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Publications (58)      

1. Bellati, Adriana, Mark D. Scherz, Steven Megson, Sam H. Roberts, Franco Andreone, Gonçalo M. Rosa, Jean Noël, Jasmin E. Randrianirina, Mauro Fasola, Frank Glaw & Angelica Crottini. 2018 Resurrection and re-description of Plethodontohyla laevis (Boettger, 1913) and transfer of Rhombophryne alluaudi (Mocquard, 1901) to the genus Plethodontohyla (Amphibia, Microhylidae, Cophylinae) Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(1): 109–135.
2. Bletz, Molly C., Mark D. Scherz, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Richard M. Lehtinen, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2018 Stumbling upon a new frog species of Guibemantis (Anura: Mantellidae) on top of the Marojejy massif in northern Madagascar Copeia 106(2): 255–263.
3. Glaw, Frank, Jörn Köhler, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Achille P. Raselimanana, Angelica Crottini, Philip-Sebastian Gehring, Wolfgang Böhme, Mark D. Scherz & Miguel Vences. 2023 A new large-sized species of leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus) from northern Madagascar SALAMANDRA - German Journal of Herpetology 59(3): 239-261.
4. Glaw, Frank, Jörn Köhler, Oliver Hawlitschek, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Mark D. Scherz & Miguel Vences. 2021 Extreme miniaturization of a new amniote vertebrate and insights into the evolution of genital size in chameleons Scientific Reports 11: 2522.
5. Glaw, Frank, Mark D. Scherz, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Angelica Crottini, Achille P. Raselimanana, Franco Andreone, Jörn Köhler & Miguel Vences. 2020 Genetic variability and partial integrative revision of Platypelis frogs (Microhylidae) with red flash marks from eastern Madagascar Vertebrate Zoology 70(2): 141–156.
6. Glaw, Frank, Mark D. Scherz, David Prötzel & Miguel Vences. 2018 Eye and webbing colouration as predictors of specific distinctness: a genetically-isolated new treefrog species of the Boophis albilabris group from the Masoala peninsula, northeastern Madagascar Salamandra 54(3): 163–177.
7. Gorin, Vladislav A., Mark D. Scherz, Dmitriy V. Korost & Nikolay A. Poyarkov. 2021 Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(1): 21-54.
8. Hawlitschek, Oliver, Mark D. Scherz, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Angelica Crottini & Frank Glaw. 2018 Computational molecular species delimitation and taxonomic revision of the gecko genus Ebenavia Boettger, 1878. The Science of Nature 105: 49.
9. Hawlitschek, Oliver, Mark D. Scherz, Kathleen C. Webster, Ivan Ineich & Frank Glaw. 2021 Morphological, osteological, and genetic data support a new species of Madatyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) endemic to Mayotte Island, Comoros Archipelago The Anatomical Record.
10. Köhler, Jörn, Miguel Vences, Mark D. Scherz & Frank Glaw. 2019 A new species of nocturnal gecko, genus Paroedura, from the karstic Tsingy de Bemaraha formation in western Madagascar Salamandra 55(2): 73-81.
11. Koppetsch, Thore, Maciej Pabijan, Carl R. Hutter, Jörn Köhler, Philip-Sebastian Gehring, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Mark D. Scherz, David R. Vieites, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2023 An initial molecular resolution of the mantellid frogs of the Guibemantis liber complex reveals three new species from northern Madagascar Vertebrate Zoology 73: 397-432.
12. Lambert, Shea M., Carl R. Hutter & Mark D. Scherz. 2017 Diamond in the rough: a new species of fossorial diamond frog (Rhombophryne) from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(1): 143-155.
13. Lattenkamp, Ella Z., Martin Mandák & Mark D. Scherz. 2016 The advertisement call of Stumpffia be Köhler, Vences, D’Cruze & Glaw, 2010 (Anura: Microhylidae: Cophylinae) Zootaxa 4205(5): 483–485.
14. Lehtinen, Richard M., Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences, Andolalao Rakotoarison & Mark D. Scherz. 2018 Two new Pandanus frogs (Guibemantis: Mantellidae: Anura) from northern Madagascar European Journal of Taxonomy(451): 1-20.
15. Miralles, Aurélien, Teddy Bruy, Angelica Crottini, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Mark D. Scherz, Robert Schmidt, Jörn Köhler, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2021 Completing a taxonomic puzzle: integrative review of geckos of the Paroedura bastardi species complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae) Vertebrate Zoology 71: 27-48.
