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A NEW SPECIES OF ICHTHYOPHIS (AMPHIBIA: GYMNOPHIONA: ICHTHYOPHIIDAE) FROM KARNATAKA, INDIA

A New Species of Uraeotyphlus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae) of the Malabaricus Group

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A hotspot of gene order rearrangement by tandem duplication and random loss in the vertebrate mitochondrial genome

scientific article published on 21 September 2005

A mark–recapture study of the caecilian amphibian Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) in southern India

scientific article published in 2003

A molecular phylogeny of ichthyophiid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae): out of India or out of South East Asia?

scientific article (publication date: 7 August 2002)

A molecular-genetics perspective on the systematics of the parthenogenetic flowerpot blindsnake <i>Indotyphlops braminus</i> (Daudin, 1803) (Squamata: Serpentes: Typhlopidae)

scientific article published in 2022

A multilocus molecular perspective on the systematics of the poorly known Northeast Indian colubrid snakes Blythia reticulata (Blyth, 1854), B. hmuifang Vogel, Lalremsanga & Vanlalhrima, 2017, and Hebius xenura (Wall, 1907)

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A new Indian species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 closely related to R. sanguineus Beddome, 1863 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae)

scientific article published on 18 November 2020

A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

A new large species of Bitis Gray, 1842 (Serpentes: Viperidae) from the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia

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A new pseudosuchian archosaur, Mambawakale ruhuhu gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle Triassic Manda Beds of Tanzania ⬇️

scientific article published in February 2022

A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Maharashtra, India

scientific article (publication date: 13 November 2003)

A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from southern Maharashtra, India, with a key to the species of the genus

scientific article (publication date: 14 November 2003)

A new species of Indian caecilian highlights challenges for species delimitation within Gegeneophis Peters, 1879 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae)

scientific article (publication date: 20 April 2015)

A new species of Rhabdops Boulenger, 1893 (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the northern Western Ghats region of India

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Wayanad region of peninsular India

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A new species of Stoliczkia Jerdon, 1870 (Serpentes: Xenodermidae) from Mizoram, India ⬇️

scientific article published on 6 July 2021

A new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India ⬇️

A new species of skin-feeding caecilian and the first report of reproductive mode in Microcaecilia (amphibia: Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae)

scientific article published in 2013

A new species of small and highly abbreviated caecilian (Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the Seychelles island of Praslin, and a recharacterization of <i>Hypogeophis</i> <i>brevis</i> Boulenger, 1911.

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A new species of small, long-snouted Hypogeophis Peters, 1880 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the highest elevations of the Seychelles island of Mahé

scientific article published in 2018

A new species of striped Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Myanmar

scientific article (publication date: 2 April 2014)

A new species of the genus Smithophis (Squamata: Serpentes: Natricidae) from southwestern China and northeastern Myanmar

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

A new subfamily of fossorial colubroid snakes from the Western Ghats of peninsular India

scientific article published in 2019

A subterranean generalist predator: diet of the soil-dwelling caecilian Gegeneophis ramaswamii (Amphibia; Gymnophiona; Caeciliidae) in southern India

scientific article published in January 2004

A visceral synapomorphy ofScolecomorphusBoulenger, 1883 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae)

Amphibians in Zootaxa: 20 years documenting the global diversity of frogs, salamanders, and caecilians ⬇️

journal article from 'Zootaxa' published in 2021

Assessing the conservation status of soil‐dwelling vertebrates: Insights from the rediscovery ofTyphlops uluguruensis(Reptilia: Serpentes: Typhlopidae)

scientific article published in August 2004

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection and lethal chytridiomycosis in caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona).

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Branch lengths and support

scientific article published on February 2003

Caecilita Wake & Donnelly, 2010 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) is not lungless: implications for taxonomy and for understanding the evolution of lunglessness

scientific article (publication date: 17 March 2014)

Care and parentage in a skin-feeding caecilian amphibian

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

scientific article published on 28 May 2021

Cranial anatomy and taxonomy of the erythrosuchid archosauriform 'Vjushkovia triplicostata' Huene, 1960, from the Early Triassic of European Russia

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Cryptic infection of a broad taxonomic and geographic diversity of tadpoles by Perkinsea protists

scientific article published on 10 August 2015

Description of a new species of Smithophis Giri et al. 2019 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Description of a new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae: Xylophiinae) from the Western Ghats, India

scientific article published on 24 March 2020

Development and worldwide use of a non-lethal and minimal population-level impact protocols for the isolation of chytrids from amphibians

Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi.

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Discovery of a new family of amphibians from northeast India with ancient links to Africa

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Diverse alveolate infections of tadpoles, a new threat to frogs?

scientific article published on 13 February 2020

Diversity and Evolution of Frog Visual Opsins: Spectral Tuning and Adaptation to Distinct Light Environments

scientific article published in April 2024

Diversity and Molecular Evolution of Antimicrobial Peptides in Caecilian Amphibians

scientific article published in 2024

Ecology drives patterns of spectral transmission in the ocular lenses of frogs and salamanders

scientific article published in 2022

Evolution of Cranial Shape in Caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona)

Evolution of the eyes of vipers with and without infrared-sensing pit organs

scientific article published on 10 March 2019

Evolutionary origins and genetic variation of the Seychelles treefrog, Tachycnemis seychellensis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) (Amphibia: Anura: Hyperoliidae)

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Evolutionary relationships of the critically endangered frog Ericabatrachus baleensis Largen, 1991 with notes on incorporating previously unsampled taxa into large-scale phylogenetic analyses

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Evolutionary relationships, species delimitation and biogeography of Eastern Afromontane horned chameleons (Chamaeleonidae: Trioceros) ⬇️

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Experimental design in caecilian systematics: phylogenetic information of mitochondrial genomes and nuclear rag1

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Experimental design in phylogenetics: testing predictions from expected information

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Field observations on the predation of the caecilian amphibian, genus Ichthyophis (Fitzinger, 1826), by the red-tailed pipe snake Cylindrophis ruffus (Laurenti, 1768)

scientific article published in 2003

First Reproductive Observations for Herpele Peters, 1880 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Herpelidae): Evidence of Extended Parental Care and Maternal Dermatophagy in H. squalostoma (Stutchbury, 1836)

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Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians

scientific article (publication date: 16 January 2007)

Insights into the skin of caecilian amphibians from gene expression profiles

scientific article published on 27 July 2020

Intraorganismal Homology, Character Construction, and the Phylogeny of Aetosaurian Archosaurs (Reptilia, Diapsida) ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: April 2003)

Intraspecific morphological variation in the shieldtail snake Rhinophis philippinus (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), with particular reference to tail‐shield and cranial 3D geometric morphometrics

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Investigating stagnation in morphological phylogenetics using consensus data

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Investigating the Effect of Disturbance on Prey Consumption in Captive Congo Caecilians Herpele squalostoma

scientific article published on 16 December 2021

Kissing cousins: a review of the African genus Limnophis Günther, 1865 (Colubridae: Natricinae), with the description of a new species from north-eastern Angola

scientific article published on 8 July 2020

Life-history evolution and mitogenomic phylogeny of caecilian amphibians

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Local endemism within the Western Ghats-sri Lanka biodiversity hotspot

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Long-term data for endemic frog genera reveal potential conservation crisis in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia

scholarly article by David J. Gower et al published January 2013 in Oryx

Microsatellite discovery in an insular amphibian (Grandisonia alternans) with comments on cross-species utility and the accuracy of locus identification from unassembled Illumina data

Molecular phylogenetics of sub-Saharan African natricine snakes, and the biogeographic origins of the Seychelles endemic Lycognathophis seychellensis

Molecular systematics of caeciliid caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) of the Western Ghats, India

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Morphological evolution and modularity of the caecilian skull

scientific article published in 2019

Multi-tissue transcriptomes of caecilian amphibians highlight incomplete knowledge of vertebrate gene families

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Multilocus phylogeny, natural history traits and classification of natricine snakes (Serpentes: Natricinae)

scientific article published in 2021

Multiple rod-cone and cone-rod photoreceptor transmutations in snakes: evidence from visual opsin gene expression

