cave-dwelling gecko from southern Thailand
O.S.G. PAUWELS (Belgium), A.M. BAUER (USA), M.
SUMONTHA (Thailand) & L.
CHANHOME (Thailand)
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Zootaxa 727:
1-63 (15
November 2004) 20 plates; 87 references
Accepted: 24 Oct. 2004
A review of morphological variation in Trimeresurus
popeiorum (Serpentes:
Viperidae: Crotalinae), with
the description of two new species
G. VOGEL (Germany), P. DAVID (France) & O.S. G.
PAUWELS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 690:
1-24 (18
October 2004) 11 plates; 36 references
Accepted: 30 Sept. 2004
A new early dinosaur (Sauropodomorpha)
from the Caturrita Formation
(Late Triassic), Paraná Basin, Brazil
L.A. LEAL, S.A.K. AZEVEDO, A.W.A. KELLNER &
Á.A.S. DA ROSA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 634: 1-24 (8
September 2004) 4 plates; 42 references
Accepted:
20 Aug. 2004
Morphological and genetic evidence of the
full species status of Iberolacerta
cyreni martinezricai (Arribas, 1996)
O. ARRIBAS & S. CARRANZA (Spain)
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2003
Zootaxa 376:
1-18 (4 December 2003) 6 plates; 37
references
Accepted: 26 November 2003
Two new species of Cyrtodactylus
(Reptilia: Squamata:
Gekkonidae) from Thailand
A.M. BAUER (USA) , M.
SUMONTHA (Thailand) & O.S.G. PAUWELS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 334:
1-7 (21 October 2003) 3 plates; 15 references
Accepted: 13 October 2003
A new species of hood-displaying Thamnodynastes
(Serpentes: Colubridae)
from the Atlantic forest in southeast Brazil
F.L. FRANCO, T.G.A.
FERREIRA, O.A.V. MARQUES
& I. SAZIMA (Brazil)
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