Vertebrate Zoology 71

Research Article

Completing a taxonomic puzzle: integrative review of geckos of the Paroedura bastardi species complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae)

Aurélien Miralles, Teddy Bruy, Angelica Crottini, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Mark D. Scherz, Robin Schmidt, Jörn Köhler, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences

10.3897/vz.71.e59495

26-02-2021

Unique: 4261 | Total: 8407

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27-48

Research Article

Feraequornithes: a name for the clade formed by Procellariiformes, Sphenisciformes, Ciconiiformes, Suliformes and Pelecaniformes (Aves)

George Sangster, Gerald Mayr

10.3897/vz.71.e61728

02-03-2021

Unique: 4282 | Total: 7875

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49-53

Research Article

A new species of Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from the Orinoquian region of Colombia

Juan José Torres-Ramírez, Teddy Angarita-Sierra, Mario Vargas-Ramírez

10.3897/vz.71.e59461

05-03-2021

Unique: 6735 | Total: 9519

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55-74

Research Article

An investigation into the taxonomy of Abavorana luctuosa (Peters, 1871) (Anura, Ranidae) and the resurrection of Rana decorata Mocquard, 1890 from Borneo

Evan S. H. Quah, L. Lee Grismer, Perry L. Wood Jr., Kelvin K. P. Lim, Paul Y. Imbun, M. S. Shahrul Anuar

10.3897/vz.71.e60921

11-03-2021

Unique: 3180 | Total: 5307

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75-99

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

Unique: 7392 | Total: 13721

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101-154

Research Article

A new granite cave-dwelling Bent-toed Gecko from Vietnam of the Cyrtodactylus irregularis group (Squamata; Gekkonidae) and a discussion on cave ecomorphology

Anh The Nguyen, Tang Van Duong, L. Lee Grismer, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

10.3897/vz.71.e60225

17-03-2021

Unique: 3208 | Total: 9081

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155-174

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: 5118 | Total: 8954

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175-200

Research Article

A new species of marsupial frog (Anura; Gastrotheca) from the Cordillera de Colán in northeastern Peru

Pablo J. Venegas, Luis A. García-Ayachi, Lourdes Y. Echevarría, Daniel J. Paluh, Juan C. Chávez–Arribasplata, Axel Marchelie, Alessandro Catenazzi

10.3897/vz.71.e60097

09-04-2021

Unique: 5133 | Total: 9235

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201-218

Research Article

A new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India

Surya Narayanan, Pratyush P. Mohapatra, Amirtha Balan, Sandeep Das, David J. Gower

10.3897/vz.71.e63986

15-04-2021

Unique: 3766 | Total: 5764

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219-230

Research Article

Redescription of Apostolepis ambiniger (Peters, 1869) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Elapomorphini)

Omar M. Entiauspe-Neto, Claudia Koch, Michael B. Harvey, Guarino R. Colli, Thaís B. Guedes

10.3897/vz.71.e65097

27-04-2021

Unique: 3348 | Total: 5477

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231-251

Research Article

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

Unique: 8759 | Total: 40362

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253-316

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

Unique: 10472 | Total: 23760

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317-334

Research Article

Phylogeny and evolution of habitat preference in Goniurosaurus (Squamata: Eublepharidae) and their correlation with karst and granite-stream-adapted ecomorphologies in species groups from Vietnam

L. Lee Grismer, Hai Ngoc Ngo, Shuo Qi, Ying-Yong Wang, Minh Duc Le, Thomas Ziegler

10.3897/vz.71.e65969

26-05-2021

Unique: 3299 | Total: 5730

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335-352

Research Article

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

Unique: 4656 | Total: 7954

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353-366

Research Article

Convergent evolution of karst habitat preference and its ecomorphological correlation in three species of Bent-toed Geckos (Cyrtodactylus) from Peninsular Malaysia

Amanda Kaatz, Jesse L. Grismer, L. Lee Grismer

10.3897/vz.71.e66871

01-06-2021

Unique: 2820 | Total: 4479

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367-386

Research Article

A new species of Proceratophrys Miranda-Ribeiro, 1920 (Anura, Odontophrynidae) of the P. bigibbosa species group from Southern Brazil

Diego José Santana, Sarah Mângia, Suélen da Silva Alves Saccol, Tiago Gomes dos Santos

10.3897/vz.71.e67894

02-07-2021

Unique: 3062 | Total: 5199

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387-401

Part of: Festschrift Wolfgang Maier

Research Article

On the “cartilaginous rider” in the endocasts of turtle brain cavities

Ingmar Werneburg, Serjoscha W. Evers, Gabriel Ferreira

10.3897/vz.71.e66756

02-07-2021

Unique: 2929 | Total: 4715

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403-418

Research Article

A new genus for the tiny hawk Accipiter superciliosus and semicollared hawk A. collaris (Aves: Accipitridae), with comments on the generic name for the crested goshawk A. trivirgatus and Sulawesi goshawk A. griseiceps

George Sangster, Guy M. Kirwan, Jérôme Fuchs, Edward C. Dickinson, Andy Elliott, Steven M. S. Gregory

10.3897/vz.71.e67501

02-08-2021

Unique: 3245 | Total: 5173

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419-424

Research Article

Comparative ecomorphology of the sandstone night lizard (Xantusia gracilis) and the granite night lizard (Xantusia henshawi)