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Next-Generation Mitogenomics: A Comparison of Approaches Applied to Caecilian Amphibian Phylogeny

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Niche separation and comparative abundance ofBoulengerula boulengeriandScolecomorphus vittatus(Amphibia: Gymnophiona) in an East Usambara forest, Tanzania

scholarly article by David J. Gower et al published December 2004 in African Journal of Herpetology

Ocular lens morphology is influenced by ecology and metamorphosis in frogs and toads

scientific article published in 2022

On the taxonomic status of Gegeneophis nadkarnii Bhatta & Prashanth, 2004 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae)

scientific article (publication date: 29 January 2013)

On the taxonomic validity of Boiga whitakeri Ganesh et al., 2021 with new insights on Boiga dightoni (Boulenger, 1894) (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae) ⬇️

scientific article published on 18 January 2023

On the taxonomy of Uropeltis petersi (Beddome, 1878) (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) and description of a new, closely related species from the Western Ghats of India

scientific article published in 2023

Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats ⬇️

journal article from 'Nature' published in 2023

POSTMORTEM FINDINGS IN EIGHT SPECIES OF CAPTIVE CAECILIAN (AMPHIBIA: GYMNOPHIONA) OVER A TEN-YEAR PERIOD

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Persistence and stability of Eastern Afromontane forests: evidence from brevicipitid frogs

scientific article published in 2014

Phototactic tails: Evolution and molecular basis of a novel sensory trait in sea snakes

scientific article published on 15 February 2019

Phylogenetic methods and aetosaur interrelationships: a rejoinder

scientific article published in December 2003

Phylogenetic relationships of African caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): Insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences

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Phylogenetic relationships of xenodermid snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Xenodermidae), with the description of a new genus ⬇️

Phylogeny and divergence times of filesnakes (Acrochordus): inferences from morphology, fossils and three molecular loci

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Phylogeny of caecilian amphibians (Gymnophiona) based on complete mitochondrial genomes and nuclear RAG1

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Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines.

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Relative time scales reveal multiple origins of parallel disjunct distributions of African caecilian amphibians

scientific article (publication date: 22 October 2007)

Reproduction in Brevicipitid Frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae)—Evidence from Probreviceps M. Macrodactylus

scientific article (publication date: 10 September 2007)

Robust dinosaur phylogeny?

scientific article published in Nature

Species Groups in the Indian Caecilian Genus Uraeotyphlus Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae), with the Description of a New Species

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Species boundaries and biogeography of East African torrent frogs of the genusPetropedetes(Amphibia: Anura: Petropeditidae)

scholarly article by Simon P. Loader et al published April 2013 in African Journal of Herpetology

Spectral Diversification and Trans-Species Allelic Polymorphism during the Land-to-Sea Transition in Snakes

scientific article published on 19 May 2020

Systematics and ecology of the caecilian Crotaphatrema lamottei (Nussbaum) (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae)

scientific article published in 2011

Systematics of the caecilian family Chikilidae (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) with the description of three new species of Chikila from northeast India

scientific article (publication date: 4 June 2013)

Terrestrial reproduction as an adaptation to steep terrain in African toads

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The caecilian amphibian Scolecomorphus kirkii Boulenger as prey of the burrowing asp Atractaspis aterrima Gunther: trophic relationships of fossorial vertebrates

scientific article (publication date: June 2004)

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

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The first teresomatan caecilian (Amphibia: Gymnophiona) from the Eastern Ghats of India—a new species of Gegeneophis Peters, 1880

scientific article (publication date: 31 July 2013)

The impact of conservation on the status of the world's vertebrates

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The role of wet‐zone fragmentation in shaping biodiversity patterns in peninsular India: insights from the caecilian amphibian Gegeneophis

The roles of vicariance and isolation by distance in shaping biotic diversification across an ancient archipelago: evidence from a Seychelles caecilian amphibian

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

The unexpected gecko: A new cryptic species within Urocotyledon inexpectata (Stejneger, 1893) from the northern granitic Seychelles ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 June 2022

What lies beneath? Molecular evolution during the radiation of caecilian amphibians

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

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