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: 1720 | Total: 2318

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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: 1156 | Total: 1741

Reprint: € 13,50

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: 795 | Total: 1198

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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: 723 | Total: 1132

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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: 2266 | Total: 3121

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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: 5032 | Total: 5794

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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: 1447 | Total: 2017

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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: 467 | Total: 765

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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: 841 | Total: 1280

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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: 456 | Total: 823

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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: 1500 | Total: 2268

Reprint: € 12,30

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: 385 | Total: 709

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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: 591 | Total: 969

Reprint: € 14,70

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: 579 | Total: 910

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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: 635 | Total: 847

Reprint: € 9,90

359-379