List of works - Andreas Schmitz

A New Species of Cardioglossa (Anura: Arthroleptidae) from the Upper Guinean Forests of West Africa

article

A New Species of Echinosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Ecuador

article

A great leap – the fi rst record of Xenopus pygmaeus (Anura: Pipidae) from south of the Congo Basin ⬇️

scholarly article in Salamandra, vol. 49 no. 4, 2013

A hybrid phylogenetic-phylogenomic approach for species tree estimation in African Agama lizards with applications to biogeography, character evolution, and diversification

scientific article

A molecular phylogeny of African Dainty Frogs, with the description of four new species (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Cacosternum)

scientific article (publication date: 22 August 2013)

A multilocus phylogeny of Malagasy scincid lizards elucidates the relationships of the fossorial genera Androngo and Cryptoscincus

scientific article published on 29 May 2009

A new lygosomine skink (Lacertilia: Scincidae: Panaspis) from Cameroon

scholarly article by W. Bohme & Andreas Schmitz published 1996 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie

A new polytypic species of the genus Uromastyx MERREM 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Leiolepidinae) from southwestern Arabia

scientific article (publication date: 18 January 2007)

A new species of Goniurosaurus from Cat Ba Island, Hai Phong, northern Vietnam (Squamata: Eublepharidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 May 2008

A new species of Lygosoma (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from the Central Truong Son, Vietnam, with notes on its molecular phylogenetic position

article

A new species of karst dwelling Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northwestern Laos ⬇️

scientific article published in 2011

A new species of the genus Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 April 2010

A new species of theVaranus indicus group (Squamata, Varanidae) from Halmahera Island, Moluccas: morphological and molecular evidence

article

A new species ofGehyraGray, 1834 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu, and phylogenetic relationships in the genusGehyrain Melanesia ⬇️

scientific article published in June 2012

A new species ofTrachylepisFitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Scincidae) from central African forests

article by Laurent Chirio et al published June 2008 in African Journal of Herpetology

A review of the African red flanked skinks of the Lygosoma fernandi (BURTON, 1836) species group (Squamata: Scincidae) and the role of climate change in their speciation ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 March 2009

A review of the Angolan House snakes, genus Boaedon Duméril, Bibron and Duméril (1854) (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with description of three new species in the Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827) species complex

scientific article published on 8 July 2020

A review of the West African skink genus Cophoscincopus Mertens (Reptilia: Scincidae: Lygosominae): resurrection of C. simulans (Vaillant, 1884) and description of a new species

article

A review of the subgenus Euprepiosaurus of Varanus (Squamata: Varanidae): morphological and molecular phylogeny, distribution and zoogeography, with an identification key for the members of the V. indicus and the V. prasinus species groups

scientific article published on 14 May 2007

A second specimen of Trapelus schmitzi Wagner & Böhme 2007 (Sauria: Agamidae) and the first record from Algeria

scholarly article by P. Wagner et al published 2008 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie

A single origin of extreme matrotrophy in African mabuyine skinks

scientific article

A third new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Truong Son Range, Vietnam ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 March 2010

A window to Central African forest history: distribution of the Xenopus fraseri subgroup south of the Congo Basin, including a first country record of Xenopus andrei from Angola ⬇️

scholarly article by R Ernst et al published 2015 in Salamandra

African biodiversity hotspots: the amphibians of Mt. Nlonako, Cameroon ⬇️

scholarly article by H-W Herrmann et al published 2005 in Salamandra

African biodiversity hotspots: the reptiles of Mt Nlonako, Cameroon

scholarly article by Hans-Werner Herrmann et al published 2005 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie

Another case of cryptic diversity in poison frogs (Dendrobatidae: Ameerega) description of a new species from Bolivia ⬇️

scientific article published on 6 March 2009

Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions

scientific article published on 20 October 2010

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians of Cameroon, including first records for caecilians

scientific article

Bayesian inference of species diffusion in the West African Agama agama species group (Reptilia, Agamidae)

scientific article

Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite

scientific article

Cutting the Gordian Knot: Phylogenetic and ecological diversification of the Mesalina brevirostris species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae)

scholarly article by Jiří Šmíd et al published 24 July 2017 in Zoologica Scripta

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

scientific article published on 26 September 2017

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

scientific article published on 23 February 2011

Evolution around the Red Sea: Systematics and biogeography of the agamid genus Pseudotrapelus (Squamata: Agamidae) from North Africa and Arabia

