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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
46
Citations
7259
World Ranking
18969
National Ranking
7748

Best Publications

  • The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation

    Uri Roll;Uri Roll;Anat Feldman;Maria Novosolov;Allen Allison

  • A Species-Level Phylogeny of Extant Snakes with Description of a New Colubrid Subfamily and Genus.

    Alex Figueroa;Alexander D. McKelvy;L. Lee Grismer;Charles D. Bell

  • Scientific description can imperil species.

    Bryan L. Stuart;Anders G. J. Rhodin;L. Lee Grismer;Troy Hansel

  • Extinct, obscure or imaginary: The lizard species with the smallest ranges

    Shai Meiri;Shai Meiri;Aaron M. Bauer;Allen Allison;Fernando Castro-Herrera

  • Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions

    Aaron M. Bauer;James F. Parham;Rafe M. Brown;Bryan L. Stuart

  • Twelve new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from isolated limestone habitats in east-central and southern Myanmar demonstrate high localized diversity and unprecedented microendemism

    L Lee Grismer;Perry L Wood;Myint Kyaw Thura;Thaw Zin

  • The global diversity and distribution of lizard clutch sizes

    Shai Meiri;Luciano Avila;Aaron M. Bauer;David G. Chapple

  • Integrative taxonomy uncovers high levels of cryptic species diversity in Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and the description of a new species from Peninsular Malaysia

    L. Lee Grismer;L. Lee Grismer;Perry L. Wood;Shahrul Anuar;Mohd Abdul Muin

  • A phylogeny and taxonomy of the Thai-Malay Peninsula Bent-toed Geckos of the Cyrtodactylus pulchellus complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae): combined morphological and molecular analyses with descriptions of seven new species

    L. Lee Grismer;L. Lee Grismer;Perry L. Wood;Evan S. H. Quah;Shahrul Anuar

  • A new species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Yunnan, China and its phylogenetic relationship to other congeners.

    Ade Prasetyo Agung;L. Lee Grismer;Jesse L. Grismer;Evan S. H. Quah

  • Gene flow creates a mirage of cryptic species in a Southeast Asian spotted stream frog complex.

    Kin Onn Chan;Carl R. Hutter;Carl R. Hutter;Perry L. Wood;Perry L. Wood;L. Lee Grismer

  • A new insular species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia

    L. Lee Grismer;L. Lee Grismer;Norhayati Ahmad

  • Karstic Landscapes Are Foci of Species Diversity in the World’s Third-Largest Vertebrate Genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia: Squamata; Gekkonidae)

    Lee Grismer;Perry L. Wood;Nikolay A. Poyarkov;Minh D. Le

  • Two New Continental Species of Goniurosaurus (Squamata: Eublepharidae) with a Phylogeny and Evolutionary Classification of the Genus

    L. Lee Grismer;Brian E. Viets;Lawrence J. Boyle

  • Phylogenetic relationships of Ansonia from Southeast Asia inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: Systematic and biogeographic implications (Anura: Bufonidae)

    Masafumi Matsui;Atsushi Tominaga;Atsushi Tominaga;Atsushi Tominaga;Wanzhao Liu;Wanzhao Liu;Wichase Khonsue

  • Four new Burmese species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from distantly related parapatric clades from the Shan Plateau and Salween Basin.

    L. Lee Grismer;Perry L. Jr. Wood;Evan S. H. Quah;Myint Kyaw Thura

  • Integrative taxonomy of the Asian skinks Sphenomorphus stellatus (Boulenger, 1900) and S. praesignis (Boulenger, 1900) with the resurrection of S. annamiticus (Boettger, 1901) and the description of a new species from Cambodia.

    L. Lee Grismer;Jr. Wood Perry L.;Evan S. H. Quah;Shahrul Anuar

  • Two more new species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Shan Hills of eastern Myanmar (Burma).

    L. Lee Grismer;Perry L. Jr. Wood;George R. Zug;Myint Kyaw Thura

  • A taxonomic reappraisal of the Smooth Slug Snake Asthenodipsas laevis (Boie, 1827) (Squamata: Pareidae) in Borneo with the description of two new species.

    Evan S.H. Quah;L. Lee Grismer;Kelvin K.P. Lim;M.S. Shahrul Anuar

  • The discovery and description of a new species of Bent-toed Gecko of the Cyrtodactylus pulchellus complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Langkawi Archipelago, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia

    Evan S. H. Quah;L. Lee Grismer;Perry L. Jr Wood;Shahrul Anuar Mohd Sah

  • A new species Cyrtodactytlus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from western Thailand and the phylogenetic placement of C. inthanon and C. doisuthep

    Siriwadee Chomdej;Chatmongkon Suwannapoom;Parinya Pawangkhanant;Waranee Pradit

  • A new potentially endangered limestone-associated Bent-toed Gecko of the Cyrtodactylus pulchellus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) complex from northern Peninsular Malaysia.

    Perry L. Jr. Wood;L. Lee Grismer;Mohd Abdul Muin;Shahrul Anuar

  • An updated and annotated checklist of the lizards of Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, and their adjacent archipelagos

    L Lee Grismer;Evan S H Quah

  • Phylogenetic partitioning of the third-largest vertebrate genus in the world, Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia; Squamata; Gekkonidae) and its relevance to taxonomy and conservation

    L. Lee Grismer;Perry L. Wood;Nikolay A. Poyarkov

Frequent Co-Authors

Perry L. Wood
Perry L. Wood Auburn University
Evan S. H. Quah
Evan S. H. Quah Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Stephen R. Goldberg
Stephen R. Goldberg Whittier College
Rafe M. Brown
Rafe M. Brown University of Kansas
Aaron M. Bauer
Aaron M. Bauer Villanova University
Nikolay A. Poyarkov
Nikolay A. Poyarkov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Jimmy A. McGuire
Jimmy A. McGuire University of California, Berkeley
Uri Roll
Uri Roll Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Shai Meiri
Shai Meiri Tel Aviv University
Cameron D. Siler
Cameron D. Siler University of Oklahoma

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