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Museomics and integrative taxonomy reveal three new species of glandular viviparous tree toads (Nectophrynoides) in Tanzania’s Eastern Arc Mountains (Anura: Bufonidae)

Christian Thrane, John V. Lyakurwa, H. Christoph Liedtke, Michele Menegon, Alice Petzold, Simon P. Loader, Mark D. Scherz

10.3897/vz.75.e167008

06-11-2025

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459-485

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Hybrid zones of Natrix helvetica and N. natrix: Phenotype data from iNaturalist and genetics reveal concordant clines and the value of species-diagnostic morphological traits

Uwe Fritz, L. Lee Grismer, Marika Asztalos

10.3897/vz.73.e103319

25-04-2023

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383-395

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New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria)

Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa, Alberto Cobos

10.3897/vz.75.e146618

26-05-2025

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165-189

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A new genus and species of octodontid rodent from the hilly Chaco of central Argentina (Rodentia: Octodontidae)

Pablo Teta, Agustina A. Ojeda, Andrea P. Tarquino Carbonell, J. Raquel Alvarado-Larios, Pablo Cuello, Paula Cornejo, Julián Mignino, Ricardo A. Ojeda, Diego H. Verzi

10.3897/vz.76.e187462

12-06-2026

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361-380

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A wealth of riches: A comprehensive revision of diamond frogs, genus Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880 (Microhylidae: Cophylinae), with the description of seven new species

10.3897/vz.76.e172567

22-07-2026

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485-610

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Revealing two centuries of confusion: new insights on nomenclature and systematic position of Argyrogena fasciolata (Shaw, 1802) (auctt.), with description of a new species from India (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae)

V. Deepak, Surya Narayanan, Pratyush P. Mohapatra, Sushil K. Dutta, Gnanaselvan Melvinselvan, Ashaharraza Khan, Kristin Mahlow, Frank Tillack

10.3897/vz.71.e64345

13-05-2021

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253-316

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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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Lizards (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Caatinga, northeastern Brazil: Detailed and updated overview

Lucas Rafael Uchôa, Fagner Ribeiro Delfim, Daniel Oliveira Mesquita, Guarino Rinaldi Colli, Adrian Antonio Garda, Thaís B. Guedes

10.3897/vz.72.e78828

12-08-2022

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599-659

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Citizen Science, taxonomy and grass snakes: iNaturalist helps to clarify variation of coloration and pattern in Natrix natrix subspecies

Uwe Fritz, Flora Ihlow

10.3897/vz.72.e87426

19-07-2022

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533-549

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Morphological and genetic differentiation in the anguid lizard Pseudopus apodus supports the existence of an endemic subspecies in the Levant

Daniel Jablonski, Marco Antônio Ribeiro-Júnior, Shai Meiri, Erez Maza, Oleg V. Kukushkin, Marina Chirikova, Angelika Pirosová, Dušan Jelić, Peter Mikulíček, David Jandzik

10.3897/vz.71.e60800

05-04-2021

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175-200

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Evolutionary history of the two North African hedgehogs (Mammalia: Erinaceidae) Atelerix algirus and Paraechinus aethiopicus based on phylogeography and species distribution modelling

Haithem El-Farhati, Mourad Khaldi, Alexis Ribas, Mohamed Wassim Hizem, Saïd Nouira, Violaine Nicolas

10.3897/vz.71.e70989

06-12-2021

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799-811