supported by the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Grant No. XDA19050201;the National Natural Science Founda tion of China (32070433);the Special Fund for Youth Scholars on Taxonomy, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (ZSBR-014);China Biodiversity Observation Networks (Sino BON–Amphibian & Reptile)。
From the perspectives of biodiversity conservation and management, there is an urgent need to have at hand current synopses of classification and distributions of species. In this paper, we review and summa rize the c...
The genus Tropidophorus consists of small semi-aquatic lizards that dwell in lowland forest steams(Barbour,1921;Bauer&Jackman,2008).Here,we designate the neotype and re-describe T.guangxiensis Wen,1992 based on newly ...
supported through grant 119-0000000-1285 of the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Croatia to Z.T。
The European glass lizard,Pseudopus apodus(Pallas,1775),is a large,legless lizard with wide distribution across south-eastern Europe and eastern and central Asia.To date,morphological diversification among populations...
Razi University(Kermanshah-Iran) authorities for the financial support during the field work
Study of the climate variability in the past and present, and correlating those with changes in the distribution range of species has attracted considerable research interest. The genus Ablepharus consists of 10 recog...
funded by Sarawak Energy Berhad,under the Hydropower Environmental Sustainability Program(grant no.GL(I01)SEB/2014/02[03])
Tropidophorus micropus van Lidth de Jeude, 1905, described from the upper Mahakkam River, Kalimantan, Indonesia, is here redescribed, based on new material from upper Baleh, Sarawak, East Malaysia(Borneo), collected...
This paper presents the composition of the lizard fauna of Maringa-Lopori-Wamba landscape in the western portion of the central Congo basin in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and its weak similarity with the liza...
Modeling the potential distribution areas for a given species is important in understanding the relationship between the actual distribution and the most suitable habitat for a species. In this study, we obtained all ...
supported by the Iran National Scientific Foundation(INSF) under proposal number of 89001493
The Caspian bent-toed gecko, Tenuidactylus caspius, belonging to the family Gekkonidae, is widely distributed across the northern half of Iran, especially along the southern coastal region of the Caspian Sea. It is re...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.31472021;31372173);grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(MOST Grant 2011FY120200,Grant 2005DKA21402)
In the present study, we report the six type specimens and two paratypes of eight lizard species in the Herpetological Museum of the Chengdu Institute of Biology(CIB), Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS). Each entry ...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2014FY210200, 2011FY120200);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31090250);the Animal Branch of the Germplasm Bank of Wild Species of Chinese Academy of Sciences (the Large Research Infrastructure Funding)
A new species of the agamid genus Japalura is described based on 15 specimens from the upper Lancang(Mekong) Valley of eastern Tibet, PR China. Populations of the new species, Japalura vela sp. nov., were previously...