16. Mullin, Katherine E., Manoa G. Rakotomanga, Jeff Dawson, Frank Glaw, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Pablo Orozco-terWengel & Mark D. Scherz. 2022 An unexpected new red bellied Stumpffia (Microhylidae) from forest fragments in central Madagascar highlights remaining cryptic diversity ZooKeys 1104: 1-28.
17. Prötzel, David, Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Mark D. Scherz & Frank Glaw. 2015 Systematic revision of the Malagasy chameleons Calumma boettgeri and C. linotum (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) Zootaxa 4048(2): 211–231.
18. Prötzel, David, Mark D. Scherz, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2020 Untangling the trees: Revision of the Calumma nasutum complex (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) Vertebrate Zoology 70(1): 23-59.
19. Prötzel, David, Miguel Vences, Oliver Hawlitschek, Mark D. Scherz, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina & Frank Glaw. 2018 Endangered beauties: Micro-CT cranial osteology, molecular genetics and external morphology reveal three new species of chameleons in the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
20. Prötzel, David, Shea M. Lambert, Ginah T. Andrianasolo, Carl R. Hutter, Kerry Cobb, Mark D. Scherz & Frank Glaw. 2018 The smallest ‘true chameleon’ from Madagascar: a new, distinctly colored species of the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae) Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(2): 409-423.
21. Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Frank Glaw, Safidy M. Rasolonjatovo, Jary H. Razafindraibe, Miguel Vences & Mark D. Scherz. 2022 Discovery of frogs of the Stumpffia hara species group (Microhylidae, Cophylinae) on Montagne d’Ambre in northern Madagascar, with description of a new species Evolutionary Systematics 6(1): 21-33.
22. Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Mark D. Scherz, Frank Glaw, Jörn Köhler, Franco Andreone, Michael Franzen, Julian Glos, Oliver Hawlitschek, Teppei Jono, Akira Mori, Serge H. Ndriantsoa, Noromalala R. Raminosoa, Jana C. Riemann, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Gonçalo M. Rosa, David R. Vieites, Angelica Crottini & Miguel Vences. 2017 Describing the smaller majority: integrative taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar Vertebrate Zoology 67(3): 271-398.
23. Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Mark D. Scherz, Jörn Köhler, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Oliver Hawlitschek, Steven Megson, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2020 Frogs of the genus Platypelis from the Sorata massif in northern Madagascar: description of a new species and reports of range extensions Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(1): 263-274.
24. Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Mark D. Scherz, Katherine E. Mullin, Angelica Crottini, Alice Petzold, Fiadanantsoa A. Ranjanaharisoa, Hasina M. R. Maheritafika, James M. Rafanoharana, Henri Raherinjatovo, Franco Andreone, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2023 Gray versus yellow ventral coloration: Identity, distribution, color polymorphism and molecular relationships of the microhylid frog Platypelis mavomavo Andreone, Fenolio & Walvoord, 2003 Zootaxa 5352(2): 221-234.
25. Rakotoarison, Andolalao, Mark D. Scherz, Molly C. Bletz, Jary H. Razafindraibe, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2019 Description of the lucky Cophyla (Microhylidae, Cophylinae), a new arboreal frog from Marojejy National Park in north-eastern Madagascar Zootaxa 4651(2): 271–288.
Rancilhac, Loïs, Teddy Bruy, Mark D. Scherz, Elvis A. Pereira, Michaela Preick, Nicolas Straube, Mariana L. Lyra, Annemarie Ohler, Jeffrey W. Streicher, Franco Andreone, Angelica Crottini, Carl R. Hutter, J. C. Randrianantoandro, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Frank Glaw, Michael Hofreiter & Miguel Vences. 2020 Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus) Journal of Natural History.
Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Achille P. Raselimanana, Mark D. Scherz, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Jary H. Razafindraibe, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2019 Finaritra! A new leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus) species from Marojejy National Park in north-eastern Madagascar Zootaxa 4545(4): 563–577.
Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Frank Glaw, Achille P. Raselimanana, Andolalao Rakotoarison, David R. Vieites, Oliver Hawlitschek, Miguel Vences & Mark D. Scherz. 2020 Towards completion of the species inventory of small-sized leaf-tailed geckos: two new species of Uroplatus from northern Madagascar Zootaxa 4895(2): 251–271.
Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Frank Glaw, Achille P. Raselimanana, Andolalao Rakotoarison, David R. Vieites, Oliver Hawlitschek, Miguel Vences & Mark D. Scherz. 2020 Towards completion of the species inventory of small-sized leaf-tailed geckos: two new species of Uroplatus from northern Madagascar Zootaxa 4895(2): 251–271.
Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Mark D. Scherz, Krystal A. Tolley, Achille P. Raselimanana, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2019 A new species of Uroplatus (Gekkonidae) from Ankarana National Park, Madagascar, of remarkably high genetic divergence Zootaxa 4686(1): 84–96.
Ratsoavina, Fanomezana M., Philip-Sebastian Gehring, Mark D. Scherz, David R. Vieites, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2017 Two new species of leaf-tailed geckos (Uroplatus) from the Tsaratanana mountain massif in northern Madagascar Zootaxa 4347(3): 446–464.
Ruthsatz, Katharina, Mark D. Scherz & Miguel Vences. 2021 Dissecting the tree of life: the prospect of open-access digital resources in morphology, anatomy and taxonomy in training the next generation of zoologists Zootaxa 5016(3): 448-450.
Scherz, Mark D. 2020 Diamond frogs forever: A new species of Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880 (Microhylidae, Cophylinae) from Montagne d’Ambre National Park, north Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(2): 313-323.
Scherz, Mark D., Andolalao Rakotoarison, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Oliver Hawlitschek, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2018 Two new Madagascan frog species of the Gephyromantis (Duboimantis) tandroka complex from northern Madagascar Alytes, the International Journal of Batrachology 36(1–4): 130–158.
Scherz, Mark D., Andolalao Rakotoarison, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Oliver Hawlitschek, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2018 Two new Madagascan frog species of the Gephyromantis (Duboimantis) tandroka complex from northern Madagascar Alytes, the International Journal of Batrachology 36.
Scherz, Mark D., Andolalao Rakotoarison, Oliver Hawlitschek, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2015 Leaping towards a saltatorial lifestyle? An unusually long-legged new species of Rhombophryne (Anura, Microhylidae) from the Sorata massif in northern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution 91(2): 105–114.
Scherz, Mark D., Angelica Crottini, Carl R. Hutter, Andrea Hildenbrand, Franco Andreone, Thio R. Fulgence, Gunther Köhler, Serge H. Ndriantsoa, Annemarie Ohler, Michaela Preick, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Loïs Rancilhac, Achille P. Raselimanana, Jana C. Riemann, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Gonçalo M. Rosa, Jeffrey W. Streicher, David R. Vieites, Jörn Köhler, Michael Hofreiter, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2022 An inordinate fondness for inconspicuous brown frogs: integration of phylogenomics, archival DNA analysis, morphology, and bioacoustics yields 24 new taxa in the subgenus Brygoomantis (genus Mantidactylus) from Madagascar Megataxa 7(2): 113–311.
Scherz, Mark D., Bernhard Ruthensteiner, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2014 A new microhylid frog, genus Rhombophryne, from northeastern Madagascar, and a re-description of R. serratopalpebrosa using micro-computed tomography Zootaxa 3860(6): 547–560.
Scherz, Mark D., Carl R. Hutter, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Jana C. Riemann, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Serge H. Ndriantsoa, Julian Glos, Sam H. Roberts, Angelica Crottini, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2019 Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera Public Library of Science, ONE 14(3): e0213314.
Scherz, Mark D., Frank Glaw, Carl R. Hutter, Molly C. Bletz, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Jörn Köhler & Miguel Vences. 2019 Species complexes and the importance of Data Deficient classification in Red List assessments: the case of Hylobatrachus frogs Public Library of Science, ONE.
Scherz, Mark D., Frank Glaw, Miguel Vences, Franco Andreone & Angelica Crottini. 2016 Two new species of terrestrial microhylid frogs (Cophylinae: Rhombophryne) from northeastern Madagascar Salamandra 52(2): 91–106.
Scherz, Mark D., Janina Rudolph, Marius Rakotondratsima, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Angelica Crottini, Franco Andreone, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2024 Molecular systematics of the subgenus Gephyromantis (Phylacomantis) with description of a new subspecies Zootaxa 5446(2): 205-220.
Scherz, Mark D., Jary H. Razafindraibe, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Nadi M. Dixit, Molly C. Bletz, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2017 Yet another small brown frog from high altitude on the Marojejy Massif, northeastern Madagascar (Anura: Mantellidae) Zootaxa 4347(3): 572–582.
Scherz, Mark D., Jörn Köhler, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2019 A new dwarf chameleon, genus Brookesia, from the Marojejy massif in northern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution 95: 95–106.
Scherz, Mark D., Jörn Köhler, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2019 A new yellow-toed Platypelis species (Anura, Microhylidae, Cophylinae) from the Maroantsetra region, northeastern Madagascar Evolutionary Systematics 3: 75-83.
