| Digging their own macroevolutionary grave: fossoriality as an evolutionary dead end in snakes VP Cyriac, U Kodandaramaiah Journal of Evolutionary Biology 31 (4), 587-598, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| Description of two new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India VP Cyriac, A Johny, PK Umesh, MJ Palot Zootaxa 4459 (1), 85-100, 2018 | 29 | 2018 |
| Paleoclimate determines diversification patterns in the fossorial snake family Uropeltidae Cuvier, 1829 VP Cyriac, U Kodandaramaiah Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 116, 97-107, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Conspicuous colours reduce predation rates in fossorial uropeltid snakes VP Cyriac, U Kodandaramaiah PeerJ 7, e7508, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| A preliminary 16S rRNA phylogeny of the Indian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of two new cryptic species from the C. wynadensisclade V Cyriac, M Palot, K Deuti, P Umesh Vertebrate Zoology 70, 171-193, 2020 | 21 | 2020 |
| DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GROUND-DWELLING Cnemaspis STRAUCH, 1887 (SQUAMATA: GEKKONIDAE), FROM KERALA, ALLIED TO C. wynadensis (BEDDOME, 1870). VP Cyriac, PK Umesh Russian Journal of Herpetology 21 (3), 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Current status of Cnemaspis littoralis (Jerdon, 1853)(Sauria: Gekkonidae) with designation of a neotype VP Cyriac, PK Umesh Taprobanica: The Journal of Asian Biodiversity 5 (1), 2013 | 15 | 2013 |
| A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Wayanad region of peninsular India VP Cyriac, S Narayanan, FL Sampaio, P Umesh, DJ Gower Zootaxa 4778 (2), 329-342, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| A new cryptic species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), in the C. littoralis complex, from Anakkal, Palakkad, Kerala, India A Sayyed, VP Cyriac, R Dileepkumar Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 14 (3), 31-45, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| A novel third species of the Western Ghats endemic genus Ghatixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae), with description of its tadpole RK Abraham, JK Mathew, VP Cyriac, A Zachariah, DV Raju, A Zachariah Zootaxa 4048 (1), 101-113, 2015 | 12 | 2015 |
| A near-complete species-level phylogeny of uropeltid snakes harnessing historical museum collections as a DNA source FL Sampaio, JJ Day, LJM Wickramasinghe, VP Cyriac, A Papadopoulou, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 178, 107651, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| A new Indian species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 closely related to R. sanguineus Beddome, 1863 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) FL Sampaio, S Narayanan, VP Cyriac, G Venu, DJ Gower Zootaxa 4881 (1), 1-24, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Don’t waste your time: predators avoid prey with conspicuous colors that signal long handling time VP Cyriac, U Kodandaramaiah Evolutionary Ecology 33, 625-636, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
| Dwarfs of the fortress: A new cryptic species of dwarf gecko of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Rajgad fort in the northern Western Ghats of … A Sayyed, VP Cyriac, A Pardeshi, S Sulakhe Evolutionary Systematics 5, 25-38, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| Two new species of Raorchestes (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from the Silent Valley National Park in the Nilgiri Hills of the Western Ghats, India. A Zachariah, VP Cyriac, B Chandramohan, BR Ansil, JK Mathew, DV Raju, ... Salamandra 52 (2), 2016 | 9 | 2016 |
| NATURAL HISTORY OF THE GECKO HEMIDACTYLUS PRASHADI: DEMOGRAPHY, SPATIAL PARTITIONING, DIET, AND REPRODUCTION VP Cyriac, PK Umesh Herpetological Conservation and Biology 16 (2), 325-336, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Conspicuous colours reduce predation rates in fossorial uropeltid snakes. PeerJ, 7: 1–18 VP Cyriac, U Kodandaramaiah | 7 | 2019 |
| Warning signals promote morphological diversification in fossorial uropeltid snakes (Squamata: Uropeltidae) VP Cyriac, U Kodandaramaiah Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191 (2), 468-481, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| Rediscovery of Cnemaspis nilagirica Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita and Pethiyagoda, 2007 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Kerala, India with notes on morphology and distribution VP Cyriac, A Johny, PK Umesh, MJ Palot, PD Campbell Zootaxa 4586 (1), 098-108, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| Diversifying in the mountains: spatiotemporal diversification of frogs in the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot VP Cyriac, AV Mohan, KP Dinesh, V Torsekar, A Jayarajan, P Swamy, ... Evolution 78 (4), 701-715, 2024 | 4 | 2024 |