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: 6510 | Total: 10145

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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: 5297 | Total: 8851

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: 3632 | Total: 6505

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: 4142 | Total: 7104

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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: 6325 | Total: 10202

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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: 9181 | Total: 12764

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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: 4954 | Total: 8464

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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: 5327 | Total: 9227

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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: 4661 | Total: 8007

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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: 2755 | Total: 5604

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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: 6558 | Total: 10659

Reprint: € 12,00

249-277