Vertebrate Zoology 74

Research Article

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

Unique: 3613 | Total: 6628

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23-83

Research Article

Revision of the Chironius bicarinatus complex (Serpentes: Colubridae): Redefined species boundaries and description of a new species

Vinícius Sudré, Albedi Andrade-Junior, Manuella Folly, Josué A. R. Azevedo, Robson Waldemar Ávila, Felipe Franco Curcio, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, Paulo Passos

10.3897/vz.74.e106238

23-01-2024

Unique: 2942 | Total: 5909

Reprint: € 13,00

85-120

Research Article

Description of a new karst-adapted species of the subgenus Japonigekko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Gekko) from Guangxi, southern China

Hao-Tian Wang, Shuo Qi, Dan-Yang Zhou, Ying-Yong Wang

10.3897/vz.74.e113899

23-01-2024

Unique: 1884 | Total: 4316

Reprint: € 6,00

121-132

Research Article

Gold in the mountains: Striking new species of Papuascincus (Sphenomorphini: Scincidae) from New Guinea

Alex Slavenko, Stephen J. Richards, Stephen C. Donnellan, Allen Allison, Paul M. Oliver

10.3897/vz.74.e112782

23-01-2024

Unique: 1971 | Total: 4457

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133-149

Research Article

Discovery of a new species of kangaroo lizard (Squamata: Agamidae: Agasthyagama) from the southern Western Ghats of India

Sandeep Das, Saunak Pal, Surya Narayanan, K. Subin, Muhamed Jafer Palot, K. P. Rajkumar, V. Deepak

10.3897/vz.74.e113084

25-01-2024

Unique: 3985 | Total: 7142

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151-168

Research Article

Systematic revision of the Calotes jerdoni complex (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) in the Pan-Himalaya

Kai Wang, V. Deepak, Abhijit Das, L. Lee Grismer, Shuo Liu, Jing Che

10.3897/vz.74.e109088

07-03-2024

Unique: 6552 | Total: 9564

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169-192

Research Article

A new living species of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from central-western Argentina

Raquel Alvarado-Larios, Pablo Teta, Pablo Cuello, J. Pablo Jayat, Andrea P. Tarquino-Carbonell, Guillermo D’Elía, Paula Cornejo, Agustina A. Ojeda

10.3897/vz.74.e115242

08-03-2024

Unique: 3169 | Total: 6039

Reprint: € 7,00

193-207

Research Article

Vertebral formula and numerical variations in the spine of the Antarctic and southern South American penguins (Aves: Sphenisciformes)

M. Alejandra Sosa, Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche

10.3897/vz.74.e114112

08-03-2024

Unique: 2487 | Total: 5354

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209-219

Research Article

A new species of mud snake (Squamata: Homalopsidae: Myrrophis) from southern Vietnam

Sang Ngoc Nguyen, Manh Van Le, Amy Lathrop, Thi-Dieu-Hien Vo, Robert W. Murphy, Jing Che

10.3897/vz.74.e116992

11-03-2024

Unique: 2547 | Total: 5255

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221-233

Research Article

Integrative taxonomy of Cercomacroides serva (Sclater, 1858) demonstrates the validity of C. hypomelaena (Sclater, 1890) comb. nov. (Aves: Thamnophilidae)

Vagner Cavarzere, Luís F. Silveira

10.3897/vz.74.e112446

11-03-2024

Unique: 1613 | Total: 4067

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235-247

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: 3596 | Total: 6786

Reprint: € 12,00

249-277

Research Article

A new generic name for the “Lepadichthys” lineatus complex with a rediagnosis of Discotrema, a senior synonym of Unguitrema, and comments on their phylogenetic relationships (Gobiesocidae: Diademichthyinae)

Kyoji Fujiwara, Hiroyuki Motomura, Adam P. Summers, Kevin W. Conway

10.3897/vz.74.e113955

28-03-2024

Unique: 1625 | Total: 4015

Reprint: € 9,00

279-301

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: 2783 | Total: 5601

Reprint: € 14,00

303-342

Research Article

A new species of the genus Amolops (Amphibia: Ranidae) and the first national record of Amolops vitreus from China

Yun-He Wu, Zhong-Bin Yu, Chen-Qi Lu, Yin-Peng Zhang, Wen-Jie Dong, Xiao-Long Liu, Felista Kasyoka Kilunda, Yun Xiong, Yun-Fang Jiang, Hong Ouyang, Zhong-Xiong Fu, Yun-Biao He, Zhi-Yong Yuan, Jing Che

10.3897/vz.74.e108013

04-04-2024

Unique: 2266 | Total: 4863

Reprint: € 7,00

343-357

Research Article

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

Unique: 4116 | Total: 6766

Reprint: € 9,00

359-379

Review Article

Colonization record of the Galápagos’ vertebrate clades: Biogeographical issues plus a conservation insight

Jason R. Ali, Uwe Fritz

10.3897/vz.74.e122418

16-05-2024

Unique: 1558 | Total: 3549

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381-395

Research Article

Revisiting Molossus (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Molossidae) diversity: Exploring southern limits and revealing a novel species in Argentina

Micaela A. Chambi Velasquez, Romina Pavé, María A. Argoitia, Pablo Schierloh, María G. Piccirilli, Valeria C. Colombo, Fernando J. Beltrán, Daniel M. Cisterna, Diego A. Caraballo

10.3897/vz.74.e122822

10-06-2024

Unique: 1957 | Total: 4223

Reprint: € 8,00

397-416

Research Article

Two new species of torrent-breeding treefrogs (Anura: Pelodryadidae: Litoria) from hill forests on the southern edge of New Guinea’s Central Cordillera

Stephen J. Richards, Paul M. Oliver

10.3897/vz.74.e123251

28-06-2024

Unique: 1319 | Total: 2980

Reprint: € 8,00

417-433

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: 2352 | Total: 4680

Reprint: € 8,00

435-452

Research Article

Description of six new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeastern India

Bitupan Boruah, Surya Narayanan, Neelavar Ananthram Aravind, Samuel Lalronunga, V. Deepak, Abhijit Das

10.3897/vz.74.e124752

29-07-2024

Unique: 2189 | Total: 4170

Reprint: € 13,00

453-486

Research Article

Comparing morphology and cranial osteology in two divergent clades of dice snakes from continental Europe (Squamata: Natricidae: Natrix tessellata)

Simona Papežíková, Martin Ivanov, Petr Papežík, Adam Javorčík, Konrad Mebert, Daniel Jablonski

10.3897/vz.74.e123824

03-09-2024

Unique: 1511 | Total: 2948

Reprint: € 9,00

511-531

Research Article

How the youngsters teach the “old timers”: Terminology of turbinals in adult primates inferred from ontogenetic stages

Franziska Wagner, Valerie Burke DeLeon, Christopher J. Bonar, Timothy D. Smith

10.3897/vz.74.e126944

23-08-2024

Unique: 1083 | Total: 2346

Reprint: € 9,00

487-509

Research Article

Two new miniature species of the fish genus Priocharax from the Rio Tapajós and Amazonas drainages, Pará, Brazil (Teleostei: Characiformes: Characidae)

George M.T. Mattox, Flávio C. T. Lima, Ralf Britz, Camila S. Souza, Claudio Oliveira

10.3897/vz.74.e130038

12-09-2024

Unique: 1649 | Total: 2976

Reprint: € 8,00

533-550

Research Article

Vicars in the desert: Substrate specialisation and paleo-erosion underpin cryptic speciation in an Australian arid-zone lizard lineage (Diplodactylidae: Diplodactylus)

Peter J. McDonald, Aaron L. Fenner, Janne Torkkola, Paul M. Oliver

10.3897/vz.74.e128775

03-10-2024

Unique: 1565 | Total: 2815

Reprint: € 8,00

577-594

Research Article

Four in one: An integrative taxonomic revision of the Microhyla berdmorei complex (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) illustrates the tremendous amphibian diversity of Southeast Asia

10.3897/vz.74.e127937

04-10-2024

Unique: 2673 | Total: 4370

Reprint: € 17,00

595-641

Research Article

Communicator whistles: A Trek through the taxonomy of the Boophis marojezensis complex reveals seven new, morphologically cryptic treefrogs from Madagascar (Amphibia: Anura: Mantellidae)

Miguel Vences, Jörn Köhler, Carl R. Hutter, Michaela Preick, Alice Petzold, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Frank Glaw, Mark D. Scherz

10.3897/vz.74.e121110

14-10-2024

Unique: 7696 | Total: 10767

Reprint: € 14,00

643-681

Research Article

The skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) of Ecuador, with description of a new Amazonian species

Omar Torres-Carvajal, Camila Sandoval, Diego A. Paucar

10.3897/vz.74.e130147

20-09-2024

Unique: 1539 | Total: 2811

Reprint: € 7,00

551-564

Research Article

Recent recolonisation of West Siberia and northern cryptic refugia in the grass snake Natrix natrix scutata (Pallas, 1771) (Squamata: Natricidae)

Evgeniy Simonov, Artem Lisachov, Spartak Litvinchuk, Anastasia Klenina, Polina Chernigova, Alexander Ruchin, Andrey Bakiev, Kazhmurat Akhmedenov

10.3897/vz.74.e123485

25-09-2024

Unique: 985 | Total: 2033

Reprint: € 6,00

565-576

Research Article

Lost in synonymy: Integrative species delimitation reveals two unrecognized species of Southern Asian tree squirrels (Rodentia: Sciuridae: Callosciurinae)

Arlo Hinckley, Jesús E. Maldonado, Noriko Tamura, Jennifer A. Leonard, Melissa T. R. Hawkins

10.3897/vz.74.e133467

28-10-2024

Unique: 1941 | Total: 3189

Reprint: € 11,00

683-707

Research Article

Two new species of Thomasomys (Cricetidae: Sigmodontinae) from the western Andes of Ecuador and an updated phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus

10.3897/vz.74.e128528

05-11-2024

Unique: 2161 | Total: 3498

Reprint: € 11,00

709-734

Editorial

Editorial Expression of Concern

Uwe Fritz

10.3897/vz.74.e144189

11-12-2024

Unique: 611 | Total: 1100

Reprint: € 3,00

735-735

Research Article

The grey zone of taxonomy—The case of the Sikkim Myotis (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae: Myotis sicarius), first recorded from Southeast Asia

Dorottya Győrössy, Vuong Tan Tu, Gábor Csorba, Sanjan Thapa, Péter Estók, Gábor Földvári, Tamás Görföl

10.3897/vz.74.e127269

17-12-2024

Unique: 1048 | Total: 1698

Reprint: € 7,00

737-749