L. Lee Grismer

10.3897/vz.71.e69214

02-08-2021

Unique: 2548 | Total: 4229

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425-437

Research Article

A new species of Pareas (Squamata, Pareidae) from southern Vietnam

Duong T. T. Le, Thinh G. Tran, Huy D. Hoang, Bryan L. Stuart

10.3897/vz.71.e70438

05-08-2021

Unique: 2866 | Total: 4617

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439-451

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

Unique: 3299 | Total: 5313

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453-463

Research Article

Between sand, rocks and branches: an integrative taxonomic revision of Angolan Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820, with description of four new species

Javier Lobón-Rovira, Werner Conradie, David Buckley Iglesias, Raffael Ernst, Luis Veríssimo, Ninda Baptista, Pedro Vaz Pinto

10.3897/vz.71.e64781

09-08-2021

Unique: 3251 | Total: 5768

Reprint: € 14,00

465-501

Research Article

DNA barcoding of the mesic adapted striped mouse, Rhabdomys dilectus in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal provinces of South Africa

Emmanuel Matamba, Leigh R. Richards, Michael I. Cherry, Ramugondo V. Rambau

10.3897/vz.71.e68897

11-08-2021

Unique: 2661 | Total: 4283

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503-515

Research Article

Two new species of the hillstream loach genus Indoreonectes from the northern Western Ghats of India (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae)

Pradeep Kumkar, Manoj Pise, Pankaj A. Gorule, Chandani R. Verma, Lukáš Kalous

10.3897/vz.71.e62814

16-08-2021

Unique: 4120 | Total: 6686

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517-533

Part of: Festschrift Wolfgang Maier

Research Article

The chondrocranial key: Fetal and perinatal morphogenesis of the sphenoid bone in primates

Nanami Mano, Brody Wood, Lanre Oladipupo, Rebecca Reynolds, Jane Taylor, Emily Durham, James J. Cray, Chris Vinyard, Valerie B. DeLeon, Timothy D. Smith

10.3897/vz.71.e65934

16-08-2021

Unique: 3112 | Total: 5025

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535-558

Research Article

The mitochondrial phylogeography of the Crimean endemic lizard Darevskia lindholmi (Sauria, Lacertidae): Hidden diversity in an isolated mountain system

Oleg Kukushkin, Oleg Ermakov, Iulian Gherghel, Svetlana Lukonina, Anton Svinin, Igor Doronin, Evgeniy Simonov, Daniel Jablonski

10.3897/vz.71.e62729

06-10-2021

Unique: 3276 | Total: 6375

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559-576

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: 6095 | Total: 9854

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577-619

Research Article

Description of a new Xenorhina species (Anura, Microhylidae) from northwestern Papua New Guinea

Rainer Günther, Chris Dahl, Stephen J. Richards

10.3897/vz.71.e66954

11-10-2021

Unique: 2366 | Total: 3769

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621-630

Part of: Festschrift Wolfgang Maier

Review Article

Humans, megafauna and landscape structure – Rock engravings from Namibia encourage a comparative approach to central Europe and southern Africa

Ulrich Zeller, Thomas Göttert

10.3897/vz.71.e72811

12-10-2021

Unique: 2829 | Total: 4685

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631-643

Research Article

Osteology of Tucanoichthys tucano Géry and Römer, an enigmatic miniature fish from the Amazon basin, Brazil (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)

George M. T. Mattox, Kevin W. Conway

10.3897/vz.71.e71886

18-10-2021

Unique: 3333 | Total: 6176

Reprint: € 9,00

645-667

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: 5006 | Total: 8176

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669-696

Research Article

A new species of the genus Tylototriton (Caudata, Salamandridae) from Guangdong, southern China, with discussion on the subgenera and species groups within the genus

Zhi-Tong Lyu, Jian Wang, Zhao-Chi Zeng, Jia-Jun Zhou, Shuo Qi, Han Wan, You-Yu Li, Ying-Yong Wang

10.3897/vz.71.e73563

04-11-2021

Unique: 3315 | Total: 5447

Reprint: € 7,00

697-710

Research Article

A new species of Myotis (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae) from Uruguay

Roberto Leonan M. Novaes, Don E. Wilson, Ricardo Moratelli

10.3897/vz.71.e73146

25-11-2021

Unique: 3582 | Total: 5583

Reprint: € 6,00

711-722

Research Article

A new cryptic arboreal species of the Cyrtodactylus brevipalmatus group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the uplands of western Thailand

L. Lee Grismer, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Roman A. Nazarov, Platon V. Yushchenko, Mali Naiduangchan, Minh Duc Le, Vinh Quang Luu, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

10.3897/vz.71.e76069

25-11-2021

Unique: 3267 | Total: 5478

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723-746

Research Article

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

Unique: 3927 | Total: 7138

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747-762

Research Article

Hidden tribe: A new species of Stream Toad of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from the poorly explored mountainous borderlands of western Thailand

Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, L. Lee Grismer, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Mali Naiduangchan, Platon V. Yushchenko, Dmitriy V. Arkhipov, Jeffery A. Wilkinson, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

10.3897/vz.71.e73529

03-12-2021

Unique: 2921 | Total: 4607

Reprint: € 8,00

763-779

Research Article

Hidden diversity within a polytypic species: The enigmatic Sceloporus torquatus Wiegmann, 1828 (Reptilia, Squamata, Phrynosomatidae)

Gustavo Campillo-García, Oscar Flores-Villela, Brett Oliver Butler, Julián Andrés Velasco Vinasco, Fabiola Ramírez Corona

10.3897/vz.71.e71995

03-12-2021

Unique: 3696 | Total: 6576

Reprint: € 8,00

781-798

Research Article

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

Unique: 3414 | Total: 5804

Reprint: € 7,00

799-811

Research Article

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

Unique: 4143 | Total: 7440

Reprint: € 9,00

813-834