Background The extant squamates (> 9400 known species of lizards and snakes) are one of
the most diverse and conspicuous radiations of terrestrial vertebrates, but no studies have …

The gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus is the third most speciose vertebrate genus in the world,
containing well over 300 species that collectively range from South Asia to Melanesia across …

Reptiles are one of the most ecologically and evolutionarily remarkable groups of living
organisms, having successfully colonized most of the planet, including the oceans and some …

Twelve new karst-adapted species of the gekkonid genus Cyrtodactylus Gray are described
from the Shan Hills and Salween River Basin of Myanmar. Three species occur in rocky …

We describe four new species of the genus Cyrtodactylus based on the results of
phylogenetic analysis of 673 bp of the COI mtDNA gene and morphological description of …

Karstic landscapes are immense reservoirs of biodiversity and range-restricted endemism.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the world's third-largest vertebrate genus Cyrtodactylus …

Understanding the processes that underpin adaptive evolutionary shifts within major
taxonomic groups has long been a research directive among many evolutionary biologists …

ABSTRACT A new species of Cyrtodactylus is described from Tamenglong District in
northwestern Manipur State, northeast India. The new species is diagnosed from other …

Frogs of the genus Microhyla include some of the world's smallest amphibians and
represent the largest radiation of Asian microhylids, currently encompassing 50 species …

Aim To determine the historical dynamics of colonization and whether the relative timing of
colonization predicts diversification rate in the species‐rich, murine rodent communities of …