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2020

Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
2020-05-22 Microgecko tanishpaensis Gekkonidae A new species of Microgecko Nikolsky, 1907 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Pakistan [RAFAQAT MASROOR, MUHAMMAD KHISROON, MUAZZAM ALI KHAN]
2020-05-20 Oedura nesos Diplodactylidae A new velvet gecko (Oedura: Diplodactylidae) from Groote Eylandt, Northern Territor [PAUL M. OLIVER, CHRIS J. JOLLY, PHILLIP L. SKIPWITH, LEONARDO G. TEDESCHI, GRAEME R. GILLESPIE]
2020-05-18 Panaspis annettesabinae Scincidae (Eugongylinae) A new species of African Snake-Eyed Skink (Scincidae: Panaspis) from Ethiopia [TIMOTHY J. COLSTON, R. ALEXANDER PYRON, AARON M. BAUER]
2020-05-18 Lobulia sabini Scincidae (Eugongylinae) A new species of Lobulia (Squamata: Scincidae) from Papua New Guinea [FRED KRAUS]
2020-05-15 Acanthosaura aurantiacrista Agamidae Acanthosaura aurantiacrista (Squamata: Agamidae), a new long horn lizard from northern Thailand [Poramad Trivalairat, Kirati Kunya, Lawan Chanhome, Montri Sumontha, Taksa Vasaruchapong, Nirut Chomngam, Krittiya Chiangkul]
2020-05-14 Rhinophis melanoleucus Uropeltidae A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Wayanad region of peninsular India [VIVEK PHILIP CYRIAC, SURYA NARAYANAN, FILIPA L. SAMPAIO, PAVUKANDY UMESH, DAVID J. GOWER]
2020-05-13 Uma thurmanae Phrynosomatidae A new cryptic species of fringe-toed lizards from southwestern Arizona with a revised taxonomy of the Uma notata species complex (Squamata: Phrynosomatidae) [ELIZABETH G. DERYCKE, ANDREW D. GOTTSCHO, DANIEL G. MULCAHY, KEVIN DE QUEIROZ]
2020-05-13 Suta gaikhorstorum Elapidae Parasuta wird zum Synonym für Suta:
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 [BRAD MARYAN, IAN G. BRENNAN, MARK N. HUTCHINSON, LUKAS S. GEIDANS]
2020-05-12 Cnemaspis lineatubercularis Gekkonidae Integrative taxonomy of the rock-dwelling gecko Cnemaspis siamensis complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae) reveals a new species from Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, southern Thailand [Natee Ampai, Perry L. Wood Jr, Bryan L. Stuart, Anchalee Aowphol]
2020-05-08 Goniurosaurus kwanghua Eublepharidae A new species of Goniurosaurus from Hainan Island, China based on molecular and morphological data (Squamata: Sauria: Eublepharidae) [XIAO-YU ZHU, CHU-ZE SHEN, YUN-FEI LIU, LIN CHEN, ZHENG LI, ZHU-QING HE]
2020-05-08 Cnemaspis chengodumalaensis,
Cnemaspis zacharyi		 Gekkonidae A preliminary 16S rRNA phylogeny of the Indian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of two new cryptic species from the C. wynadensis clade [Vivek Philip Cyriac, Muhamed Jafer Palot, Kaushik Deuti & P. K. Umesh]
2020-05-05 Eremias fahimii Lacertidae Fahimi’s racerunner, a new species of the genus Eremias Fitzinger, 1834 (Sauria: Lacertidae) from Iran [OMID MOZAFFARI, FARAHAM AHMADZADEH, REIHANEH SABERI-PIROOZ]
2020-04-30 Trimeresurus caudornatus Viperidae A new pit viper of the genus Trimeresurus (Lacépède, 1804) (Squamata: Viperidae) from Southwest China [ZENING CHEN, JIANPING YU, GERNOT VOGEL, SHENGCHAO SHI, ZHAOBIN SONG, YEZHONG TANG, JIA YANG, LI DING, CANGSONG CHEN]
2020-04-30 Atheris mongoensis Viperidae Une nouvelle espèce du genre Atheris Cope, 1862, de la province de l’Équateur en République Démocratique du Congo (Squamata: Viperidae) [Marcel COLLET & Jean-Francois TRAPE]
2020-04-23 Eryx sistanensis Boidae (Erycinae) A new species of Eryx (Serpentes: Erycidae) from Iran [NAEIMEH ESKANDARZADEH, NASRULLAH RASTEGAR-POUYANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI, JAMIL ZARGAN, ASHKAN HAJINOURMOHAMADI, ROMAN A. NAZAROV, SOHEIL SAMI, MAHDI RAJABIZADEH, HOSSEIN NABIZADEH, MAJID NAVAIAN]
2020-04-23 Cnemaspis tubaensis Gekkonidae A new species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia with an updated checklist of the herpetofauna of Tuba Island [EVAN S. H. QUAH, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, M.S. SHAHRUL ANUAR, MOHD ABDUL MUIN]
2020-04-21 Persiophis fahimii Colubridae (Colubrinae) Neue Gattung Persiophis
Additions to the phylogeny of colubrine snakes in Southwestern Asia, with description of a new genus and species (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae) [Mahdi Rajabizadeh, R. Alexander Pyron, Roman Nazarov, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Dominique Adriaens, Anthony Herrel]
2020-04-21 Dolichophis (Hierophis) andreanus Colubridae (Colubrinae) Hierophis andreanus umbenannt in Dolichophis andreanus
Additions to the phylogeny of colubrine snakes in Southwestern Asia, with description of a new genus and species (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae) [Mahdi Rajabizadeh, R. Alexander Pyron, Roman Nazarov, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Dominique Adriaens, Anthony Herrel]
2020-04-21 Liopeltis tiomanica Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new Liopeltis Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Pulau Tioman, Peninsular Malaysia [HANNAH E. SOM, L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, EVAN S. H. QUAH, RAFE M. BROWN, ARVIN C. DIESMOS, JEFFREY L. WEINELL, BRYAN L. STUART]
2020-04-20 Cyrtodactylus culaochamensis Gekkonidae A new endemic insular Bent-toed Gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodctylus) from Quang Nam Province, Central Vietnam [NGO VAN TRI, L. LEE GRISMER, PHAM HONG THAI, P.L. JR WOOD]
2020-04-15 Trimeresurus salazar Viperidae A new species of green pit vipers of the genus Trimeresurus Lacépède, 1804 (Reptilia, Serpentes, Viperidae) from western Arunachal Pradesh, India [Zeeshan A. Mirza, Harshal S. Bhosale, Pushkar U. Phansalkar, Mandar Sawant, Gaurang G. Gowande, Harshil Patel]
2020-04-14 Marisora aquilonaria
Marisora lineola
Marisora syntoma
Marisora urtica 		Scincidae
(Mabuyinae)		 A morphological and molecular revision of lizards of the genus Marisora Hedges & Conn (Squamata: Mabuyidae) from Central America and Mexico, with descriptions of four new species [JAMES R. MCCRANIE, AMY J. MATTHEWS, S. BLAIR HEDGES]
2020-04-13 Iguana melanoderma Iguanidae Painted black: Iguana melanoderma (Reptilia, Squamata, Iguanidae) a new melanistic endemic species from Saba and Montserrat islands (Lesser Antilles) [Michel Breuil, David Schikorski, Barbara Vuillaume, Ulrike Krauss, Matthew N. Morton, Elizabeth Corry, Nicolas Bech, Mišel Jelić, Frédéric Grandjean]
2020-04-13 Cyrtodactylus phnomchiensis Gekkonidae A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Cambodia’s Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary [Thy Neang, Adam Henson, Bryan L. Stuart]
2020-04-10 Lepidodactylus pollostos Gekkonidae A new species of small Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Salawati Island, Indonesia [Denise Taimi Karkkainen, Stephen J. Richards, Fred Kraus, Burhan Tjaturadi, Keliopas Krey und Paul M. Oliver]
2020-04-09 Chelus orinocensis Chelidae Genomic analyses reveal two species of the matamata (Testudines: Chelidae: Chelus spp.) and clarify their phylogeography [Mario Vargas-Ramírez, Susana Caballero, Mónica A. Morales-Betancourt, Carlos A. Lasso, Laura Amaya, José Gregorio Martíne, Maria das Neves Silva Viana, Richard C. Vogt, Izeni Pires Farias, Tomas Hrbek, Patrick D.Campbell, Uwe Fritz]
2020-04-06 Dixonius lao Gekkonidae A new species of Dixonius (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the karst forest of Khammouane Province, central Laos [THUONG HUYEN NGUYEN, SALY SITTHIVONG, HANH THI NGO, VINH QUANG LUU, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, MINH DUC LE, THOMAS ZIEGLER]
2020-03-28 Petracola pajatensis Gymnophthalmidae A new species of Petracola (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from Río Abiseo National Park, San Martín, Peru [Lily O. Rodríguez and Luis Mamani]
2020-03-27 Emydocephalus orarius Elapidae A new species of turtle-headed sea Snake (Emydocephalus: Elapidae) endemic to Western Australia [JAMES H. NANKIVELL, CLAIRE GOIRAN, MATHEW HOURSTON, RICHARD SHINE, ARNE R. RASMUSSEN, VICKI A. THOMSON, KATE L. SANDERS]
2020-03-27 Hemiphyllodactylus kyaiktiyoensis,
Hemiphyllodactylus ngwelwini,
Hemiphyllodactylus pinlaungensis,
Hemiphyllodactylus zwegabinensis		 Gekkonidae Four new Burmese species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from distantly related parapatric clades from the Shan Plateau and Salween Basin [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, EVAN S. H. QUAH, MYINT KYAW THURA, JAMIE R. OAKS, AUNG LIN]
2020-03-26 Uropeltis rajendrani Uropeltidae A new species of Uropeltis Cuvier, 1829 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Anaikatty Hills of the Western Ghats of India [S.R. Ganesh & N.S. Achyuthan]
2020-03-24 Xylophis mosaicus Pareidae Description of a new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae: Xylophiinae) from the Western Ghats, India [V. DEEPAK, SURYA NARAYANAN, SANDEEP DAS, K.P. RAJKUMAR, P.S. EASA, K.A. SREEJITH, DAVID J. GOWER]
2020-03-18 Cyrtodactylus evanquahi Gekkonidae A new potentially endangered limestone-associated Bent-toed Gecko of the Cyrtodactylus pulchellus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) complex from northern Peninsular Malaysia [PERRY L. JR. WOOD, L. LEE GRISMER, MOHD ABDUL MUIN, SHAHRUL ANUAR, JAMIE R. OAKS]
2020-03-15 Microgecko laki Gekkonidae Ein neuer Zwerggecko aus der Gattung Microgecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) aus dem Iran [Farhang Torki]
2020-03-10 Protobothrops kelomohy Viperidae Protobothrops kelomohy sp. nov. (Squamata: Viperidae), the Second Known Species of Lance-Headed Pit Viper from Thailand [Montri Sumontha, Taksa Vasaruchapong, Niruth Chomngam, Sunutcha Suntrarachun, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Weerasak Sompan, Ton Smits, Kirati Kunya, Lawan Chanhome]
2020-03-06 Dryocalamus chithrasekarai Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of Dryocalamus (Serpentes: Colubridae) endemic to the rainforests of southwestern Sri Lanka [L.J. MENDIS WICKRAMASINGHE, DULAN RANGA VIDANAPATHIRANA, VISHAN PUSHPAMAL, NETHU WICKRAMASINGHE]
2020-03-03 Acanthodactylus lacrymae,
Acanthodactylus montanus		 Lacertidae Morphology and multilocus phylogeny of the Spiny-footed Lizard (Acanthodactylus erythrurus) complex reveal two new mountain species from the Moroccan Atlas [AURÉLIEN MIRALLES, PHILIPPE GENIEZ, MENAD BEDDEK, DANIEL MENDEZ ARANDA, JOSÉ CARLOS BRITO, RAPHAËL LEBLOIS, PIERRE-ANDRÉ CROCHET]
2020-03-03 Hydrosaurus celebensis
Hydrosaurus microlophus		 Agamidae Hydrosaurus celebensis und Hydrosaurus microlophus gelten nicht mehr als Synonym von Hydrosaurus amboinensis: Dragons in neglect: Taxonomic revision of the Sulawesi sailfin lizards of the genus Hydrosaurus Kaup, 1828 (Squamata, Agamidae) [WOLFGANG DENZER, PATRICK D. CAMPBELL, ULRICH MANTHEY, ANDREA GLÄSSER-TROBISCH, ANDRÉ KOCH]
2020-03-02 Panaspis mocamedensis Scincidae (Eugongylinae) A review of the African snake-eyed skinks (Scincidae: Panaspis) from Angola, with the description of a new species [LUIS M. P. CERÍACO, MATTHEW P. HEINICKE, KELLY L. PARKER, MARIANA P. MARQUES, AARON M. BAUER]
2020-03-01 Sinomicrurus peinani Elapidae A new species of the genus Sinomicrurus (Serpentes: Elapidae) from China and Vietnam [Qin Liu, Jiao-Wen Yan, Shao-Bing Hou, Ping Wang, Sang Ngoc Nguyen, Robert W. Murphy, Jing Che, Peng Guo]
2020-02-28 Hemidactylus nzingae,
Hemidactylus paivae		 Gekkonidae A review of the genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Angola, with the description of two new species [LUIS M. P. CERÍACO, ISHAN AGARWAL, MARIANA P. MARQUES, AARON M. BAUER]
2020-02-24 Dendrelaphis vogeli Colubridae (Ahaetuliinae) A new species of the genus Dendrelaphis (Squamata: Colubridae) from Yunnan Province, China, with discussion of the occurrence of D. cyanochloris (Wall, 1921) in China [KE JIANG, JIN-LONG REN, JUN-FENG GUO, ZENG WANG, LI DING, JIA-TANG LI]
2020-02-23 Lakigecko aaronbaueri Gekkonidae Neue Gattung Lakigecko
A new gecko genus from Zagros Mountains, Iran [Farhang Torki]
2020-02-15 Wilsonosaura Gymnophthalmidae Neue Gattung Wilsonosaura
A new cryptic genus of terrestrial lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from the eastern Andes of central Peru [Edgar Lehr, Jiří Moravec & Rudolf von May]
2020-02-13 Cyrtodactylus urbanus Gekkonidae Another new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Guwahati, Assam, India [JAYADITYA PURKAYASTHA, MADHURIMA DAS, SANATH CHANDRA BOHRA, AARON M. BAUER, ISHAN AGARWAL]
2020-01-31 Crotalus ehecatl,
Crotalus mictlantecuhtli 		Viperidae Accessing cryptic diversity in Neotropical rattlesnakes (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus) with the description of two new species [RUBÉN ALONSO CARBAJAL-MÁRQUEZ, JOSÉ ROGELIO CEDEÑO-VÁZQUEZ, ARELY MARTÍNEZ-ARCE, EDGAR NERI-CASTRO, SALIMA C. MACHKOUR- M’RABET]
2020-01-30 Gonatodes machelae Sphaerodactylidae A new diurnal gecko in the genus Gonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from Margarita Island, Venezuela [CARLOS RIVERO-BLANCO, WALTER E. SCHARGEL]
2020-01-29 Liolaemus balagueri Liolaemidae A new species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) of the group L. montanus from the coastal hills of Southern Peru [ Luis Villegas Paredes, Ling Huamaní-Valderrama, César Luque-Fernández, Roberto Carlos Gutiérrez Poblete, Aarón Josué Quiróz, Cristian Simón Abdala]
2020-01-29 Hemiphyllodactylus nilgiriensis,
Hemiphyllodactylus peninsularis		 Gekkonidae Two more new Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, India [ISHAN AGARWAL, AARON M BAUER, SAUNAK PAL, ACHYUTHAN N SRIKANTHAN, AKSHAY KHANDEKAR]
2020-01-29 Gonatodes chucuri 
 Sphaerodactylidae A new species of the genus Gonatodes (Squamata: Sauria: Sphaerodactylidae) from the western flank of the Cordillera Oriental in Colombia, with description of its hemipenial morphology [ELSON MENESES-PELAYO, JUAN P. RAMÍREZ]
2020-01-28 Asthenodipsas borneensis Pareidae A taxonomic revision of Asthenodipsas malaccana Peters, 1864 (Squamata: Pareidae) with a description of a new species from Borneo [EVAN S.H. QUAH, L. LEE GRISMER, KELVIN K.P. LIM, M.S. SHAHRUL ANUAR, KIN ONN CHAN]
2020-01-20 Anolis neglectus Dactyloidae Discovery of a new species of Anolis lizards from Brazil and its implications for the historical biogeography of montane Atlantic Forest endemics [Ivan Prates, Paulo Roberto Melo-Sampaio, Kevin de Queiroz, Ana Carolina Carnaval, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues und Leandro de Oliveira Drummond]
2020-01-23 Cyrtodactylus crustulus Gekkonidae A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray (Gekkonidae: Squamata) from Manus Island, and extended description and range extension for Cyrtodactylus sermowaiensis (De Rooij) [PAUL M. OLIVER, RYAN HARTMAN, CAMERON D. TURNER, TAYLOR A. WILDE, CHRISTOPHER C. AUSTIN, STEPHEN J. RICHARDS]
2020-01-08 Lepidodactylus sacrolineatus Gekkonidae A new species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the mountains of northeastern Papua New Guinea: older than the hills [FRED KRAUS, PAUL M. OLIVER]
2020-01-07 Cyrtodactylus dattkyaikensis
Cyrtodactylus taungwineensis		 Gekkonidae Two new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a karstic archipelago in the Salween Basin of southern Myanmar (Burma) [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, EVAN S. H. QUAH, MARTA S. GRISMER, MYINT KYAW THURA, JAMIE R. OAKS, AUNG LIN]

2019

Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
2019-12-31 Cnemaspis dissanayakai,
Cnemaspis kawminiae,
Cnemaspis kotagamai		 Gekkonidae Three new species of day geckos (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) from isolated granite cave habitats in Sri Lanka [Suranjan Karunarathna, Anslem de Silva, Madhava Botejue, Dinesh Gabadage, Lankani Somaratna, Angelo Hettige, Nimantha Aberathna, Majintha Madawala, Gayan Edirisinghe, Nirmala Perera, Sulakshana Wickramaarachchi, Thilina Surasinghe, Niranjan Karunarathna, Mendis Wickramasinghe, Kanishka D.B. Ukuwela, and Aaron M. Bauer]
2019-12-27 Podarcis latastei Lacertidae Podarcis siculus latastei (Bedriaga, 1879) of the Western Pontine Islands (Italy) raised to the species rank, and a brief taxonomic overview of Podarcis lizards [Gabriele Senczuk, Riccardo Castiglia, Wolfgang Böhme, Claudia Cort]
2019-12-18 Tympanocryptis argillosa,
Tympanocryptis fictilis,
Tympanocryptis petersi,
Tympanocryptis rustica,
Tympanocryptis tolleyi		 Agamidae Integrating phylogeography and high-resolution X-ray CT reveals five new cryptic species and multiple hybrid zones among Australian earless dragons [Jane Melville, Kirilee Chaplin, Christy A. Hipsley, Stephen D. Sarre, Joanna Sumner and Mark Hutchinson]
2019-12-15 Calamaria strigiventris Colubridae (Calamariinae) A New Species of the Genus Calamaria Boie, 1827 from the Highlands of the Langbian Plateau, Southern Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae) [Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr., Tan Van Nguyen, Nikolai L. Orlov, Gernot Vogel]
2019-12-14 Hemidactylus achaemenidicus,
Hemidactylus pseudoromeshkanicus,
Hemidactylus sassanidianus 		Gekkonidae Three new species of Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Iran [Farhang Torki]
2019-12-13 Amphisbaena longinqua,
Amphisbaena mongoyo		 Amphisbaenidae Two New Highland Species of Amphisbaena Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae) from Bahia State, Brazil [Mauro Teixeira Junior, Francisco Dal Vechio, Renato Recoder, José Cassimiro, Marco Aurélio De Sena, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues]
2019-12-09 Panaspis tsavoensis Scincidae (Eugongylinae) Revalidation and resurrection of Panaspis massaiensis (Angel, 1924) and the description of a new species of Panaspis Cope (Squamata: Scincidae) from south-eastern Kenya [FELISTA KASYOKA KILUNDA, WERNER CONRADIE, DOMNICK VICTOR WASONGA, JIE-QIONG JIN, MIN-SHENG PENG, ROBERT W. MURPHY, PATRICK KINYATTA MALONZA, JING CHE]
2019-12-02 Sibon ayerbeorum Colubridae (Dipsadinae) A new species of Sibon Fitzinger, 1826 (Squamata: Colubridae) from Southwestern Colombia [LUIS ENRIQUE VERA-PÉREZ]
2019-12-02 Liolaemus tajzara Liolaemidae Description and phylogeny of a new species of Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) endemic to the south of the Plurinational State of Bolivia [Cristian Simón Abdala, Alvaro J. Aguilar-Kirigin, Romina Valeria Semhan, Ana Lucia Bulacios Arroyo, Julián Valdes, Marcos Maximiliano Paz, Roberto Gutiérrez Poblete, Pablo Valladares Faundez, Robert Langstroth, James Aparicio]
2019-11-30 Amphisbaena arenicola,
Amphisbaena nana,
Amphisbaena tiaraju		 Amphisbaenidae Integrative taxonomy of small worm lizards from Southern South America, with description of three new species (Amphisbaenia: Amphisbaenidae) [Renata Perez & Márcio Borges-Martins]
2019-11-28 Cyrtodactylus muangfuangensis Gekkonidae A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Vientiane Province, northern Laos [ALY SITTHIVONG, VINH QUANG LUU, NGOAN VAN HA, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, MINH DUC LE, THOMAS ZIEGLER]
2019-11-27 Psammophylax kellyi Lamprophiidae A snake in the grass: Genetic structuring of the widespread African grass snake (Psammophylax Fitzinger 1843), with the description of a new genus and a new species [Chad Keates, Werner Conradie, Eli Greenbaum & Shelley Edwards]
2019-11-11 Acanthosaura tongbiguanensis Agamidae A new species of the genus Acanthosaura from Yunnan, China (Squamata, Agamidae) [Shuo Liu, Dingqi Rao]
2019-11-08 Nucras broadleyi Lacertidae Another Angolan Namib endemic species: a new Nucras Gray, 1838 (Squamata: Lacertidae) from south-western Angola [William R. Branch, Werner Conradie, Pedro Vaz Pinto, and Krystal A. Tolley]
2019-10-24 Gehyra electrum Gekkonidae A new species of rock-dwelling gecko (Gekkonidae: Gehyra) from the Mt Surprise region of northern Queensland, Australia [STEPHEN M. ZOZAYA, JÉSSICA FENKER, STEWART L. MACDONALD]
2019-10-21 Dravidogecko douglasadamsi,
Dravidogecko janakiae,
Dravidogecko meghamalaiensis,
Dravidogecko septentrionalis,
Dravidogecko smithi,
Dravidogecko tholpalli		 Gekkonidae Diversification in the mountains: a generic reappraisal of the Western Ghats endemic gecko genus Dravidogecko Smith, 1933 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with descriptions of six new species [R. CHAITANYA, VARAD B. GIRI, V. DEEPAK, ANIRUDDHA DATTA-ROY, B.H.C.K MURTHY, PRAVEEN KARANTH]
2019-10-10 Phyllodactylus andysabini
Phyllodactylus simpsoni		 Phyllodactylidae Two new species of leaf-toed geckos (Phyllodactylus) from Isabela Island,Galápagos Archipelago, Ecuador [Alejandro Arteaga, Lucas Bustamante, Jose Vieira, Washington Tapia, Jorge Carrión, and Juan M Guayasamin]
2019-10-09 Sphenomorphus preylangensis Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 Integrative taxonomy of the Asian skinks Sphenomorphus stellatus (Boulenger, 1900) and S. praesignis (Boulenger, 1900) with the resurrection of S. annamiticus (Boettger, 1901) and the description of a new species from Cambodia [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L., JR. WOOD, EVAN S. H. QUAH, SHAHRUL ANUAR, NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV, NEANG THY, NIKOLAI L. ORLOV, PANUPONG THAMMACHOTI, HUN SEIHA]
2019-10-08 Oedura elegans
Oedura lineata
Oedura picta		 Diplodactylidae Description of three new velvet geckos (Diplodactylidae: Oedura) from inland eastern Australia, and redescription of Oedura monilis De Vis [CONRAD J. HOSKIN]
2019-10-07 Uroplatus fetsy Gekkonidae A new species of Uroplatus (Gekkonidae) from Ankarana National Park, Madagascar, of remarkably high genetic divergence [FANOMEZANA M. RATSOAVINA, MARK D. SCHERZ, KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY, ACHILLE P. RASELIMANANA, FRANK GLAW, MIGUEL VENCES]
2019-09-26 Saurodactylus elmoudenii
Saurodactylus harrisii
Saurodactylus slimanii
Saurodactylus splendidus 		Sphaerodactylidae Phylogenetic differentiation and taxonomic consequences in the Saurodactylus brosseti species complex (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae), with description of four new species [SOHEILA JAVANMARDI, SVEN VOGLER, ULRICH JOGER]
2019-09-26 Crocodylus halli Crocodylidae Divergent Morphology among Populations of the New Guinea Crocodile, Crocodylus novaeguineae (Schmidt, 1928): Diagnosis of an Independent Lineage and Description of a New Species [Christopher M. Murray, Peter Russo, Alexander Zorrilla, Caleb D. McMahan]
2019-09-25 Lepidodactylus aignanus,
Lepidodactylus dialeukos,
Lepidodactylus kwasnickae,
Lepidodactylus mitchelli,
Lepidodactylus zweifeli		 Gekkonidae New species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from New Guinea and adjacent islands [FRED KRAUS]
2019-09-23 Eirenis yassujicus Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of the genus Liopeltis Fitzinger, 1843 from Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae) [Behzad Fathinia, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Arya Shafaeipour, 2019]
2019-09-23 Hebius sangzhiensis Colubridae (Natricinae) A new species of Eirenis (Ophidia: Colubridae) from highland habitats in southern Iran [ZHENGYAN ZHOU, ZHIYONG SUN, SHUO QI, YUYAN LU, ZHITONG LYU, YINGYONG WANG, PIPENG LI, JIANZHANG MA]
2019-09-18 Liopeltis pallidonuchalis Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of the genus Liopeltis Fitzinger, 1843 from Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae) [Poyarkov, Nikolay A Jr, Nguyen, Tan van, Gernot Vogel]
2019-09-16 Arcanumophis problematicus Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Neue Gattung Arcanumophis: Erythrolamprus problematicus wird zu Arcanumophis problematicus
Arcanumophis, a new genus and generic allocation for Erythrolamprus problematicus (Myers 1986), Xenodontinae (Colubridae) from the Cordillera de Carabaya, southern Peru [CHRISTOPHER R. SMAGA, ALEX TTITO, ALESSANDRO CATENAZZI]
2019-09-16 Cyrtodactylus manos Gekkonidae A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from central New Guinea [PAUL M. OLIVER, DENISE TAIMI KARKKAINEN, HERBERT RÖSLER, STEPHEN J. RICHARDS]
2019-09-13 Gloydius huangi Viperidae A New Species of Plateau Pit Viper (Reptilia: Serpentes: Gloydius) from the Upper Lancang (=Mekong) Valley in the Hengduan Mountain Region, Tibet, China [Kai Wang, Jinlong Ren, Wenjie Dong, Ke Jiang, Jingsong Shi, Cameron D. Siler, Jing Che ]
2019-09-12 Cordylus phonolithos Cordylidae A new species of Girdled Lizard (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, southwestern Angola [MARIANA P. MARQUES, LUIS M. P. CERÍACO, EDWARD L. STANLEY, SUZANA A. BANDEIRA, ISHAN AGARWAL, AARON M. BAUER]
2019-09-11 Liolaemus chiribaya,
Liolaemus nazca,
Liolaemus victormoralesii		 Liolaemidae Three New Lizard Species of the Liolaemus montanus Group from Perú [CÉSAR AGUILAR-PUNTRIANO, CÉSAR RAMÍREZ, ERNESTO CASTILLO, ALEJANDRO MENDOZA, VICTOR J. VARGAS & JACK W. SITES, JR.]
2019-09-10 Lycodon pictus Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes, Colubridae) from northern Vietnam [Helen Y. Janssen, Cuong T. Pham, Hanh Thi Ngo, Minh Duc Le, Truong Q. Nguyen, Thomas Ziegler]
2019-09-09 Cyrtodactylus anslemi Gekkonidae A new species of dwarf day gecko (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis) from lower-elevations of Samanala Nature Reserve in Central massif, Sri Lanka [Suranjan Karunarathna and Kanishka D.B. Ukuwel]
2019-09-09 Cyrtodactylus dayangbuntingensis Gekkonidae The discovery and description of a new species of Bent-toed Gecko of the Cyrtodactylus pulchellus complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia [EVAN S. H. QUAH, L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR WOOD, SHAHRUL ANUAR MOHD SAH]
2019-09-02 Lipinia trivittata
Lipinia vassilievi		 Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 2 neue Arten und Artstatus für Lipinia microcercus
Counting stripes: revision of the Lipinia vittigera complex (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) with description of two new species from Indochina [Nikolay A. Poyarkov Jr., Peter Geissler, Vladislav A. Gorin, Evgeniy A. Dunayev, Timo Hartmann, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom]
2019-08-29 Larutia kecil Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 A new species of the genus Larutia (Squamata: Scincidae) from Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Borneo [IBUKI FUKUYAMA, TSUTOMU HIKIDA, MOHAMAD YAZID HOSSMAN, KANTO NISHIKAWA]
2019-08-27 Cnemaspis thayawthadangyi,
Cnemaspis tanintharyi		 Gekkonidae The discovery of Rock Geckos Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar with the description of two new species [JUSTIN L. LEE, ARYEH H. MILLER, GEORGE R. ZUG, DANIEL G. MULCAHY]
2019-08-15 Cnemaspis butewai,
Cnemaspis hitihami,
Cnemaspis gotaimbarai,
Cnemaspis kivulegedarai,
Cnemaspis kohukumburai,
Cnemaspis nandimithrai		 Gekkonidae Integrative taxonomy reveals six new species of day geckos of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from geographically-isolated hill forests in Sri Lanka [Karunarathna, Poyarkov, Silva, Madawalla, Botejue, Gorin, Surasinghe, Gabadage, Ukuwela & Bauer]
2019-08-15 Cnemaspis aaronbaueri Gekkonidae Description of a cryptic new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala State of India [AMIT SAYYED, L. LEE GRISMER, PATRICK D CAMPBELL, RAVEENDRAN DILEEPKUMAR]
2019-08-13 Bothrops monsignifer Viperidae A new species of pitviper of the genus Bothrops (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from the Central Andes of South America [JUAN TIMMS, JUAN C. CHAPARRO, PABLO J. VENEGAS, DAVID SALAZAR-VALENZUELA, GUSTAVO SCROCCHI, JAIRO CUEVAS, GERARDO LEYNAUD, PAOLA A. CARRASCO]
2019-08-13 Cnemaspis amba
Cnemaspis koynaensis		 Gekkonidae Two more new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, Maharashtra, India [AKSHAY KHANDEKAR, TEJAS THACKERAY, ISHAN AGARWAL]
2019-08-12 Takydromus yunkaiensis Lacertidae A new species of the genus Takydromus (Squamata, Lacertidae) from southwestern Guangdong, China Jian Wang, Zhi-Tong Lyu, Chen-Yu Yang, Yu-Long Li, Ying-Yong Wang]