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Evolutionary history of spiny-tailed lizards (Agamidae:Uromastyx) from the Saharo-Arabian region ⬇️

scientific article published in 2017

Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Feylinia currori Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Scincidae): new distribution records from Kenya ⬇️

scholarly article by P Wagner & Andreas Schmitz published 2006 in Salamandra

Filling the gaps: The mitogenomes of Afrotropical egg-guarding frogs based on historical type material and a re-assessment of the nomenclatural status of Alexteroon Perret, 1988 (Hyperoliidae)

scientific article published in 2021

First data on the molecular phylogeography of scincid lizards of the genus Mabuya

scientific article

First description of larval and juvenile stages of Rhacophorus maximus Gùnther, 1859 "1858" (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam

scholarly article by Marlen J. Wildenhues et al published 2010 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie

Gene flow in phylogenomics: Sequence capture resolves species limits and biogeography of Afromontane forest endemic frogs from the Cameroon Highlands

scholarly article published in 2021

Hiding in plain sight: Another cryptic dainty frog from the highlands of Kenya (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Cacosternum)

scholarly article by Alan Channing & Andreas Schmitz published December 2008 in African Journal of Herpetology

Historical biogeography of the lacertid lizardMesalinain North Africa and the Middle East

scholarly article by P. Kapli et al published 25 September 2014 in Journal of Biogeography

Integrative approach to resolve the Calotes mystaceus Duméril & Bibrin, 1837 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) ⬇️

scientific paper

Larval morphology of two species of the genus Theloderma (Tschudi, 1838) from Vietnam (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Rhacophorinae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 July 2012

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

Molecular evidence for species level divergence in African Nile Crocodiles Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti, 1786)

article

Molecular phylogeny of Panaspis and Afroablepharus skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article

Molecular review of the genus Panaspis sensu lato (Reptilia: Scincidae) in Cameroon, with special reference to the status of the proposed subgenera

scientific article (publication date: 20 February 2005)

Multiple evolution of sexual dichromatism in African reed frogs

scientific article

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

scientific article

New Species of Leptosiaphos (Scincidae) from Adamaoua Massif, Central-Northern Province, Cameroon

scholarly article by Ivan Ineich et al published December 2004 in Journal of Herpetology

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

scientific article

Opening a box of cryptic taxa - the first review of the North African desert lizards in the Trapelus mutabilis Merrem, 1820 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) with descriptions of new taxa

article

Opening the black box: phylogenetics and morphological evolution of the Malagasy fossorial lizards of the subfamily "Scincinae".

scientific article

Partitioned Bayesian analyses, partition choice, and the phylogenetic relationships of scincid lizards

scientific article (publication date: June 2005)

Phylogenetic Affinities of Mabuya atlantica Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the Genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae)

scientific article published in January 2002

Pre-Quaternary divergence and subsequent radiation explain longitudinal patterns of genetic and morphological variation in the striped skink, Heremites vittatus

scientific article

Re-assessing Platyceps ventromaculatus (Gray, 1834) (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae)

article by Beat Schätti & Andreas Schmitz published 2006 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie

Refining the polytypic species concept of mangrove monitors (Squamata:Varanus indicusgroup): a new cryptic species from the Talaud Islands, Indonesia, reveals the underestimated diversity of Indo-Australian monitor lizards

article

Review of the Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) in Vietnam, with Description of a New Species from Northern Vietnam and Southern China and the First Record of Sphenomorphus mimicus Taylor, 1962 from Vietnam

scientific article published in 2011

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

Revision of the genus Werneria Poche, 1903, including the descriptions of two new species from Cameroon and Gabon (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 11 November 2004

Rock island melody remastered: two new species in the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group from Angola and Namibia

scientific article published in 2022

Rock island melody: A revision of the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group, with descriptions of four new endemic species from Angola ⬇️

scientific article

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

Taxonomy of Micronesian monitors (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanus): endemic status of new species argues for caution in pursuing eradication plans

