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A new species of karst-associated kukri snake (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae: Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826) from southern Thailand

Parinya Pawangkhanant, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Harry Ward-Smith, Rupert Grassby-Lewis, Montri Sumontha, Nikita S. Kliukin, Sabira S. Idiiatullina, Alexei V. Trofimets, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Justin L. Lee

10.3897/vz.74.e112132

26-04-2024

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359-379

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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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453-463

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Integrative taxonomy reveals a new unstriped Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826 from Vietnam and provides new data on diagnostic osteological traits for Asian tailed caecilians (Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae)

Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Dana D. Skorinova, Andrey M. Bragin, Veniamin V. Kolchanov, Vladislav A. Gorin, Alexey V. Trofimets, Alexander P. Yuzefovich, Dac Xuan Le, Tan Van Nguyen, Pavel P. Skutschas

10.3897/vz.75.e149399

29-10-2025

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405-440

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A non-adaptive radiation of viviparous skinks from the seasonal tropics of India: Systematics of Subdoluseps (Squamata: Scincidae), with description of a new genus and five cryptic new species

Ishan Agarwal, Tejas Thackeray, Akshay Khandekar

10.3897/vz.74.e110674

19-01-2024

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An expanded description, natural history, and genetic variation of the recently described cobra species Naja fuxi Shi et al., 2022

10.3897/vz.73.e89339

27-03-2023

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257-276

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A revised multilocus phylogeny of Old World sparrows (Aves: Passeridae)

Martin Päckert, Jens Hering, Abdelkrim Ait Belkacem, Yue-Hua Sun, Sabine Hille, Davaa Lkhagvasuren, Safiqul Islam, Jochen Martens

10.3897/vz.71.e65952

31-05-2021

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353-366

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The taxonomic status of the kukri snake Oligodon arenarius Vassilieva, 2015 with a redescription of Oligodon macrurus (Angel, 1927) (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae)

Platon V. Yushchenko, Justin L. Lee, Hieu Minh Pham, Peter Geissler, Elena V. Syromyatnikova, Nikolay A. Poyarkov Jr.

10.3897/vz.73.e96958

26-01-2023

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97-125

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It takes two to tango – Phylogeography, taxonomy and hybridization in grass snakes and dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae: Natrix natrix, N. tessellata)

Marika Asztalos, Dinçer Ayaz, Yusuf Bayrakcı, Murat Afsar, Cemal Varol Tok, Carolin Kindler, Daniel Jablonski, Uwe Fritz

10.3897/vz.71.e76453

07-12-2021

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813-834

Part of: Festschrift Wolfgang Maier

Review Article

From sprawling to parasagittal locomotion in Therapsida: A preliminary study of historically collected museum specimens

Holger Preuschoft, Anna Krahl, Ingmar Werneburg

10.3897/vz.72.e85989

05-10-2022

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907-936

Part of: Festschrift Wolfgang Maier

Research Article

The development of nasal turbinal morphology of moles and shrews

Kai Ito, Ryo Kodeara, Kazuhiko Koyasu, Quentin Martinez, Daisuke Koyabu

10.3897/vz.72.e85466

28-09-2022

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857-881

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Historical biogeography and systematics of yellow-bellied toads (Bombina variegata), with the description of a new subspecies from the Balkans

10.3897/vz.75.e138687

23-01-2025

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