Vertebrate Zoology

Early Online Releases

VZ 70 (4) 2020

The following papers are currently published online in advance:
(* Special Issue (Virtual Issue) on Recent Advances in Chondrocranium Research)

SCHÄTTI, B., HEIMES, P., TILLACK, F., KUCHARZWESKI, C.
& J. TORRES-PÉRES COETO
Pituophis deppei (Duméril, Bibron & Duméril, 1854) or a reassessment of Mexican bullsnakes (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae)
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-01

VOGEL, G., NGUYEN, T. V., LALREMSANGA, H. T., BIAKZUALA, L.,
HRIMA, V. & N. A. POYARKOV
Taxonomic reassessment of the Pareas margaritophorus-macularius species complex (Squamata, Pareidae)
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-02

CHEN, A. & D. J. FIELD
Phylogenetic definitions for Caprimulgimorphae (Aves) and major constituent clades under the International Code of Phylogenetic Nomenclature
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-03

PITIRRI, M. K., KAWASAKI, K. & J. T. RICHTSMEIER *
It takes two: Building the vertebrate skull from chondrocranium and dermatocranium
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-04

THIER, N. & C. STEFEN
Morphological and radiographic studies on the skull of the straw-coloured fruit bat Eidolon helvum (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae)
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-05

SCANFERLA, A. & K. T. SMITH
Additional anatomical information on the Eocene minute boas Messelophis variatus and Rieppelophis ermannorum (Messel Formation, Germany)
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-06

FRITZ, U. & J. F. SCHMIDTLER
The Fifth Labour of Heracles: Cleaning the Linnean stable of names for grass snakes (Natrix astreptophora, N. helvetica, N. natrix sensu stricto)
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-07

MATAMBA, E., RICHARDS, L. R., CHERRY, M. I. & R. V. RAMBAU
DNA barcoding and molecular taxonomy of dark-footed forest shrew Myosorex cafer in the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-08

RUF, I., BEHRENS, H. & U. ZELLER *
Ontogeny and morphofunctional implications of the ethmoidal region in the semiaquatic Potamogale velox (Afrotheria, Mammalia)
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-09

JONES, M. E. H., GRÖNING, F., ASPDEN, R. M., DUTEL,
H., SHARP, A. MOAZEN, M., FAGAN, M. F. & S. E. EVANS *
The biomechanical role of the chondrocranium and the material properties of cartilage
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-10

KATWATE, U., APTE, D. & R. RAGHAVAN
Dawkinsia uttara, a new species of filament barb (Teleostei: Cyprinidae) from the Western Ghats of India
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-11

TOWNSEND, J. H., HERRERA-B., L. A., HOFMANN, E. P., LUQUE-MONTESS, I. R.,
ROSS, A. N., DUDEK Jr., D., KRYGERIS, C., DUCHAMP, J. E. & D. L. WILSON

A critically endangered new species of polymorphic stream frog (Anura: Hylidae: Atlantihyla) from the montane rainforest of Refugio de Vida Silvestre Texiguat, Honduras
DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-12