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List of works by Michael F. Barej

A new Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae), from the eastern part of the Upper Guinea biodiversity hotspot, West Africa

scientific article

A new critically endangered slippery frog (Amphibia, Conrauidae, Conraua) from the Atewa Range, central Ghana

scholarly article published in 2021

A new polymorphic Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from western Nigeria

scientific article published on 30 May 2012

A new slippery frog (Amphibia, Conrauidae, Conraua Nieden, 1908) from the Fouta Djallon Highlands, west-central Guinea

scientific article published on 19 January 2022

A new small Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from southern Cameroon

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

Description of a new flat gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Afroedura) from Mount Gorongosa, Mozambique

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

Description of two Werneria tadpoles from Cameroon (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae)

scientific article published on 16 January 2012

Diversity and biogeography of frogs in the genus Amnirana (Anura: Ranidae) across sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Dusted off—the African Amietophrynus superciliaris-species complex of giant toads

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Evaluating mechanisms of diversification in a Guineo-Congolian tropical forest frog using demographic model selection.

scientific article

Evolutionary history of burrowing asps (Lamprophiidae: Atractaspidinae) with emphasis on fang evolution and prey selection

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

First record of human envenomation by Atractaspis congica Peters, 1877 (Squamata: Atractaspididae)

scientific article published on 23 April 2009

Idiosyncratic responses to climate-driven forest fragmentation and marine incursions in reed frogs from Central Africa and the Gulf of Guinea Islands

scientific article

Leapfrogging into new territory: How Mascarene ridged frogs diversified across Africa and Madagascar to maintain their ecological niche

scientific article published on 21 September 2016

Life in the spray zone – overlooked diversity in West African torrent-frogs (Anura, Odontobatrachidae, Odontobatrachus)

scientific article published on 27 July 2015

Light shines through the spindrift--phylogeny of African torrent frogs (Amphibia, Anura, Petropedetidae)

scientific article

Multiple genetic lineages challenge the monospecific status of the West African endemic frog family Odontobatrachidae

scientific article

No ecological opportunity signal on a continental scale? Diversification and life-history evolution of African true toads (Anura: Bufonidae).

scientific article

Phylogeny and biogeography of the African burrowing snake subfamily Aparallactinae (Squamata: Lamprophiidae).

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

RAFFAEL ERNST, ALVARO BRUNO TOTO NIENGUESSO, THEA LAUTENSCHLÄGER, MICHAEL F.BAREJ, ANDREAS SCMITZ & MONIQUE HÖLTING (2014) Relicts of a forested past: Southernmost distribution of the hairy frog genus Trichobatrachus Boulenger, 1900 (Anura: Art

scientific article published in 2014

Rediscovery and range extension of the Guinean skink Trachylepis keroanensis (Chabanaud, 1921) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae)

scientific article published in 2017

Relicts of a forested past: Southernmost distribution of the hairy frog genus Trichobatrachus Boulenger, 1900 (Anura: Arthroleptidae) in the Serra do Pingano region of Angola with comments on its taxonomic status

scientific article (publication date: 14 March 2014)

Review of the genus Petropedetes Reichenow, 1874 in Central Africa with the description of three new species (Amphibia: Anura: Petropedetidae)

scientific article published on 21 January 2010

Studies on African Agama VII. - A new species of the Agama agama-group (Linnaeus, 1758) (Sauria: Agamidae) from Cameroon & Gabon, with comments on Agama mehelyi Tornier, 1902

Systematics of the Central African Spiny Reed Frog Afrixalus laevis (Anura: Hyperoliidae), with the description of two new species from the Albertine Rift

scientific article published in 2022

Tadpoles of three western African frog genera: Astylosternus Werner, 1898, Nyctibates Boulenger, 1904, and Scotobleps Boulenger, 1900 (Amphibia, Anura, Arthroleptidae)

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Take time to smell the frogs: vocal sac glands of reed frogs (Anura: Hyperoliidae) contain species-specific chemical cocktails

scientific article

The first endemic West African vertebrate family - a new anuran family highlighting the uniqueness of the Upper Guinean biodiversity hotspot

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The genus Astylosternus in the Upper Guinea rainforests, West Africa, with the description of a new species (Amphibia: Anura: Arthroleptidae)

scientific article published in 2012

The hairy frog, a curly fighter ? – A novel hypothesis on the function of hairs and claw-like terminal phalanges, including their biological and systematic significance (Anura : Arthroleptidae : Trichobatrachus)

scientific article published in 2010

The rediscovery of Perret’s toad, Amietophrynus perreti (Schiøtz, 1963) after more than 40 years, with comments on the species’ phylogenetic placement and conservation status

scientific article

The tadpoles of nine Cameroonian Leptodactylodon species (Amphibia, Anura, Arthroleptidae)

scientific article (publication date: 14 February 2014)

The taxonomic status of two West African Leptopelis species: L. macrotis Schiøtz, 1967 and L. spiritusnoctis Rödel, 2007 (Amphibia: Anura: Arthroleptidae)

scientific article

Two new Phrynobatrachus species (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the Republic of the Congo

scientific article (publication date: 14 October 2015)