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José M. Padial is affiliated with the American Museum of Natural History in the United States and has contributed to research primarily within the field of Environmental Science. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

The main topics explored in their research focus on Species Distribution and Climate Change, Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Plant and Animal Studies, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Evolution and Paleontology Studies, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics.

José M. Padial has published in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to journals such as Zootaxa, Biological Reviews (Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, and Zoosystematics and Evolution.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • A paradigm shift in our view of species drives current trends in biological classification, 2020, Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • A new species of the Scinax cruentomma group (Anura: Hylidae) from the Ucayali River basin of Loreto, Peru, 2024, Zootaxa
  • Feedback in Batesian mimetic systems, 2023, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Similar looking sisters: A new sibling species in the Pristimantis danae group from the southwestern Amazon basin (Anura, Strabomantidae), 2024, Zoosystematics and Evolution
  • A new species of bamboo-dwelling Ranitomeya (Anura: Dendrobatidae) from the Upper Purus River Basin of Brazil and Peru, 2025, Zootaxa

Frequent collaborators in their work include Giussepe Gagliardi-Urrutia, Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher, Ignacio De la Riva, Juan C. Chaparro, and Roberto Gutiérrez.

Best Publications

  • The integrative future of taxonomy.

    José M Padial;Aurélien Miralles;Ignacio De la Riva;Miguel Vences

  • Molecular systematics of terraranas (Anura: Brachycephaloidea) with an assessment of the effects of alignment and optimality criteria.

    José M. Padial;Taran Grant;Darrel R. Frost

  • Integrative taxonomy reveals cryptic Amazonian species of Pristimantis (Anura: Strabomantidae)

    José M. Padial;Ignacio De La Riva

  • Deciphering the products of evolution at the species level: the need for an integrative taxonomy

    José M. Padial;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Jörn Köhler;Carles Vilà

  • Taxonomic inflation and the stability of species lists: the perils of ostrich's behavior.

    José M. Padial;Ignacio De la Riva

  • Feeding habits and overlap among red fox (Vulpes vulpes) and stone marten (Martes foina) in two Mediterranean mountain habitats

    J.M. Padial;E. Avila;J.M. Sanchez

  • Molecular systematics of teioid lizards (Teioidea/Gymnophthalmoidea: Squamata) based on the analysis of 48 loci under tree-alignment and similarity-alignment.

    Noemí Goicoechea;Darrel R. Frost;Ignacio De la Riva;Katia C. M. Pellegrino

  • Systematics of spiny‐backed treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteocephalus): an Amazonian puzzle

    Karl-Heinz Jungfer;Julián Faivovich;Julián Faivovich;José M. Padial;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher

  • Assessing the taxonomic status of tropical frogs through bioacoustics: geographical variation in the advertisement calls in the Eleutherodactylus discoidalis species group (Anura)

    José M. Padial;Jörn Köhler;Arturo Muñoz;Ignacio De La Riva

  • Recovering phylogenetic signal from frog mating calls

    Noemí Goicoechea;Ignacio De La Riva;José M. Padial

  • A paradigm shift in our view of species drives current trends in biological classification.

    José M. Padial;José M. Padial;Ignacio De la Riva

  • A Revision of Species Diversity in the Neotropical Genus Oreobates (Anura: Strabomantidae), with the Description of Three New Species from the Amazonian Slopes of the Andes

    José M. Padial;Juan Carlos Chaparro;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Juan M. Guayasamin

  • A new morphologically cryptic species of Phyllomedusa (Anura: Phyllomedusidae) from Amazonian forests of northern Peru revealed by DNA sequences.

    Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Jörn Köhler;Ignacio De La Riva;José M. Padial

  • A Taxonomic Revision of Proctoporus Bolivianus Werner (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) With the Description of Three New Species and Resurrection of Proctoporus lacertus Stejneger

    NoemÍ Goicoechea;José M. Padial;Juan Carlos Chaparro;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher

  • Correlates of species richness in the largest Neotropical amphibian radiation

    A. Gonzalez-Voyer;José Manuel Padial;S. Castroviejo-Fisher;I. De la Riva

  • Phylogenetic systematics of egg-brooding frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae) and the evolution of direct development

    Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;José M. Jr. Padial;Ignacio De La Riva;José P. Pombal

  • Systematics of Andean gladiator frogs of the Hypsiboas pulchellus species group (Anura, Hylidae)

    Jörn Köhler;Daria Koscinski;José M. Padial;Juan C. Chaparro

  • Underestimated anuran radiations in the high Andes: five new species and a new genus of Holoadeninae, and their phylogenetic relationships (Anura: Craugastoridae)

    Ignacio De la Riva;Juan C Chaparro;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;José M Padial;José M Padial

  • Molecular phylogenetics, species diversity, and biogeography of the Andean lizards of the genus Proctoporus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae).

    Noemí Goicoechea;José M. Padial;Juan C. Chaparro;Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher

  • Systematics of Oreobates and the Eleutherodactylus discoidalis species group (Amphibia, Anura), based on two mitochondrial DNA genes and external morphology

    José M. Padial;Juan C. Chaparro;Ignacio De La Riva

  • A new species of Hyalinobatrachium (Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian slopes of the central Andes with comments on the diversity of the genus in the area

    Santiago Castroviejo-Fisher;José M. Padial;Juan C. Chaparro;Rodrigo Aguayo

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan M. Guayasamin
Juan M. Guayasamin Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Pierre-André Crochet
Pierre-André Crochet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues
Miguel Trefaut Rodrigues Universidade de São Paulo
José Carlos Brito
José Carlos Brito University of Porto
José P. Pombal
José P. Pombal Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
D. James Harris
D. James Harris University of Porto
Julián Faivovich
Julián Faivovich National Scientific and Technical Research Council
Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
Célio F. B. Haddad
Célio F. B. Haddad Sao Paulo State University
Carles Vilà
Carles Vilà Spanish National Research Council

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