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List of works by Omar Torres-Carvajal

A New Andean Species of Leaf-toed Gecko (Phyllodactylidae:Phyllodactylus) from Ecuador

scholarly article by Omar Torres-Carvajal et al published June 2013 in Journal of Herpetology

A New Species of Iguanian Lizard (Stenocercus) from the Western Lowlands of Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru

scientific article published in March 2005

A New Species ofAtractus(Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Andes of Ecuador

scientific article published in September 2014

A Phylogenetic, Biogeographic, and Taxonomic study of all Extant Species of Anolis (Squamata; Iguanidae).

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A new cryptic species of Anolis lizard from northwestern South America (Iguanidae, Dactyloinae)

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A new giant anole (Squamata: Iguanidae: Dactyloinae) from southwestern Ecuador

scholarly article published in 2021

A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from the tropical Andes, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus

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A new species of Enyalioides (Iguanidae: Hoplocercinae) from southwestern Ecuador

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A new species of Riama Gray, 1858 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Tropical Andes

scientific article (publication date: 23 September 2014)

A new species of blunt-headed vine snake (Colubridae, Imantodes) from the Chocó region of Ecuador

scientific article published on November 27, 2012

A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides

scientific article published on 9 November 2009

A new species of wood lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from the Río Huallaga Basin in Central Peru

scientific article published in 2021

A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis

scientific article (publication date: 28 September 2016)

Adding missing vines to the tree: multilocus phylogeny of New World vine snakes (Serpentes: Colubridae: Oxybelis), with description of a new species

scholarly article published in 2021

Alternative reproductive adaptations predict asymmetric responses to climate change in lizards

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Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperatures

scientific article published in 2013

Author Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Comparative Evolution of an Archetypal Adaptive Radiation: Innovation and Opportunity in Anolis Lizards

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

Cost-effectiveness of using small vertebrates as indicators of disturbance.

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Cranial osteology of the Andean lizard Stenocercus guentheri (Squamata: Tropiduridae) and its postembryonic development

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Description and phylogeny of three new species of Synophis (Colubridae, Dipsadinae) from the tropical Andes in Ecuador and Peru

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Divergence of tropical pitvipers promoted by independent colonization events of dry montane Andean habitats

Diversity gradients of terrestrial vertebrates – substantial variations about a common theme

scientific article published on 8 December 2023

Early bursts of body size and shape evolution are rare in comparative data

scientific article (publication date: August 2010)

Eight in one: morphological and molecular analyses reveal cryptic diversity in Amazonian alopoglossid lizards (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea)

scientific article published in 2020

Evolutionary history of Andean Pholidobolus and Macropholidus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) lizards

scientific article published on 6 April 2013

Extinct, obscure or imaginary: The lizard species with the smallest ranges

scientific article published in 2017

Hidden diversity in two widespread snake species (Serpentes: Xenodontini: Erythrolamprus) from South America

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Independent Demographic Responses to Climate Change among Temperate and Tropical Milksnakes (Colubridae: Genus Lampropeltis)

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Late bloomers and baby boomers: ecological drivers of longevity in squamates and the tuatara

article by Inon Scharf et al published 22 October 2014 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Lizards of the GenusRiama(Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae): The Diversity in Southern Ecuador Revisited

scientific article published in December 2012

Non-Parametric Bootstrapping of Partitioned Datasets

scientific article published on August 2009

Notes on the Natural History of the Little-Known Ecuadorian Horned Anole, Anolis proboscis

On the origin of South American populations of the common house gecko (Gekkonidae: Hemidactylus frenatus)

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Phylogenetic relationships of South American lizards of the genus Stenocercus (Squamata: Iguania): A new approach using a general mixture model for gene sequence data

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Phylogeny and biogeography of the most diverse clade of South American gymnophthalmid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae).

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Phylogeny and diversity of neotropical monkey lizards (Iguanidae: Polychrus Cuvier, 1817)

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Phylogeny of Neotropical Cercosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) lizards.

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Phylogeny of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), impact of phenotypic evidence on molecular datasets, and the origin of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta endemic fauna

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Phylogeny of hoplocercine lizards (Squamata: Iguania) with estimates of relative divergence times

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Phylogeny, diversity and biogeography of Neotropical sipo snakes (Serpentes: Colubrinae: Chironius)

scientific article published on 24 October 2018

Present diversity of Galápagos leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylidae: Phyllodactylus) stems from three independent colonization events

scientific article published on 8 July 2016

Publisher Correction: The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

scholarly article published in Nature Ecology and Evolution

Reptilia, Squamata, Iguanidae, Anolis heterodermus Duméril, 1851: distribution extension, first record for Ecuador and notes on color variation

scholarly article by Omar Torres-Carvajal et al published 1 March 2010 in Check List

Short-term predicted extinction of Andean populations of the lizard Stenocercus guentheri (Iguanidae: Tropidurinae).

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Sistemática de los saurios Anadia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) de Ecuador: límite de especies, distribución geográfica y descripción de una especie nueva

scholarly article by Raquel Betancourt et al published 20 July 2018 in Neotropical biodiversity

Systematic review of Atractus schach (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) species complex from the Guiana Shield with description of three new species

scientific article published on 3 April 2019

Systematic review of the polychromatic ground snakes Atractus snethlageae complex reveals four new species from threatened environments

scholarly article published in 2021

Systematics of Pholidobolus lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae) from southern Ecuador, with descriptions of four new species

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

Systematics of South American snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Ecuador and Peru

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The Abdominal Skeleton of Tropidurid Lizards (Squamata: Tropiduridae)

scientific article published in March 2004

The geography of snake reproductive mode: a global analysis of the evolution of snake viviparity

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The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

scientific article published in 2017

The skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) of Ecuador, with description of a new Amazonian species

scientific article published in 2024

Thermal biology of two tropical lizards from the Ecuadorian Andes and their vulnerability to climate change

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Three new species of woodlizards (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from northwestern South America

scientific article published on 6 April 2015

Two new Andean species of Anolis lizard (Iguanidae: Dactyloinae) from southern Ecuador

scholarly article by Omar Torres-Carvajal et al published 19 November 2017 in Journal of Natural History

Two sympatric new species of woodlizards (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides ) from Cordillera Azul National Park in northeastern Peru

scientific article published on 15 March 2013

Unwrapping broken tails: Biological and environmental correlates of predation pressure in limbless reptiles

scientific article published in 2022

Use of a rostral appendage during social interactions in the Ecuadorian Anolis proboscis

scientific article published in 2017

When the tail shakes the snake: phylogenetic affinities and morphology of Atractus badius (Serpentes: Dipsadidae), reveals some current pitfalls on the snake’s genomic age