Edward Stanley

Work

Florida Museum of Natural History
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Director, division of digital imaging

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Florida Museum of Natural History
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Postdoctoral researcher

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California Academy of Sciences
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Postdoctoral researcher

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Education

Richard Gilder Graduate School
United States of America

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PhD in Comparative Biology

Villanova University
United States of America

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MS Biology

University of St Andrews
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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BSc Zoology

Publications

Ancient polymorphism, secondary contact, taxonomic inflation or all of them together? Mito-nuclear discordance in the Angolan girdled lizard (Cordylidae: Cordylus), with the description of a new species from the central highlands

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Complete metamorphosis promotes morphological and functional diversity in Caudata

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Functional Ecology

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The Diffusion Diaries: Diffusible Iodine-Based Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography for Vertebrate Natural History Specimens

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Integrative Organismal Biology

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A tegu-like lizard (Teiidae, Tupinambinae) from the Middle Miocene Climatic Optimum of the southeastern United States

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Journal of Paleontology

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The first report of preovipositional embryonic development in the legless gecko, Lialis burtonis (Gekkota: Pygopodidae)

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The Anatomical Record

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The first report of preovipositional embryonic development in the legless gecko, Lialis burtonis (Gekkota: Pygopodidae)

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Anatomical Record

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Enhancing Museum Experience with VR by Situating 3D Collections in Contex

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Fossil frogs (Eleutherodactylidae: Eleutherodactylus) from Florida suggest overwater dispersal from the Caribbean by the Late Oligocene

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D imaging: The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network

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BioScience

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Increasing the impact of vertebrate scientific collections through 3D imaging: The openVertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network

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BioScience

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Parasite escape mechanisms drive morphological diversification in avian lice

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Parasite escape mechanisms drive morphological diversification in avian lice

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Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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The first full body diffusible iodine‐based contrast‐enhanced computed tomography dataset and teaching materials for a member of the Testudines

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The Anatomical Record

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The first full body diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography dataset and teaching materials for a member of the Testudines

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Anatomical Record

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Anatomy of the female reproductive tract organs of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei)

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The Anatomical Record

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Anatomy of the female reproductive tract organs of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei)

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Anatomical Record

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The palatal gland of dibamid lizards

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The Anatomical Record

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The palatal gland of dibamid lizards

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Anatomical Record

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Comparative analysis of osteoderms across the lizard body

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Anatomical Record

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3D pollination biology using micro-computed tomography and geometric morphometrics in Theobroma cacao

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Applications in Plant Sciences

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A Late Miocene occurrence of the extinct salamander Batrachosauroides (Caudata, Batrachosauroididae) and other new caudate fossils from Florida and Georgia, USA

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Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History

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3D pollination biology using micro‐computed tomography and geometric morphometrics in Theobroma cacao

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Applications in Plant Sciences

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A new species of green-eyed Cordylus Laurenti, 1768 from the west-central highlands of Angola, and the rediscovery of Cordylus angolensis (Bocage, 1895) (Squamata: Cordylidae)

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Vertebrate Zoology

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A new species of green-eyed Cordylus Laurenti, 1768 from the west-central highlands of Angola, and the rediscovery of Cordylus angolensis (Bocage, 1895) (Squamata: Cordylidae)

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Vertebrate Zoology

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Fungal symbiont community and absence of detectable mycangia in invasive Euplatypus ambrosia beetles

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Symbiosis

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Fungal symbiont community and absence of detectable mycangia in invasive Euplatypus ambrosia beetles

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Symbiosis

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Discovering the ecological secrets of Alsodes cantillanensis (Anura: Alsodidae): Dietary knowledge through computerized microtomography,Descubriendo los secretos ecológicos de Alsodes cantillanensis (Anura: Alsodidae): Conocimiento de la dieta a través de microtomografía computarizada

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Gayana

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High-Density Geometric Morphometric Analysis of Intraspecific Cranial Integration in the Barred Grass Snake (Natrix helvetica) and Green Anole (Anolis carolinensis)

