[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 …

A biogeographic synthesis of the amphibians and reptiles of Indochina

RH Bain, MM Hurley - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2011‏ - BioOne
ABSTRACT Indochina (Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) houses over 600 species of
amphibians and reptiles, roughly a quarter of which has been described within the last 15 …

A large phylogeny of turtles (Testudines) using molecular data

JM Guillon, L Guéry, V Hulin, M Girondot - Contributions to Zoology, 2012‏ - brill.com
Turtles (Testudines) form a monophyletic group with a highly distinctive body plan. The
taxonomy and phylogeny of turtles are still under discussion, at least for some clades …

Turtle hotspots: an analysis of the occurrence of tortoises and freshwater turtles in biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas, and turtle priority areas

RA Mittermeier, PP van Dijk… - Chelonian …, 2015‏ - meridian.allenpress.com
We analyzed the taxon richness and endemism of tortoises and freshwater turtles in the
world's premier biodiversity conservation priority areas and countries with greatest turtle …

Molecular phylogeny of Central and South American slider turtles: implications for biogeography and systematics (Testudines: Emydidae: Trachemys)

U Fritz, H Stuckas, M Vargas‐Ramírez… - Journal of Zoological …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
We analyse phylogeny, systematics and biogeography of slider turtles (Trachemys spp.)
using sequence data of four mitochondrial genes (3242 bp) and five nuclear loci (3396 bp) …

[ספר][B] Amphibians and Reptiles of Myanmar: Checklists and Keys. I. Amphibians, crocodilians, and turtles

GR Zug - 2022‏ - smithsonian.figshare.com
Myanmar (formerly Burma) has 150 species of formally described amphibians (5
salamanders, 2 caecilians, and 143 frogs) and more than 200 species of reptiles (2 …

Is the island rule general? Turtles disagree

Y Itescu, NE Karraker, P Raia… - Global Ecology and …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aim The island rule describes a trend toward dwarfism of large animals and gigantism of
small animals on islands. Studies of vertebrates, including reptiles, report conflicting results …

Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression

C Kehlmaier, X Zhang, A Georges, PD Campbell… - Scientific reports, 2019‏ - nature.com
Diagnosability is central to taxonomy as are type specimens which define taxa. New
advances in technologies and the discovery of new informative traits must be matched with …

Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species

A Georges, S Thomson - Zootaxa, 2010‏ - biotaxa.org
There have been many substantial advances in our knowledge of Australasian freshwater
turtle biodiversity in the last three decades, but the classification of genera and species is in …

Do turtles follow the rules? Latitudinal gradients in species richness, body size, and geographic range area of the world's turtles

KD Angielczyk, RW Burroughs… - Journal of Experimental …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how and why biodiversity is structured across the globe has been central to
ecology, evolution, and biogeography even before those disciplines took their modern …