2019-08-08 Epictia rioignis Leptotyphlopidae A century of waiting: description of a new Epictia Gray, 1845 (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) based on specimens housed for more than 100 years in the collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna (NMW) [Claudia Koch, Angele Martins, Silke Schweiger]
2019-08-06 Helicops boitata  Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Chance, luck and a fortunate finding: a new species of watersnake of the genus Helicops Wagler, 1828 (Serpentes: Xenodontinae), from the Brazilian Pantanal wetlands [ANTONIO MORAES-DA-SILVA, RENATA CECÍLIA AMARO, PEDRO M. SALES NUNES, CHRISTINE STRÜSSMANN, MAURO JUNIOR TEIXEIRA, ALBEDI JR. ANDRADE, VINÍCIUS SUDRÉ, RENATO RECODER, MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES, FELIPE FRANCO CURCIO]
2019-08-05 Cnemaspis anandani Gekkonidae A New Species of Day Gecko of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India [B. H. Channakeshava Murthy, A. Nitesh, Shruti Sengupta, P. Deepak ]
2019-08-05 Lepidodactylus aignanus,
Lepidodactylus dialeukos,
Lepidodactylus kwasnickae,
Lepidodactylus mitchelli,
Lepidodactylus zweifeli		 Gekkonidae New species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from New Guinea and adjacent islands [FRED KRAUS]
2019-07-31 Microgecko varaviensis Gekkonidae A new species of the genus Microgecko Nikolsky, 1907 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the southern Zagros Mountains, Iran [ALI GHOLAMIFARD, NASRULLAH RASTEGAR-POUYANI, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI]
2019-07-30 Scincella badenensis Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 A new skink of the genus Scincella Mittleman, 1950 (Squamata: Scincidae) from Ba Den Mountain, Tay Ninh Province, southern Vietnam [ANG NGOC NGUYEN, VU DANG HOANG NGUYEN, LUAN THANH NGUYEN, ROBERT W. MURPHY]
2019-07-28 Gekko, Ptychozoon Gekkonidae Die Gattung Ptychozoon wird nach Gekko überführt:
Parachute geckos free fall into synonymy: Gekko phylogeny, and a new subgeneric classification, inferred from thousands of ultraconserved elements [Perry L. Wood Jr., Xianguang Guo, Scott L. Travers, Yong-Chao Su, Karen V. Olson, Aaron M. Bauer, L. Lee Grismer, Cameron D. Siler, Robert G. Moyle, Michael J. Andersen, Rafe M. Brown]
2019-07-26 Dipsadoboa montisilva Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of tree snake (Dipsadoboa, Serpentes: Colubridae) from ‘sky island’ forests in northern Mozambique, with notes on other members of the Dipsadoboa werneri group [WILLIAM R. BRANCH, JULIAN BAYLISS, GABRIELA B. BITTENCOURT-SILVA, WERNER CONRADIE, HANLIE M. ENGELBRECHT, SIMON P. LOADER, MICHELE MENEGON, CRISTÓVÃO NANVONAMUQUITXO, KRYSTAL A. TOLLEY]
2019-07-26 Asthenodipsas jamilinaisi,
Asthenodipsas stuebingi		 Pareidae A taxonomic reappraisal of the Smooth Slug Snake Asthenodipsas laevis (Boie, 1827) (Squamata: Pareidae) in Borneo with the description of two new species [EVAN S.H. QUAH, L. LEE GRISMER, KELVIN K.P. LIM, M.S. SHAHRUL ANUAR, AUL Y. IMBUN]
2019-07-24 Hemidactylus varadgirii Gekkonidae A novel member of the Hemidactylus brookii complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India [R. CHAITANYA, ISHAN AGARWAL, APARNA LAJMI, AKSHAY KHANDEKAR]
2019-07-24 Audantia aridius,
Audantia australis,
Audantia higuey,
Audantia hispaniolae		 Dactyloidae A revision of the genus Audantia of Hispaniola with description of four new species (Reptilia: Squamata: Dactyloidae) [Gunther Köhler, Caroline Zimmer, Kathleen McGrath, S. Blair Hedges]
2019-07-18 Calotes zolaiking Agamidae On the systematic status of the genus Oriocalotes Günther, 1864 (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae) with the description of a new species from Mizoram state, Northeast India [VARAD. B. GIRI, R. CHAITANYA, STEPHEN MAHONY, SAMUEL LALROUNGA, C. LALRINCHHANA, ABHIJIT DAS, VIVEK SARKAR, PRAVEEN KARANTH, V. DEEPAK]
2019-07-18 Liolaemus quinterosi Liolaemidae A new species of the Liolaemus elongatus group (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from Neuquén Province, Argentina, with comments on its genitalia morphology [Maria Soledad Ruiz, Angel Matias Quipildor, Ana Lucia Bulacios Arroyo, Pablo Chafrat, Cristian Simon Abdala]
2019-07-17 Proahaetulla antiqua Colubridae (Ahaetuliinae) Neue Gattung Proahaetulla
Discovery of a deeply divergent new lineage of vine snake (Colubridae: Ahaetuliinae: Proahaetulla gen. nov.) from the southern Western Ghats of Peninsular India with a revised key for Ahaetuliinae [Ashok Kumar Mallik, N. Srikanthan Achyuthan, Sumaithangi R. Ganesh, Saunak P. Pal, S. P. Vijayakumar, Kartik Shanker]
2019-07-16 Ptychozoon cicakterbang,
Ptychozoon kabkaebin,
Ptychozoon tokehos		 Gekkonidae Geographic structure of genetic variation in the Parachute Gecko Ptychozoon lionotum Annandale, 1905 across Indochina and Sundaland with descriptions of three new species [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, JESSE L. GRISMER, EVAN S. H. QUAH, NEANG THY, SOMPHOUTHONE PHIMMACHAK, NIANE SIVONGXAY, SENGVILAY SEATEUN, BRYAN L. STUART, CAMERON B. SILER, DANIEL G. MULCAHY, TASHITSO ANAMZA, RAFE M. BROWN]
2019-07-15 Phymaturus fiambala Liolaemidae A New Species of Lizard Endemic to Sierra de Fiambalá, Northwestern Argentina (Iguania: Liolaemidae: Phymaturus). Integrated Taxonomy Using Morphology and DNA Sequences: Reporting Variation Within the antofagastensis Lineage [Lobo Fernando, Thomas Hibbard, Matías Quipildor, and Soledad Valdecantos]
2019-07-03 Pristurus masirahensis Sphaerodactylidae Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of Pristurus minimus (Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae) with the discovery of the smallest Arabian vertebrate [Karin Tamar, Pelagia Mitsi, Marc SimÓ-Riudalbas, Héctor Tejero-Cicuéndez, Thuraya Al-Sariri & Salvador Carranza]
2019-07-02 Glaucomastix itabaianensis Teiidae Phylogeography of the endangered sand dune whiptail lizard Glaucomastix abaetensis (Dias, Rocha & Vrcibradic, 2002) with the description of a new species [IGOR RIOS DO ROSÁRIO, RODRIGO MARQUES LIMA DOS SANTOS, FEDERICO ARIAS, CARLOS FREDERICO DUARTE ROCHA, EDUARDO JOSÉ DOS REIS DIAS, CELSO MORATO DE CARVALHO, MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES]
2019-07-01 Cyrtodactylus pinlaungensis Gekkonidae A new species of Bent-toed Gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cyrtodactylus) from the Shan Plateau in eastern Myanmar (Burma) [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, EVAN S. H. QUAH, MYINT KYAW THURA, JAMIE R. OAKS, AUNG LIN]
2019-07-01 Cnemaspis adangrawi
Cnemaspis tarutaoensis		 Gekkonidae Morphological and molecular analyses reveal two new insular species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Satun Province, southern Thailand [Natee Ampai, Attapol Rujirawan, Perry L. Wood Jr, Bryan L. Stuart, Anchalee Aowphol]
2019-06-28 Phymaturus loboi Liolaemidae An updated phylogeny and morphological study of the Phymaturus vociferator clade (Iguania: Liolaemidae) [JAIME TRONCOSO-PALACIOS, FRANCISCO FERRI-YÁÑEZ, ALEJANDRO LASPIUR, CÉSAR AGUILAR]
2019-06-26 Sinonatrix yapingi Colubridae (Natricinae) A new member of the genus Sinonatrix (Serpentes: Colubridae) from western China [PENG GUO, FEI ZHU, QIN LIU]
2019-06-26 Oligosoma albornense
Oligosoma auroraensis
Oligosoma salmo 		Scincidae (Eugongylinae) Lost and Found: Taxonomic revision of the speckled skink (Oligosoma infrapunctatum; Reptilia; Scincidae) species complex from New Zealand reveals a potential cryptic extinction, resurrection of two species, and description of three new species [SABINE MELZER, ROD A. HITCHMOUGH, TRENT BELL, DAVID G. CHAPPLE, GEOFF B. PATTERSON]
2019-06-25 Darevskia aghasyani Lacertidae A new lizard species of the genus Darevskia Arribas, 1997 from Southern Armenia [B.S. Tuniyev and T.V. Petrova]
2019-06-24 Cyrtodactylus mombergi Gekkonidae A new species of forest-dwelling Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary, Kachin State, Myanmar [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, EVAN S. H. QUAH, MYINT KYAW THURA, MARK W. HERR, AUNG KO LIN]
2019-06-20 Hemidactylus chikhaldaraensis,
Hemidactylus kolliensis,
Hemidactylus sankariensis		 Gekkonidae An expanded ND2 phylogeny of the brookii and prashadi groups with the description of three new Indian Hemidactylus Oken (Squamata: Gekkonidae) [ISHAN AGARWAL, AARON M. BAUER, VARAD B. GIRI, AKSHAY KHANDEKAR]
2019-06-20 Atractus aboiporu
Atractus dapsilis
Atractus trefauti 		Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Systematic review of Atractus schach (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) species complex from the Guiana Shield with description of three new species [Paulo Roberto Melo-Sampaio, Paulo Passos, Antoine Fouquet, Ana Lucia Da Costa Prudente & Omar Torres-Carvajal]
2019-06-20 Diporiphora carpentariensis,
Diporiphora granulifera,
Diporiphora gracilis,
Diporiphora pallida,
Diporiphora perplexa		 Agamidae Taxonomic revision of dragon lizards in the genus Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) from the Australian monsoonal tropics [Jane Melville, Katie Smith Date, Paul Horner and Paul Doughty]
2019-06-13 Psammophis afroccidentalis Lamprophiidae On the Psammophis sibilans group (Serpentes, Lamprophiidae, Psammophiinae) north of 12°S, with the description of a new species from West Africa [Jean-François Trape, Pierre-André Crochet, Donald G. Broadley, Patricia Sourouille, Youssouph Mané, Marius Burger, Wolfgang Böhme, Mostafa Saleh, Anna Karan, Benedetto Lanza & Oleg Mediannikov]
2019-06-10 Cyrtodactylus muluensis
Cyrtodactylus limajalur		 Gekkonidae Uncovering karst endemism within Borneo: two new Cyrtodactylus species from Sarawak, Malaysia [HAYDEN R. DAVIS, AARON M. BAUER, TODD R. JACKMAN, IZNEIL NASHRIQ, INDRANEIL DAS]
2019-06-06 Opisthotropis haihaensis Colubridae (Natricinae) A new species of Opisthotropis from northern Vietnam previously misidentified as the Yellow-spotted Mountain Stream Keelback O. maculosa Stuart & Chuaynkern, 2007 (Squamata: Natricidae) [THOMAS ZIEGLER, CUONG THE PHAM, TAN VAN NGUYEN, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, JIAN WANG, YING-YONG WANG, BRYAN L. STUART, MINH DUC LE]
2019-06-04 Lerista anyara Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 A new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, belonging to the Lerista allanae clade but strongly disjunct from other members of the clade [ANDREW P. AMEY, PATRICK J. COUPER, JESSICA WORTHINGTON WILMER]
2019-06-03 Liolaemus normae Liolaemidae Speciation across mountains: Phylogenomics, species delimitation and taxonomy of the Liolaemus leopardinus clade (Squamata, Liolaemidae) [Damien Esquerré, Diego Ramírez-Álvarez, Carlos J.Pavón-Vázquez, Jaime Troncoso-Palacios, Carlos F. Garín, J. Scott Keogh & Adam D.Leaché]
2019-06-03 Cnemaspis godagedarai Gekkonidae A new species of endemic day gecko (Reptilia: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis) from a wet zone forest in the second peneplain of Southern Sri Lanka [Anslem de Silva, Aaron M. Bauer, Madhava Botejue, and ,*Suranjan Karunarathna]
2019-06-02 Hemiphyllodactylus arakuensis,
Hemiphyllodactylus jnana,
Hemiphyllodactylus kolliensis		 Gekkonidae The hills are alive with geckos! A radiation of a dozen species on sky islands across peninsular India (Squamata: Gekkonidae, Hemiphyllodactylus) with the description of three new species [Ishan Agarwal, Akshay Khandekar, Varad B. Giri, Uma Ramakrishnan, K. Praveen Karanth]
2019-05-31 Acanthosaura phongdienensis Agamidae A new species of Acanthosaura Gray 1831 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from central Vietnam [SANG NGOC NGUYEN, JIE-QIONG JIN, BA DINH VO, LUAN THANH NGUYEN, WEI-WEI ZHOU, JING CHE, ROBERT W. MURPHY, YA-PING ZHANG]
2019-05-28 Elaphe urartica Colubridae (Colubrinae) The biogeography of Elaphe sauromates (Pallas, 1814), with a description of a new rat snake species [Daniel Jablonski, Oleg V. Kukushkin, Aziz Avcı, Sabina Bunyatova, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Çetin Ilgaz, Ekaterina Polyakova, Konstantin Shiryaev, Boris Tuniyev, David Jandzik]
2019-05-23 Lygodactylus tsavoensis Gekkonidae A new species of gecko of the genus Lygodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from southeastern Kenya [PATRICK K. MALONZA, AARON M. BAUER, CAROLINA GRANTHON, DEAN A. WILLIAMS, DAVID WOJNOWSKI]
2019-05-23 Subdoluseps malayana Scincidae (Lygosominae) A new skink of the genus Subdoluseps (Hardwicke & Gray, 1828) from Peninsular Malaysia [L. LEE GRISMER, ZAHARIL DZUKAFLY, MOHD ABDUL MUIN, EVAN S. H. QUAH, BENJAMIN R. KARIN, SHAHRUL ANUAR, ELYSE S. FREITAS]
