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List of works by Hussam Zaher

A Cretaceous terrestrial snake with robust hindlimbs and a sacrum

scientific article (publication date: 20 April 2006)

A New Species ofAmeivula(Squamata, Teiidae) from Southern Espinhaço Mountain Range, Brazil

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A New Species ofEpictia(Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) from Central Brazil

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A combined morphological and molecular phylogeny of the genusChironius Fitzinger, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae)

scholarly article by Julia Klaczko et al published 9 June 2014 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

A complete skull of an early cretaceous sauropod and the evolution of advanced titanosaurians

scientific article published in 2011

A new notosuchian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and the phylogeny of advanced notosuchians

scientific article published in 2014

A new snake skull from the Paleocene of Bolivia sheds light on the evolution of macrostomatans

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A new species of Baurusuchus (Crocodyliformes, Mesoeucrocodylia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Brazil, with the first complete postcranial skeleton described for the family Baurusuchidae

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A new species of Leposternon Wagler, 1824 (Squamata, Amphisbaenia) from northeastern Argentina

scientific article (publication date: 29 October 2015)

A new species of Mesoclemmys, from the open formations of northeastern Brazil (Chelonii, Chelidae) ]]>

scientific article published in January 2005

A new species of Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 from western Amazonia, with notes on morphology for members of the Thamnodynastes pallidus group (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Tachymenini)

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A new species of monadal coral snake of the genus Micrurus (Serpentes, Elapidae) from western Amazon

scientific article (publication date: 24 June 2015)

A new teiid lizard of the genus Callopistes Gravenhorst, 1838 (Squamata, Teiidae), from the lower Miocene of Argentina

scholarly article by Ana B. Quadros et al published 21 September 2018 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

A review of the fossil record of caecilians (Lissamphibia: Gymnophionomorpha) with comments on its use to calibrate molecular timetrees

An Early Cretaceous theropod dinosaur from Brazil sheds light on the cranial evolution of the Abelisauridae

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Aquatic adaptations in a Neotropical coral snake: A study of morphological convergence

scientific article published in 2017

Consuming viscous prey: a novel protein-secreting delivery system in neotropical snail-eating snakes

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Contributions to ophiology in Zootaxa 2001–2020: patterns and trends

scientific article published on 28 May 2021

Cranial adaptations for feeding on snails in species of Sibynomorphus (Dipsadidae: Dipsadinae).

scientific article published on 28 September 2016

Diversification in vipers: Phylogenetic relationships, time of divergence and shifts in speciation rates

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Does counting species count as taxonomy? On misrepresenting systematics, yet again

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

Higher‐level phylogenetic affinities of the Neotropical genus Mastigodryas Amaral, 1934 (Serpentes: Colubridae), species‐group definition and description of a new genus for Mastigodryas bifossatus

scientific article published in 2019

Interrogating genomic-scale data for Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) shows no support for key traditional morphological relationships

scientific article published on 24 September 2019

Katariana nomen novum: a replacement name for the preoccupied extinct genus Kataria Scanferla, Zaher, Novas, de Muizon & Céspedes, 2013 (Serpentes: Alethinophidia)

scientific article published in 2022

Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)

scientific article published on 10 May 2019

Molecular and morphological data reveal three new cryptic species of Chiasmocleis (Mehely 1904) (Anura, Microhylidae) endemic to the Atlantic Forest, Brazil

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Molecular phylogeny and hemipenial diversity of South American species ofAmerotyphlops(Typhlopidae, Scolecophidia)

scholarly article by Roberta Graboski Mendes et al published 25 December 2018 in Zoologica Scripta

Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa

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Molecular phylogeny of the New World Dipsadidae (Serpentes: Colubroidea): a reappraisal

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Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of tree boas (Corallus spp.).

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Multiple connections between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest shaped the phylogenetic and morphological diversity of Chiasmocleis Mehely, 1904 (Anura: Microhylidae: Gastrophryninae)

scientific article published on 19 October 2018

Museums and cradles of diversity are geographically coincident for narrowly distributed Neotropical snakes

scientific article published on 5 November 2019

Natural history of Micrablepharus maximiliani (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) in a Cerrado region of northeastern Brazil

scientific article published in 2014

Oral glands in dipsadine "goo-eater" snakes: morphology and histochemistry of the infralabial glands in Atractus reticulatus, Dipsas indica, and Sibynomorphus mikanii

scientific article published on 28 December 2007

Origin and hidden diversity within the poorly known Galápagos snake radiation (Serpentes: Dipsadidae)

scientific article published in 2018

Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Sibynophis (Serpentes: Colubroidea)

scholarly article by Hussam Zaher et al published 2012 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia

Phylogenomics, biogeography and morphometrics reveal rapid phenotypic evolution in pythons after crossing Wallace's line

scientific article published on 24 March 2020

Pitfalls of artificial grouping and stratification of scientific journals based on their Impact Factor: a case study in Brazilian Zoology

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Redescription of the rare South American worm lizard Amphisbaena rozei (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae)

Speciation with gene flow in whiptail lizards from a Neotropical xeric biome

scientific article published on 26 October 2015

Sur le statut taxinomique d'Oxyrhopus trigeminus et O. guibei (Serpentes, Xenodontinae)

scholarly article published in 1992

Taxonomic Status of Chironius multiventris and Chironius cochranae (Serpentes)

article published in 2010

The correct authorship and date of lizard names Teiinae, Tupinambinae,and Gymnophthalmidae

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The development of the skull in Acrochordus granulatus (Schneider) (Reptilia: Serpentes), with special consideration of the otico-occipital complex.

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The herpetofauna of Parque Nacional da Serra das Confusões, state of Piauí, Brazil, with a regional species list from an ecotonal area of Cerrado and Caatinga

scientific article published in 2016

The herpetofauna of the Estação Ecológica de Uruçuí-Una, state of Piauí, Brazil

scientific article published in 2013

The skull of the titanosaurTapuiasaurus macedoi(Dinosauria: Sauropoda), a basal titanosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Brazil

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The systematics of Tachymenini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae): an updated classification based on molecular and morphological evidence

scientific article published in 2022

Unusual labial glands in snakes of the genus Geophis Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes: Dipsadinae).

scientific article published on 11 October 2013

Whiptail lizards in South America: a new Ameivula (Squamata, Teiidae) from Planalto dos Gerais, Eastern Brazilian Cerrado

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