Mark D. Scherz

Mark D. Scherz

Tenure Track Assistant Professor


  1. 2021
  2. A comprehensive phylogeny of dwarf geckos of the genus Lygodactylus, with insights into their systematics and morphological variation

    Gippner, S., Travers, S. L., Scherz, Mark D., Colston, T. J., Lyra, M. L., Mohan, A. V., Multzsch, M., Nielsen, S. V., Rancilhac, L., Glaw, F., Bauer, A. M. & Vences, M., 2021, In: Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 165, 12 p., 107311.

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  3. Completing a taxonomic puzzle: integrative review of geckos of the Paroedura bastardi species complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae)

    Miralles, A., Bruy, T., Crottini, A., Rakotoarison, A., Ratsoavina, F. M., Scherz, Mark D., Schmidt, R., Köhler, J., Glaw, F. & Vences, M., 2021, In: Vertebrate Zoology. 71, p. 27-48 22 p.

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  4. Consequences of parallel miniaturisation in Microhylinae (Anura, Microhylidae), with the description of a new genus of diminutive South East Asian frogs

    Gorin, V. A., Scherz, Mark D., Korost, D. V. & Poyarkov, N. A., 2021, In: Zoosystematics and Evolution. 97, 1, p. 21-54 34 p.

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  5. 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.

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  6. 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.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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.

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  11. 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.

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