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

The Kei Islands Monitor Lizard (Squamata: Varanidae: Varanus : Euprepiosaurus ) as a Distinct Morphological, Taxonomic, and Conservation Unit

scientific article published on 5 September 2019

The biogeographical assignment of a west Kenyan rain forest remnant: further evidence from analysis of its reptile fauna

scientific article published on 28 March 2008

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

article

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

scientific article

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 herpetofauna of the Bai Tu Long National Park, northeastern Vietnam ⬇️

scholarly article by A Gawor et al published 2016 in Salamandra

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

scientific article

The “Cobra-preta” of São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea, is a new species of Naja Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata: Elapidae)

scientific article published on 2017

Two new Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) belonging to the myersi group from the Andean slopes of Ecuador

scholarly article by Dennis Rodder & Andreas Schmitz published 2009 in Revue Suisse de Zoologie

List of works by Andreas Schmitz

A New Species of Cardioglossa (Anura: Arthroleptidae) from the Upper Guinean Forests of West Africa

A New Species of Echinosaura (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Ecuador

A great leap – the fi rst record of Xenopus pygmaeus (Anura: Pipidae) from south of the Congo Basin ⬇️

A hybrid phylogenetic-phylogenomic approach for species tree estimation in African Agama lizards with applications to biogeography, character evolution, and diversification

A molecular phylogeny of African Dainty Frogs, with the description of four new species (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Cacosternum)

A multilocus phylogeny of Malagasy scincid lizards elucidates the relationships of the fossorial genera Androngo and Cryptoscincus

A new lygosomine skink (Lacertilia: Scincidae: Panaspis) from Cameroon

A new polytypic species of the genus Uromastyx MERREM 1820 (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae: Leiolepidinae) from southwestern Arabia

A new species of Goniurosaurus from Cat Ba Island, Hai Phong, northern Vietnam (Squamata: Eublepharidae) ⬇️

A new species of Lygosoma (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from the Central Truong Son, Vietnam, with notes on its molecular phylogenetic position

A new species of karst dwelling Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northwestern Laos ⬇️

A new species of the genus Tropidophorus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from Vietnam ⬇️

A new species of theVaranus indicus group (Squamata, Varanidae) from Halmahera Island, Moluccas: morphological and molecular evidence

A new species ofGehyraGray, 1834 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu, and phylogenetic relationships in the genusGehyrain Melanesia ⬇️

A new species ofTrachylepisFitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Scincidae) from central African forests

A review of the African red flanked skinks of the Lygosoma fernandi (BURTON, 1836) species group (Squamata: Scincidae) and the role of climate change in their speciation ⬇️

A review of the Angolan House snakes, genus Boaedon Duméril, Bibron and Duméril (1854) (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae), with description of three new species in the Boaedon fuliginosus (Boie, 1827) species complex

A review of the West African skink genus Cophoscincopus Mertens (Reptilia: Scincidae: Lygosominae): resurrection of C. simulans (Vaillant, 1884) and description of a new species

A review of the subgenus Euprepiosaurus of Varanus (Squamata: Varanidae): morphological and molecular phylogeny, distribution and zoogeography, with an identification key for the members of the V. indicus and the V. prasinus species groups

A second specimen of Trapelus schmitzi Wagner & Böhme 2007 (Sauria: Agamidae) and the first record from Algeria

A single origin of extreme matrotrophy in African mabuyine skinks

A third new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Truong Son Range, Vietnam ⬇️

A window to Central African forest history: distribution of the Xenopus fraseri subgroup south of the Congo Basin, including a first country record of Xenopus andrei from Angola ⬇️

African biodiversity hotspots: the amphibians of Mt. Nlonako, Cameroon ⬇️

African biodiversity hotspots: the reptiles of Mt Nlonako, Cameroon

Another case of cryptic diversity in poison frogs (Dendrobatidae: Ameerega) description of a new species from Bolivia ⬇️

Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians of Cameroon, including first records for caecilians

Bayesian inference of species diffusion in the West African Agama agama species group (Reptilia, Agamidae)

Citizen science and online data: Opportunities and challenges for snake ecology and action against snakebite

Cutting the Gordian Knot: Phylogenetic and ecological diversification of the Mesalina brevirostris species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae)

