[HTML][HTML] Species list of the European herpetofauna–2020 update by the Taxonomic Committee of the Societas Europaea Herpetologica

J Speybroeck, W Beukema, C Dufresnes, U Fritz… - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2020 - brill.com
The last species list of the European herpetofauna was published by Speybroeck, Beukema
and Crochet (2010). In the meantime, ongoing research led to numerous taxonomic …

[HTML][HTML] Fossil lizards and worm lizards (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Neogene and Quaternary of Europe: an overview

A Villa, M Delfino - Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2019 - Springer
Lizards were and still are an important component of the European herpetofauna. The
modern European lizard fauna started to set up in the Miocene and a rich fossil record is …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from Tegelen (Province of Limburg) and the early Pleistocene palaeoclimate of The Netherlands

A Villa, HA Blain, LW van den Hoek Ostende… - Quaternary science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Few Quaternary herpetofaunas have been recovered from The Netherlands. Among these,
the one coming from the early Pleistocene site of the Russel-Tiglia-Egypte pit near Tegelen …

An updated check-list of Italian amphibians and reptiles

R Sindaco, E Razzetti - Natural History Sciences, 2021 - sisn.pagepress.org
This paper represents an update of the list of Italian amphibians and reptiles published 15
years ago by Razzettiet al.(2006) and of the checklist published in 1993 by the late …

A comparative atlas of the skull osteology of European lizards (Reptilia: Squamata)

A Villa, M Delfino - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The fossil record provides evidence of a long evolutionary history of European lizards. Since
fossil lizards are regularly represented by bone remains, the knowledge of the origins of …

Phylogenomics of Anguis and Pseudopus (Squamata, Anguidae) indicates Balkan-Apennine mitochondrial capture associated with the Messinian event

V Gvoždík, T Nečas, D Jablonski, EM Lemmon… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Contrasting evolutionary histories of the legless lizards slow worms (Anguis) shaped by the topography of the Balkan Peninsula

D Jablonski, D Jandzik, P Mikulíček, G Džukić… - BMC Evolutionary …, 2016 - Springer
Background Genetic architecture of a species is a result of historical changes in population
size and extent of distribution related to climatic and environmental factors and …

[HTML][HTML] Cytogenetic evidence for sex chromosomes and karyotype evolution in anguimorphan lizards

B Augstenová, E Pensabene, L Kratochvíl, M Rovatsos - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Anguimorphan lizards are a morphologically variable group of squamate reptiles with a wide
geographical distribution. In spite of their importance, they have been cytogenetically …

Phylogeography of the Lacerta viridis complex: mitochondrial and nuclear markers provide taxonomic insights

E Marzahn, W Mayer, U Joger, Ç Ilgaz… - Journal of Zoological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Based on broad, nearly rangewide sampling, we reanalysed the phylogeography of the
Lacerta viridis complex using the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene and the intron 7 of the …

Fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene locality of Maramena (Greece), the most diverse European herpetofauna at the Miocene/Pliocene transition …

G Georgalis, A Villa, M Ivanov, D Vasilyan… - Palaeontologia …, 2019 - iris.unito.it
We herein describe the fossil amphibians and reptiles from the Neogene (latest Miocene or
earliest Pliocene; MN 13/14) locality of Maramena, in northern Greece. The herpetofauna is …