Confronting taxonomic vandalism in biology: conscientious community self-organization can preserve nomenclatural stability

Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements

(2020) Perry L. Wood et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A new species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the mountains of northeastern Papua New Guinea: older than the hills

(2020) FRED KRAUS et al.   ZOOTAXA

Crypsis and convergence: integrative taxonomic revision of the Gehyra australis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Australia

(2020) Paul M. Oliver et al.   PeerJ

A new species of turtle-headed sea Snake (Emydocephalus: Elapidae) endemic to Western Australia

(2020) JAMES H. NANKIVELL et al.   ZOOTAXA

What’s under the hood? Phylogeny and taxonomy of the snake genera Parasuta Worrell and Suta Worrell (Squamata: Elapidae), with a description of a new species from the Pilbara, Western Australia

(2020) BRAD MARYAN et al.   ZOOTAXA

A new velvet gecko (Oedura: Diplodactylidae) from Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory

(2020) PAUL M. OLIVER et al.   ZOOTAXA

The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed

(2020) GLENN SHEA et al.   ZOOTAXA

A proposal for a new generic structure of the killifish family Aphaniidae, with the description of Aphaniops teimorii (Teleostei: Cyprinodontiformes)

(2020) JÖRG FREYHOF et al.   ZOOTAXA

Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s species

(2020) Stephen T. Garnett et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios

(2019) Ryan P. Powers et al.   Nature Climate Change

Species Delimitation in Herpetology

(2019) David M. Hillis   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Geographic structure of genetic variation in the Parachute Gecko Ptychozoon lionotum Annandale, 1905 across Indochina and Sundaland with descriptions of three new species

(2019) L. LEE GRISMER et al.   ZOOTAXA

Divergent Morphology among Populations of the New Guinea Crocodile, Crocodylus novaeguineae (Schmidt, 1928): Diagnosis of an Independent Lineage and Description of a New Species

(2019) Christopher M. Murray et al.   COPEIA

New species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from New Guinea and adjacent islands

(2019) FRED KRAUS   ZOOTAXA

Description of three new velvet geckos (Diplodactylidae: Oedura) from inland eastern Australia, and redescription of Oedura monilis De Vis

(2019) CONRAD J. HOSKIN   ZOOTAXA

What do we know about the fossil record of pinnipeds? A historiographical investigation

(2019) Ana Valenzuela-Toro et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Cryptic diversity and molecular systematics of the Aegean Ophiomorus skinks (Reptilia: Squamata), with the description of a new species

(2018) Panagiotis Kornilios et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Discovery of an old, archipelago-wide, endemic radiation of Philippine snakes

(2018) Jeffrey L. Weinell et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

‘On Psilorhynchus sucatio and P. nudithoracicus’, the sequel: Unnecessary and unscientific names lead to rapid synonymization and taxonomic time wasting—A response to Arunachalam et al. (2018)

(2018) KEVIN W. CONWAY   ZOOTAXA

Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

(2018) Scott A. Thomson et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Conspicuously concealed: revision of the arid clade of the Gehyra variegata (Gekkonidae) group in Western Australia using an integrative molecular and morphological approach, with the description of five cryptic species

(2018) Luke Kealley et al.   PeerJ

Integration of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology reveals unexpected diversity in the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca) species complex in Central and West Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae)

(2018) WOLFGANG WÜSTER et al.   ZOOTAXA

A systematic revision of Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae) from the Western Ghats adds two genera and reveals two new species

(2018) SAUNAK PAL et al.   ZOOTAXA

Cryptic and non-cryptic diversity in New Guinea ground snakes of the genus Stegonotus Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854: a description of four new species (Squamata: Colubridae)

(2017) Sara Ruane et al.   JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY

Extended molecular phylogenetics and revised systematics of Malagasy scincine lizards

(2017) Jesse Erens et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Taxonomy: retain scientific autonomy

(2017) Markus Lambertz   NATURE

Taxonomy anarchy hampers conservation

(2017) Stephen T. Garnett et al.   NATURE

The contribution of policy, law, management, research, and advocacy failings to the recent extinctions of three Australian vertebrate species

(2016) John C.Z. Woinarski et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Nomenclatural instability in the venomous snakes of the Bothrops complex: Implications in toxinology and public health

(2016) Paola Andrea Carrasco et al.   TOXICON

Scale Morphology and Micro-Structure of Monitor Lizards (Squamata: Varanidae: Varanus spp.) and their Allies: Implications for Systematics, Ecology, and Conservation

(2016) YANNICK BUCKLITSCH et al.   ZOOTAXA

Species delimitation methods put into taxonomic practice: two new Madascincus species formerly allocated to historical species names (Squamata, Scincidae)

(2016) Aurélien Miralles et al.   Zoosystematics and Evolution

A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus

(2016) Alex Figueroa et al.   PLoS One

International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes

(2015) Charles T Parker et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Species are hypotheses: avoid connectivity assessments based on pillars of sand

(2015) Eric Pante et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

New approaches narrow global species estimates for beetles, insects, and terrestrial arthropods

(2015) Nigel E. Stork et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia

(2015) SIMON T. MADDOCK et al.   ZOOTAXA

The systematic status of Gonocephalus robinsonii Boulenger, 1908 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae)

(2015) WOLFGANG Denzer et al.   ZOOTAXA

Two New Species ofLeiopythonHubecht, 1879 (Pythonidae: Serpentes): Non-Compliance with the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature Leads to Unavailable Names in Zoological Nomenclature

(2014) Wulf D. Schleip   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Defaunation in the Anthropocene

(2014) R. Dirzo et al.   SCIENCE

Taxonomic assessment of Alligator Snapping Turtles (Chelydridae: Macrochelys), with the description of two new species from the southeastern United States

(2014) TRAVIS M. THOMAS et al.   ZOOTAXA

A Taxonomic Revision of Boas (Serpentes: Boidae)

(2014) R. ALEXANDER PYRON et al.   ZOOTAXA

Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence

(2014) ROBERT ALEXANDER PYRON et al.   ZOOTAXA

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

(2013) R Pyron et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogeny and divergence times of Australian Sphenomorphus group skinks (Scincidae, Squamata)

(2013) Adam Skinner et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Toward a Tree-of-Life for the boas and pythons: Multilocus species-level phylogeny with unprecedented taxon sampling

(2013) R. Graham Reynolds et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A molecular phylogeny of the African plated lizards, genus Gerrhosaurus Wiegmann, 1828 (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera

(2013) MICHAEL F. BATES et al.   ZOOTAXA

To name or not to name: Criteria to promote economy of change in Linnaean classification schemes

(2013) MIGUEL VENCES et al.   ZOOTAXA

Ecological attributes and trade of white-lipped pythons (Genus Leiopython) in Indonesian New Guinea

(2012) Daniel J. D. Natusch et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Exploited for pets: the harvest and trade of amphibians and reptiles from Indonesian New Guinea

(2012) Daniel J. D. Natusch et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Impediments to taxonomy and users of taxonomy: accessibility and impact evaluation

(2011) Malte C. Ebach et al.   CLADISTICS

Pythons in Burma: Short-tailed python (Reptilia: Squamata)

(2011) George R. Zug et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON

Functional characterization of Kunitz-type protease inhibitor Pr-mulgins identified from New Guinean Pseudechis australis

(2011) Hidetoshi Inagaki et al.   TOXICON

On the generic classification of the rattlesnakes, with special reference to the Neotropical Crotalus durissus complex (Squamata: Viperidae)

(2011) Wolfgang Wüster et al.   Zoologia

Regional divergence of phospholipase A2-like protein cDNAs between New Guinean and Australian Pseudechis australis

(2010) Hidetoshi Inagaki et al.   TOXICON

Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution

(2010) Wulf Schleip et al.   ZooKeys

Taxonomic Freedom and the Role of Official Lists of Species Names

(2009) Gregory B. Pauly et al.   HERPETOLOGICA

Python phylogenetics: inference from morphology and mitochondrial DNA

(2008) LESLEY H. RAWLINGS et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

A partial but radical solution to the problem of nomenclatural taxonomic inflation and synonymy load

(2008) ALAIN DUBOIS   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Revision of the Genus Leiopython Hubrecht 1879 (Serpentes: Pythonidae) with the Redescription of Taxa Recently Described by Hoser (2000) and the Description of New Species

(2008) Wulf D Schleip   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Fossil reptiles mired in controversy

(2008) Rex Dalton   NATURE