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Herpetology of Europe and Southwest Asia : a checklist and bibliography of the orders Amphisbaenia, Sauria and Serpentes
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ISBN: 0898745330 Year: 1983 Publisher: Malabar, Fla Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company

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Brief history of herpetology in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, with a list of type specimens of recent amphibians and reptiles
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ISBN: 1282357123 9786612357121 0520930002 9780520930001 9781282357129 0520238184 9780520238183 Year: 2003 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. London University of California Press

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The Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), located on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, is a leading center of herpetological research in the United States. This monograph offers a brief account of the principal figures associated with the collection and of the most important events in the history of herpetology in the MVZ during its first 93 years, and lists all type specimens of recent amphibians and nonavian reptiles in the collection.Although the MVZ has existed since 1908, until 1945 there was no formal curator for the collection of amphibians and nonavian reptiles. Since that time Robert C. Stebbins, David B. Wake, Harry W. Greene, Javier A. Rodríguez-Robles (in an interim capacity), and Craig Moritz have served in that position.The herpetological collection of the MVZ was begun on March 13, 1909, with a collection of approximately 430 specimens from southern California and as of December 31, 2001, contained 232,254 specimens. Taxonomically, the collection is strongest in salamanders, accounting for 99,176 specimens, followed by "lizards" (squamate reptiles other than snakes and amphisbaenians, 63,439), frogs (40,563), snakes (24,937), turtles (2,643), caecilians (979), amphisbaenians (451), crocodilians (63), and tuataras (3). Whereas the collection's emphasis historically has been on the western United States and on California in particular, representatives of taxa from many other parts of the world are present.The 1,765 type specimens in the MVZ comprise 120 holotypes, three neotypes, three syntypes, and 1,639 paratopotypes and paratypes; 83 of the holotypes were originally described as full species. Of the 196 amphibian and nonavian reptilian taxa represented by type material, most were collected in México (63) and California (USA, 54).The Appendix of the monograph presents a list of curators, graduate and undergraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, research associates, research assistants, curatorial associates, curatorial assistants, and visiting faculty who have conducted research on the biology of amphibians and reptiles while in residence in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology as of December 31, 2001.


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Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book includes all 14 articles contributed to the Special Issue "Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles” in the journal Diversity, originally published in 2019 and 2020.

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Technology: general issues --- UCE --- phylogenetics --- amphibians --- Dendrobatidae --- Aromobatidae --- frogs --- systematics --- amphibian --- chytridiomycosis --- conservation --- disease --- enzootics --- epizootics --- population declines --- Dactyloidae --- ecomorphology --- Iguania --- Isla Cocos --- Isla Gorgona --- Isla Malpelo --- island biogeography --- lizards --- neotropics --- overwater dispersal --- miniaturization --- taxonomy --- geographical range --- habitat breadth --- local abundance --- threatened species --- extinction risk --- Viperidae --- deforestation --- timber harvest --- fire --- invasion of exotic plants --- public policy --- protected areas --- critically endangered --- data deficient --- amphisbaenians --- snakes --- South America --- Andes --- Pacific coast --- Perú --- species description --- threats --- species richness --- diversity gradient --- community structure --- reptiles --- Amazon --- rainforest --- lizard --- snake --- ecological niche modeling --- potential species distribution --- extant species distribution --- conservation areas --- Cusco --- high elevation --- Neotropical --- Qosqophryne --- tropical mountain --- systematic --- anura --- biogeography --- centrolenidae --- Bufonidae --- cryptic species --- forensic taxonomy --- Great American Biotic Interchange --- historical biogeography --- Isthmus of Panama --- Middle America --- molecular phylogenetics --- phylogeography --- Cercosaurinae --- Cercosaura manicata boliviana --- diversity --- Machupicchu --- Oxapampa --- Pholidobolus anomalus --- Peru --- n/a --- Perú


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Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book includes all 14 articles contributed to the Special Issue "Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles” in the journal Diversity, originally published in 2019 and 2020.

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UCE --- phylogenetics --- amphibians --- Dendrobatidae --- Aromobatidae --- frogs --- systematics --- amphibian --- chytridiomycosis --- conservation --- disease --- enzootics --- epizootics --- population declines --- Dactyloidae --- ecomorphology --- Iguania --- Isla Cocos --- Isla Gorgona --- Isla Malpelo --- island biogeography --- lizards --- neotropics --- overwater dispersal --- miniaturization --- taxonomy --- geographical range --- habitat breadth --- local abundance --- threatened species --- extinction risk --- Viperidae --- deforestation --- timber harvest --- fire --- invasion of exotic plants --- public policy --- protected areas --- critically endangered --- data deficient --- amphisbaenians --- snakes --- South America --- Andes --- Pacific coast --- Perú --- species description --- threats --- species richness --- diversity gradient --- community structure --- reptiles --- Amazon --- rainforest --- lizard --- snake --- ecological niche modeling --- potential species distribution --- extant species distribution --- conservation areas --- Cusco --- high elevation --- Neotropical --- Qosqophryne --- tropical mountain --- systematic --- anura --- biogeography --- centrolenidae --- Bufonidae --- cryptic species --- forensic taxonomy --- Great American Biotic Interchange --- historical biogeography --- Isthmus of Panama --- Middle America --- molecular phylogenetics --- phylogeography --- Cercosaurinae --- Cercosaura manicata boliviana --- diversity --- Machupicchu --- Oxapampa --- Pholidobolus anomalus --- Peru --- n/a --- Perú


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Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book includes all 14 articles contributed to the Special Issue "Systematics and Conservation of Neotropical Amphibians and Reptiles” in the journal Diversity, originally published in 2019 and 2020.

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Technology: general issues --- UCE --- phylogenetics --- amphibians --- Dendrobatidae --- Aromobatidae --- frogs --- systematics --- amphibian --- chytridiomycosis --- conservation --- disease --- enzootics --- epizootics --- population declines --- Dactyloidae --- ecomorphology --- Iguania --- Isla Cocos --- Isla Gorgona --- Isla Malpelo --- island biogeography --- lizards --- neotropics --- overwater dispersal --- miniaturization --- taxonomy --- geographical range --- habitat breadth --- local abundance --- threatened species --- extinction risk --- Viperidae --- deforestation --- timber harvest --- fire --- invasion of exotic plants --- public policy --- protected areas --- critically endangered --- data deficient --- amphisbaenians --- snakes --- South America --- Andes --- Pacific coast --- Perú --- species description --- threats --- species richness --- diversity gradient --- community structure --- reptiles --- Amazon --- rainforest --- lizard --- snake --- ecological niche modeling --- potential species distribution --- extant species distribution --- conservation areas --- Cusco --- high elevation --- Neotropical --- Qosqophryne --- tropical mountain --- systematic --- anura --- biogeography --- centrolenidae --- Bufonidae --- cryptic species --- forensic taxonomy --- Great American Biotic Interchange --- historical biogeography --- Isthmus of Panama --- Middle America --- molecular phylogenetics --- phylogeography --- Cercosaurinae --- Cercosaura manicata boliviana --- diversity --- Machupicchu --- Oxapampa --- Pholidobolus anomalus --- Peru

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