Tropical Africa is home to an astonishing biodiversity occurring in a variety of ecosystems.
Past climatic change and geological events have impacted the evolution and diversification …

This chapter reviews current knowledge on the diversity of terrestrial reptiles in the Gulf of
Guinea oceanic islands and provides a brief history of research on this group of animals. A …

In diesem Katalog werden alle Typusexemplare von Amphibien und Reptilien der
Herpetologischen Sammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien angeführt. Die Typen …

Frogs in the genus Amnirana (family Ranidae) are widely distributed across sub-Saharan
Africa and present a model system for exploring the relationship between diversification and …

Members of the snake subfamily Aparallactinae occur in various habitats throughout sub-
Saharan Africa. The monophyly of aparallactine snakes is well established, but relationships …

Abstract The Mascarene ridged frog, Ptychadena mascareniensis, is a species complex that
includes numerous lineages occurring mostly in humid savannas and open forests of …

This review summarises the current status of our knowledge of Angolan reptile diversity, and
places it into a historical context of understanding and growth. It is compared and contrasted …

Abstract The genus Panaspis in Angola is represented by four species, most of them part of
taxonomically and nomenclaturally challenging species-complexes. We present a …

We assess the phylogeographic structure and test several species delimitation methods in
the forest-living Pondo flat-gecko, Afroedura pondolia, by sampling specimens from across …

Atractaspidines are poorly studied, fossorial snakes that are found throughout Africa and
western Asia, including the Middle East. We employed concatenated gene-tree analyses …