Publications

List of herpetological (and related) journals that we track

Digital library projects

Open Content Alliance (OCA)
Biodiversity Heritage Library Project (e.g. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc.)
Google Book Search
The Million Book Project
Project Gutenberg
World Digital Library (US Library of Congress)
i2010 Digital Libraries Initiative (EU)
Göttingen Digitization Project (e.g. Laurenti 1768, Linnaeus 1758)
Animalbase (e.g. Cuvier/Latreille 1817, Gmelin/Linnaeus 1789, etc.)
The Open Library (including the Open Conten Alliance)
University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (Misc./Occ. Publications)

Publications from and on the database:

Pre-2000

Uetz, P. (1996) Herpetologie im Internet (pdf). Elaphe 4 (3): 60-64
Uetz,P. & Etzold,T. (1996) Die EMBL-Reptiliendatenbank (pdf). Elaphe 4/96: 49-53
Uetz,P. & Etzold,T. (1996) The EMBL/EBI Reptile Database. Herpetological Review 27 (4): 174-175
Uetz,P. (2000) How many reptiles species? Herpetological Review 31 (1): 13-15
Hallermann,J., Dirksen,L. & Uetz,P. (1999) Liste der Neubeschreibungen von Reptilien des Jahres 1998, mit Nachträgen der Jahre 1996 und 1997. Elaphe 7 (1): I-VII

2000-2010

Hallermann,J., Schmitz,A.. Dirksen,L. & Uetz,P. (2000) Liste der Neubeschreibungen von Reptilien des Jahres 1999, mit Nachträgen der Jahre 1998 und 1997. Elaphe 8 (2): 53-61
Hallermann,J., Schmitz,A.. Dirksen,L. & Uetz,P. (2001) Liste der Neubeschreibungen von Reptilien des Jahres 2000, mit Nachträgen des Jahres 1999. Elaphe 9 (2): 40-45 [The papers by Hallermann et al. provide annual lists of newly described species. All those species are also included in the EMBL Reptile Database (of course!). A cumulation of these and other species described in the 1990ies is available (see below).]
Uetz,P. & Schmitz,A. (2001) Fast 1000 in 10 Jahren - ein Nachtrag zum Thema "Neue Reptilientaxa"[pdf]. Elaphe 9 (4): 51-53 [This paper gives an update on a preceding paper by Schmitz et al. that listed (almost) all species that have been described from 1990 to 1999. The updated list is available as pdf file.]
Uetz,P. (2002) Alte Bücher - neue Technik: Das Projekt "Historische Literatur" bei der EMBL-Reptiliendatenbank. Beiträge zur Literatur und Geschichte der Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde, Bd. II: 41-46
Hallermann,J. & Uetz,P. (2002) Liste der Neubeschreibungen von Reptilien des Jahres 2001, mit Nachträgen des Jahres 2000. Elaphe 10 (2): 90-96
Hallermann,J. & Uetz,P. (2004) Liste der Neubeschreibungen von Reptilien des Jahres 2002, mit Nachträgen des Jahres 2001. Elaphe 12 (2): 85-90
Hallermann,J. & Uetz,P. (2005) Liste der Neubeschreibungen von Reptilien des Jahres 2003. Elaphe 13 (2): 69-74
Uetz, P.; Goll, J. & Hallermann, J. (2007) Die TIGR-Reptiliendatenbank. Elaphe 15 (3): 16-19
Uetz, P. (2010) The original descriptions of reptiles. Zootaxa 2334: 59–68

