Vertebrate Zoology 73

Research Article

Allometric analysis of sexual dimorphism and morphological variation in two chromosome races of the Sceloporus grammicus complex (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) from Mexico

Abraham Lozano, Jack W. Sites Jr, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista, Jonathon C. Marshall, Numa P. Pavón, Raciel Cruz-Elizalde

10.3897/vz.73.e94004

20-01-2023

Unique: 2393 | Total: 4177

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23-34

Research Article

The quadrate-metapterygoid fenestra of otophysan fishes, its development and homology

Ralf Britz, George M. T. Mattox, Kevin W. Conway

10.3897/vz.73.e97922

23-01-2023

Unique: 2228 | Total: 3295

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35-55

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

Unique: 6792 | Total: 9354

Reprint: € 8,00

57-74

Research Article

A taxonomic re-assessment of Oligodon cinereus (Günther, 1864) (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae) populations from southern Indochina

Platon V. Yushchenko, Justin L. Lee, Thy Neang, Hun Seiha, Nguyen Van Tan, Gernot Vogel, Nikolay A. Poyarkov Jr.

10.3897/vz.73.e91230

25-01-2023

Unique: 2897 | Total: 4567

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75-96

Research Article

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

Unique: 2832 | Total: 4318

Reprint: € 12,00

97-125

Research Article

A new species of torrent-breeding treefrog (Pelodryadidae: Litoria) from the mountains of Papua, Indonesia, with new records and observations of Litoria dorsivena (Tyler, 1968)

Paul M. Oliver, Djoko T. Iskandar, Stephen J. Richards

10.3897/vz.73.e91111

26-01-2023

Unique: 3420 | Total: 5240

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127-139

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: 6767 | Total: 10326

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141-152

Research Article

A new large Oreophryne species from the mountains of Papua Province, Indonesian New Guinea (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae)

Rainer Günther, Djoko T. Iskandar, Stephen J. Richards

10.3897/vz.73.e94207

07-02-2023

Unique: 2165 | Total: 3099

Reprint: € 5,00

153-159

Research Article

Revealing anole diversity in the highlands of the Northern Andes: New and resurrected species of the Anolis heterodermus species group

Rafael A. Moreno-Arias, Miguel A. Méndez-Galeano, Iván Beltrán, Mario Vargas-Ramírez

10.3897/vz.73.e94265

14-02-2023

Unique: 4035 | Total: 5938

Reprint: € 11,00

161-188

Research Article

A new species of rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Male Mahadeshwara Wildlife Sanctuary, southern Eastern Ghats, India

Surya Narayanan, Saunak Pal, L. Lee Grismer, N. A. Aravind

10.3897/vz.73.e101311

14-03-2023

Unique: 2195 | Total: 3266

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189-203

Research Article

A phylogenetic and taxonomic assessment of the Cnemaspis alwisi group (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) in Sri Lanka with a description of two new species from isolated misty-mountains

Suranjan Karunarathna, Kanishka D. B. Ukuwela, Anslem De Silva, Aaron M. Bauer, Majintha Madawala, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Madhava Botejue, Dinesh Gabadage, L. Lee Grismer, Vladislav A. Gorin

10.3897/vz.73.e90979

14-03-2023

Unique: 2951 | Total: 4475

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205-236

Research Article

The Australian gulf snapping turtle Elseya lavarackorum (Testudines: Chelidae) revisited—Is the late Pleistocene fossil species extant?

Scott A. Thomson, Natália R. Friol, Arthur White, Dion Wedd, Arthur Georges

10.3897/vz.73.e99495

17-03-2023

Unique: 2477 | Total: 3566

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237-256

Research Article

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

Unique: 4154 | Total: 7009

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257-276

Research Article

A phylogeographic assessment of South African greater cane rats (Thryonomys swinderianus): Preliminary insights

Willem G. Coetzer

10.3897/vz.73.e94111

28-03-2023

Unique: 2112 | Total: 3181

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277-288

Research Article

A new species of the highly polytypic South American rodent Ctenomys increases the diversity of the magellanicus clade

Diego H. Verzi, Nahuel A. De Santi, A. Itatí Olivares, Cecilia C. Morgan, Néstor G. Basso, Federico Brook

10.3897/vz.73.e96656

31-03-2023

Unique: 2674 | Total: 3938

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289-312

Research Article

A new species of Schindleria (Teleostei: Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) from the Red Sea (Saudi Arabia) with a specialized caudal-fin complex

Harald Ahnelt, Oliver Macek, Vanessa Robitzch

10.3897/vz.73.e97515

06-04-2023

Unique: 2206 | Total: 3589

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313-323

Research Article

A new species of thick-toed gecko (Pachydactylus) from Serra da Neve and surrounding rocky areas of southwestern Angola (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Ian G. Brennan, Matthew P. Heinicke, Aaron M. Bauer

10.3897/vz.73.e101329

06-04-2023

Unique: 3141 | Total: 4366

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325-343

Research Article

An evolutionary paradox on threadsnakes: Phenotypic and molecular evidence reveal a new and remarkably polymorphic species of Siagonodon (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae: Epictinae) from Amazonia

Angele Martins, Manuella Folly, Guilherme Nunes Ferreira, Antônio Samuel Garcia da Silva, Claudia Koch, Antoine Fouquet, Alessandra Machado, Ricardo Tadeu Lopes, Roberta Pinto, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues, Paulo Passos

10.3897/vz.73.e98170

10-04-2023

Unique: 2589 | Total: 3856

Reprint: € 9,00

345-366

Research Article

Restricting living space: Development and larval morphology in sticky frogs (Microhylidae: Kalophrynus) with different reproductive modes

Anna B. Vassilieva, Thi Van Nguyen

10.3897/vz.73.e98618

25-04-2023

Unique: 2544 | Total: 3711

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367-382

Research Article

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

Unique: 2920 | Total: 4411

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383-395

Research Article

An initial molecular resolution of the mantellid frogs of the Guibemantis liber complex reveals three new species from northern Madagascar

10.3897/vz.73.e94063

28-04-2023

Unique: 2539 | Total: 3683

Reprint: € 13,00

397-432

Research Article

A remarkable new species of gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus) from scrublands at the southern tip of India

Akshay Khandekar, Tejas Thackeray, Rameshwaran Mariappan, Satpal Gangalmale, Vivek Waghe, Swapnil Pawar, Ishan Agarwal

10.3897/vz.73.e101871

11-05-2023

Unique: 3198 | Total: 4189

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433-450

Research Article

An appraisal of the species richness of the Ctenomys mendocinus species group (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae), with the description of two new species from the Andean slopes of west-central Argentina

Pablo Teta, J. Pablo Jayat, Raquel Alvarado-Larios, Agustina A. Ojeda, Pablo Cuello, Guillermo D’Elía

10.3897/vz.73.e101065

16-05-2023

Unique: 2594 | Total: 3899

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451-474

Research Article

Two new spotted species of the Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) complex from the south-eastern coast of India (Reptilia: Squamata)

Ishan Agarwal, Tejas Thackeray, Akshay Khandekar

10.3897/vz.73.e102602

16-05-2023

Unique: 2583 | Total: 3558

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475-498

Research Article

A new species of rock-dwelling Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the southern Eastern Ghats, India

Surya Narayanan, Peter Christopher, Kothandapani Raman, Nilanjan Mukherjee, Ponmudi Prabhu, Maniezhilan Lenin, Sivangnanaboopathidoss Vimalraj, V. Deepak

10.3897/vz.73.e104494

23-05-2023

Unique: 2463 | Total: 3534

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499-512

Research Article

Central American Trachemys revisited: New sampling questions current understanding of taxonomy and distribution (Testudines: Emydidae)

Uwe Fritz, Christian Kehlmaier, Rodney J. Scott, Raúl Fournier, James R. McCranie, Natalia Gallego-García

10.3897/vz.73.e104438

26-05-2023

Unique: 2805 | Total: 4280

Reprint: € 6,00

513-523

Research Article

Comparative mitochondrial phylogeography of water frogs (Ranidae: Pelophylax spp.) from the southwestern Balkans

10.3897/vz.73.e95220

26-05-2023

Unique: 3605 | Total: 5694

Reprint: € 8,00

525-544

Research Article

A taxonomic reassessment of Rhinolophus rex Allen, 1923 and its allies (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae)

Vuong Tan Tu, Neil M. Furey, Tamás Görföl, Alexandre Hassanin, Satoru Arai, Daisuke Koyabu, Bounsavane Douangboubpha, Gábor Csorba

10.3897/vz.73.e101487

26-05-2023

Unique: 2866 | Total: 5565

Reprint: € 6,00

545-556

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: 3391 | Total: 5291

Reprint: € 8,00

557-574

Research Article

A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Serra do Tabuleiro, Southern Brazil

Sarah Mângia, Diego José Santana, Leandro de Oliveira Drummond, Leandro Talione Sabagh, Luiz Ugioni, Paulo Nogueira Costa, Milena Wachlevski

10.3897/vz.73.e102098

14-07-2023

Unique: 3218 | Total: 4921

Reprint: € 9,00

575-597

Research Article

A new species of green-eyed Cordylus Laurenti, 1768 from the west-central highlands of Angola, and the rediscovery of Cordylus angolensis (Bocage, 1895) (Squamata: Cordylidae)

Michael F. Bates, Javier Lobón-Rovira, Edward L. Stanley, William R. Branch, Pedro Vaz Pinto

10.3897/vz.73.e95639

14-07-2023

Unique: 2883 | Total: 4363

Reprint: € 17,00

599-646

Research Article

A new pale-ventered nurse frog (Aromobatidae: Allobates) from southwestern Brazilian Amazonia

Jesus R. D. Souza, Miquéias Ferrão, Igor Luis Kaefer, Antonio Saulo Cunha-Machado, Paulo Roberto Melo-Sampaio, James Hanken, Albertina Pimentel Lima

