Vertebrate Zoology 75

Research Article

Morphological diversity of tadpoles of fork-tongued frogs (Anura: Dicroglossidae) with different trophic specializations

Anna B. Vassilieva, Trung Duc Nguyen, Pavel A. Sorokin

10.3897/vz.75.e139103

05-02-2025

Unique: 2380 | Total: 4317

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31-57

Research Article

Confusions across the hemispheres: Taxonomic re-evaluation of two lanternshark species, Etmopterus lucifer and E. molleri (Squaliformes: Etmopteridae)

Shing-Lai Ng, Nicolas Straube, Kwang-Ming Liu, Shoou-Jeng Joung

10.3897/vz.75.e126067

21-03-2025

Unique: 2177 | Total: 4320

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59-86

Research Article

Intraspecific structure of Myotis petax Hollister, 1912 (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) based on mitochondrial DNA and morphological data

Uliana V. Gorobeyko, Denis V. Kazakov, Anastasia A. Kadetova, Irina N. Sheremetyeva, Valentin Yu. Guskov, Irina V. Kartavtseva, Nikolai E. Dokuchaev, Evgeniy S. Zakharov, Sergei V. Kruskop

10.3897/vz.75.e134683

21-03-2025

Unique: 1351 | Total: 2895

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87-106

Research Article

A revision of the Anolis carolinensis subgroup supports three species in Cuba, including a new cryptic species (Squamata: Anolidae)

Javier Torres, Dexter Reilly, Claudia Nuñez-Penichet, R. Graham Reynolds, Richard E. Glor

10.3897/vz.75.e152054

24-04-2025

Unique: 2005 | Total: 3336

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107-126

Research Article

The taxonomic quagmire of northern Australian snake-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae): Chelodina kuchlingi—Extinct or hiding in plain sight?

Christian Kehlmaier, Uwe Fritz, Gerald Kuchling

10.3897/vz.75.e150370

24-04-2025

Unique: 1723 | Total: 3305

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127-145

Research Article

Cranial variation and taxonomic status of Far-Eastern badgers, with remarks on Pleistocene paleogeography of Meles (Carnivora: Mustelidae)

Andrey Y. Puzachenko, Viktor G. Yudin, Alexei V. Abramov

10.3897/vz.75.e148147

23-05-2025

Unique: 1612 | Total: 2529

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147-164

Research Article

New insights into the phylogeny and skull evolution of stegosaurian dinosaurs: An extraordinary cranium from the European Late Jurassic (Dinosauria: Stegosauria)

Sergio Sánchez-Fenollosa, Alberto Cobos

10.3897/vz.75.e146618

26-05-2025

Unique: 6123 | Total: 9689

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165-189

Research Article

Integrative analysis of geographic variation and species boundaries in the white-lipped pitviper complex (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae: Trimeresurus albolabris)

Anita Malhotra, Mrinalini Walter, Guillem Limia Russel, Roger S. Thorpe

10.3897/vz.75.e142775

06-06-2025

Unique: 2598 | Total: 3763

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191-225

Research Article

The morphological, chromosomal and molecular illumination of the dramatic diversity of the stripe-backed shrews, Sorex cylindricauda species complex (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae)

Anna A. Bannikova, Paulina D. Jenkins, Vladimir S. Lebedev, Svetlana V. Pavlova, Vasily D. Yakushov, Alexandra A. Raspopova, Yongke Zhu, Yun Fang, Yue-Hua Sun, Boris I. Sheftel

10.3897/vz.75.e153115

18-06-2025

Unique: 1275 | Total: 1926

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227-243

Research Article

Phreatic mysteries: Diversity and distribution of fossorial and aquifer-dwelling synbranchid eels of southern peninsular India, and implications for conservation (Pisces: Synbranchiformes: Synbranchidae)

Rajeev Raghavan, Remya L. Sundar, C.P. Arjun, Arya Sidharthan, Nithinraj Panangattu Dharmarajan, Appukuttannair Biju Kumar, Siby Philip, Anvar Ali, Mandar S. Paingankar, Glavin Thomas Rodrigues, Ralf Britz, Neelesh Dahanukar

10.3897/vz.75.e155717

11-08-2025

Unique: 1589 | Total: 2134

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245-258

Review Article

Shedding the mitochondrial blinkers: A long-overdue challenge for species delimitation in herpetology

Wolfgang Wüster

10.3897/vz.75.e161536

21-08-2025

Unique: 2765 | Total: 3617

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259-275