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

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

Evolution around the Red Sea: Systematics and biogeography of the agamid genus Pseudotrapelus (Squamata: Agamidae) from North Africa and Arabia

Evolutionary history of spiny-tailed lizards (Agamidae:Uromastyx) from the Saharo-Arabian region ⬇️

Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line

Feylinia currori Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Scincidae): new distribution records from Kenya ⬇️

Filling the gaps: The mitogenomes of Afrotropical egg-guarding frogs based on historical type material and a re-assessment of the nomenclatural status of Alexteroon Perret, 1988 (Hyperoliidae)

First data on the molecular phylogeography of scincid lizards of the genus Mabuya

First description of larval and juvenile stages of Rhacophorus maximus Gùnther, 1859 "1858" (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Vietnam

Gene flow in phylogenomics: Sequence capture resolves species limits and biogeography of Afromontane forest endemic frogs from the Cameroon Highlands

Hiding in plain sight: Another cryptic dainty frog from the highlands of Kenya (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Cacosternum)

Historical biogeography of the lacertid lizardMesalinain North Africa and the Middle East

Integrative approach to resolve the Calotes mystaceus Duméril & Bibrin, 1837 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) ⬇️

Larval morphology of two species of the genus Theloderma (Tschudi, 1838) from Vietnam (Anura: Rhacophoridae: Rhacophorinae) ⬇️

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

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

Molecular evidence for species level divergence in African Nile Crocodiles Crocodylus niloticus (Laurenti, 1786)

Molecular phylogeny of Panaspis and Afroablepharus skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) in the savannas of sub-Saharan Africa

Molecular review of the genus Panaspis sensu lato (Reptilia: Scincidae) in Cameroon, with special reference to the status of the proposed subgenera

Multiple evolution of sexual dichromatism in African reed frogs

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

New Species of Leptosiaphos (Scincidae) from Adamaoua Massif, Central-Northern Province, Cameroon

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

Opening a box of cryptic taxa - the first review of the North African desert lizards in the Trapelus mutabilis Merrem, 1820 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) with descriptions of new taxa

Opening the black box: phylogenetics and morphological evolution of the Malagasy fossorial lizards of the subfamily "Scincinae".

Partitioned Bayesian analyses, partition choice, and the phylogenetic relationships of scincid lizards

Phylogenetic Affinities of Mabuya atlantica Schmidt, 1945, Endemic to the Atlantic Ocean Archipelago of Fernando de Noronha (Brazil): Necessity of Partitioning the Genus Mabuya Fitzinger, 1826 (Scincidae: Lygosominae)

Pre-Quaternary divergence and subsequent radiation explain longitudinal patterns of genetic and morphological variation in the striped skink, Heremites vittatus

Re-assessing Platyceps ventromaculatus (Gray, 1834) (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae)

Refining the polytypic species concept of mangrove monitors (Squamata:Varanus indicusgroup): a new cryptic species from the Talaud Islands, Indonesia, reveals the underestimated diversity of Indo-Australian monitor lizards

Review of the Genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) in Vietnam, with Description of a New Species from Northern Vietnam and Southern China and the First Record of Sphenomorphus mimicus Taylor, 1962 from Vietnam

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

Revision of the genus Werneria Poche, 1903, including the descriptions of two new species from Cameroon and Gabon (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae) ⬇️

Rock island melody remastered: two new species in the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group from Angola and Namibia

Rock island melody: A revision of the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group, with descriptions of four new endemic species from Angola ⬇️

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

Taxonomy of Micronesian monitors (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanus): endemic status of new species argues for caution in pursuing eradication plans

The Kei Islands Monitor Lizard (Squamata: Varanidae: Varanus : Euprepiosaurus ) as a Distinct Morphological, Taxonomic, and Conservation Unit

The biogeographical assignment of a west Kenyan rain forest remnant: further evidence from analysis of its reptile fauna

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

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

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)

The herpetofauna of the Bai Tu Long National Park, northeastern Vietnam ⬇️

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

The “Cobra-preta” of São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea, is a new species of Naja Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata: Elapidae)

Two new Pristimantis (Anura, Strabomantidae) belonging to the myersi group from the Andean slopes of Ecuador