Articles

Research Article

Phreatic mysteries: Diversity and distribution of fossorial and aquifer-dwelling synbranchid eels of southern peninsular India, and implications for conservation (Pisces: Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae)

Rajeev Raghavan, Remya L. Sundar, C.P. Arjun, Arya Sidharthan, Nithinraj Panangattu Dharmarajan, Appukuttannair Biju Kumar, Siby Philip, Anvar Ali, Mandar S. Paingankar, Glavin Thomas Rodrigues, Ralf Britz, Neelesh Dahanukar

10.3897/vz.75.e155717

11-08-2025

Unique: 1402 | Total: 1885

Access Period: 798

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245-258

Research Article

Integrative analysis of geographic variation and species boundaries in the white-lipped pitviper complex (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae: Trimeresurus albolabris)

Anita Malhotra, Mrinalini Walter, Guillem Limia Russel, Roger S. Thorpe

10.3897/vz.75.e142775

06-06-2025

Unique: 2302 | Total: 3389

Access Period: 793

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191-225

Review Article

Unnecessary splitting of genus-level clades reduces taxonomic stability in amphibians

Stephen Mahony, Rachunliu G. Kamei, Rafe M. Brown, Kin Onn Chan

10.3897/vz.74.e114285

26-03-2024

Unique: 5225 | Total: 8980

Access Period: 791

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249-277

Research Article

Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomic reassessment of the widespread agamid lizard Calotes versicolor (Daudin, 1802) (Squamata, Agamidae) across South Asia

Gaurang Gowande, Saunak Pal, Daniel Jablonski, Rafaqat Masroor, Pushkar U. Phansalkar, Princia Dsouza, Aditi Jayarajan, Kartik Shanker

10.3897/vz.71.e62787

20-10-2021

Unique: 7753 | Total: 12196

Access Period: 771

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669-696

Research Article

Resolving pitfalls in pit viper systematics – A multi-criteria approach to species delimitation in pit vipers (Reptilia, Viperidae, Craspedocephalus) of Peninsular India reveals cryptic diversity

Ashok Kumar Mallik, Achyuthan Needamangalam Srikanthan, Sumaithangi Rajagopalan Ganesh, Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar, Patrick D. Campbell, Anita Malhotra, Kartik Shanker

10.3897/vz.71.e66239

06-10-2021

Unique: 8190 | Total: 13124

Access Period: 726

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577-619

Research Article

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

Unique: 7342 | Total: 12138

Access Period: 713

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175-200

Part of: Festschrift Wolfgang Maier

Research Article

The nasal cavity in agoutis (Dasyprocta spp.): a micro-computed tomographic and histological study

Timothy D. Smith, Christopher J. Bonar

10.3897/vz.72.e76047

21-02-2022

Unique: 5038 | Total: 8528

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95-113

Research Article

A new species of green tree frog of the genus Gracixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the evergreen forest of Northeast India

Bitupan Boruah, V. Deepak, Naitik G. Patel, Vijayan Jithin, Tajum Yomcha, Abhijit Das

10.3897/vz.73.e98444

26-05-2023

Unique: 4745 | Total: 6983

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557-574

Research Article

The world’s largest cave fish from Meghalaya, Northeast India, is a new species, Neolissochilus pnar (Cyprinidae, Torinae)

Neelesh Dahanukar, Remya L. Sundar, Duwaki Rangad, Graham Proudlove, Rajeev Raghavan

10.3897/vz.73.e101011

06-02-2023

Unique: 8032 | Total: 11907

Access Period: 661

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141-152

Research Article

Trachemys in Mexico and beyond: Beautiful turtles, taxonomic nightmare, and a mitochondrial poltergeist (Testudines: Emydidae)

Uwe Fritz, Hans-Werner Herrmann, Philip C. Rosen, Markus Auer, Mario Vargas-Ramírez, Christian Kehlmaier

10.3897/vz.74.e125958

28-06-2024

Unique: 3628 | Total: 6393

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435-452

Research Article

An integrative taxonomic revision of the Trimeresurus popeiorum group of pitvipers (Reptilia: Serpentes: Viperidae) with descriptions of two new species from the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot

Sabira S. Idiiatullina, Tan Van Nguyen, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Lawan Chanhome, Zeeshan A. Mirza, Patrick David, Gernot Vogel, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

10.3897/vz.74.e113347

04-04-2024

Unique: 4082 | Total: 7524

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303-342