This chapter reviews current knowledge on the diversity of terrestrial reptiles in the Gulf of
Guinea oceanic islands and provides a brief history of research on this group of animals. A …

This chapter reviews the diversity, evolutionary relationships, ecology, and conservation of
the Gulf of Guinea oceanic islands' endemic caecilian and anuran fauna. A total of nine …

The family Pomacentridae is a species-rich group of primarily marine fishes. The
phylogenetic relationships of the damselfishes are examined herein using sequence data …

Natural history collections are essential to a wide variety of studies in biology because they
maintain large collections of specimens and associated data, including genetic material (eg …

Despite the recent advances in the systematics of snakes, the diversity of several
Neotropical groups of species remains poorly understood. The lack of studies focused on …

The genus Calotes Cuvier, 1817 (Agamidae: Draconinae) is highly diverse, with species
occurring in South and Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Most species of the subfamily except …

A dated phylogenetic hypothesis on the evolutionary history of the extant taxa of the Western
Palearctic lizards Anguis and Pseudopus is revised using genome-wide nuclear DNA and …

We present a new classification of the catfish family Ariidae based on a total-evidence
hypothesis, which incorporates data from the examination of 249 morphological and 5603 …

Heptapteridae is composed of 228 valid species allocated in 24 genera, making it the most
diverse family within superfamily Pimelodoidea, a clade endemic to the Neotropical …

The family Callichthyidae, which comprises the subfamilies Corydoradinae and
Callichthyinae, represents one of the largest families within the Siluriformes. Corydoradinae …