2019-05-22 Cnemaspis shevaroyensis,
Cnemaspis thackerayi		 Gekkonidae Two new Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Shevaroy massif, Tamil Nadu, India, with a preliminary ND2 phylogeny of Indian Cnemaspis [AKSHAY KHANDEKAR, NIKHIL GAITONDE, ISHAN AGARWAL]
2019-05-22 Tympanocryptis mccartneyi
Tympanocryptis osbornei		 Agamidae Taxonomy and conservation of grassland earless dragons: new species and an assessment of the first possible extinction of a reptile on mainland Australia [Jane Melville, Kirilee Chaplin, Mark Hutchinson, Joanna Sumner, Bernd Gruber, Anna J. MacDonald and Stephen D. Sarre]
2019-05-20 Iguana iguana insularis
Iguana iguana sanctaluciae 		Iguanidae A story of nasal horns: two new subspecies of Iguana Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata, Iguanidae) in Saint Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, and Grenada (southern Lesser Antilles) [MICHEL BREUIL, BARBARA VUILLAUME, DAVID SCHIKORSKI, ULRIKE KRAUSS, MATTHEW N. MORTON, PIUS HAYNES, JENNIFER C. DALTRY, ELIZABETH CORRY, GLENROY GAYMES, JOANNE GAYMES, NICOLAS BECH, MIŠEL JELIĆ, FRÉDÉRIC GRANDJEAN]
2019-05-20 Norops arenal Dactyloidae A new species of anole from Parque Nacional Volcán Arenal, Costa Rica (Reptilia, Squamata, Dactyloidae: Norops) [GUNTHER KÖHLER, JOSEPH VARGAS]
2019-05-17 Cnemaspis muria Gekkonidae Hiding in plain sight on Gunung Muria: A new species and first record of rock gecko (Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887; Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Java, Indonesia [AWAL RIYANTO, MISBAHUL MUNIR, ANDRI I. S. MARTAMENGGALA, YULI SULISTYA FITRIANA, AMIR HAMIDY]
2019-05-15 Paroedura neglecta Gekkonidae A new species of nocturnal gecko, genus Paroedura, from the karstic Tsingy de Bemaraha formation in western Madagascar [Jörn Köhler, Miguel Vences, Mark D. Scherz & Frank Glaw]
2019-05-09 Atractus marthaei Colubridae (Dipsadinae) New Polychromatic Species of Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Eastern Portion of the Colombian Andes [Elson Meneses-Pelayo, Paulo Passos]
2019-05-09 Smithophis atemporalis Colubridae (Natricinae) Neue Gattung Smithophis
A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India [VARAD B. GIRI, DAVID J. GOWER, ABHIJIT DAS, H.T. LALREMSANGA, SAMUEL LALRONUNGA, ASHOK CAPTAIN, V. DEEPAK]
2019-04-29 Ahaetulla laudankia Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of Ahaetulla Link, 1807 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Ahaetullinae) from India [V. Deepak, Surya Narayanan, Vivek Sarkar, Sushil K. Dutta & Pratyush P. Mohapatra]
2019-04-26 Gekko flavimaritus Gekkonidae A new karst-dwelling gecko of the Gekko petricolus group (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Phitsanulok Province, central Thailand [Attapol Rujirawan, Jonathan J. Fong, Natee Ampai, Siriporn Yodthong, Korkhwan Termprayoon & Anchalee Aowphol]
2019-04-17 Calamaria dominici Colubridae (Calamariinae) A new species of reed snake, Calamaria Boie, 1827 from the Central Highlands of Vietnam (Squamata: Colubridae) [Thomas Ziegler, Vu A. Tran, Randall D. Babb, Thomas R. Jones, Paul E. Moler, Robert W. Van Devender, Truong Q. Nguyen]
2019-04-16 Erythrolamprus rochai Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Taxonomic revision of the Erythrolamprus reginae species group, with description of a new species from Guiana Shield (Serpentes: Xenodontinae) [ALEXANDRE C. ASCENSO, JOÃO C. L. COSTA, ANA L. C. PRUDENTE]
2019-04-26 Achalinus emilyae
Achalinus juliani
Achalinus timi		 Xenodermatidae Three new species of the snake genus Achalinus from Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae) [THOMAS ZIEGLER, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN, CUONG THE PHAM, TAO THIEN NGUYEN, ANH VAN PHAM, MONA VAN SCHINGEN, THAM THI NGUYEN, MINH DUC LE]
2019-04-17 Stegonotus ayamaru Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of Indo-Papuan groundsnake, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Serpentes, Colubridae), from the Bird’s Head Peninsula of West Papua, Indonesia, with comments on differentiating morphological characters [CHRISTINE M. KAISER, MARK O’SHEA, HINRICH KAISER]
2019-04-17 Lycodon namdongensis Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam [VINH QUANG LUU, THOMAS ZIEGLER, NGHIA VAN HA, MINH DUC LE, TUOI THI HOANG]
2019-04-08 Lycodon gibsonae Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of the Lycodon fasciatus complex from the Khorat Plateau, eastern Thailand (Reptiles, Squamata, Colubridae) [GERNOT VOGEL, PATRICK DAVID]
2019-04-08 Lerista alia,
Lerista parameles		 Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 Two new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from north Queensland populations formerly assigned to Lerista storri Greer, McDonald and Lawrie, 1983 [ANDREW P. AMEY, PATRICK J. COUPER, JESSICA WORTHINGTON WILMER]
2019-04-06 Lerista Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 A new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, belonging to the Lerista allanae clade but strongly disjunct from other members of the clade [ANDREW P. AMEY, PATRICK J. COUPER, JESSICA WORTHINGTON WILMER]
2019-04-05 Cyrtodactylus nyinyikyawi
Cyrtodactylus pyadalinensis		 Gekkonidae Two more new species of the Cyrtodactylus peguensis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the fringes of the Ayeyarwady Basin, Myanmar [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, MYINT KYAW THURA, NAY MYO WIN, EVAN S. H. QUAH]
2019-04-04 Hemiphyllodactylus indosobrinus
Hemiphyllodactylus serpispecus		 Gekkonidae Two new species of Hemiphyllodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Laos [SAMUEL J. ELIADES, SOMPHOUTHONE PHIMMACHAK, NIANE SIVONGXAY, CAMERON D. SILER, BRYAN L. STUART]
2019-04-01 Trimeresurus arunachalensis Viperidae A New Species of Pitviper (Serpentes: Viperidae: Trimeresurus Lacepède, 1804) from West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh, India [Ashok Captain, V. Deepak, Rohan Pandit, Bharat Bhatt, Ramana Athreya]
2019-04-01 Phyllurus pinnaclensis Carphodactylidae A new species of Phyllurus leaf-tailed gecko (Lacertilia: Carphodactylidae) from The Pinnacles, north-east Australia [CONRAD J. HOSKIN, LORENZO V. BERTOLA, MEGAN HIGGIE]
2019-03-28 Norops brianjuliani Dactyloidae A new species of anole from the Sierra Madre del Sur in Guerrero, Mexico (Reptilia, Squamata, Dactyloidae: Norops) [Gunther Köhler, Claus Bo P. Petersen & Fausto R. Mendez de la Cruz]
2019-03-27 Cnemaspis agarwali Gekkonidae A new species of rock-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Tamil Nadu, southern India [AKSHAY KHANDEKAR]
2019-03-25 Trimeresurus yingjiangensis Viperidae A New Species of the Genus Trimeresurus from Southwest China (Squamata: Viperidae) [Zening CHEN; Liang ZHANG; Jingsong SHI; Yezhong TANG; Yuhong GUO; Zhaobin SONG and Li DING]
2019-03-19 Trachylepis raymondlaurenti Scincidae
(Mabuyinae)		 Description of a new long-tailed skink (Scincidae: Trachylepis) from Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo [MARIANA P. MARQUES, LUIS M. P. CERÍACO, SUZANA BANDEIRA, OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS, AARON M. BAUER]
2019-03-12 Astrobatrachus kurichiyana Nyctibatrachidae A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India [Seenapuram Palaniswamy Vijayakumar, Robert Alexander Pyron, K. P. Dinesh, Varun R. Torsekar, Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, Priyanka Swamy, Edward L. Stanley, David C. Blackburn, Kartik Shanker]
2019-03-11 Bothrops sonene Viperidae A new species of Bothrops (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from Pampas del Heath, southeastern Peru, with comments on the systematics of the Bothrops neuwiedi species group [PAOLA A. CARRASCO, FELIPE G. GRAZZIOTIN, ROY SANTA CRUZ FARFÁN, CLAUDIA KOCH, JOSÉ ANTONIO OCHOA, GUSTAVO J. SCROCCHI, GERARDO C. LEYNAUD, JUAN C. CHAPARRO]
2019-03-08 Cnemaspis ingerorum Gekkonidae Description of a new diminutive, rupicolous species of day-gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cnemaspis) from southern Sri Lanka [SUDESH BATUWITA, ISHAN AGARWAL, AARON M. BAUER]
2019-03-06 Salvadora gymnorhachis Colubridae (Colubrinae) A new species of patch-nosed snake (Colubridae: Salvadora Baird and Girard, 1853) from Oaxaca, Mexico [CARLOS ALBERTO HERNÁNDEZ-JIMÉNEZ, OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA, JONATHAN ATWOOD CAMPBELL]
2019-03-06 Atractaspis branchi
 Lamprophiidae A new stiletto snake (Lamprophiidae, Atractaspidinae, Atractaspis) from Liberia and Guinea, West Africa [Mark-Oliver Rödel, Christoph Kucharzewski, Kristin Mahlow, Laurent Chirio, Olivier Pauwels, Piero Carlino, Gordon Sambolah, Julian Glos]
2019-03-06 Brookesia tedi Chamaeleonidae A new dwarf chameleon, genus Brookesia, from the Marojejy massif in northern Madagascar [Mark D. Scherz, Jörn Köhler, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences]
2019-03-05 Hemiphyllodactylus arakuensis,
Hemiphyllodactylus jnana,
Hemiphyllodactylus kolliensis		 Gekkonidae The hills are alive with geckos! A radiation of a dozen species on sky islands across peninsular India (Squamata: Gekkonidae, Hemiphyllodactylus) with the description of three new species [Ishan Agarwal, Akshay Khandekar, Varad B. Giri, Uma Ramakrishnan, K. Praveen Karanth]
2019-02-27 Bachia beebei
Bachia whitei		 Gymnophthalmidae The reduced limbed lizards of the genus Bachia (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae); biogeography, cryptic diversity, and morphological convergence in the eastern Caribbean [John C. Murphy, Daniele Salv, iJoana L. Santos, Alvin L. Braswell, Stevland P. Charles, Amaél Borzée, Michael J. Jowers]
2019-02-22 Nucras aurantiaca Lacertidae A new Nucras Gray, 1838 (Squamata: Lacertidae) from the Strandveld of the Western Cape, South Africa [AARON M. BAUER, JACKIE L. CHILDERS, CHRIS BROECKHOVEN, P. LEFRAS N. MOUTON]
2019-02-20 Aspidura desilvai Colubridae (Natricinae) A new species of Aspidura Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Knuckles, World Heritage Site, Sri Lanka [L. J. MENDIS WICKRAMASINGHE, IMESH NUWAN BANDARA, DULAN RANGA VIDANAPATHIRANA, NETHU WICKRAMASINGHE]
2019-02-19 Amphisbaena
 Amphisbaenidae Amphisbaena mensae [CASTRO-MELLO, 2000] gilt als Synonym für Amphisbaena talisiae [VANZOLINI, 1995]
Amphisbaena mensae Catro-Mello, 2000 is a synonym of Amphisbaena talisiae Vanzolini, 1995 (Squamata: Amphisbaenia: Amphisbaenidae) [HENRIQUE C. COSTA, ROBERTA GRABOSKI, HUSSAM ZAHER]
2019-02-15 Dendrosauridion yanesha Gymnophthalmidae Neue Gattung Dendrosauridion
A new genus and species of arboreal lizard (Gymnophthalmidae: Cercosaurinae) from the eastern Andes of Peru [Edgar Lehr, Jiří Moravec, Mikael Lundberg, Gunther Köhler, Alessandro Catenazzi & Jiří Šmíd]
2019-02-14 Dibamus manadotuaensis Dibamidae A new species of Dibamus Duméril & Bibron, 1839 (Squamata: Dibamidae) from Pulau Manado Tua, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia [THORE KOPPETSCH, WOLFGANG BÖHME, ANDRÉ KOCH]
2019-02-13 Pelodiscus variegatus Trionychidae A new species of Pelodiscus from northeastern Indochina (Testudines, Trionychidae) [Balázs Farkas, Thomas Ziegler, Cuong The Pham, An Vinh Ong, Uwe Fritz]
2019-02-12 Hebius lacrima Colubridae (Natricinae) A new species of the snake genus Hebius Thompson from Northeast India (Squamata: Natricidae) [AYADITYA PURKAYASTHA, PATRICK DAVID]
2019-02-08 Cyrtodactylus auralensis,
Cyrtodactylus bokorensis,
Cyrtodactylus cardamomensis,
Cyrtodactylus laangensis,
Cyrtodactylus septimontium,
Cyrtodactylus thylacodactylus 		Gekkonidae Six new species of the Cyrtodactylus intermedius complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Cardamom Mountains and associated highlands of Southeast Asia [MATTHEW L. MURDOCH, L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, THY NEANG, NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV, NGO VAN TRI, ROMAN A. NAZAROV, ANCHALEE AOWPHOL, OLIVIER S.G. PAUWELS, HUNG NGOC NGUYEN, JESSE L. GRISMER]
2019-01-25 Amphisbaena mebengokre Amphisbaenidae A new species of the Amphisbaena (Squamata, Amphisbaenidae) from the Brazilian Cerrado with a key for the two-pored species [SÍRIA RIBEIRO, VÂNIA SÁ, ALFREDO P. SANTOS-JR, ROBERTA GRABOSKI, HUSSAM ZAHER, ANDREI G. GUEDES, SHEILA P. ANDRADE, WILIAN VAZ-SILVA]
2019-01-24 Polemon ater
 Lamprophiidae A Cryptic New Species of Polemon (Squamata: Lamprophiidae, Aparallactinae) from the Miombo Woodlands of Central and East Africa [Frank Portillo, William R. Branch, Colin R. Tilbury, Zoltán T. Nagy, Daniel F. Hughes, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Mathias Behangana, and Eli Greenbaum]
2019-01-21

