Mark D. Scherz

Mark D. Scherz

Tenure Track Assistant Professor


  1. 2021
  2. Deconstructing the Gestalt: New concepts and tests of homology, as exemplified by a re-conceptualization of “microstomy” in squamates

    Strong, C. R. C., Scherz, Mark D. & Caldwell, M. W., 2021, In: Anatomical Record. 304, 10, p. 2303-2351 49 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Dissecting the tree of life: the prospect of open-access digital resources in morphology, anatomy and taxonomy in training the next generation of zoologists

    Ruthsatz, K., Scherz, Mark D. & Vences, M., 2021, In: Zootaxa. 5016, 3, p. 448-450 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLetterResearchpeer-review

  4. Extreme miniaturization of a new amniote vertebrate and insights into the evolution of genital size in chameleons

    Glaw, F., Köhler, J., Hawlitschek, O., Ratsoavina, F. M., Rakotoarison, A., Scherz, Mark D. & Vences, M., 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 14 p., 2522.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  5. 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

    Scherz, Mark D., Schmidt, L., Crottini, A., Miralles, A., Rakotoarison, A., Raselimanana, A. P., Köhler, J., Glaw, F. & Vences, M., 2021, In: Zootaxa. 4938, 4, p. 392-420 29 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  6. Morphological, osteological, and genetic data support a new species of Madatyphlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) endemic to Mayotte Island, Comoros Archipelago

    Hawlitschek, O., Scherz, Mark D., Webster, K. C., Ineich, I. & Glaw, F., 2021, In: Anatomical Record. 304, 10, p. 2249-2263 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Neon-green fluorescence in the desert gecko Pachydactylus rangei caused by iridophores

    Prötzel, D., Heß, M., Schwager, M., Glaw, F. & Scherz, Mark D., 2021, In: Scientific Reports. 11, 10 p., 297.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Target-enriched DNA sequencing clarifies the identity of name-bearing types of the Gephyromantis plicifer complex and reveals a new species of mantellid frog from Madagascar

    Vences, M., Köhler, J., Andreone, F., Craul, A., Crottini, A., du Preez, L., Preick, M., Rancilhac, L., Rödel, M., Scherz, Mark D., Streicher, J. W., Hofreiter, M. & Glaw, F., 2021, In: Spixiana. 44, 2, p. 175-202 28 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. The omission of critical data in the pursuit of ‘revolutionary’ methods to accelerate the description of species

    Zamani, A., Vahtera, V., Sääksjärvi, I. E. & Scherz, Mark D., 2021, In: Systematic Entomology. 46, 1, p. 1-4 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearchpeer-review

  10. iTaxoTools 0.1: Kickstarting a specimen-based software toolkit for taxonomists

    Vences, M., Miralles, A., Brouillet, S., Ducasse, J., Fedosov, A., Kharchev, V., Kostadinov, I., Kumari, S., Patmanidis, S., Scherz, Mark D., Puillandre, N. & Renner, S. S., 2021, In: Megataxa. 6, 2, p. 77-92 16 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearchpeer-review

  11. 2022
  12. Published

    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

    Scherz, M. D., Crottini, A., Hutter, C. R., Hildenbrand, A., Andreone, F., Fulgence, T. R., Köhler, G., Ndriantsoa, S. H., Ohler, A., Preick, M., Rakotoarison, A., Rancilhac, L., Raselimanana, A. P., Riemann, J. C., Rödel, M-O., Rosa, G. M., Streicher, J. W., Vieites, D. R., Köhler, J., Hofreiter, M. & 2 others, Glaw, F. & Vences, M., 2022, In: Megataxa. 7, 2, p. 113-311 199 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

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