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Q1Vertebrate Zoology
About Vertebrate Zoology
Vertebrate Zoology is a scholarly journal published by Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 1.138 and H-index of 24.
Coverage: 2011-2026. Research categories: Animal Science and Zoology (Q1); Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (Q1).
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Paths from the heart: Morphology and evolution of afferent branchial arteries in Chondrichthyes
Maria Clara El Bayeh de Andrade, Karla D. A. Soares
2026-09-25 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e163421Geographic isolation and climatic heterogeneity shape the genetic diversity of Blarinellini (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) in the Hengduan Mountains
Haixin Diao, Yuxin Xiong, Wenli Nie, Xiaoxin Pei et al.
2026-08-19 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e188776A wealth of riches: A comprehensive revision of diamond frogs, genus Rhombophryne Boettger, 1880 (Microhylidae: Cophylinae), with the description of seven new species
Mark D. Scherz, Frank Glaw, Alice Petzold, Franco Andreone et al.
2026-07-22 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e172567Species boundaries in the subgenus Angelomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Abrothrix): A complex case obscured by mitochondrial-species tree discordance
Pamela Sánchez-Vendizú, Andrés Parada, Pablo Teta, Marcial Quiroga-Carmona et al.
2026-07-17 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e190575Population genetics and phylogeography of the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) reveal extensive gene flow across southern South America (Chiroptera: Molossidae)
Ingrith Y. Mejía-Fontecha, Guadalupe Piccirilli-Martínez, Diego A. Caraballo, Viviana A. Confalonieri et al.
2026-07-14 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e181277Spots amongst the stripes! Three new spotted species of ground-dwelling Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia: Squamata) from tiger conservation landscapes in peninsular India
Ishan Agarwal, Tejas Thackeray, Satpal Gangalmale, Satheeshkumar M et al.
2026-07-14 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e192746Survival in fragmented landscapes: Two new Boulenophrys species (Anura: Megophryidae) from the coastal mountains of eastern Guangdong, China
Jian Wang, Bin-Bin Zhan, Wei-Wen Xiao, Lin Tan et al.
2026-07-02 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e195550A new genus and species of octodontid rodent from the hilly Chaco of central Argentina (Rodentia: Octodontidae)
Pablo Teta, Agustina A. Ojeda, Andrea P. Tarquino Carbonell, J. Raquel Alvarado-Larios et al.
2026-06-12 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e187462Geographic structuring and species limits in Phylloderma stenops (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae): Revalidation of P. septentrionalis in Central America
M. Alejandra Camacho, Santiago F. Burneo, Daniel Cadar, Balázs Horváth et al.
2026-06-12 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e166549Resolving species boundaries in a recent evolutionary radiation: An integrative approach to the Ctenomys Corrientes group (Mammalia: Rodentia: Ctenomyidae)
Diego A. Caraballo, Denise H. Campo, Pablo Teta, Cecilia Lanzone et al.
2026-05-28 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e173627Citizen Science helps to clarify phenotypic variation within and between two subspecies of Natrix helvetica (Squamata: Natricidae)
Uwe Fritz, Edoardo Razzetti, Matteo Riccardo Di Nicola
2026-05-28 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e194359Hidden in the mist: Three new species of salamanders of the genus Pseudoeurycea (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from Oaxaca, Mexico
Eduardo A. Aguilar-Herrera, Salomón Sanabria-Urbán, Dulce L. Flores-Martínez, José David Gómez-Tapia et al.
2026-05-15 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e167783Integrative systematics of large-bodied blind mole rats (Rodentia: Spalacidae: Spalax) with description of Spalax lyapunovae sp. nov. from the North Caucasus
Oleg V. Brandler, Andrey R. Tukhbatullin, Svetlana Y. Kapustina, Sergey N. Matveevsky et al.
2026-04-30 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e180973Resolving taxonomic uncertainty in Chinese Myotis through molecular and morphometric integration in the Eastern Region of China (Mammalia: Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)
Kun-Hao Chen, Xiao-Yun Wang, Ze-Feng Huang, Yun-Zheng Mo et al.
2026-04-21 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e182515Sky Islands of Mozambique harbour cryptic species of chameleons: Description of four new species of sylvan chameleons (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae: Nadzikambia Tilbury, Tolley & Branch, 2006)
Krystal Tolley, Werner Conradie
2026-04-21 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e178403Rescinded: Editorial expression of concern
Uwe Fritz
2026-04-17 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e194752Corrigendum: Alvarado-Larios R, Teta P, Cuello P, Jayat JP, Tarquino-Carbonell AP, D’Elía G, Cornejo P, Ojeda AA (2024) A new living species of the genus Ctenomys (Rodentia: Ctenomyidae) from central-western Argentina. Vertebrate Zoology 74: 193–207. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.74.e115242
Raquel Alvarado-Larios, Pablo Teta, Pablo Cuello, J. Pablo Jayat et al.
2026-04-17 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e194570Editor’s note for the research article
Uwe Fritz
2026-04-17 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e194750Phenotype diversity and extinction dynamics of the European narrow-headed vole, Stenocranius anglicus (Hinton, 1910), in Central Europe (Rodentia: Cricetidae: Arvicolinae)
Nikoleta Dubjelová, Tereza Hadravová, Martin Ivanov, Ivan Horáček et al.
2026-04-01 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e180962Corrigendum: Pinion AK, Kim D, Dolan EP, Portnoy DS, Voelker G, Conway KW (2025) Revision of Notropis stramineus (Cope, 1865), descriptions of three new species and comments on the monophyly of Miniellus Jordan, 1882 (Pisces: Cypriniformes: Leuciscidae). Vertebrate Zoology 75: 699–755. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.75.e156077
Amanda K. Pinion, Daemin Kim, Elizabeth P. Dolan, David S. Portnoy et al.
2026-03-11 · DOI: 10.3897/vz.76.e189837Reviews
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