Uroplatus finaritra

 Gekkonidae Finaritra! A splendid new leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus) species from Marojejy National Park in north-eastern Madagascar [FANOMEZANA MIHAJA RATSOAVINA, ACHILLE P. RASELIMANANA, MARK D. SCHERZ, ANDOLALAO RAKOTOARISON, JARY H. RAZAFINDRAIBE, FRANK GLAW, MIGUEL VENCES]
2019-01-18

Cnemaspis nilgala

 Gekkonidae Description of a new species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Nilgala Savannah forest, Uva Province of Sri Lanka [SURANJAN KARUNARATHNA, AARON M. BAUER, ANSLEM DE SILVA, THILINA SURASINGHE, LANKANI SOMARATNA, MAJINTHA MADAWALA, DINESH GABADAGE, MADHAVA BOTEJUE, SUJAN HENKANATHTHEGEDARA, KANISHKA D.B. UKUWELA]
2019-01-18 Erythrolamprus pseudoreginae Colubridae (Dipsadinae) A new species of Erythrolamprus from the oceanic island of Tobago (Squamata, Dipsadidae) [John C. Murphy, Alvin L. Braswell, Stevland P. Charles, Renoir J. Auguste, Gilson A. Rivas, Amaël Borzée, Richard M. Lehtinen, Michael J. Jowers]
2019-01-15 Diploderma drukdaypo Agamidae A new species of Dwarf Japalura sensu lato (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from the upper Mekong River in Eastern Tibet, China, with notes on morphological variation, distribution, and conservation of two congeners along the same river [KAI WANG, KE JIANG, JINLONG REN, DAHU ZOU, JIAWEI WU, JING CHE, CAMERON D. SILER]
2019-01-14

Cyrtodactylus taybacensis

 Gekkonidae A new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northwestern Vietnam [ANH VAN PHAM, MINH DUC LE, THOMAS ZIEGLER, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN]
2019-01-07 Rhadinaea eduardoi Colubridae (Dipsadinae) A new species of forest snake of the genus Rhadinaea from Tropical Montane Rainforest in the Sierra Madre del Sur of Oaxaca, Mexico (Squamata, Dipsadidae) [Vicente Mata-Silva, Arturo Rocha, Aurelio Ramírez-Bautista, Christian Berriozabal-Islas, Larry David Wilson]
2019-01-01 Kuniesaurus albiauris Scincidae
(Eugongylinae)		 Neue Gattung Kuniesaurus
Kuniesaurus albiauris, a New Genus and Species of Scincid Lizard from the Île des Pins, New Caledonia, with Comments on the Diversity and Affinities of the Region's Lizard Fauna [Ross A. Sadlier, Matthias Deuss, Aaron M. Bauer, Hervé Jourdan]
2019-01-01 Epibator insularis Scincidae
(Eugongylinae)		 Epibator insularis, a New Species of Scincid Lizard from l'Île Walpole, New Caledonia [Ross A. Sadlier, Léo Debar, Mikhail Chavis, Aaron M. Bauer, Hervé Jourdan, Todd R. Jackman]
2019-01-01 Contomastix celata Teiidae A new species of Contomastix (Squamata, Teiidae) supported by total evidence, with remarks on diagnostic characters defining the genus [Mario R. Cabrera, Santiago Carreira, Diego O. Di Pietro & Paula C. Rivera]

2018

Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
Datum Art Familie Hinweise, Quellen und Autoren
2018-12-18

Hemidactylus vijayraghavani

 Gekkonidae A new cryptic species of ground-dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern India [Zeeshan A. Mirza]
2018-12-15 Acanthosaura murphyi Agamidae A New Species of the Genus Acanthosaura Gray, 1831 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from Central Vietnam [Nguyen, Luan Thanh;Dang Trong Do,Ha Van Hoang,Thang Tai Nguyen,Timothy E. M. McCormack,Truong Quang Nguyen,Nikolai L. Orlov,Vu Dang Hoang Nguyen, Sang Ngoc Nguyen]
2018-12-05 Parafimbrios vietnamensis Xenodermatidae A new species of Parafimbrios from northern Vietnam (Squamata: Xenodermatidae) [THOMAS ZIEGLER, HAI NGOC NGO, ANH VAN PHAM, THAM THI NGUYEN, MINH DUC LE, TRUONG QUANG NGUYEN]
2018-12-05

Cyrtodactylus aunglini,
Cyrtodactylus myaleiktaung

 Gekkonidae A re-description of Cyrtodactylus chrysopylos Bauer (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with comments on the adaptive significance of orange coloration in hatchlings and descriptions of two new species from eastern Myanmar (Burma) [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L., JR. WOOD, MYINT KYAW THURA, NAY MYO WIN, MARTA S. GRISMER, LLYOD A. TRUEBLOOD, EVAN S. H. QUAH]
2018-12-04 Panaspis namibiana Scincidae
(Eugongylinae)		 A new species of African snake-eyed skink (Scincidae: Panaspis) from central and northern Namibia [LUIS M. P. CERÍACO, WILLIAM R. BRANCH, AARON M. BAUER]
2018-11-27 Cenaspis aenigma Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Caudals and Calyces: The Curious Case of a Consumed Chiapan Colubroid [Jonathan A. Campbell, Eric N. Smith und Alexander S. Hall]
2018-11-26

Cyrtodactylus guwahatiensis,
Cyrtodactylus jaintiaensis,
Cyrtodactylus kazirangaensis,
Cyrtodactylus montanus
Cyrtodactylus nagalandensis,
Cyrtodactylus septentrionalis

 Gekkonidae Six new Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeast India [ISHAN AGARWAL, STEPHEN MAHONY, VARAD B. GIRI, R. CHAITANYA, AARON M. BAUER]
2018-11-22 Lophognathus horneri Agamidae Diversity in Australia’s tropical savannas: An integrative taxonomic revision of agamid lizards from the genera Amphibolurus and Lophognathus (Lacertilia: Agamidae) [Jane Melville, Euan G. Ritchie, Stephanie N.J. Chapple, Richard E. Glor and James A. Schulte]
2018-11-16 Apostolepis adhara Colubridae (Dipsadinae) A new species of Apostolepis (Serpentes, Dipsadidae, Elapomorphini) from the Cerrado of Central Brazil [DANIELLA. P. F. FRANÇA, FAUSTO E. BARBO, NELSON J. SILVA-JÚNIOR, HELDER L. R. SILVA, HUSSAM ZAHER]
2018-11-15 Toxicocalamus pumehanae Elapidae The taxonomic history of the enigmatic Papuan snake genus Toxicocalamus (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae), with the description of a new species from the Managalas Plateau of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, and a revised dichotomous key [Mark O’Shea, Allen Allison and Hinrich Kaiser]
2018-11-09 Amphisbaena caetitensis Amphisbaenidae A new four-pored Amphisbaena (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from northeastern Brazil [JOÃO PAULO FELIX AUGUSTO DE ALMEIDA, MARCO ANTONIO DE FREITAS, MÁRCIO BORBA DA SILVA, MARIA CELESTE COSTA VALVERDE, MIGUEL TREFAUT RODRIGUES, ADRIANO MOREIRA PIRES, TAMÍ MOTT]
2018-11-07 Ptychozoon popaense Gekkonidae Geographically structured genetic variation in Ptychozoon lionotum (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and a new species from an isolated volcano in Myanmar [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, MYINT KYAW THURA, MARTA S. GRISMER, RAFE M. BROWN, BRYAN L. STUART]
2018-11-01 Carlia crypta Scincidae
(Eugongylinae)		 A Framework for Resolving Cryptic Species: A Case Study from the Lizards of the Australian Wet Tropics [Sonal Singhal, Conrad J Hoskin, Patrick Couper, Sally Potter, Craig Moritz]
2018-11-01 Lampropholis bellendenkerensis,
Lampropholis elliotensis,
Lampropholis similis		 Scincidae
(Eugongylinae)		 A Framework for Resolving Cryptic Species: A Case Study from the Lizards of the Australian Wet Tropics [Sonal Singhal, Conrad J Hoskin, Patrick Couper, Sally Potter, Craig Moritz]
2018-11-01 Anolis dracula Dactyloidae A new cryptic species of Anolis lizard from northwestern South America (Iguanidae, Dactyloinae) [Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Carolina Reyes-Puig, Juan Pablo Reyes-Puig, Julián A. Velasco, Fernando Ayala-Varela, Omar Torres-Carvajal]
2018-10-31 Polemon graueri Lamprophiidae hochgestuft von Untertart-Status auf Art-Status: Phylogeny and biogeography of the African burrowing snake subfamily Aparallactinae (Squamata: Lamprophiidae) [Frank Portillo,William R. Branch, Werner Conradie, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Johannes Penner, Michael F. Bare, Chifundera Kusamba, Wandege M. Muninga, Mwenebatu M. Aristote, Aaron M. Bauer, Jean-François Trape, Zoltán T. Nagy, Piero Carlino, Olivier S.G. Pauwels, Michele Menegon, Marius Burger, Tomáš Mazuch, Kate Jackson, Daniel F. Hughes, Mathias Behangana, Ange-Ghislain Zassi-Boulou, Eli Greenbaum]
2018-10-30 Macrovipera razii Viperidae (Viperinae) Molecular and morphological analyses have revealed a new species of blunt-nosed viper of the genus Macrovipera in Iran [Hamzeh Oraie, Eskandar Rastegar-Pouyani, Azar Khosravani, Naeim Moradi, Abolfazl Akbari, Mohammad Ebrahim Sehhatisabet, Soheila Shafiei, Nikolaus Stümpel & Ulrich Joger]
2018-10-30 Micrurus boicora Elapidae A remarkable new species of coralsnake of the Micrurus hemprichii species group from the Brazilian Amazon [Paulo Sérgio Bernarde, Luiz Carlos Batista Turci, Arthur Diesel Abegg & Francisco Luís Franco]
2018-10-29

