Stefan Lötters

Stefan Lötters, German herpetologist.

• Biogeography Department, University of Trier, 54286 Trier, Germany.

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• 12 taxon names authored by Stefan Lötters

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• , Debold, P., Henle, K., Glaw, F. & Kneller, M. 1997. Ein neuer Pfeilgiftfrosch aus der Epipedobates pictus-Gruppe vom Osthang der Cordillera Azul in Perú. Herpetofauna. Weinstadt 19: 25–34. Reference page. 

• Jungfer, K.-H., & Jörgens, D. 2000. Der kleinste Pfeilgiftfrosch – eine neue Dendrobates-Art aus West-Panama. Herpetofauna. Weinstadt 22: 11–18. Reference page. 

• Vences, M., Kosuch, J., Boistel, R., Haddad, C.F.B., La Marca, E. & 2003. Convergent evolution of aposematic coloration in Neotropical poison frogs: a molecular phylogenetic perspective. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 3(3): 215–226. DOI: 10.1078/1439-6092-00076 Reference page. 

• Böhme, W., Wagner, P., Malonza, P., & Köhler, J. 2005. A new species of the Agama agama group (Squamata: Agamidae) from western Kenya, East Africa, with comments on Agama lionotus Boulenger, 1896. Russian Journal of Herpetology 12(2): 143–150. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2005-12-2-143-150 [nonfunctional] Reference page. 

• Wollenberg, K.C., Veith, M., Noonan, B.P. & 2006. Polymorphism versus species richness—systematics of large Dendrobates from the eastern Guiana Shield (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae). Copeia 2006(4): 623–629. DOI: 10.1643/0045-8511(2006)6[623:PVSROL]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 

• , Schmitz, A., Reichle, S., Rödder, D. & Quennet, V. 2009. Another case of cryptic diversity in poison frogs (Dendrobatidae: Ameerega)—description of a new species from Bolivia. Zootaxa 2028: 20–30. Abstract. Full text PDF from ResearchGate. Reference page. 

• Brown, J.L., Twomey, E., Amézquita, A., Souza, M.B., Caldwell, J.P., , von May, R., Melo-Sampaio, P.R., Mejía-Vargas, D., Pérez-Peña, P., Pepper, M., Poelman, E.H., Sánchez-Rodríguez, M. & Summers, K. 2011. A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical poison frog genus Ranitomeya (Amphibia: Dendrobatidae). Zootaxa 3083(1): 1–120. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3083.1.1 Reference page. 

• Viertel, B., Veith, M., Schick, S., Channing, A., Kigoolo, S., Baeza-Urrea, O., Sinsch, U. & 2012. The stream-dwelling larva of the Ruwenzori River Frog, Amietia ruwenzorica, its buccal cavity and pathology of chytridiomycosis. Zootaxa 3400: 43–57. Preview Reference page. 

• Channing, A., Hillers, A., , Rödel, M.-O., Schick, S., Conradie, W., Rödder, D., Mercurio, V., Wagner, P., Dehling, J.M., Du Preez, L.H., Kielgast, J. & Burger, M. 2013. Taxonomy of the super-cryptic Hyperolius nasutus group of long reed frogs of Africa (Anura: Hyperoliidae), with descriptions of six new species. Zootaxa 3620(3): 301–350. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.3.1 Reference page. 

• Gehara, M., Crawford, A.J., Orrico, V.G.D., Rodríguez, A., , Fouquet, A., Barrientos, L.S., Brusquetti, F., De la Riva, I., Ernst, R., Urrutia, G.G., Glaw, F., Guayasamin, J.M., Hötting, M., Jansen, M., Kok, P.J.R., Kwet, A., Lingnau, R., Lyra, M., Moravec, J., Pombal, J.P., Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M., Schulze, A., Señaris, J.C., Solé, M., Rodrigues, M.T., Twomey, E., Haddad, C.F.B., Vences, M. & Köhler, J. 2014. High levels of diversity uncovered in a widespread nominal taxon: Continental phylogeography of the Neotropical tree frog Dendropsophus minutus. PLoS One 9(9): e103958. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0103958 Reference page. 

• Channing, A., Dehling, J.M., & Ernst, R. 2016. Species boundaries and taxonomy of the African river frogs (Amphibia: Pyxicephalidae: Amietia). Zootaxa 4155(1): 1–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4155.1.1. Reference page. 

• Guillory, W.X., French, C.M., Twomey, E.M., Chávez, G., Prates, I., von May, R., De la Riva, I., , Reichle, S., Serrano-Rojas, S.J., Whitworth, A. & Brown, J.L. 2020. Phylogenetic relationships and systematics of the Amazonian poison frog genus Ameerega using ultraconserved genomic elements. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 142: 106638. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106638 Reference page. 
• Veith, M., Göçmen, B., Sotiropoulos, K., Eleftherakos, K., Godmann, O., , Karış, M., Oğuz, A. & Ehl, S. 2020. Phylogeographic analyses point to long-term survival on the spot in micro-endemic Lycian salamanders. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0226326. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0226326 Reference page. 

• Köhler, J., Vences, M., Padial, J.M., Plewnia, A. & 2023. Misjudged for long: a new toad of the Rhinella veraguensis species group (Anura: Bufonidae) from the Yungas forests of Bolivia. Salamandra 59(4): 307–326. PDF Reference page. 

• Plewnia, A., Terán-Valdez, A., Culebras, J., Boistel, R., Paluh, D.J., Quezada Riera, A.B., Heine, C.H., Reyes-Puig, J.P., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Guayasamin, J.M. & 2024. A new species of harlequin toad (Bufonidae: Atelopus) from Amazonian Ecuador. Salamandra 60(4): 237–253. PDF Reference page. 
• Velásquez-Trujillo, D.A., Castro-Herrera, F., & Plewnia, A. 2014. A new species of harlequin toad from the Western Cordillera of Colombia (Bufonidae: Atelopus), with comments on other forms. Salamandra 60(1): 67–81. PDF Reference page. 

• , Böning, P., Bailon, S., Barros Castañeda, J.D., Boistel, R., Catenazzi, A., Chaparro, J.C., Chávez, G., Chujutalli, A., Coen, L., Coloma, L.A., Crawford, A.J., Culebras, J., Cusi Martínez, J.C., Daza-R., J.M., De la Riva, I., Ellwein, D.J., Ernst, R., Flechas-Hernández, S.V., Fouquet, A., Guayasamin, J.M., Heine, C.H., Jorge, R.F., Jung, A., Jungfer, K.-H., Kaffenberger, N., Krehenwinkel, H., La Marca, E., Lampo, M., Medina-Rangel, G.F., Orsen, L., Paluh, D.J., Peréz-González, J.L., Perrin, J., Quezada Riera, A.B., Reyes-Puig, J.P., Roca-Rey Ross, B., Rößler, D.C., Rueda-Solano, L.A., Salazar-Valenzuela, D., Señaris Vasquez, J.C., Sowinski, M., Terán-Valdez, A., Tovar-Ortiz, A., Veith, M., Venegas, P.J., von May, R., Weitkamp, T. & Plewnia, A. 2025. A roadmap for harlequin frog systematics, with a partial revision of Amazonian species related to Atelopus spumarius. Zootaxa 5571(1): 1–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5571.1.1 Reference page. 

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