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Integrative Organismal Biology

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Nano-computed tomography reveals repeated phenotypic divergence in parasites to escape host defense

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bioRxiv

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Osteoderms in a mammal the spiny mouse Acomys and the independent evolution of dermal armor

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iScience

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Reed bamboos drive skull shape evolution in bush frogs of the Western Ghats, Peninsular India

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Ecology and Evolution

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A new Early Cretaceous lizard in Myanmar amber with exceptionally preserved integument

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Scientific Reports

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A look in to the neurocranium of living and extinct lepidosauria

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Paleoneurology of Amniotes: New Directions in the Study of Fossil Endocasts

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Angiosperm affinities of Surangea from the late Cretaceous Deccan Intertrappean Beds of central India

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Acta Palaeobotanica

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Insights Into the Evolution of Dermal Armour: Osteoderms in a Mammal, the Spiny Mouse, Acomys

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SSRN

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Prepollex diversity and evolution in Cophomantini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Prepollex diversity and evolution in Cophomantini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae)

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Semicircular canal size constrains vestibular function in miniaturized frogs

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Science Advances

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Semicircular canal size constrains vestibular function in miniaturized frogs

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Science Advances

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A new Early Cretaceous lizard in Myanmar amber with exceptionally preserved integument

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Scientific Reports

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Insights into the evolution of dermal armour: osteoderms in a mammal, the spiny mouse,Acomys

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Size, microhabitat, and loss of larval feeding drive cranial diversification in frogs

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Nature Communications

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Evolution of the locomotor skeleton in Anolis lizards reflects the interplay between ecological opportunity and phylogenetic inertia

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Nature Communications

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Evolution of the locomotor skeleton in Anolis lizards reflects the interplay between ecological opportunity and phylogenetic inertia

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Nature Communications

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Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

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Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

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bioRxiv

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A Case of Mistaken Identity: Genetic and Anatomical Evidence Reveals the Cryptic Invasion of Xenopus tropicalis in Central Florida

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Journal of Herpetology

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A New Early Cretaceous lizard in Myanmar Amber with Exceptionally Preserved Integument

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Research Square

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Re-evaluating the morphological evidence for the re-evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs

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Evolution

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A new agamid lizard in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar

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Cretaceous Research

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Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

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eLife

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Underground Down Under: Skull anatomy of the southern blind snake Anilios australis Gray, 1845 (Typhlopidae: Serpentes: Squamata)

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The Anatomical Record

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Underground Down Under: Skull anatomy of the southern blind snake Anilios australis Gray, 1845 (Typhlopidae: Serpentes: Squamata)

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Anatomical Record

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Unveiling the elusive: X‐rays bring scolecophidian snakes out of the dark

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The Anatomical Record

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Unveiling the elusive: X-rays bring scolecophidian snakes out of the dark

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Anatomical Record

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Unusual morphology in the mid-Cretaceous lizard Oculudentavis

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Current Biology

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Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

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eLife

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Size, microhabitat, and loss of larval feeding drive cranial diversification in frogs

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Nature Communications

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Unusual morphology in the mid-Cretaceous lizard Oculudentavis

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Current Biology

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The Tiny Cretaceous Stem-Bird Oculudentavis Revealed as a Bizarre Lizard

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SSRN

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Enigmatic amphibians in mid-Cretaceous amber were chameleon-like ballistic feeders

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Science

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Enigmatic amphibians in mid-Cretaceous amber were chameleon-like ballistic feeders

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Science

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Evolution of the African slippery frogs (Anura: Conraua), including the world’s largest living frog

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Zoologica Scripta

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Evolution of the African slippery frogs (Anura: Conraua), including the world’s largest living frog

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Zoologica Scripta

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The tiny Cretaceous stem-birdOculudentavisrevealed as a bizarre lizard

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The tiny Cretaceous stem-bird Oculudentavis revealed as a bizarre lizard