Tropiocolotes confusus

 Gekkonidae Systematics of the Saharo-Arabian clade of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos with the description of a new species of Tropiocolotes endemic to Oman.[Machado, Luis; Jirı Smıd; Tomas Mazuch; Roberto Sindaco; Ahmed Said Al Shukaili & Salvador Carranza]
2018-10-24 Mecistops leptorhynchus Crocodylidae Systematic revision of the living African Slender-snouted Crocodiles (Mecistops Gray, 1844) [MATTHEW H. SHIRLEY, AMANDA N. CARR, JENNIFER H. NESTLER, KENT A. VLIET, CHRISTOPHER A. BROCHU]
2018-09-30 Chilabothrus schwartzi Boidae (Boinae) Chilabothrus chrysogaster schwartzi, hochgestuft von der Unterart zur Art: Boas of the World (Superfamily Booidae): A Checklist With Systematic, Taxonomic, and Conservation Assessments [R. Graham Reynolds and Robert W. Henderson]
2018-09-19 Calumma roaloko Chamaeleonidae The smallest ‘true chameleon’ from Madagascar: a new, distinctly colored species of the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae) [David Prötzel, Shea M. Lambert, Ginah Tsiorisoa Andrianasolo, Carl R. Hutter, Kerry A. Cobb, Mark D. Scherz, Frank Glaw]
2018-09-30 Lycodon banksi Colubridae (Colubrinae) A New Species of the Genus Lycodon Boie, 1826 (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Khammouane Province, central Laos [Vinh Quang Luu, Michael Bonkowski, Truong Quang Nguyen, Minh Duc Le, Thomas Calame and Thomas Ziegler]
2018-09-13 Liotyphlops sousai,
Liotyphlops taylori		 Anomalepididae Two New Blind Snake Species of the Genus Liotyphlops Peters, 1881 (Serpentes: Anomalepididae), from Central and South Brazil. [Fidélis Júnio Marra Santos and Roberto E. Reis]
2018-09-10 Liolaemus evaristoi Liolaemidae Descripción y relaciones filogenéticas de una nueva especie de Liolaemus (Iguania: Liolaemidae) y notas sobre el grupo de L. montanus de Perú [Roberto C. Gutiérrez, Juan C. Chaparro, Meylin Y. Vásquez4, Aarón J. Quiroz, Álvaro Aguilar- Kirigin5, Cristian S. Abdala]
2018-09-28 Cylindrophis osheai Cylindrophiidae A new species of Cylindrophis Wagler, 1828 (Reptilia: Squamata: Cylindrophiidae) from Boano Island, northern Maluku Province, Indonesia [MAX KIECKBUSCH, FELIX MADER, HINRICH KAISER, SVEN MECKE]
2018-09-27 Oedura argentea Diplodactylidae A new species of velvet gecko (Diplodactylidae: Oedura) from sandstone habitats of inland north Queensland, Australia [CONRAD J. HOSKIN, STEPHEN M. ZOZAYA, ERIC VANDERDUYS]
2018-09-21 Hebius yanbianensis Colubridae (Natricinae) A new species of the genus Hebius (Squamata: Colubridae) from Sichuan, China [QIN LIU, GUANG-HUI ZHONG, PING WANG, YANG LIU, PENG GUO]
2018-09-21 Hemiphyllodactylus ywanganensis,
Hemiphyllodactylus uga		 Gekkonidae Two more new species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Shan Hills of eastern Myanmar (Burma) [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, GEORGE R. ZUG, MYINT KYAW THURA, MARTA S. GRISMER, MATTHEW L. MURDOCH, EVAN S. H. QUAH, AUNG LIN]
2018-09-19 Monilesaurus und Microauris Agamidae 2 neue Gattungen und 2 neue Arten:
A systematic revision of Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Squamata: Agamidae) from the Western Ghats adds two genera and reveals two new species [SAUNAK PAL, S.P. VIJAYAKUMAR, KARTIK SHANKER, ADITI JAYARAJAN, V. DEEPAK]
2018-09-19 Cyrtodactylus meersi,
Cyrtodactylus myintkyawthurai		 Gekkonidae A phylogenetic taxonomy of the Cyrtodactylus peguensis group (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) with descriptions of two new species from Myanmar[ L. Lee Grismer1 Perry L. Wood Jr, Evan S.H. Quah, Matthew L. Murdoch, Marta S. Grismer, Mark W. Herr, Robert E. Espinoza, Rafe M. Brown, Aung Lin ]
2018-09-10 Calamaria andersoni Colubridae (Calamariinae) A New Species of the Genus Calamaria (Squamata: Colubridae) from Yunnan Province, China [Jian-Huan Yang and Xi Zheng]
2018-09-04 Zamenis hohenackeri Colubridae (Natricinae) Neue Unterart
A new subspecies of Zamenis hohenackeri (Strauch, 1873) (Serpentes: Colubridae) based on morphological and molecular data [SYLVIA HOFMANN, KONRAD MEBERT, KLAUS-DIETER SCHULZ, NOTKER HELFENBERGER, BAYRAM GÖÇMEN, WOLFGANG BÖHME]
2018-09-03 Gerrhonotus mccoyi Anguidae A New Species of Gerrhonotus (Squamata: Anguidae) from the Cuatro Ciénegas Basin, Coahuila, Mexico [Uri Omar García-Vázquez, Arturo Contreras-Arquieta, Marysol Trujano-Ortega, and Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca]
2018-09-03 Phrynocephalus Agamidae A molecular phylogenetic hypothesis for the Asian agamid lizard genus Phrynocephalus reveals discrete biogeographic clades implicated by plate tectonics [J. ROBERT MACEY, JAMES A. II SCHULTE, NATALIA B. ANANJEVA, ERIK T. VAN DYKE, YUEZHAO WANG, NIKOLAI ORLOV, SOHEILA SHAFIEI, MICHAEL D. ROBINSON, TATJANA DUJSEBAYEVA, GABRIEL S. FREUND, CLAYTON M. FISCHER, DAVID LIU, THEODORE J. PAPENFUSS]
2018-08-30

Mediodactylus bartoni,
Mediodactylus danilewskii,
Mediodactylus oertzeni,
Mediodactylus orientalis

