Mark D. Scherz - Publications

Affiliations: 
Technische Universität Braunschweig 
Area:
Herpetology,Evolutionary Biology,Taxonomy,Systematics

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2023 Rakotoarison A, Scherz MD, Mullin KE, Crottini A, Petzold A, Ranjanaharisoa FA, Maheritafika HMR, Rafanoharana JM, Raherinjatovo H, Andreone F, Glaw F, Vences M. Gray versus yellow ventral coloration: Identity, distribution, color polymorphism and molecular relationships of the microhylid frog Platypelis mavomavo Andreone, Fenolio & Walvoord, 2003. Zootaxa. 5352: 221-234. PMID 38221452 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5352.2.4  0.822
2023 Luedtke JA, Chanson J, Neam K, Hobin L, Maciel AO, Catenazzi A, Borzée A, Hamidy A, Aowphol A, Jean A, Sosa-Bartuano Á, Fong G A, de Silva A, Fouquet A, Angulo A, ... ... Scherz MD, et al. Author Correction: Ongoing declines for the world's amphibians in the face of emerging threats. Nature. PMID 38040869 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06851-6  0.432
2023 Renner SS, Scherz MD, Schoch CL, Gottschling M, Vences M. DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains - how to increase their number and improve their annotation in NCBI GenBank and related databases. Systematic Biology. PMID 37956405 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syad068  0.454
2023 Luedtke JA, Chanson J, Neam K, Hobin L, Maciel AO, Catenazzi A, Borzée A, Hamidy A, Aowphol A, Jean A, Sosa-Bartuano Á, Fong G A, de Silva A, Fouquet A, Angulo A, ... ... Scherz MD, et al. Ongoing declines for the world's amphibians in the face of emerging threats. Nature. PMID 37794184 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06578-4  0.65
2023 Vences M, Hutter CR, Glaw F, Rakotoarison A, Raselimanana AP, Scherz MD. A new species of Pandanus-dwelling frog from northern Madagascar related to Guibemantis pulcher. Zootaxa. 5306: 97-115. PMID 37518534 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.1.4  0.853
2023 Vences M, Multzsch M, Köhler J, Crottini A, Andreone F, Rakotoarison A, Scherz MD, Glaw F. Integrative revision of the Blommersia wittei complex, with description of a new species of frog from western and north-western Madagascar. Zootaxa. 5319: 178-198. PMID 37518239 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5319.2.2  0.838
2023 Scherz MD, Schmidt R, Brown JL, Glos J, Lattenkamp EZ, Rakotomalala Z, Rakotoarison A, Rakotonindrina RT, Randriamalala O, Raselimanana AP, Rasolonjatovo SM, Ratsoavina FM, Razafindraibe JH, Glaw F, Vences M. Repeated divergence of amphibians and reptiles across an elevational gradient in northern Madagascar. Ecology and Evolution. 13: e9914. PMID 36937068 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9914  0.836
2022 Mullin KE, Rakotomanga MG, Dawson J, Glaw F, Rakotoarison A, Orozco-terWengel P, Scherz MD. An unexpected new red-bellied (Microhylidae) from forest fragments in central Madagascar highlights remaining cryptic diversity. Zookeys. 1104: 1-28. PMID 36761923 DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1104.82396  0.845
2022 Vences M, Multzsch M, Gippner S, Miralles A, Crottini A, Gehring PS, Rakotoarison A, Ratsoavina FM, Glaw F, Scherz MD. Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group reveals an unexpected diversity of little brown geckos in Madagascars rainforest. Zootaxa. 5179: 1-61. PMID 36095705 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5179.1.1  0.825
2022 Rasolonjatovo SM, Scherz MD, Schmidt R, Glos J, Rakotoarison A, Raselimanana AP, Vences M. Population diversification in the frog Mantidactylus bellyi on an isolated massif in northern Madagascar based on genetic, morphological, bioacoustic and ecological evidence. Plos One. 17: e0263764. PMID 35358210 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0263764  0.775
2022 Scherz MD, Masonick P, Meyer A, Hulsey CD. Between a Rock and a Hard Polytomy: Phylogenomics of the Rock-Dwelling Mbuna Cichlids of Lake Malawi. Systematic Biology. PMID 35137239 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac006  0.467
2021 Ruthsatz K, Scherz MD, Vences M. 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: 448-450. PMID 34810436 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5016.3.10  0.377
2021 Gippner S, Travers SL, Scherz MD, Colston TJ, Lyra ML, Mohan AV, Multzsch M, Nielsen SV, Rancilhac L, Glaw F, Bauer AM, Vences M. A comprehensive phylogeny of dwarf geckos of the genus Lygodactylus, with insights into their systematics and morphological variation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 107311. PMID 34530117 DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107311  0.86
2021 Strong CRC, Scherz MD, Caldwell MW. Deconstructing the Gestalt: New concepts and tests of homology, as exemplified by a re-conceptualization of "microstomy" in squamates. Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007). PMID 33871920 DOI: 10.1002/ar.24630  0.301
2021 Scherz MD, Schmidt L, Crottini A, Miralles A, Rakotoarison A, Raselimanana AP, Köhler J, Glaw F, Vences M. 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: zootaxa.4938.4.2. PMID 33756965 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4938.4.2  0.847
2021 Hawlitschek O, Scherz MD, Webster KC, Ineich I, Glaw F. Morphological, osteological, and genetic data support a new species of Madatyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) endemic to Mayotte Island, Comoros Archipelago. Anatomical Record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007). PMID 33611842 DOI: 10.1002/ar.24589  0.734
2021 Glaw F, Köhler J, Hawlitschek O, Ratsoavina FM, Rakotoarison A, Scherz MD, Vences M. Extreme miniaturization of a new amniote vertebrate and insights into the evolution of genital size in chameleons. Scientific Reports. 11: 2522. PMID 33510189 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80955-1  0.82
2021 Prötzel D, Heß M, Schwager M, Glaw F, Scherz MD. Neon-green fluorescence in the desert gecko Pachydactylus rangei caused by iridophores. Scientific Reports. 11: 297. PMID 33432052 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79706-z  0.743
2020 Ratsoavina FM, Glaw F, Raselimanana AP, Rakotoarison A, Vieites DR, Hawlitschek O, Vences M, Scherz MD. Towards completion of the species inventory of small-sized leaf-tailed geckos: two new species of Uroplatus from northern Madagascar. Zootaxa. 4895: zootaxa.4895.2.5. PMID 33756904 DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.5  0.866
2020 Scherz MD, Rasolonjatovo SM, Köhler J, Rancilhac L, Rakotoarison A, Raselimanana AP, Ohler A, Preick M, Hofreiter M, Glaw F, Vences M. 'Barcode fishing' for archival DNA from historical type material overcomes taxonomic hurdles, enabling the description of a new frog species. Scientific Reports. 10: 19109. PMID 33154397 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-75431-9  0.823
2020 Miralles A, Bruy T, Wolcott K, Scherz MD, Begerow D, Beszteri B, Bonkowski M, Felden J, Gemeinholzer B, Glaw F, Glöckner FO, Hawlitschek O, Kostadinov I, Nattkemper TW, Printzen C, et al. Repositories for Taxonomic Data: Where We Are and What is Missing. Systematic Biology. PMID 32298457 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syaa026  0.668
2020 Scherz MD. Diamond frogs forever: a new species of Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880 (Microhylidae, Cophylinae) from Montagne d’Ambre National Park, northern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution. 96: 313-323. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.96.51372  0.649
2020 Rakotoarison A, Scherz MD, Köhler J, Ratsoavina FM, Hawlitschek O, Megson S, Vences M, Glaw F. 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: 263-274. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.96.47088  0.869
2020 Zamani A, Vahtera V, Sääksjärvi IE, Scherz MD. The omission of critical data in the pursuit of 'revolutionary' methods to accelerate the description of species Systematic Entomology. DOI: 10.1111/Syen.12444  0.505
2020 Rancilhac L, Bruy T, Scherz MD, Pereira EA, Preick M, Straube N, Lyra ML, Ohler A, Streicher JW, Andreone F, Crottini A, Hutter CR, Randrianantoandro JC, Rakotoarison A, Glaw F, et al. Target-enriched DNA sequencing from historical type material enables a partial revision of the Madagascar giant stream frogs (genus Mantidactylus) Journal of Natural History. 54: 87-118. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1748243  0.823
2019 Rasolonjatovo SM, Scherz MD, Hutter CR, Glaw F, Rakotoarison A, Razafindraibe JH, Goodman SM, Raselimanana AP, Vences M. Sympatric lineages in the Mantidactylus ambreensis complex of Malagasy frogs originated allopatrically rather than by in-situ speciation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 106700. PMID 31809850 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2019.106700  0.831