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bioRxiv

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Metamorphosis shapes cranial diversity and rate of evolution in salamanders

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Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Metamorphosis shapes cranial diversity and rate of evolution in salamanders

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Nature Ecology and Evolution

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Evolutionary integration of the frog cranium

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Evolution

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Evolutionary integration of the frog cranium

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Evolution

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Evolution of hyperossification expands skull diversity in frogs

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Evolution of hyperossification expands skull diversity in frogs

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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A taxonomic revision of the south-eastern dragon lizards of the Smaug warreni (Boulenger) species complex in southern Africa, with the description of a new species (Squamata: Cordylidae)

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PeerJ

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A taxonomic revision of the south-eastern dragon lizards of the Smaug warreni (Boulenger) species complex in southern Africa, with the description of a new species (Squamata: Cordylidae)

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PeerJ

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Novel life history strategy in a deep sea fish challenges assumptions about reproduction in extreme environments

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Scientific Reports

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Novel life history strategy in a deep sea fish challenges assumptions about reproduction in extreme environments

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Scientific Reports

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A new species of rain frog (Brevicipitidae, breviceps) endemic to angola

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ZooKeys

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Phylogeny and evolution of unique skull morphologies in dietary specialist African shovel-snouted snakes (Lamprophiidae: Prosymna)

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Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Retraction Note: Novel life history strategy in a deep sea fish challenges assumptions about reproduction in extreme environments (Scientific Reports, (2020), 10, 1, (3649), 10.1038/s41598-020-60534-0)

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Scientific Reports

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You Can't Run, but You Can Hide: The Skeleton of the Sand-Swimmer Lizard Calyptommatus leiolepis (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)

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Anatomical Record

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A new species of Girdled Lizard (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, southwestern Angola

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Zootaxa

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Predicting the Impact of Describing New Species on Phylogenetic Patterns

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Integrative Organismal Biology

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Predicting the impact of describing new species on phylogenetic patterns

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Integrative Organismal Biology

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Embryonic development of a parthenogenetic vertebrate, the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris)

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Developmental Dynamics

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Embryonic development of a parthenogenetic vertebrate, the mourning gecko (Lepidodactylus lugubris)

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Developmental Dynamics

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The atlas–axis complex in Dibamidae (Reptilia: Squamata) and their potential relatives: The effect of a fossorial lifestyle on the morphology of this skeletal bridge

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Journal of Morphology

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The atlas–axis complex in Dibamidae (Reptilia: Squamata) and their potential relatives: The effect of a fossorial lifestyle on the morphology of this skeletal bridge

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Journal of Morphology

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You Can't Run, but You Can Hide: The Skeleton of the Sand‐Swimmer Lizard Calyptommatus leiolepis (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae)

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The Anatomical Record

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<p><strong>A new species of Girdled Lizard (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, southwestern Angola</strong></p>

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Zootaxa

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First Record of the Anuran Family Rhinophrynidae from the Oligocene of Eastern North America

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Journal of Herpetology

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Xenopus fraseri: Mr. Fraser, where did your frog come from?

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PLOS ONE

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Xenopus fraseri: Mr. Fraser, where did your frog come from?

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PLoS ONE

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First dietary record of Gastrotheca guentheri (Boulenger, 1882), the lone anuran with true mandibular teeth

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Herpetology Notes

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Descriptive osteology and patterns of limb loss of the European limbless skink Ophiomorus punctatissimus (Squamata, Scincidae)

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Journal of Anatomy

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Descriptive osteology and patterns of limb loss of the European limbless skink Ophiomorus punctatissimus (Squamata, Scincidae)

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Journal of Anatomy

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The Earliest Fossil of the African Clawed Frog (Genus Xenopus) from Sub-Saharan Africa

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Journal of Herpetology

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The earliest fossil of the African clawed frog (Genus Xenopus) from Sub-Saharan Africa