2010-2020

Rasmussen AR, Murphy JC, Ompi M, Gibbons JW, Uetz P (2011) Marine Reptiles. PLoS ONE 6(11): e2737
Appletans, W., Vanhoorne, B., Decock, W., Paulay, G., [115 aphabetically listed authors including Uetz, P.], Wilson, S.P., Hernandez, F., Mees, J. & Costello, M.J. (2012) The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology 22(23):2189-2202.
Meiri, Shai; Aaron M. Bauer, Laurent Chirio, Guarino R. Colli, Indraneil Das, Tiffany M. Doan, Anat Feldman, Fernando-Castro Herrera, Maria Novosolov, Panayiotis Pafilis, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso, Gary Powney, Omar Torres-Carvajal, Peter Uetz, & Raoul Van Damme (2013) Are lizards feeling the heat? A tale of ecology and evolution under two temperature. Global Ecology and Biogeography, DOI: 10.1111/geb.12053.
Pincheira-Donoso, D.; Bauer, A.M.; Meiri, S.; Uetz, P. (2013) Global taxonomic diversity in living reptiles. Plos One, 8(3): e59741. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0059741.
Hardisty, A., Dave Roberts, et al. (2013) A decadal view of biodiversity informatics: challenges and priorities. BMC Ecology 13: 16.
Todd A. Castoe, A. P. Jason de Koning, Kathryn T. Hall, Daren C. Card, Drew R. Schield, Matthew K. Fujita, Robert P. Ruggiero, Jack F. Degner, Juan M. Daza, Wanjun Gu, Jacobo Reyes-Velasco, Kyle J. Shaney, Jill M. Castoe, Samuel E. Fox, Alex W. Poole, Daniel Polanco, Jason Dobry, Michael W. Vandewege, Qing Li, Ryan K. Schott, Aurélie Kapusta, Patrick Minx, Cédric Feschotte, Peter Uetz, David A. Ray, Federico G. Hoffmann, Robert Bogden, Eric N. Smith, Belinda S. W. Chang, Freek J. Vonk, Nicholas R. Casewell, Christiaan V. Henkel, Michael K. Richardson, Stephen P. Mackessy, Anne M. Bronikowsi, Mark Yandell, Wesley C. Warren, Stephen M. Secor, and David D. Pollock (2013) The Burmese python genome reveals the molecular basis for extreme adaptation in snakes. PNAS; December 2, 2013, doi:10.1073/pnas.1314475110
Scharf I, Feldman A, Novosolov M, Pincheira-Donoso D, Das I, Böhm M, Uetz P, Torres-Carvajal O, Bauer AM, Roll U& Meiri S (2014) Late bloomers and baby boomers: an analysis of ecological drivers of squamate longevity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, published online
Uetz P; Davison R; Ellis J (2014) Book review: Wallach, V. et al. (2014) Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Livingand Extinct Species. Herp. Rev. 45 (4): 721-722.
Feldman, A; Bauer, AM; Castro-Herrera F; Chirio, L; Das, I; Doan, T; Maza, E; Meirte, D; de Campos Nogueira, C; Nagy, Z; Torres-Carvajal, O; Uetz, P; Meiri, S (2015) The geography of snake reproductive mode. Global Ecology and Biogeography, doi: 10.1111/geb.12374.
Uetz, P. 2016 The Reptile Database turns 20. Herpetological Review 47 (2): 330-334
Roll U; Feldman A, Novosolov M, Allison A, Bauer AM, Bernard R, Böhm M, Castro-Herrera F, Chirio L, Collen B, Colli GR, Dabool L, Das I, Doan TM, Grismer LL, Hoogmoed M, Itescu I, Kraus F, LeBreton M, Lewin A, Martins M, Maza E, Meirte M, Zoltán T. Nagy ZT, Nogueira C, Pauwels OSG, Daniel Pincheira-Donoso D, Gary Powney G, Roberto Sindaco R, Tallowin O, Torres-Carvajal O, Trape JF, Enav Vidan E, Uetz P, Wagner P, Wang Y, Orme CDL, Grenyer R and Meiri S (2017) The global distribution of tetrapods reveals a need for targeted reptile conservation. Nature Ecol. Evol., published online, doi: 10.1038/s41559-017-0332-2.
Meiri S; Bauer AM, Allison A, Castro-Herrera F, Chirio L, Colli G, Das I, Doan TM, Glaw F, Grismer LL, Hoogmoed M, Kraus F, LeBreton M, Meirte D, Nagy ZT, C. Nogueira C de, Oliver P, Pauwels OSG, Pincheira-Donoso D, Shea G, Sindaco R, Tallowin OJS, Torres-Carvajal O, Trape JF, Uetz P, Wagner P, Wang Y, Ziegler T, and Roll U (2017) Extinct, obscure or imaginary: the lizard species with the smallest ranges. Diversity and Distributions, 24:262–273. DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12678.
Uetz, P. & Garg, A. (2017) Correspondence: Increasing disconnect between species and DNA sequences. Nature 545(7655):412
Uetz, P. & Stylianou, A. (2018) The original descriptions of reptiles and their subspecies. Zootaxa 4375: 257-264.
Uetz P, Cherikh S, Shea G, Ineich I, Campbell PD, Doronin IV, Rosado J, Wynn A, Tighe KA, Mcdiarmid R, Lee JL, Köhler G, Ellis R, Doughty P, Raxworthy CJ, Scheinberg L, Resetar A, Sabaj M, Schneider G, Franzen M, Glaw F, Böhme W, Schweiger S, Gemel R, Couper P, Amey A, Dondorp E, Ofer G, Meiri S, Wallach V. (2019) A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens. Zootaxa, 4695 (5): 438–450.
Garg, A., Leipe, D. & Uetz, P. (2019) The disconnect between DNA and species names: lessons from reptile species in the NCBI taxonomy database. Zootaxa 4706 (3): 401–407
Vidan E., Novosolov M., Bauer A.M., Castro Herrera F., Chirio L., de Campos Nogueira C., Doan T.M., Lewin A., Meirte D., Nagy Z.T., Pincheira-Donoso D., Tallowin O.J.S., Torres Carvajal O., Uetz P., Wagner P., Wang Y., Belmaker J., Meiri S. (2019) The global biogeography of lizard functional groups. Journal of Biogeography 46: 2147–2158,DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13667

Historical Herp Literature / CD-ROM Releases (no longer avaiable, now available on BHL):

Linnaeus - Systema Naturae, Herpetological part, pages 194-229
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 1841-1899
Annals and Magazine of Natural History (AMNH) 1838-1899, all reptile papers, (CD-ROM 6-12/2002)
Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (PANSP) 1841-1899, all reptile papers (CD-ROM 3/2001)
Zoologischer Anzeiger, 1880-1905, all 127 reptile papers (CD-ROM 2008).
Combined AMNH + PANSP + ZA = 639 pre-1905 papers
Duméril & Bibron (1854): Érpetologie Génerale, Vol. 1-2 - Now available at the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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