2019 Rakotoarison A, Scherz MD, Bletz MC, Razafindraibe JH, Glaw F, Vences M. Description of the lucky Cophyla (Microhylidae, Cophylinae), a new arboreal frog from Marojejy National Park in north-eastern Madagascar. Zootaxa. 4651: zootaxa.4651.2.4. PMID 31716910 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4651.2.4  0.865
2019 Ratsoavina FM, Scherz MD, Tolley KA, Raselimanana AP, Glaw F, Vences M. A new species of Uroplatus (Gekkonidae) from Ankarana National Park, Madagascar, of remarkably high genetic divergence. Zootaxa. 4683: zootaxa.4683.1.4. PMID 31715936 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4683.1.4  0.776
2019 Scherz MD, Glaw F, Hutter CR, Bletz MC, Rakotoarison A, Köhler J, Vences M. Species complexes and the importance of Data Deficient classification in Red List assessments: The case of Hylobatrachus frogs. Plos One. 14: e0219437. PMID 31412043 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0219437  0.842
2019 Scherz MD, Hutter CR, Rakotoarison A, Riemann JC, Rödel MO, Ndriantsoa SH, Glos J, Hyde Roberts S, Crottini A, Vences M, Glaw F. Morphological and ecological convergence at the lower size limit for vertebrates highlighted by five new miniaturised microhylid frog species from three different Madagascan genera. Plos One. 14: e0213314. PMID 30917162 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0213314  0.858
2019 Ratsoavina FM, Raselimanana AP, Scherz MD, Rakotoarison A, Razafindraibe JH, Glaw F, Vences M. Finaritra! A splendid new leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus) species from Marojejy National Park in north-eastern Madagascar. Zootaxa. 4545: 563-577. PMID 30790891 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4545.4.7  0.872
2019 Chretien J, Wang-Claypool CY, Glaw F, Scherz MD. The bizarre skull of Xenotyphlops sheds light on synapomorphies of Typhlopoidea. Journal of Anatomy. 234: 637-655. PMID 30740684 DOI: 10.1111/Joa.12952  0.778
2019 Scherz MD, Köhler J, Rakotoarison A, Glaw F, Vences M. A new dwarf chameleon, genus Brookesia, from the Marojejy massif in northern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution. 95: 95-106. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.95.32818  0.865
2019 Scherz MD, Köhler J, Vences M, Glaw F. A new yellow-toed Platypelis species (Anura, Microhylidae, Cophylinae) from the Maroantsetra region, northeastern Madagascar Evolutionary Systematics. 3: 75-83. DOI: 10.3897/EVOLSYST.3.33417  0.798
2018 SentÍs M, Chang Y, Scherz MD, PrÖtzel D, Glaw F. 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: 549-566. PMID 30313781 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4483.3.7  0.755
2018 Hawlitschek O, Scherz MD, Ruthensteiner B, Crottini A, Glaw F. Computational molecular species delimitation and taxonomic revision of the gecko genus Ebenavia Boettger, 1878. Die Naturwissenschaften. 105: 49. PMID 30030631 DOI: 10.1007/S00114-018-1574-9  0.747
2018 Prötzel D, Heß M, Scherz MD, Schwager M, Padje AV, Glaw F. Widespread bone-based fluorescence in chameleons. Scientific Reports. 8: 698. PMID 29335580 DOI: 10.1038/S41598-017-19070-7  0.791
2018 Lehtinen RM, Glaw F, Vences M, Rakotoarison A, Scherz MD. Two new Pandanus frogs (Guibemantis: Mantellidae: Anura) from northern Madagascar European Journal of Taxonomy. 2018: 1-20. DOI: 10.5852/Ejt.2018.451  0.856
2018 Prötzel D, Lambert SM, Andrianasolo GT, Hutter CR, Cobb KA, Scherz MD, Glaw F. The smallest ‘true chameleon’ from Madagascar: a new, distinctly colored species of the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae) Zoosystematics and Evolution. 94: 409-423. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.94.27305  0.843
2018 Scherz MD, Hawlitschek O, Razafindraibe JH, Megson S, Ratsoavina FM, Rakotoarison A, Bletz MC, Glaw F, Vences M. A distinctive new frog species (Anura, Mantellidae) supports the biogeographic linkage of two montane rainforest massifs in northern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution. 94: 247-261. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.94.21037  0.87
2018 Bellati A, Scherz MD, Megson S, Hyde Roberts S, Andreone F, Rosa GM, Noël J, Randrianirina JE, Fasola M, Glaw F, Crottini A. 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: 109-135. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.94.14698  0.539
