Ongoing declines for the world’s amphibians in the face of emerging threats JA Luedtke, J Chanson, K Neam, L Hobin, AO Maciel, A Catenazzi, ... Nature 622 (7982), 308-314, 2023 | 151 | 2023 |
Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences LMP Ceriaco, EE Gutiérrez, A Dubois, M Carr, 490 signatories Zootaxa 4196 (3), 435-445, 2016 | 116 | 2016 |
iTaxoTools 0.1: Kickstarting a specimen-based software toolkit for taxonomists M Vences, A Miralles, S Brouillet, J Ducasse, A Fedosov, V Kharchev, ... Megataxa 6, 77–92, 2021 | 79* | 2021 |
Widespread bone-based fluorescence in chameleons D Prötzel, M Heß, MD Scherz, M Schwager, A Padje, F Glaw Scientific reports 8 (1), 698, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
Describing the smaller majority: integrative taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar A Rakotoarison, M Scherz, F Glaw, J Koehler, F Andreone, M Franzen, ... Vertebrate Zoology 67, 271-398, 2017 | 75 | 2017 |
Repositories for taxonomic data: where we are and what is missing A Miralles, T Bruy, K Wolcott, MD Scherz, D Begerow, B Beszteri, ... Systematic biology 69 (6), 1231-1253, 2020 | 63 | 2020 |
DNA barcodes on their own are not enough to describe a species. A Zamani, ZF Fric, HF Gante, T Hopkins, AB Orfinger, MD Scherz, ... Systematic Entomology 47 (3), 2022 | 51 | 2022 |
Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales MD Scherz, JD Daza, J Köhler, M Vences, F Glaw PeerJ 5, e2955, 2017 | 46* | 2017 |
The omission of critical data in the pursuit of ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species A Zamani, V Vahtera, IE Sääksjärvi, MD Scherz Systematic Entomology 46 (1), 1-4, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera MD Scherz, CR Hutter, A Rakotoarison, JC Riemann, MO Rödel, ... PLoS One 14 (3), e0213314, 2019 | 44 | 2019 |
Reconciling molecular phylogeny, morphological divergence and classification of Madagascan narrow-mouthed frogs (Amphibia: Microhylidae) MD Scherz, M Vences, A Rakotoarison, F Andreone, J Köhler, F Glaw, ... Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100, 372-381, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
Neon-green fluorescence in the desert gecko Pachydactylus rangei caused by iridophores D Prötzel, M Heß, M Schwager, F Glaw, MD Scherz Scientific Reports 11 (1), 297, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
A review of the taxonomy and osteology of the Rhombophryne serratopalpebrosa species group (Anura: Microhylidae) from Madagascar, with comments on the value of volume rendering … MD Scherz, O Hawlitschek, F Andreone, A Rakotoarison, M Vences, ... Zootaxa 4273 (3), 301-340, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
Species complexes and the importance of Data Deficient classification in Red List assessments: The case of Hylobatrachus frogs MD Scherz, F Glaw, CR Hutter, MC Bletz, A Rakotoarison, J Köhler, ... PloS one 14 (8), e0219437, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus) L Rancilhac, T Bruy, MD Scherz, EA Pereira, M Preick, N Straube, ... Journal of Natural History 54 (1-4), 87-118, 2020 | 24 | 2020 |
A new microhylid frog, genus Rhombophryne, from northeastern Madagascar, and a re-description of R. serratopalpebrosa using micro-computed tomography MD Scherz, B Ruthensteiner, M Vences, F Glaw Zootaxa 3860 (6), 547-560, 2014 | 24 | 2014 |
‘Barcode fishing’ for archival DNA from historical type material overcomes taxonomic hurdles, enabling the description of a new frog species MD Scherz, SM Rasolonjatovo, J Köhler, L Rancilhac, A Rakotoarison, ... Scientific reports 10 (1), 19109, 2020 | 23 | 2020 |
Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs VA Gorin, MD Scherz, DV Korost, NA Poyarkov Zoosystematics and Evolution 97 (1), 21-54, 2021 | 22 | 2021 |
Endangered beauties: micro-CT cranial osteology, molecular genetics and external morphology reveal three new species of chameleons in the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata … D Prötzel, M Vences, O Hawlitschek, MD Scherz, FM Ratsoavina, F Glaw Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184 (2), 471-498, 2018 | 22 | 2018 |
Splitting and lumping: an integrative taxonomic assessment of Malagasy chameleons in the Calumma guibei complex results in the new species C. gehringi sp. nov. D Prötzel, M Vences, M Scherz, D Vieites, F Glaw Vertebrate Zoology 67, 231-249, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |