[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in taxonomic studies, biogeographic analysis, and revised checklist of reptiles in Indochina

NA Poyarkov, T Van Nguyen, ES Popov… - Russian Journal of …, 2023 - rjh.folium.ru
Abstract The Indochinese Peninsula represents one of the key global biodiversity hotspots in
Southeast Asia. The herpetofauna of Indochina (herein including Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia …

Biodiversity of forests over limestone in Southeast Asia with emphasis on the Philippines

PJ Tolentino, JRL Navidad, MD ANGELES… - Biodiversitas Journal of …, 2020 - smujo.id
Tolentino PJS, Navidad JRL, Angeles MD, Fernandez AP, Villanueva ELC, Obena RDR,
Buot Jr IE. 2020. Review: Biodiversity of forests over limestone in Southeast Asia with …

[HTML][HTML] Singapore's herpetofauna: updated and annotated checklist, history, conservation, and distribution

A Figueroa, MEY Low, KKP Lim - Zootaxa, 2023 - mapress.com
Given Singapore's location at the confluence of important maritime trading routes, and that it
was established as a British East India Company trading post in 1819, it is unsurprising that …

Diversifying on the Ark: multiple new endemic lineages of dwarf geckos from the Western Ghats provide insights into the systematics and biogeography of South Asian …

S Pal, ZA Mirza, P Dsouza, K Shanker - Zoological Research, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The highly speciose gekkonid genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 is polyphyletic, with three
distantly related and geographically isolated clades from Africa, South Asia (SA), and …

Species delimitation with gene flow: A methodological comparison and population genomics approach to elucidate cryptic species boundaries in Malaysian Torrent …

KO Chan, AM Alexander, LL Grismer, YC Su… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Accurately delimiting species boundaries is a nontrivial undertaking that can have significant
effects on downstream inferences. We compared the efficacy of commonly used species …

Granite boulders act as deep‐time climate refugia: A Miocene divergent clade of rupicolous Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Mysore …

I Agarwal, T Thackeray, S Pal… - Journal of Zoological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We describe a divergent clade and three new rupicolous species of dwarf geckos of the
genus Cnemaspis from the Mysore Plateau, southern India. Cnemaspis bangarasp. nov., C …

[HTML][HTML] A multitude of spots! Five new microendemic species of the Cnemaspis gracilis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from massifs in the Shevaroy landscape, Tamil …

I Agarwal, T Thackeray… - Vertebrate …, 2022 - vertebrate-zoology.arphahub.com
South Asian Cnemaspis are one of the most diverse clades of gekkonids in South Asia with
their highest diversity in the Western Ghats and Sri Lanka. These geckos include only a few …

Description of two new species of Hemiphyllodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from karst landscapes in Yunnan, China, highlights complex conservation needs

AP Agung, A Chornelia, LL Grismer… - Zoological …, 2022 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Karst habitats are hotspots of diversity and endemism. Their naturally fragmented
distributions across broad geographic landscapes have led to the complex array of smaller …

Small, rare and trendy: traits and biogeography of lizards described in the 21st century

S Meiri - Journal of Zoology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The pace of new reptile species descriptions, especially of new lizard descriptions, is rapidly
increasing. The number of recognized lizard species has increased by more than 30% since …

Cryptic species, taxonomic inflation, or a bit of both? New species phenomenon in Sri Lanka as suggested by a phylogeny of dwarf geckos (Reptilia, Squamata …

I Agarwal, S Biswas, AM Bauer… - Systematics and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We evaluated the status of 16 of 22 recognized Sri Lankan Cnemaspis Strauch species, and
flagged overlooked diversity with two mitochondrial (cyt b & ND2) and two nuclear markers …