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A New Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Vanuatu

scholarly article by Hidetoshi Ota et al published 1998 in Herpetologica

A New Record of the Vietnamese Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces tamdaoensis (Reptilia: Scincidae), from Hong Kong, China, with Special Reference to Its Sexual Dimorphism

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A New Species of Gekko (Gekkonidae: Squamata) from Thailand

scholarly article by Hidetoshi Ota & Jarujin Nabhitabhata published 16 May 1991 in Copeia

A New Species of Lepidodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Sabah, Malaysia

scientific article published on 3 August 1988

A New Species of the Genus Mauremys (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the Upper Pleistocene of Miyakojima Island, Ryukyus Archipelago, Japan

article published in 2015

A New Subspecies of the Agamid Lizard, Japalura polygonata (Hallowell, 1861) (Reptilia: Squamata), from Yonagunijima Island of the Yaeyama Group, Ryukyu Archipelago

scholarly article (2003)

A New Triploid Hemidactylus (Gekkonidae: Sauria) from Taiwan, with Comments on Morphological and Karyological Variation in the H. garnotii-vietnamensis Complex

scientific article published in March 1989

A Record of Gekko hokouensis (Reptilia: Sauria) from Lanyu Island, Taiwan, with Notes on Its Variation

scientific article published on 30 June 1988

A comprehensive appraisal of evolutionary diversity in venomous Asian coralsnakes of the genus Sinomicrurus (Serpentes: Elapidae) using Bayesian coalescent inference and supervised machine learning

scholarly article (2021)

A new fossil lizard from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture, western Honshu, Japan

A new species of Plestiodon (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Senkaku Group, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

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A new species of the genus Scincella (Squamata: Scincidae) from Yonagunijima Island, Southern Ryukyus, Japan

scientific article published on 19 April 2022

A new, recently extinct subspecies of the Kuroiwa’s Leopard Gecko, Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Squamata: Eublepharidae), from Yoronjima Island of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

scientific article published on 30 June 2014

Allozyme Variation in the Newt Tylototriton andersoni from Three Islands of the Ryukyu Archipelago

Aphaniotis nasuta (de Jong, 1930), a Junior Synonym of A. ornata (Van Lidth de Jeude, 1893) (Squamata: Agamidae).

Artificial Production and Natural Breeding of the Endangered Frog SpeciesOdorrana ishikawae, with Special Reference to Fauna Conservation in the Laboratory

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

Bermuda as an evolutionary life raft for an ancient lineage of endangered lizards

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Biochemical systematics of the Latiscutatus species-group of the genus Eumeces (Scincidae: Reptilia) from east asian islands

scientific article published in July 1994

Clonal Composition of the Parthenogenetic Gecko, Lepidodactylus lugubris, at the Northernmost Extremity of Its Range

scientific article published in September 2000

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Critically endangered island endemic or peripheral population of a widespread species? Conservation genetics of Kikuchi's gecko and the global challenge of protecting peripheral oceanic island endemic vertebrates

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Description of Two New Species of the Genus Gekko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Tokara and Amami Island Groups in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

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Detecting inter- and intra-island genetic diversity: population structure of the endangered crocodile newt, Echinotriton andersoni, in the Ryukyus

scientific article published on 11 October 2019

Dietary Habits of the Introduced Cane Toad Bufo marinus (Amphibia: Bufonidae) on Ishigakijima, Southern Ryukyus, Japan1

Digestive Tract Contents of Oligodon formosanus and Their Implications on the Adaptation for Reptilian-Egg Eating Snakes

scientific article published on 31 December 1994

Discovery of a New Species ofLuperosaurus(Squamata; Gekkonidae) from Sulawesi, with a Phylogenetic Analysis of the Genus, and Comments on the Status ofLuperosaurus serraticaudus

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Discovery of sympatric cryptic species within Gekko hokouensis (Gekkonidae: Squamata) from the Okinawa Islands, Japan, by use of allozyme data

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Early Pleistocene Fossil Snakes (Reptilia: Squamata) from Okinawajima Island in the Ryukyu Archipelago, Southwestern Japan

scientific article published in December 2016

Estimation of the Origin of Polypedates leucomystax (Amphibia: Anura: Rhacophoridae) Introduced to the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

scientific article published in July 2009

Evolution of the Noncoding Features of Sea Snake Mitochondrial Genomes within Elapidae

scientific article published in 2022

Extensive Natural Hybridization Between Two Geckos, Gekko tawaensis and Gekko japonicus (Reptilia: Squamata), Throughout Their Broad Sympatric Area

scientific article published on February 2006

Extreme Karyotypic Divergence between Species of the Genus Gonocephalus (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from Borneo and Australia

Geckos of the Genus Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Reptilia) in Micronesia: Description of a New Species and Reevaluation of the Status of Gecko moestus Peters, 1867

