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Research Article

Developmental osteology of Ictalurus punctatus and Noturus gyrinus (Siluriformes: Ictaluridae) with a discussion of siluriform bone homologies

Kole M. Kubicek

10.3897/vz.72.e85144

12-08-2022

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661-727

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Two new highly divergent and isolated Madascincus species from Nosy Be and the Tsingy de Namoroka, Madagascar (Squamata: Scincidae)

Aurélien Miralles, Mark D. Scherz, Sam Hyde Roberts, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences

10.3897/vz.76.e176241

06-03-2026

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135-156

Review Article

Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology

Wolfgang Wüster

10.3897/vz.75.e161536

21-08-2025

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259-275

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Morphological diversity of tadpoles of fork-tongued frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae) with different trophic specializations

Anna B. Vassilieva, Trung Duc Nguyen, Pavel A. Sorokin

10.3897/vz.75.e139103

05-02-2025

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31-57

Part of: Festschrift Wolfgang Maier

Review Article

The macroevolutionary and developmental evolution of the turtle carapacial scutes

Eduardo Ascarrunz, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

10.3897/vz.72.e76256

28-01-2022

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Research Article

Morphological and molecular variation reveal cryptic diversity in the racer Philodryas patagoniensis (Girard, 1858) (Squamata: Colubridae)

Diego Omar Di Pietro, Julieta Sánchez, Sebastián Poljak, Leandro Alcalde

10.3897/vz.76.e169219

10-02-2026

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93-119

Research Article

Phylogenetic partitioning of the third-largest vertebrate genus in the world, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia; Squamata; Gekkonidae) and its relevance to taxonomy and conservation

10.3897/vz.71.e59307

16-03-2021

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101-154

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Phylogenetic relationships of xenodermid snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Xenodermidae), with the description of a new genus

V. Deepak, Samuel Lalronunga, Esther Lalhmingliani, Abhijit Das, Surya Narayanan, Indraneil Das, David J. Gower

10.3897/vz.71.e75967

26-11-2021

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747-762

Research Article

Evolution in the dark: Unexpected genetic diversity and morphological stasis in the blind, aquifer-dwelling catfish Horaglanis

Rajeev Raghavan, Remya L. Sundar, C.P. Arjun, Ralf Britz, Neelesh Dahanukar

10.3897/vz.73.e98367

25-01-2023

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Research Article

Western pond turtles in the Mojave Desert? A review of their past, present, and possible future

Jeffrey E. Lovich, George Jefferson, Robert Reynolds, Peter A. Scott, H. Bradley Shaffer, Shellie Puffer, Sarah Greely, Kristy Cummings, Robert N. Fisher, Kathie Meyer-Wilkins, Doug Gomez, Morgan Ford, Christopher D. Otahal

10.3897/vz.71.e63987

25-05-2021

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Research Article

On the occurrence of lateral openings and fossae (pleurocoels) in the thoracic vertebrae of neornithine birds and their functional significance

Gerald Mayr

10.3897/vz.71.e71268

05-08-2021

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