 Gekkonidae hochgestuft vom Unterart-Status zu Art-Status: Multilocus phylogeny and coalescent species delimitation in Kotschy's gecko, Mediodactylus kotschyi: Hidden diversity and cryptic species [Panayiota Kotsakiozi, Çetin Ilgaz, Yusuf Kumlutaş, Aziz Avcı, Shai Meiri, Yuval Itescu, Oleg Kukushkin, Václav Gvoždík, Giovanni Scillitani, Stephanos A. Roussos, David Jandzik, Panagiotis Kasapidis, Petros Lymberakis, Nikos Poulakakis]
2018-08-30 Letheobia weidholzi Typhlopidae Typhlops weidholzi n. inedit., eine neue Art der Gattung Letheobia aus der Republik Kamerun und Synopsis der Gattung (Squamata: Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae). [VAN WALLACH & RICHARD GEMEL]
2018-08-24 Cnemaspis ajijae,
Cnemaspis amboliensis,
Cnemaspis limayei,
Cnemaspis mahabali		 Gekkonidae Four new species of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from the northern Western Ghats, India [Amit Sayyed, Robert Alexander Pyron, and R. Dileepkumar]
2018-08-24 Lygosoma siamensis Scincidae (Lygosominae) New Supple Skink, Genus Lygosoma (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), from Indochina and Redescription of Lygosoma quadrupes (Linnaeus, 1766) [Cameron D. Siler, Brendan B. Heitz, Drew R. Davis, Elyse S. Freitas. Anchalee Aowphol, Korkhwan Termprayoon and L. Lee Grismer]
2018-08-22 Pseudalsophis darwini,
Pseudalsophis hephaestus,
Pseudalsophis thomasi		 Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Origin and hidden diversity within the poorly known Galápagos snake radiation (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) [Hussam Zaher, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Miguel T. Rodrigues, Roberta Graboski, Fabio A. Machado, Marco Altamirano-Benavides, Sandro L. Bonatto & Felipe G. Grazziotin]
2018-08-14 Cnemaspis anamudiensis,
Cnemaspis maculicollis		 Gekkonidae Description of two new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India [VIVEK PHILIP CYRIAC, ALEX JOHNY, P. K. UMESH, MUHAMED JAFER PALOT]
2018-08-08 Rhadinaea nuchalis Colubridae (Dipsadinae) A new earless species of Poyntonophrynus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, Angola [Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Mariana P. Marques, Suzana Bandeira, Ishan Agarwal, Edward L. Stanley, Aaron M. Bauer, Mathew P. Heinicke, David C. Blackburn]
2018-08-08 Agamura kermanensis Gekkonidae Description of a new species of the genus Agamura Blanford, 1874 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from southern Iran [SEYYED SAEED HOSSEINIAN YOUSEFKHANI, MANSOUR ALIABADIAN, ESKANDAR RASTEGAR-POUYANI, JAMSHID DARVISH, SOHEILA SHAFIEI, MOHAMMAD EBRAHIM SEHHATISABET]
2018-08-07 Stenodactylus (Trigonodactylus) persicus Gekkonidae A new species of short-fingered geckos Stenodactylus (Squamata, Geckonidae) from South Iran with taxonomic notes on validity of the genus Trigonodactylus Hass, 1957 [ROMAN A. NAZAROV, DANIEL A. MELNIKOV, MEHDI RADJABIZADEH, NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV]
2018-08-02 Hemidactylus sahgali,
Hemidactylus whitakeri		 Gekkonidae First appearance deceives many: disentangling the Hemidactylus triedrus species complex using an integrated approach [Zeeshan A. Mirza, Gaurang G. Gowande, Rishikesh Patil, Mayuresh Ambekar, Harshil Patel]
2018-08-01 Naja guineensis
Naja savannula		 Elapidae 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) [WOLFGANG WÜSTER, LAURENT CHIRIO, JEAN-FRANÇOIS TRAPE, IVAN INEICH, KATE JACKSON, ELI GREENBAUM, CESAR BARRON, CHIFUNDERA KUSAMBA, ZOLTÁN T. NAGY, RICHARD STOREY, CARA HALL, CATHARINE E. WÜSTER, AXEL BARLOW, DONALD G. BROADLEY]
2018-07-30 Cercosaura anordosquama Gymnophthalmidae Integrative taxonomy of the lizards Cercosaura ocellata species complex (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae) [Marcelo José Sturaro, Miguel T. Rodrigues, Guarino R.Colli, L. Lacey Knowles, Teresa C.S.Avila-Piresa]
2018-07-23 Lepidophyma inagoi Xantusiidae A New Species of Lepidophyma (Squamata: Xantusiidae) from the Pacific Lowlands of Guerrero, Mexico [Ricardo Palacios-Aguilar, Rufino Santos-Bibiano and Oscar Flores-Villela]
2018-07-20 Anadia buenaventura Gymnophthalmidae Sistemática de los saurios Anadia Gray, 1845 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) de Ecuador: límite de especies, distribución geográfica y descripción de una especie nueva [Raquel Betancourt, Carolina Reyes-Puig , Simón E. Lobos, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz & Omar Torres-Carvajal]
2018-07-20 Ebenavia boettgeri,
Ebenavia robusta,
Ebenavia safari,
Ebenavia tuelinae		 Gekkonidae Computational molecular species delimitation and taxonomic revision of the gecko genus Ebenavia Boettger, 1878 [Oliver Hawlitschek, Mark D. Scherz, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Angelica Crottini. Frank Glaw]
2018-07-19 Gehyra capensis,
Gehyra crypta,
Gehyra incognitai,
Gehyra ocellata,
Gehyra unguiculata		 Gekkonidae 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 [Luke Kealley, Paul Doughty, Mitzy Pepper, J. Scott Keogh, Mia Hillyer, Joel Huey]
2018-07-19 Cyrtodactylus ywanganensis Gekkonidae A new Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Shan Hills and the biogeography of Bent-toed Geckos from eastern Myanmar [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, MYINT KYAW THURA, EVAN S. H. QUAH, MARTA S. GRISMER, MATTHEW L. MURDOCH, ROBERT E. ESPINOZA, AUNG LIN]
2018-07-19 Cyrtodactylus chamba Gekkonidae A new bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from the Western Himalayas, Himachal Pradesh, India [ISHAN AGARWAL, AKSHAY KHANDEKAR, AARON M. BAUER]
2018-07-16 Phyllopezus heuteri Phyllodactylidae Cryptic Diversity in the Neotropical Gecko Genus Phyllopezus Peters, 1878 (Reptilia: Squamata: Phyllodactylidae): A New Species from Paraguay [Pier Cacciali, Sebastian Lotzkat, Tony Gamble, and Gunther Köhler]
2018-07-16 Selvasaura brava Gymnophthalmidae Neue Gattung Selvasaura:
Systematics of Neotropical microteiid lizards (Gymnophthalmidae, Cercosaurinae), with the description of a new genus and species from the Andean montane forests [expand article infoJiří Moravec, Jiří Šmíd, Jan Štundl, Edgar Lehr]
2018-07-16 Vermicella parscauda Elapidae A new species of bandy-bandy (Vermicella: Serpentes: Elapidae) from the Weipa region, Cape York, Australia [CHANTELLE M. DEREZ, KEVIN ARBUCKLE, ZHIQIANG RUAN, BING XIE, YU HUANG, LAUREN DIBBEN, QIONG SHI, FREEK J. VONK, BRYAN G. FRY]
2018-07-06 Hemidactylus siva Gekkonidae A new cryptic rock-dwelling Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Karnataka, India [CHELMALA SRINIVASULU, ADITYA SRINIVASULU, GANDLA CHETHAN KUMAR]
2018-07-02 Rhadinella xerophila Colubridae (Dipsadinae) A new species of Rhadinella (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the dry forest of Motagua Valley, Guatemala [DANIEL ARIANO-SÁNCHEZ, JONATHAN A. CAMPBELL]
2018-06-29 Cyrtodactylus tanahjampea Gekkonidae A New Bent-toed Gecko (Cyrtodactylus: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Island of Tanahjampea, South Sulawesi, Indonesia [AWAL RIYANTO, AMIR HAMIDY, JIMMY A. MCGUIRE]
2018-06-25 Sinomicrurus houi Elapidae A New Species of the Genus Sinomicrurus Slowinski, Boundy and Lawson, 2001 (Squamata: Elapidae) from Hainan Province, China [Lifang PENG, Lijun WANG, Li DING, Yiwu ZHU, Jian LUO, Diancheng YANG, Ruyi HUANG, Shunqing LU, and Song HUANG]
2018-06-24 Lygosoma kinabatanganensis,
Lygosoma peninsulare		 Scincidae (Lygosominae) On the taxonomy of Lygosoma bampfyldei Bartlett, 1895 (Squamata: Scincidae) with descriptions of new species from Borneo and Peninsular Malaysia and the resurrection of Lygosoma schneideri Werner, 1900 [L. LEE GRISMER, EVAN S. H. QUAH, ZAHARIL DUZULKAFLY, PAUL YAMBUN]
2018-06-21 Sphenomorphus yersini Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 A new skink of the genus Sphenomorphus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Scincidae) from Hon Ba Nature Reserve, southern Vietnam [SANG NGOC NGUYEN, LUAN THANH NGUYEN, VU DANG HOANG NGUYEN, NIKOLAI L. ORLOV, ROBERT W. MURPHY]
2018-06-17 Dipsas bobridgelyi,
Dipsas georgejetti,
Dipsas klebbai,
Dipsas oswaldobaezi		 Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Systematics of South American snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Ecuador and Peru [Alejandro Arteaga, David Salazar-Valenzuela, Konrad Mebert, Nicolás Peñafiel, Gabriela Aguiar, Juan C. Sánchez-Nivicela, R. Alexander Pyron, Timothy J. Colston, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Pablo J. Venegas, Juan M. Guayasamin, Omar Torres-Carvajal]
2018-06-17 Sibon bevridgelyi Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Systematics of South American snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Ecuador and Peru [Alejandro Arteaga, David Salazar-Valenzuela, Konrad Mebert, Nicolás Peñafiel, Gabriela Aguiar, Juan C. Sánchez-Nivicela, R. Alexander Pyron, Timothy J. Colston, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Mario H. Yánez-Muñoz, Pablo J. Venegas, Juan M. Guayasamin, Omar Torres-Carvajal]
2018-06-15 Sitana gokakensis,
Sitana thondalu		 Agamidae Descriptions of two new endemic and cryptic species of Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from peninsular India [V. DEEPAK, AKSHAY KHANDEKAR, R. CHAITANYA, PRAVEEN KARANTH]
2018-06-14 Hemidactylus paaragowli Gekkonidae A distinct new species of riparian rock-dwelling gecko (genus: Hemidactylus) from the southern Western Ghats [ACHYUTHAN N. SRIKANTHAN, PRIYANKA SWAMY, ASHWINI V. MOHAN, SAUNAK PAL]
2018-06-12 Boiga (Elachistodon) westermanni Colubridae Aus Elachistodon westermanni wird Boiga westermanni:
Phylogeny and conservation status of the Indian egg-eater snake, Elachistodon westermanni Reinhardt, 1863 (Serpentes, Colubridae) [Ashwini Venkatanarayana Mohan; Avinash C. Visvanathan and Karthikeyan Vasudevan]
2018-06-07 Apostolepis kikoi Colubridae (Dipsadinae) A new species of burrowing snake (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Apostolepis) from the state of Mato Grosso, Central-West region of Brazil [Fernanda Martins dos Santos, Omar Machado Entiauspe-Neto, Jailini da Silva Araújo, Moisés Barbosa de Souza, Thales de Lema, Christine Strussmann, Nelson Rufino de Albuquerque]
2018-06-07 Mesalina arnoldi,
Mesalina austroarabica		 Lacertidae Systematics of the Mesalina guttulata species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Arabia with the description of two new species [ROBERTO SINDACO, MARC SIMÓ-RIUDALBAS, ROBERTO SACCHI, SALVADOR CARRANZA]
2018-06-05 Acontias albigularis,
Acontias wakkerstroomensis		 Scincidae (Acontinae) Two new species of Acontias (Acontinae, Scincidae) from the Mpumalanga Highveld escarpment of South Africa [WERNER CONRADIE, THEO BUSSCHAU, SHELLEY EDWARDS]
2018-06-02 Mochlus afer Scincidae (Lygosominae) Mochlus afer ist jetzt ein Synonym von Mochlus sundevalli: Phylogenetic and morphological investigation of the Mochlus afer-sundevallii species complex (Squamata: Scincidae) across the arid corridor of sub-Saharan Africa [Elyse S. Freitas, Aaron M. Bauer, Cameron D. Siler, Donald G. Broadley, Todd R. Jackman]
2018-05-31 Liolaemus antonietae Liolaemidae The True Identity of the New World Iguanid Lizard Liolaemus chillanensis Müller and Hellmich 1932 (Iguania: Liolaemidae) and Description of a New Species in the Liolaemus elongatus Group [Jaime Troncoso-Palacios, Damien Esquerré, Félix A. Urra, Hugo A. Díaz, Carlos Castro Pastene, and María Soledad Ruiz]
2018-05-29 Tytthoscincus keciktuek,
Tytthoscincus monticolus		 Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 Two new Tytthoscincus Linkem, Diesmos, & Brown (Squamata; Scincidae) from Peninsular Malaysia and another case of microsyntopy between ecologically specialized, unrelated, leaf-litter species [L. LEE GRISMER, PERRY L. JR. WOOD, AMIRRUDIN B. AHMAD, B. S. BAIZUL-HAFSYAM, M. AFIQ-SHUHAIMI, SYED A. RIZAL, EVAN S. H. QUAH]
2018-05-22 Alopoglossus meloi Alopoglossidae Ribeiro-Júnior, Marco A. 2018. A new species of Alopoglossus lizard (Squamata, Alopoglossidae) from the Southern Guiana Shield, northeastern Amazonia, with remarks on diagnostic characters to the genus. [Ribeiro-Júnior, Marco A.]
2018-05-18 Amphisbaena hoogmoedi Amphisbaenidae A new four-pored Amphisbaena Linnaeus, 1758 (Amphisbaenia, Amphisbaenidae) from Brazilian Amazon [ELAINE C.S. OLIVEIRA, WILIAN VAZ-SILVA, ALFREDO P. SANTOS-JR, ROBERTA GRABOSKI, MAURO JR TEIXEIRA, FRANCISCO DAL VECHIO, SÍRIA RIBEIRO]
2018-05-17 Gerrhonotus rhombifer Anguidae aus Coloptychon rhombifer wird Gerrhonotus rhombifer: Molecular systematics and historical biogeography of the genus Gerrhonotus (Squamata: Anguidae) [Uri O. García‐Vázquez, Adrián Nieto‐Montes de Oca, Robert W. Bryson Jr., Walter Schmidt‐Ballardo, Carlos J. Pavón‐Vázquez]
2018-05-17

Cyrtodactylus bhupathyi,
Cyrtodactylus tripuraensis

 Gekkonidae Two new species of bent toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Northeast India with comments on name-bearing types from the region [ISHAN AGARWAL, STEPHEN MAHONY, VARAD B. GIRI, R. CHAITANYA, AARON M. BAUER]
2018-05-17

Cyrtodactylus cayuensis,
Cyrtodactylus himalayicus

 Gekkonidae Cyrtodactylus cayuensis, Chilabothrus chrysogaster schwartzi, hochgestuft von der Unterart zur Art; Cyrtodactylus himalayicus vom Synonym zur Art relavidiert: Two new species of bent toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Northeast India with comments on name-bearing types from the region [ISHAN AGARWAL, STEPHEN MAHONY, VARAD B. GIRI, R. CHAITANYA, AARON M. BAUER]
2018-05-17 Atractus atlas Colubridae (Dipsadinae) A giant on the ground: another large-bodied Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadinae) from Ecuadorian Andes, with comments on the dietary specializations of the goo-eaters snakes [PAULO PASSOS, AGUSTÍN SCANFERLA, PAULO R. MELO-SAMPAIO, JORGE BRITO, ANA ALMENDARIZ]
2018-05-16 Kinosternon vogti Kinosternidae A Distinctive New Species of Mud Turtle from Western México [Marco A. López-Luna, Fabio G. Cupul-Magaña, Armando H. Escobedo-Galván, Adriana J. González-Hernández, Eric Centenero-Alcalá, Judith A. Rangel-Mendoza, Mariana M. Ramírez-Ramírez, and Erasmo Cazares-Hernández]
2018-05-10 Amphisbaena kiriri Amphisbaenidae A New Species of Amphisbaena from Northeastern Brazil (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) [Leonardo B. Ribeiro Samuel C. Gomides and Henrique C. Costa]
2018-05-03 Austroablepharus Scincidae
(Eugongylinae)		 Neue Gattung:
A new genus to accommodate three skinks currently assigned to Proablepharus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) [Patrick J. COUPER, Conrad J. HOSKIN, Sally POTTER, Jason G. BRAGG, Craig MORITZ]
2018-05-01 Uropeltis bhupathyi Uropeltidae A new species of Uropeltis Cuvier, 1829 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Anaikatty Hills of the Western Ghats of India [V.J. JINS, FILIPA L. SAMPAIO, DAVID J. GOWER]
2018-04-23 Cyrtodactylus bayinnyiensis,
Cyrtodactylus chaunghanakwaensis,
Cyrtodactylus naungkayaingensis		 Gekkonidae Three more new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Salween Basin of eastern Myanmar underscore the urgent need for the conservation of karst habitats [L. Lee Grismer, Perry L. Wood Jr., Myint Kyaw Thura, Evan S.H. Quah, Matthew L. Murdoch, Marta S. Grismer, Mark W. Herr, Aung Lin & Htet Kyaw]
2018-04-19 Eremiascincus rubiginosus Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 A new species of Eremiascincus (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia [Sven Mecke, Paul Doughty]
2018-04-10 Phyllodactylus benedettii,
Phyllodactylus kropotkini		 Phyllodactylidae Taxonomic changes and description of two new species for the Phyllodactylus lanei complex (Gekkota: Phyllodactylidae) in Mexico [TONATIUH RAMÍREZ-REYES, OSCAR FLORES-VILLELA]
2018-04-09 Calumma juliae,
Calumma lefona,
Calumma uetzi		 Chamaeleonidae Endangered beauties: micro-CT cranial osteology, molecular genetics and external morphology reveal three new species of chameleons in the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) [David Prötzel, Miguel Vences, Oliver Hawlitschek, Mark D Scherz, Fanomezana M Ratsoavina, Frank Glaw]
2018-04-05 Phrynocephalus mystaceus khorasanus Agamidae Molecular and morphological differentiation of Secret Toad-headed agama, Phrynocephalus mystaceus, with the description of a new subspecies from Iran (Reptilia, Agamidae) [Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, Evgeniy N. Dunayev, Roman A. Nazarov, Mehdi Rajabizadeh, Nikolay A. Poyarkov Jr.]
2018-04-04 Gehyra granulum,
Gehyra paranana,
Gehyra pluraporosa,
Gehyra pseudopunctata 		Gekkonidae Species delimitation in the Gehyra nana (Squamata: Gekkonidae) complex: cryptic and divergent morphological evolution in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics, with the description of four new species [PAUL DOUGHTY, GAYLEEN BOURKE, LEONARDO G. TEDESCHI, RENAE C. PRATT, PAUL M. OLIVER, RUSSELL A. PALMER, CRAIG MORITZ]
2018-04-04 Cyrtodactylus sangi Gekkonidae Taxonomic status of two populations of Bent-toed Geckos of the Cyrtodactylus irregularis complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with description of a new species from Nui Chua National Park, southern Vietnam [OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS, ROMAN A. NAZAROV, VLADIMIR V. BOBROV, NIKOLAY A. POYARKOV]
2018-03-31 Dasypeltis arabica,
Dasypeltis crucifera,
Dasypeltis taylori		 Colubridae (Colubrinae) A revision of the egg-eating snakes of the genus Dasypeltis Wagler (Squamata: Colubridae: Colubrinae) in north-eastern Africa and south-western Arabia, with descriptions of three new species [Michael F. Bates & Donald G. Broadley]
2018-03-21 Cyrtodactylus tahuna Gekkonidae Cyrtodactylus tahuna sp. nov., a new bent-toed gecko (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi, Indonesia [AWAL RIYANTO, EVY ARIDA, ANDRÉ KOCH]
2018-03-21

