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Publications (16)      

1. Ceríaco, Luis M. P. & Paulo Passos. 2023 Historical natural history collections allow the description of a new and presumably extinct species of dwarf gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Lygodactylus Gray, 1864) from Fernando de Noronha Island, Brazil Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias.
2. Deepak, V., Paulo Passos, Zoltán T. Nagy, Hussam Zaher, Jiří Šmíd, Truong Q. Nguyen, Salvador Carranza, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Patrick David, Karin Tamar & David J. Gower. 2021 Contributions to ophiology in Zootaxa 2001–2020: patterns and trends Zootaxa 4979(1): 17–22.
3. Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Lorena C. B. De Lima, Paulo Passos & Maria J. J. Silva. 2024 The good, the bad and the boa: an unexpected new species of a true boa revealed by morphological and molecular evidence Public Library of Science, ONE 19(4): e0298159.
4. Gonzalez, Rodrigo C., Thaís B. Guedes & Paulo Passos. 2021 Back in time to unlock the future: tracing the type-specimens of Corallus hortulana (Linnaeus, 1758) (Serpentes: Boidae), with designation of a lectotype for the Amazon tree boa Zootaxa 4941(2): 259–270.
5. Lopes, Leonardo V. & Paulo Passos. 2023 Taxonomic status of the enigmatic Natrix sexcarinata Wagler, 1824 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae) Zootaxa 5244(2): 123-144.
6. Martins, Angele R., Manuella Folly, Guilherme N. Ferreira, Antônio S. Garcia Da Silva, Claudia Koch, Antoine Fouquet, Alessandra Machado, Ricardo T. Lopes, Roberta Pinto, Miguel T. Rodrigues & Paulo Passos. 2023 An evolutionary paradox on threadsnakes: Phenotypic and molecular evidence reveal a new and remarkably polymorphic species of Siagonodon (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae: Epictinae) from Amazonia Vertebrate Zoology 73: 345-366.
7. Martins, Angele, Claudia Koch, Roberta R. Pinto, Manuella Folly, Antoine Fouquet & Paulo Passos. 2019 From the inside out: Discovery of a new genus of threadsnakes based on anatomical and molecular data, with discussion of the leptotyphlopid hemipenial morphology Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.
8. Mebert, Konrad, Paulo Passos, Daniel S. Fernandes, Omar M. Entiauspe-Neto, Fatima Q. Alvez, Alessandra S. Machado & Ricardo T. Lopes. 2020 A New Species of Snail-Eating Snake, Dipsas Cope, 1860 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Dipsadinae), from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil South American Journal of Herpetology 17(1): 43-62.
9. Melo-Sampaio, Paulo R., Paulo Passos, Ana L. C. Prudente, Pablo J. Venegas & Omar Torres-Carvajal. 2021 Systematic review of the polychromatic ground snakes Atractus snethlageae complex reveals four new species from threatened environments Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research.
10. Melo-Sampaio, Paulo R., Paulo Passos, Angele R. Martins, W. B. Jennings, Julio C. Moura-Leite, Sergio A. A. Morato, Pablo J. Venegas, Germán Chávez, Nathocley M. Venâncio & Moisés B. Souza. 2021 A phantom on the trees: Integrative taxonomy supports a reappraisal of rear-fanged snakes classification (Dipsadidae: Philodryadini) Zoologischer Anzeiger.
11. Melo-Sampaio, Paulo R., Paulo Passos, Antoine Fouquet, Ana L. D. C. Prudente & Omar Torres-Carvajal. 2019 Systematic review of Atractus schach (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) species complex from Guiana Shield with description of three new species Systematics and Biodiversity 17(3): 207-229.
12. Meneses-Pelayo, Elson & Paulo Passos. 2019 New Polychromatic Species of Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from the Eastern Portion of the Colombian Andes Copeia 107(2): 250–261.
13. Passos, Paulo, Ana L. C. Prudente, Luciana O. Ramos, José R. Caicedo-Portilla & John D. Lynch. 2018 Species delimitations in the Atractus collaris complex (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) Zootaxa 4392(3): 491–520.
14. Passos, Paulo, Vinícius Sudré, Giuliano Doria & Patrick D. Campbell. 2018 The taxonomic status of the “forgotten” Bolivian snakes, Atractus balzani Boulenger 1898 and Atractus maculatus (sensu Boulenger 1896) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) Zootaxa 4438(1): 176–182.
15. Pinna, Pedro H., Daniel S. Fernandes & Paulo Passos. 2018 “If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice” Bionomina 13(1): 65–68.
16. Sudré, Vinícius, Albedi Andrade-Junior, Manuella Folly, Josué A. R. Azevedo, Robson W. Ávila, Felipe F. Curcio, Pedro M. S. Nunes & Paulo Passos. 2024 Revision of the Chironius bicarinatus complex (Serpentes: Colubridae): Redefined species boundaries and description of a new species Vertebrate Zoology 74: 85-120.