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Genetic Variation among Insular Populations of Gekko hokouensis (Reptilia: Squamata) near the Northeastern Borders of the Oriental and Palearctic Zoogeographic Regions in the Northern Ryukyus, Japan

scientific article published in 1997

Genetic Variation in the Indian Rice Frog, Rana limnocharis (Amphibia: Anura), in Taiwan, as Revealed by Allozyme Data

Genetic and Morphological Assessments of Hybridization Between Two Non-Native Geoemydid Turtles,<i>Mauremys reevesii</i>and<i>Mauremys mutica,</i>in Northcentral Japan

scientific article published in 2014

Genetic relationships and reproductive-isolation mechanisms among the Fejervarya limnocharis complex from Indonesia (Java) and other Asian countries

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Geographic Variation and Sexual Size Dimorphism in Mauremys mutica (Cantor, 1842) (Reptilia: Bataguridae), with Description of a New Subspecies from the Southern Ryukyus, Japan

scholarly article by Yuichirou Yasukawa et al published April 1996 in Zoological Science

Geographic Variation in the Endemic Ryukyu Green Snake Cyclophiops semicarinatus (Serpentes: Colubridae)

scientific article published in March 1995

Geographic Variation in the Endemic Skink, Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus from the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

scientific article published in March 1999

Geographic Variation in the Two Smooth Skinks, Scincella boettgeri and S. formosensis (Squamata: Scincidae), in the Subtropical East Asian Islands

scientific article published in 2001

Geographic genetic structure in two laticaudine sea kraits, Laticauda laticaudata and Laticauda semifasciata (Serpentes: Elapidae), in the Ryukyu-Taiwan region as inferred from mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences

scientific article published in August 2013

Geography-Dependent Horizontal Gene Transfer from Vertebrate Predators to Their Prey

scientific article published on 12 March 2022

Growth and Reproduction of Gekko hokouensis (Reptilia: Squamata) on Okinawajima Island of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

scientific article published in September 2002

Japalura luei: A New Agamid Lizard from Taiwan (Reptilia: Squamata)

scientific article published on 3 August 1998

Karyotype Analysis of Four Blind Snake Species (Reptilia: Squamata: Scolecophidia) and Karyotypic Changes in Serpentes

scientific article published on 13 February 2019

Karyotype of a Ranid Frog, Platymantis pelewensis, from Belau, Micronesia, with Comments on Its Systematic Implications

scientific article published in 1995

Karyotype of the Lygosomine Genus Ateuchosaurus from East Asia

scientific article published in December 1997

Karyotypes of Two Lygosomine Skinks of the Genus Sphenomorphus from Taiwan

scientific article published in June 1994

Karyotypes of Two Water Skinks of the Genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Squamata) from Borneo

scientific article published in 1991

Karyotypes of two species of the genusCyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Sarawak, Malaysia

Karyotypic Uniformity in East Asian Populations of Hemidactylus frenatus (Sauria: Gekkonidae)

scientific article published in 1989

Molecular Phylogeography of the Endemic Five-lined Skink (Plestiodon marginatus) (Reptilia: Scincidae) of the Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan, with Special Reference to the Relationship of a Northern Tokara Population1

scientific article published in July 2008

Molecular evaluation of phylogenetic significances in the highly divergent karyotypes of the genus Gonocephalus (Reptilia: Agamidae) from tropical Asia

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Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of caecilians from Southeast Asia (Amphibia, Gymnophiona, Ichthyophiidae), with special reference to high cryptic species diversity in Sundaland

scientific article (publication date: June 2012)

Molecular structures of centromeric heterochromatin and karyotypic evolution in the Siamese crocodile (Crocodylus siamensis) (Crocodylidae, Crocodylia).

scientific article published on 22 October 2008

Morphological variation, karyotype and reproduction of the parthenogenetic blind snake, Ramphotyphlops braminus, from the insular region of East Asia and Saipan

scientific article published in 1991

Multiple invasions of the Ryukyu Archipelago by Oriental frogs of the subgenus Odorrana with phylogenetic reassessment of the related subgenera of the genus Rana

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New fossil anurans from the Lower Cretaceous Sasayama Group of Hyogo Prefecture, Western Honshu, Japan

scientific article published in 2016

On the Live Coloration and Partial Mitochondrial DNA Sequences in Goniurosaurus kuroiwae orientalis (Squamata: Eublepharidae), with Description of a New Subspecies from Tokashikijima Island, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan

scientific article published on 25 June 2017

On the herpetofauna of the Matsu Group - I. Reptiles and amphibians recorded from Nankan and Peikan Islands

scientific article published on 31 December 1997

Origin of Japanese Populations of Reeves' Pond Turtle, Mauremys reevesii (Reptilia: Geoemydidae), as Inferred by a Molecular Approach

scientific article published in 2011

Phylogenetic Relationships of Brown Frogs from Taiwan and Japan Assessed by Mitochondrial Cytochrome<i>b</i>Gene Sequences (Rana: Ranidae)

scientific article published in 1998

Phylogenetic Relationships of Eublepharid Geckos (Reptilia: Squamata): A Molecular Approach

scholarly article by Hidetoshi Ota et al published August 1999 in Zoological Science