Chersodromus australis,
Chersodromus nigrum

 Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Taxonomic review of the rare Mexican snake genus Chersodromus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae), with the description of two new species [LUIS CANSECO-MÁRQUEZ, CYNTHIA G. RAMÍREZ-GONZÁLEZ, JONATHAN A. CAMPBELL]
2018-03-20 Masticophis Colubridae Artstatus für Masticophis lineatus und Masticophis piceus:
The effect of missing data on coalescent species delimitation and a taxonomic revision of whipsnakes (Colubridae: Masticophis) [Kyle A. O'Connell, Eric N. Smith]
2018-03-19 Tropidurus azurduyae Tropiduridae A new collared lizard (Tropidurus: Tropiduridae) endemic to the Western Bolivian Andes and its implications for seasonally dry tropical forests [ANDRÉ L.G. CARVALHO, LUIS ROLANDO RIVAS, RICARDO CÉSPEDES, AND MIGUEL T. RODRIGUES]
2018-03-18 Lophocalotes achlios Agamidae Sumatra’s Endemic Crested Dragons (Agamidae: Lophocalotes): A New Species from the Bukit Barisan Range, Comments on Lophocalotes ludekingi, and Ecology [MICHAEL B. HARVEY, JAMES SCRIVANI, KYLE SHANEY, AMIR HAMIDY, NIA KURNIAWAN, AND ERIC N. SMITH]
2018-03-11 Scolecoseps broadleyi Scincidae (Scincinae) A new species of Scolecoseps (Reptilia: Scincidae) from coastal north-eastern Mozambique [Luke Verburgt, Ursula K. Verburgt & William R. Branch]
2018-03-12 Atractus limitaneus Colubridae (Dipsadinae) Atractus limitaneus ist jetzt ein Synonym für Atractus collaris Species delimitations in the Atractus collaris complex (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) [PAULO PASSOS, ANA L. C. PRUDENTE, LUCIANA O. RAMOS, JOSÉ RANCES CAICEDO-PORTILLA, JOHN D. LYNCH]
2018-03-09 Neusticurus arekuna Gymnophthalmidae Integrative taxonomy of the gymnophthalmid lizard Neusticurus rudis Boulenger, 1900 identifies a new species in the eastern Pantepui region, north-eastern South America [Philippe J. R. Kok, Mátyás A. Bittenbinder, Joris K. van den Berg, Sergio Marques-Souza, Pedro M. Sales Nunes, Alexandra E. Laking, Mauro Teixeira Jr, Antoine Fouquet, D. Bruce Means, Ross D. MacCulloch and Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues]
2018-03-09 Hemiphyllodactylus hongkongensis Gekkonidae A new species of Hemiphyllodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Hong Kong [YIK-HEI SUNG, WING-HO LEE, HO-NAM NG, YANJIE ZHANG, JIAN-HUAN YANG]
2018-03-06 Ophisops kutchensis,
Ophisops pushkarensis		 Lacertidae Two new species of the Ophisops microlepis (Squamata: Lacertidae) complex from northwestern India with a key to Indian Ophisops [Ishan Agarwal, Akshay Khandekar, Uma Ramakrishnan, Raju Vyas & Varad B. Giri]
2018-03-02 Panaspis thomensis Scincidae
(Eugongylinae)		 Review of the leaf-litter skinks (Scincidae: Panaspis) from the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands, with the description of a new species [Leonor B. Soares, Luis M. P. Ceríaco ORCID Icon, Mariana P. Marques, Cristiane Bastos-Silveira, Lauren A. Scheinberg, D. James Harris, António Brehm & José Jesus]
2018-03-02 Tropiocolotes hormozganensis Gekkonidae Taxonomic status of Tropiocolotes cf. steudneri with a description of a new species of Tropiocolotes (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) in southern Iran [MAHDI RAJABIZADEH, HIVA FAIZI, STEVEN C. ANDERSON, MOHAMMAD ZARRINTAB, ROMAN NAZAROV]
2018-02-28 Homonota marthae Phyllodactylidae Description of a new species of Homonota (Reptilia, Squamata, Phyllodactylidae) from the central region of northern Paraguay [Pier Cacciali, Mariana Morando, Luciano Javier Avila, Gunther Koehler]
2018-02-27

Pachydactylus goodi

 Gekkonidae Pachydactylus goodi ist jetzt ein Synonym von Pachydactylus atorquatus: A contribution to the phylogeny and taxonomy of the Pachydactylus weberi group (Squamata: Gekkonidae): a case of intraspecific colour polymorphism confounding taxonomy [Jiří Šmíd, Hanlie Engelbrecht, Jody M. Taft, Nicolas S. Telford, Buyisile G. Makhubo, Aaron M. Bauer & Krystal A. Tolley]
2018-02-22 Ameivula apipensis Teiidae Diversity of teiid lizards from Gran Chaco and Western Cerrado (Squamata: Teiidae) [Federico José Arias, Renato Recoder, Blanca Beatriz Álvarez, Eduardo Ethcepare, Matias Quipildor, Fernando Lobo, Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues]
2018-02-19 Tupinambis matipu Teiidae A New Species of Tupinambis Daudin, 1802 (Squamata: Teiidae) from Central South America [Marcélia B. Silva, Marco A. Ribeiro-Júnior and Teresa C. S. Ávila-Pires]
2018-02-16 Crotalus polisi,
Crotalus thalassoporus		 Viperidae (Crotalinae) Integrative taxonomy at the nexus of population divergence and speciation in insular speckled rattlesnakes [Jesse M. Meik, Sarah Schaack, Oscar Flores-Villela & Jeffrey W. Streicher]
2018-02-16 Liolaemus absconditus Liolaemidae A new species of the Liolaemus alticolor-bibronii group (Iguania: Liolaemidae) from East-central Argentina [LAURA ESTELA VEGA, ANDRÉS SEBASTIÁN QUINTEROS, OSCAR ANÍBAL STELLATELLI, PATRICIO JUAN BELLAGAMBA, CAROLINA BLOCK, ENRIQUE ALBERTO MADRID]
2018-02-15 Xenosaurus fractus Xenosauridae A new species of knob-scaled lizard (Xenosauridae, Xenosaurus) from the Sierra Madre Oriental of Puebla, Mexico [Adrián Nieto-Montes de Oca, Helder Sánchez-Vega, Itzel Durán-Fuentes]
2018-02-13 Leposternon mineiro Amphisbaenidae A New Species of Leposternon (Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from Brazilian Cerrado with a Key to Pored Species [Síria Ribeiro, Adriano Lima Silveira and Alfredo P. Santos-jr]
2018-02-12 Letheobia akagerae Typhlopidae A new blind snake of the genus Letheobia (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Rwanda with redescriptions of L. gracilis (Sternfeld, 1910) and L. graueri (Sternfeld, 1912) and the introduction of a non-invasive preparation procedure for scanning electron microscopy in zoology. [J. MAXIMILIAN DEHLING, HARALD H. HINKEL, HANS-JÜRGEN ENSIKAT, KENNY BABILON, EBERHARD FISCHER]
2018-02-01 Oligosoma hoparatea Scincidae
(Eugongylinae)		 A new species of scincid lizard in the genus Oligosoma (Reptilia: Scincidae) from the mid-Canterbury high country, New Zealand [TONY WHITAKER, DAVID G. CHAPPLE, RODNEY A. HITCHMOUGH, MARIEKE LETTINK, GEOFF B. PATTERSON]
2018-01-30 Blanus vandellii Blanidae An integrative approach to the nomenclature and taxonomic status of the genus Blanus Wagler, 1830 (Squamata: Blanidae) from the Iberian Peninsula [Luis M. P. Ceríaco & Aaron M. Bauer]
2018-01-30 Calliophis salitan Elapidae A New Species of Long-glanded Coralsnake of the Genus Calliophis (Squamata: Elapidae) from Dinagat Island, with Notes on the Biogeography and Species Diversity of Philippine Calliophis and Hemibungaru [RAFE M. BROWN, UTPAL SMART, ALAN E. LEVITON, AND ERIC N. SMITH]
2018-01-24 Ophiomorus kardesi Scincidae (Scincinae) Cryptic diversity and molecular systematics of the Aegean Ophiomorus skinks (Reptilia: Squamata), with the description of a new species [Kornilios, P., Y. Kumlutas, P. Lymberakis & C. Ilgaz]
2018-01-22 Opisthotropis voquyi Colubridae (Natricinae) Morphological and molecular review of Jacob’s Mountain Stream Keelback Opisthotropis jacobi Angel & Bourret, 1933 (Squamata: Natricidae) with description of a sibling species from northern Vietnam [THOMAS ZIEGLER, PATRICK DAVID, TIM N. ZIEGLER, CUONG T. PHAM, TRUONG Q. NGUYEN, MINH D. LE]
2018-01-22 Sitana attenboroughii Agamidae A new species of fan-throated lizard of the genus Sitana Cuvier, 1829 from coastal Kerala, southern India [DKALESH SADASIVAN, M. B. RAMESH, MUHAMED JAFER PALOT, MAYURESH AMBEKAR, ZEESHAN A. MIRZA]
2018-01-19 Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi jetzt Hemidactylus malcolmsmithi Gekkonidae On the Status of Cyrtodactylus malcolmsmithi (Constable, 1949) [Ishan Agarwal, Varad B. Giri, and Aaron M. Bauer]
2018-01-17 Hemidactylus vanam Gekkonidae A new cryptic, rupicolous species of Hemidactylus Oken, 1817 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Meghamalai, Tamil Nadu, India [R. CHAITANYA, APARNA LAJMI, VARAD B. GIRI]
2018-01-15 Trachischium sushantai Colubridae (Natricinae) Description of a new species of genus Trachischium with a redescription of Trachischium fuscum (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) [SUJOY RAHA, SUNANDAN DAS, PROBHAT BAG, SUDIPTA DEBNATH, KOUSIK PRAMANICK]
2018-01-12 Lygosoma samajaya Scincidae (Lygosominae) Unrealized diversity in an urban rainforest: A new species of Lygosoma (Squamata: Scincidae) from western Sarawak, Malaysia (Borneo) [BENJAMIN R. KARIN, ELYSE S. FREITAS, SAMUEL SHONLEBEN, L. LEE GRISMER, AARON M. BAUER, INDRANEIL DAS]
2018-01-05 Hemiphyllodactylus flaviventris,
Hemiphyllodactylus khlonglanensis		 Gekkonidae Two new species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Thailand [APISAK SUKPRASERT, SURAPOP SUTTHIWISES, VIRAYUTH LAUHACHINDA, WUT TAKSINTUM]
2018-01-04 Goniurosaurus zhoui Eublepharidae Morphological evidence uncovers a new species of Goniurosaurus (Squamata: Eublepharidae) from the Hainan Island, China [RUN-BANG ZHOU, NING WANG, BEI CHEN, BIN LIANG]
2018-00-00

Cyrtodactylus thathomensis

 Gekkonidae A new karst-dwelling bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from Xiangkhoang Province, northeastern Laos) [Roman A. Nazarov, Olivier S.G. Pauwels, Evgeniy L. Konstantinov, Anatoliy S. Chulisov, Nikolai L. Orlov, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr]
2018-00-00 Gehyra fenestrula,
Gehyra finipunctata,
Gehyra macra,
Gehyra media,
Gehyra micra,
Gehyra peninsularis,
Gehyra polka		 Gekkonidae Spots before the eyes: revision of the saxicoline geckos of the Gehyra punctata (Squamata: Gekkonidae) species complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia [Doughty, Paul; Aaron M. Bauer, Mitzy Pepper and J. Scott Keogh]
2018-00-00 Echis romani Viperidae (Viperinae) Trape, J.-F. 2018. Partition d’Echis ocellatus Stemmler, 1970 (Squamata, Viperidae), avec la description d’une espèce nouvelle. Bull. Soc. Herp. Fr. 167: 13-34
2018-00-00 Gloydius angusticeps Viperidae (Crotalinae) A New Species of the Gloydius strauchi Complex (Crotalinae: Viperidae: Serpentes) from Qinghai, Sichuan, and Gansu, China [Jingsong Shi, Diancheng Yang, Wuyuan Zhang, Lifang Peng, Nikolai L. Orlov, Fan Jiang, Li Ding, Mian Hou, Xinlei Huang, Song Huang, Pipeng Li]
2018-00-00 Laemanctus julioi Corytophanidae The Lizards, Crocodiles, and Turtles of Honduras. Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation [James R. McCranie]
2018-00-00 Sceloporus esperanzae,
Sceloporus hondurensis		 Phrynosomatidae The Lizards, Crocodiles, and Turtles of Honduras. Systematics, Distribution, and Conservation [James R. McCranie]
2018-00-00 Scincella nigrofasciata Scincidae
(Sphenomorphinae)		 A new species of smooth skink (Squamata: Scincidae: Scincella) from Cambodia [Thy Neang, Somaly Chan, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Jr.]