2018 Bletz MC, Scherz MD, Rakotoarison A, Lehtinen RM, Glaw F, Vences M. Stumbling upon a New Frog Species ofGuibemantis(Anura: Mantellidae) on Top of the Marojejy Massif in Northern Madagascar Copeia. 106: 255-263. DOI: 10.1643/Ch-17-655  0.869
2018 Prötzel D, Vences M, Hawlitschek O, Scherz MD, Ratsoavina FM, Glaw F. 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. 184: 471-498. DOI: 10.1093/Zoolinnean/Zlx112  0.815
2018 Hutter CR, Andriampenomanana ZF, Razafindraibe JH, Rakotoarison DA, Scherz MD. New dietary data from Compsophis and Alluaudina species (Squamata: Lamprophiidae: Pseudoxyrhophiinae), and implications for their dietary complexity and evolution Journal of Natural History. 52: 2497-2510. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1543732  0.508
2017 Scherz MD, Razafindraibe JH, Rakotoarison A, Dixit NM, Bletz MC, Glaw F, Vences M. Yet another small brown frog from high altitude on the Marojejy Massif, northeastern Madagascar (Anura: Mantellidae). Zootaxa. 4347: 572-582. PMID 29245586 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4347.3.9  0.863
2017 Ratsoavina FM, Gehring PS, Scherz MD, Vieites DR, Glaw F, Vences M. Two new species of leaf-tailed geckos (Uroplatus) from the Tsaratanana mountain massif in northern Madagascar. Zootaxa. 4347: 446-464. PMID 29245579 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4347.3.2  0.786
2017 Scherz MD, Hawlitschek O, Andreone F, Rakotoarison A, Vences M, Glaw F. 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: 301-340. PMID 28610237 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4273.3.1  0.84
2017 Scherz MD, Daza JD, Köhler J, Vences M, Glaw F. Off the scale: a new species of fish-scale gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Geckolepis) with exceptionally large scales. Peerj. 5: e2955. PMID 28194313 DOI: 10.7717/Peerj.2955  0.753
2017 Scherz MD, Vences M, Borrell J, Ball L, Herizo Nomenjanahary D, Parker D, Rakotondratsima M, Razafimandimby E, Starnes T, Rabearivony J, Glaw F. A new frog species of the subgenus Asperomantis (Anura, Mantellidae, Gephyromantis) from the Bealanana District of northern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution. 93: 451-466. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.93.14906  0.778
2017 Lambert SM, Hutter CR, Scherz MD. Diamond in the rough: a new species of fossorial diamond frog (Rhombophryne) from Ranomafana National Park, southeastern Madagascar Zoosystematics and Evolution. 93: 143-155. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.93.10188  0.572
2016 Lattenkamp EZ, Mandák M, Scherz MD. The advertisement call of Stumpffia be Köhler, Vences, D'Cruze & Glaw, 2010 (Anura: Microhylidae: Cophylinae). Zootaxa. 4205: zootaxa.4205.5.7. PMID 27988561 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4205.5.7  0.463
2016 Scherz MD, Vences M, Rakotoarison A, Andreone F, Köhler J, Glaw F, Crottini A. Reconciling molecular phylogeny, morphological divergence and classification of Madagascan narrow-mouthed frogs (Amphibia: Microhylidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 100: 372-81. PMID 27085671 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2016.04.019  0.808
2015 Prötzel D, Ruthensteiner B, Scherz MD, Glaw F. Systematic revision of the Malagasy chameleons Calumma boettgeri and C. linotum (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa. 4048: 211-31. PMID 26624746 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.4048.2.4  0.785
2015 Scherz MD, Rakotoarison A, Hawlitschek O, Vences M, Glaw F. 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: 105-114. DOI: 10.3897/Zse.91.4979  0.823
2015 Scherz MD, Ruthensteiner B, Vieites DR, Vences M, Glaw F. Two New Microhylid Frogs of the Genus Rhombophryne with Superciliary Spines from the Tsaratanana Massif in Northern Madagascar Herpetologica. 71: 310. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-14-00048  0.754
2015 Hawlitschek O, Scherz MD, Straube N, Glaw F. Resurrection of the Comoran fish scale gecko Geckolepis humbloti Vaillant, 1887 reveals a disjunct distribution caused by natural overseas dispersal Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 16: 289-298. DOI: 10.1007/S13127-015-0255-1  0.641
2014 Scherz MD, Ruthensteiner B, Vences M, Glaw F. A new microhylid frog, genus Rhombophryne, from northeastern Madagascar, and a re-description of R. serratopalpebrosa using micro-computed tomography. Zootaxa. 3860: 547-60. PMID 25283290 DOI: 10.11646/Zootaxa.3860.6.3  0.741
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