Scherz, Mark D., Juan D. Daza, Jörn Köhler, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2017 Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales PeerJ 5(e2955): 1–35.
Scherz, Mark D., Luca Schmidt, Angelica Crottini, Aurélien Miralles, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Achille P. Raselimanana, Jörn Köhler, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2021 Into the Chamber of Horrors: A proposal for the resolution of nomenclatural chaos in the Scaphiophryne calcarata complex (Anura: Microhylidae), with a new species-level phylogenetic hypothesis for Scaphiophryninae Zootaxa 4938(4): 392–420.
Scherz, Mark D., Miguel Vences, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Franco Andreone, Jörn Köhler, Frank Glaw & Angelica Crottini. 2016 Reconciling molecular phylogeny, morphological divergence and classification of Madagascan narrow-mouthed frogs (Amphibia: Microhylidae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100: 372–381.
Scherz, Mark D., Miguel Vences, James Borrell, Lawrence Ball, Denise H. Nomenjanahary, Duncan Parker, Marius Rakotondratsima, Elidiot Razafimandimby, Thomas Starnes, Jeanneney Rabearivony & Frank Glaw. 2017 A new frog species of the subgenus Asperomantis (Anura, Mantellidae, Gephyromantis) from the Bealanana District of northern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(2): 451-466.
Scherz, Mark D., Oliver Hawlitschek, Franco Andreone, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Miguel Vences & Frank Glaw. 2017 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 of micro-CT data to taxonomists Zootaxa 4273(3): 301–340.
Scherz, Mark D., Oliver Hawlitschek, Jary H. Razafindraibe, Steven Megson, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Molly C. Bletz, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2018 A distinctive new frog species (Anura: Mantellidae) supports the biogeographic linkage of two montane rainforest massifs in northern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(2): 247-261.
Scherz, Mark D., Safidy M. Rasolonjatovo, Jörn Köhler, Loïs Rancilhac, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Achille P. Raselimanana, Annemarie Ohler, Michaela Preick, Michael Hofreiter, Frank Glaw & Miguel Vences. 2020 ‘Barcode fishing’ for archival DNA from historical type material overcomes taxonomic hurdles, enabling the description of a new frog species Scientific Reports 10: 19109.
Sentís, Marina, Yiyin Chang, Mark D. Scherz, David Prötzel & Frank Glaw. 2018 Rising from the ashes: resurrection of the Malagasy chameleons Furcifer monoceras and F. voeltzkowi (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae), based on micro-CT scans and external morphology Zootaxa 4483(3): 549–566.
Vences, Miguel, Aurélien Miralles, Sophie Brouillet, Jacques Ducasse, Alexander Fedosov, Vladimir Kharchev, Ivaylo Kostadinov, Sangeeta Kumari, Stefanos Patmanidis, Mark D. Scherz, Nicolas Puillandre & Susanne S. Renner. 2021 iTaxoTools 0.1: Kickstarting a specimen-based software toolkit for taxonomists Megataxa 6(1): 77–92.
Vences, Miguel, Carl R. Hutter, Frank Glaw, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Achille P. Raselimanana & Mark D. Scherz. 2023 A new species of Pandanus-dwelling frog from northern Madagascar related to Guibemantis pulcher Zootaxa 5306(1): 097-115.
Vences, Miguel, Jörn Köhler, Angelica Crottini, Michael Hofreiter, Carl R. Hutter, Louis Du Preez, Michaela Preick, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Loïs Rancilhac, Achille P. Raselimanana, Gonçalo M. Rosa, Mark D. Scherz & Frank Glaw. 2022 An integrative taxonomic revision and redefinition of Gephyromantis (Laurentomantis) malagasius based on archival DNA analysis reveals four new mantellid frog species from Madagascar Vertebrate Zoology 72: 271-309.
Vences, Miguel, Malte Multzsch, Jörn Köhler, Angelica Crottini, Franco Andreone, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Mark D. Scherz & Frank Glaw. 2023 Integrative revision of the Blommersia wittei complex, with description of a new species of frog from western and north-western Madagascar Zootaxa 5319(2): 178-198.
Vences, Miguel, Malte Multzsch, Sven Gippner, Aurélien Miralles, Angelica Crottini, Philip-Sebastian Gehring, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Fanomezana M. Ratsoavina, Frank Glaw & Mark D. Scherz. 2022 Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group reveals an unexpected diversity of little brown geckos in Madagascar’s rainforest Zootaxa 5179(1): 1-61.
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