10.3897/vz.73.e103534

21-07-2023

Unique: 2652 | Total: 3624

Reprint: € 12,00

647-675

Research Article

A new species of stream-living toad (Anura: Bufonidae: Bufo) from Guangdong, China

Shuo Qi, Zhi-Tong Lyu, Han-Ming Song, Shi-Chao Wei, Qi-Feng Zhong, Ying-Yong Wang

10.3897/vz.73.e98558

21-07-2023

Unique: 3049 | Total: 4382

Reprint: € 7,00

677-689

Research Article

Novel type of egg-clustering in threadsnakes (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae)

Mariana Chuliver, Agustín Scanferla

10.3897/vz.73.e108402

12-09-2023

Unique: 1913 | Total: 2801

Reprint: € 5,00

691-696

Research Article

Limestone jewel: A new colourful karst-dwelling pitviper (Serpentes: Viperidae: Trimeresurus) from the poorly explored borderlands of southern peninsular Thailand

Sabira S. Idiiatullina, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Tanapong Tawan, Thanawut Worranuch, Bunyarit Dechochai, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Tan Van Nguyen, Lawan Chanhome, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

10.3897/vz.73.e109854

19-09-2023

Unique: 5464 | Total: 7432

Reprint: € 8,00

697-716

Research Article

An illustrated atlas of the vertebral morphology of extant non-caenophidian snakes, with special emphasis on the cloacal and caudal portions of the column

Zbigniew Szyndlar, Georgios L. Georgalis

10.3897/vz.73.e101372

27-09-2023

Unique: 8288 | Total: 15189

Reprint: € 56,00

717-886

Research Article

Two new species of South Asian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Gingee Hills, Tamil Nadu, India

Akshay Khandekar, Tejas Thackeray, Ayuthavel Kalaimani, Ishan Agarwal

10.3897/vz.73.e110512

02-10-2023

Unique: 2324 | Total: 3058

Reprint: € 11,00

887-913

Research Article

A new species of Boulenophrys from central Hunan Province, China (Anura: Megophryidae)

Tianyu Qian, Ke Hu, Xiaoyang Mo, Zhiwei Gao, Na Zhang, Daode Yang

10.3897/vz.73.e100889

03-10-2023

Unique: 2042 | Total: 3084

Reprint: € 7,00

915-930

Research Article

Systematics of the Lao torrent frog, Amolops cremnobatus Inger & Kottelat, 1998 (Anura: Ranidae), with descriptions of four new species

Jennifer A. Sheridan, Somphouthone Phimmachak, Niane Sivongxay, Bryan L. Stuart

10.3897/vz.73.e102475

04-10-2023

Unique: 2918 | Total: 4033

Reprint: € 11,00

931-956

Research Article

Descriptive study of the intrinsic muscles of the shoulder and brachium in kinkajou (Potos flavus) and an evolutionary analysis within the suborder Caniformia

Juan Fernando Vélez-García, Diego Alejandro Carrión Blanco, Gabriela Moreno Gómez, Stephanie San Martín Cañas

10.3897/vz.73.e102645

13-10-2023

Unique: 2081 | Total: 3028

Reprint: € 9,00

957-980

Research Article

Mystus celator, a new species of catfish from northern Myanmar (Actinopterygii: Siluriformes: Bagridae)

Heok Hee Ng, Maurice Kottelat

10.3897/vz.73.e110875

02-11-2023

Unique: 2182 | Total: 2983

Reprint: € 6,00

981-990

Research Article

Two new Poyntonophrynus species (Anura: Bufonidae) highlight the importance of Angolan centers of endemism

Ninda L. Baptista, Pedro Vaz Pinto, Chad Keates, Javier Lobón-Rovira, Shelley Edwards, Mark-Oliver Rödel

10.3897/vz.73.e103935

10-11-2023

Unique: 3305 | Total: 4333

Reprint: € 15,00

991-1031

Research Article

A new species of Pseudotrapelus (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from Central Arabia

Karin Tamar, Marek Uvizl, Mohammed Shobrak, Mohammed Almutairi, Salem Busais, Al Faqih Ali Salim, Raed Hamoud M. AlGethami, Abdulaziz Raqi AlGethami, Abdulkarim Saleh K. Alanazi, Saad Dasman Alsubaie, Laurent Chirio, Salvador Carranza, Jiří Šmíd

10.3897/vz.73.e110626

14-11-2023

Unique: 2541 | Total: 3521

Reprint: € 7,00

1033-1045

Research Article

Contributing to the taxonomic inventory of green-colored rain frogs: A new species of the Pristimantis lacrimosus group (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the southern Cordillera Azul, central Peru

Ernesto Castillo-Urbina, Miguel Vences, César Aguilar-Puntriano, Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler

10.3897/vz.73.e109309

14-11-2023

Unique: 2321 | Total: 2995

Reprint: € 7,00

1047-1061