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Family Agamidae (Reptilia: Iguania) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

scholarly article by Masanao Honda et al published May 2000 in Zoological Science

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Family Agamidae (Reptilia: Iguania) Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

scholarly article by Masanao Honda et al published 2000 in Zoological Science

Phylogenetic Relationships of the Flying Lizards, Genus Draco (Reptilia, Agamidae)

scholarly article by Masanao Honda et al published June 1999 in Zoological Science

Phylogenetic relationships of the Asian box turtles of the genus Cuora sensu lato (Reptilia: Bataguridae) inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences

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Phylogenetic relationships, genetic divergence, historical biogeography and conservation of an endangered gecko, Goniurosaurus kuroiwae (Squamata: Eublepharidae), from the Central Ryukyus, Japan

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Phylogeny and Differentiation of Wide-Ranging Ryukyu Kajika Frog Buergeria japonica (Amphibia: Rhacophoridae): Geographic Genetic Pattern Not Simply Explained by Vicariance Through Strait Formation

scientific article published in June 2015

Phylogeny and biogeography of the Anderson's crocodile newt, Echinotriton andersoni (Amphibia: Caudata), as revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences

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Phylogeny and biogeography of water skinks of the genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Scincidae): a molecular approach

scholarly article by Masanao Honda et al published January 2006 in Zoologica Scripta

Phylogeny and historical demography of Cynops pyrrhogaster (Amphibia: Urodela): taxonomic relationships and distributional changes associated with climatic oscillations

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Phylogeny and phylogeography of the sword-tailed newt, Cynops ensicauda (Amphibia: Caudata), as revealed by nucleotide sequences of mitochondrial DNA.

scientific article published on 10 November 2009

Phylogeny of the lizard subfamily Lygosominae (Reptilia: Scincidae), with special reference to the origin of the new world taxa

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Phylogeography of the two smooth skinks, Scincella boettgeri and S. formosensis (Squamata: Scincidae) in the Southern Ryukyus and Taiwan, as inferred from variation in mitochondrial cytochrome b sequences

scientific article published in April 2014

Re-Evaluation of the Status of Gecko verreauxi Tytler, 1864, from the Andaman Islands, India

scientific article published in June 1991

Reevaluation of the Taxonomic Status of TwoLepidodactylusSpecies (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Lesser Sunda Archipelago, Indonesia

scientific article published in December 2000

Sphenomorphus aquaticus Malkmus, 1991, a junior synonym of Tropidophorus beccarii (Peters, 1871) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae)

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Systematic Review of Colubrid Snakes of the Genus Pareas in the East Asian Islands

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Systematic Review of the Elapid Snakes Allied to Hemibungarus japonicus (Gunther, 1868) in the East Asian Islands, with Description of a New Subspecies from the Central Ryukyus

scholarly article by Hidetoshi Ota et al published December 1999 in Journal of Herpetology

Taxonomic Redefinition of Japalura swinhonis Günther (Agamidae: Squamata), with a Description of a New Subspecies of J. polygonata from Taiwan

scientific article published in 1991

Taxonomic Status of the Korean Populations of the Genus Scincella (Squamata: Scincidae)

scientific article published in 2001

Taxonomic Status of the Taiwanese Gekko, with Comments on the Synonymy of Luperosaurus amissus Taylor

scientific article published in March 1989

Taxonomic Validity and Phylogeography of the East Eurasian Natricine Snake, Rhabdophis lateralis (Berthold, 1859) (Serpentes: Colubridae), as Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Data

scientific article published in August 2014

Taxonomic re-evaluation of the status of Draco cornutus Gunther, 1864 (Reptilia: Agamidae)

scientific article published in 1999

Taxonomic re-evaluation of the status of Draco cornutus Günther, 1864 (Reptilia: Agamidae)

Taxonomic relationships within the pan-oriental narrow-mouth toad Microhyla ornata as revealed by mtDNA analysis (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae)

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The First Successful Incubation of Eggs of the Endemic Ryukyu Keelback, Amphiesma pryeri (Colubridae: Squamata)

The Herpetofauna of the Senkaku Group, Ryukyu Archipelago

scientific article published in 1993

The Second Specimen of Calotes kinabaluensis de Grijs (Squamata: Agamidae) from Sabah, Malaysia, with Comments on the Taxonomic Status of the Species

scientific article published in 1996

The ZW sex chromosomes of Gekko hokouensis (Gekkonidae, Squamata) represent highly conserved homology with those of avian species.

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The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

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The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches

scholarly article published in 2021

Two New Species of Luperosaurus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Borneo