Exploration into the hidden world of Mozambique’s sky island forests: new discoveries of reptiles and amphibians

Werner Conradie; Gabriela Bittencourt-Silva; Hanlie M. Engelbrecht; Simon P. Loader; Michele Menegon; Cristóvão Nanvonamuquitxo; Michael Scott; Krystal A. Tolley

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Samuel EI Jones, Gabriel A Jamie, Emidio Sumbane, Merlijn Jocque (2020)
The avifauna, conservation and biogeography of the Njesi Highlands in northern Mozambique, with a review of the country’s Afromontane birdlife. Ostrich 91: 45.

DOI: 10.2989/00306525.2019.1675795

Krystal A. Tolley, Nicolas S. Telford, Buyisile G. Makhubo, R. John Power, Graham J. Alexander (2023)
Filling the gap: Noteworthy herpetological discoveries in North West Province, South Africa. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99: 101.

DOI: 10.3897/zse.99.90181

Shaun M. Allingham (2020)
The Effects of Habitat Alteration on Anuran Diversity and Assemblages on Mount Mulanje, Malawi. African Journal of Wildlife Research 50: 20.

DOI: 10.3957/056.050.0020

Michael Curran, Mirjam Kopp, Manuel Ruedi, Julian Bayliss (2022)
A New Species of Horseshoe Bat (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) from Mount Namuli, Mozambique. Acta Chiropterologica 24: .

DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2022.24.1.002

Tomas C Buruwate, David J Lloyd-Jones (2024)
Amphibian and Reptile Diversity of Niassa Special Reserve, Northern Mozambique. Journal of East African Natural History 113: .

DOI: 10.2982/028.113.0101

Fausto Quattrini, Herbert Kasozi, Nuria Polo-Cavia, Rafael Márquez, Peter M. Narins, Walter Hödl (2018)
Behavioral and Morphological Divergence of Sympatric Morphotypes ofLeptopelis flavomaculatus(Anura, Arthroleptidae) in Northeastern Tanzania. Herpetologica 74: 311.

DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-17-00048.1

Oliver S. Cowan, Werner Conradie, Chad Keates, Nicolas S. Telford, Melissa A. Petford, Vincent Egan, Krystal A. Tolley (2025)
Lost lizards: The importance of targeted surveys in filling knowledge gaps for reptile conservation in South Africa. Journal for Nature Conservation 84: 126790.

DOI: 10.1016/j.jnc.2024.126790

Robin Maritz, Werner Conradie, Celso Inácio Sardinha, Alberto Peto, Acácio Hélio Domingos Chechene, Bryan Maritz (2020)
Ophiophagy and cannibalism in African vine snakes (Colubridae: Thelotornis). African Journal of Ecology 58: 543.

DOI: 10.1111/aje.12702

Krystal A. Tolley, Joshua Weeber, Bryan Maritz, Luke Verburgt, Michael F. Bates, Werner Conradie, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr, Andrew A. Turner, Jessica M. da Silva, Graham J. Alexander (2019)
No safe haven: Protection levels show imperilled South African reptiles not sufficiently safe-guarded despite low average extinction risk. Biological Conservation 233: 61.

DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2019.02.006

Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Diogo Parrinha, Mariana P. Marques (2021)
Saving collections: taxonomic revision of the herpetological collection of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon (Portugal) with a protocol to rescue abandoned collections. ZooKeys 1052: 83.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1052.64607

Fausto Quattrini, Herbert Kasozi, Nuria Polo-Cavia, RAfael Márquez, Peter M. Narins, Walter Hödl (2018)
Behavioral and Morphological Divergence of Sympatric Morphotypes of Leptopelis flavomaculatus (Anura, Arthroleptidae) in Northeastern Tanzania. Herpetologica 74: 311.

DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831.311

Harith Farooq, Josué A R Azevedo, Amadeu Soares, Alexandre Antonelli, Søren Faurby, Sara Ruane (2021)
Mapping Africa’s Biodiversity: More of the Same Is Just Not Good Enough. Systematic Biology 70: 623.

DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa090

Ara Monadjem, Jen Guyton, Piotr Naskrecki, Leigh R. Richards, Anna S. Kropff, Desire L. Dalton (2020)
Cryptic Diversity in the Genus Miniopterus with the Description of a New Species from Southern Africa. Acta Chiropterologica 22: 1.

DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2020.22.1.001

Krystal A. Tolley, Colin R. Tilbury, Jessica M. da Silva, Gary Brown, Yankho Chapeta, Christopher V. Anderson (2022)
Clinging to survival: Critically Endangered Chapman's pygmy chameleon Rhampholeon chapmanorum persists in shrinking forest patches. Oryx 56: 451.

DOI: 10.1017/S0030605320000952

Colin J. Courtney Mustaphi, Philip J. Platts, Simon Willcock, Jonathan R. Timberlake, Jo Osborne, Hermenegildo Matimele, Hanniah S. Osgood, Veronica M. Muiruri, Maria Gehrels, Julian Bayliss, Rob Marchant (2025)
Tree demographics and soil charcoal evidence of fire disturbances in an inaccessible forest atop the Mount Lico inselberg, Mozambique. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET 7: 229.

DOI: 10.1002/ppp3.10585

Julian Bayliss, Gabriela B. Bittencourt-Silva, William R. Branch, Carl Bruessow, Steve Collins, T. Colin E. Congdon, Werner Conradie, Michael Curran, Savel R. Daniels, Iain Darbyshire, Harith Farooq, Lincoln Fishpool, Geoffrey Grantham, Zacharia Magombo, Hermenegildo Matimele, Ara Monadjem, Jose Monteiro, Jo Osborne, Justin Saunders, Paul Smith, Claire N. Spottiswoode, Peter J. Taylor, Jonathan Timberlake, Krystal A. Tolley, Érica Tovela, Philip J. Platts (2024)
A biogeographical appraisal of the threatened South East Africa Montane Archipelago ecoregion. Scientific Reports 14: .

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-54671-z

Werner Conradie, Gabriela B. Bittencourt-Silva, Harith M. Farooq, Simon P. Loader, Michele Menegon, Krystal A. Tolley (2018)
New species of Mongrel Frogs (Pyxicephalidae: Nothophryne) for northern Mozambique inselbergs. African Journal of Herpetology 67: 61.

DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2017.1376714

Isabel Q. Neves, Maria Da Luz Mathias, Cristiane Bastos-Silveira (2018)
The terrestrial mammals of Mozambique: Integrating dispersed biodiversity data. Bothalia 48: .

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Mariana P. Marques, Diogo Parrinha, Manuel Lopes-Lima, Arthur Tiutenko, Aaron M. Bauer, Luis M. P. Ceríaco (2024)
An island in a sea of sand: a first checklist of the herpetofauna of the Serra da Neve inselberg, southwestern Angola. ZooKeys 1201: 167.

DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1201.120750

ALAN CHANNING, DARREN W. PIETERSEN, ABEDA DAWOOD (2025)
Digging out another cryptic species: A new sand frog (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna) from Mozambique. Zootaxa 5584: 26.

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5584.1.2

Alessandro Frachea, Giovanni Amori, Corrado Battisti, Luca Luiselli (2024)
Temporal and biogeographical patterns of new species descriptions in worldwide amphibians. Rendiconti Lincei. Scienze Fisiche e Naturali 35: 553.

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Tim van Berkel, Emidio Sumbane, Samuel EI Jones, Merlijn Jocque (2019)
A mammal survey of the Serra Jeci Mountain Range, Mozambique, with a review of records from northern Mozambique’s inselbergs. African Zoology 54: 31.

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