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Journal of Herpetology

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Evolutionary history of burrowing asps (Lamprophiidae: Atractaspidinae) with emphasis on fang evolution and prey selection

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PLOS ONE

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Evolutionary history of burrowing asps (Lamprophiidae: Atractaspidinae) with emphasis on fang evolution and prey selection

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PLoS ONE

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A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

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A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. Nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

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PeerJ

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Erratum: Predicting the impact of describing new species on phylogenetic patterns (Journal of Global Security Studies (2019) 1:1 (obz028) DOI: 10.1093/iob/obz028)

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Integrative Organismal Biology

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Plasticity of mycangia in Xylosandrus ambrosia beetles

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Insect Science

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First Record of the Anuran Family Rhinophrynidae from the Oligocene of Eastern North America

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Journal of Herpetology

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An Enigmatic Miniaturized and Attenuate Whole Lizard from the Mid-Cretaceous Amber of Myanmar

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Breviora

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A new earless species of Poyntonophrynus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, Angola

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ZooKeys

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A new earless species of poyntonophrynus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, Angola

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ZooKeys

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A taxonomic review of the genus Hemiphractus (Anura: Hemiphractidae) in Panama: Description of Two New Species, Resurrection of Hemiphractus panamensis (Stejneger, 1917), and Discussion of Hemiphractus fasciatus Peters, 1862

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Zootaxa

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A taxonomic review of the genus Hemiphractus (Anura: Hemiphractidae) in Panama: Description of Two New Species, Resurrection of Hemiphractus panamensis (Stejneger, 1917), and Discussion of Hemiphractus fasciatus Peters, 1862

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Zootaxa

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Structure of the ambrosia beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) mycangia revealed through micro-computed tomography

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Journal of Insect Science

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The earliest direct evidence of frogs in wet tropical forests from Cretaceous Burmese amber

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Scientific Reports

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CXCL12-CXCR4 signalling plays an essential role in proper patterning of aortic arch and pulmonary arteries

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Cardiovascular Research

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Ambrosia beetle Premnobius cavipennis (Scolytinae: Ipini) carries highly divergent ascomycotan ambrosia fungus, Afroraffaelea ambrosiae gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Ophiostomatales)

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Fungal Ecology

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Two new species of the Brachycephalus pernix group (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from the state of Paraná, southern Brazil

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PeerJ

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A new species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from Santa Catarina, southern Brazil

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PeerJ

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A review of Cordylus machadoi (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southwestern Angola, with the description of a new species from the Pro-Namib desert

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Zootaxa

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Mid-Cretaceous amber fossils illuminate the past diversity of tropical lizards

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Science Advances

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Mid-Cretaceous amber fossils illuminate the past diversity of tropical lizards

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Science Advances

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The distribution of the Bururi Long-fingered Frog (Cardioglossa cyaneospila, family Arthroleptidae), a poorly known Albertine Rift endemic

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Zootaxa

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Genetics, Morphology, Advertisement Calls, and Historical Records Distinguish Six New Polyploid Species of African Clawed Frog (Xenopus, Pipidae) from West and Central Africa

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PLoS ONE

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Here be dragons: A phylogenetic and biogeographical study of the Smaug warreni species complex (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southern Africa

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Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society

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Systematics of the neotropical genus leptodactylus fitzinger, 1826 (Anura: Leptodactylidae): Phylogeny, the relevance of non-molecular evidence, and species accounts

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South American Journal of Herpetology

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Identification of 104 rapidly-evolving nuclear protein-coding markers for amplification across scaled reptiles using genomic resources

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Conservation Genetics Resources

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Synchronized versus asynchronized breeding in cordylid lizards: An evolutionary perspective

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Journal of Zoology

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A new species of cordylus (squamata: Cordylidae) from the marungu plateau of south-eastern democratic republic of the congo

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African Journal of Herpetology

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Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae)

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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

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The effects of group size, rate of turnover and disruption to demonstration on the stability of foraging traditions in fish

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Animal Behaviour

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