Vertebrate Zoology 74

Editorial

Editorial Expression of Concern

Uwe Fritz

10.3897/vz.74.e144189

11-12-2024

Unique: 1020 | Total: 1670

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735-735

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: 3072 | Total: 4774

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709-734

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: 2825 | Total: 4508

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683-707

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: 9060 | Total: 12626

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643-681

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: 3693 | Total: 5846

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595-641

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: 2047 | Total: 3510

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577-594

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: 1520 | Total: 2776

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565-576

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: 2129 | Total: 3666

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551-564

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: 2281 | Total: 3806

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533-550

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: 2243 | Total: 3927

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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: 1499 | Total: 2936

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487-509