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Publications (36)      

1. Aidek, Ahmad E., Adib Saad, Daniel Jablonski, Hans Esterbauer & Uwe Fritz. 2024 Erratum: AHMAD E. AIDEK, ADIB SAAD, DANIEL JABLONSKI, HANS ESTERBAUER & UWE FRITZ (2024) Turtles and tortoises of Syria: Diversity, distribution, and conservation. Zootaxa, 5506 (2), 151–193. Zootaxa 5512(4): 600-600.
2. Aidek, Ahmad E., Adib Saad, Daniel Jablonski, Hans Esterbauer & Uwe Fritz. 2024 Turtles and tortoises of Syria: Diversity, distribution, and conservation Zootaxa 5506(2): 151-193.
3. Ali, Jason R. & Uwe Fritz. 2024 Colonization record of the Galápagos’ vertebrate clades: Biogeographical issues plus a conservation insight Vertebrate Zoology 74: 381-395.
4. Asztalos, Marika, Dinçer Ayaz, Yusuf Bayrakcı, Murat Afsar, Cemal V. Tok, Carolin Kindler, Daniel Jablonski & Uwe Fritz. 2021 It takes two to tango – Phylogeography, taxonomy and hybridization in grass snakes and dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae: Natrix natrix, N. tessellata) Vertebrate Zoology 71: 813-834.
5. Criado-Flórez, Andrea, Juan P. González de la Vega, Gabriel Martínez del Marmol & Uwe Fritz. 2025 A genetically confirmed hybrid between Natrix astreptophora and N. maura, two deeply divergent and ancient snake species Herpetozoa 38: 21-24.
6. Cuadrado-Ríos, Sebastián, Mario Vargas-Ramírez, Christian Kehlmaier & Uwe Fritz. 2025 Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogenetic analysis of the Atrato slider, Trachemys medemi (Testudines, Emydidae) ZooKeys 1224: 253-260.
7. Farkas, Balázs, Thomas Ziegler, Cuong T. Pham, An V. Ong & Uwe Fritz. 2019 A new species of Pelodiscus from northeastern Indochina (Testudines, Trionychidae) ZooKeys 824: 71-86.
8. Fritz, Uwe & Flora Ihlow. 2022 Citizen Science, taxonomy and grass snakes: iNaturalist helps to clarify variation of coloration and pattern in Natrix natrix subspecies Vertebrate Zoology 72: 533-549.
9. Fritz, Uwe & Josef F. Schmidtler. 2020 The Fifth Labour of Heracles: Cleaning the Linnean stable of names for grass snakes (Natrix astreptophora, N. helvetica, N. natrix sensu stricto) Vertebrate Zoology 70(4): 621– 665.
10. Fritz, Uwe & Peter Havaš. 2013 Order Testudines: 2013 update. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013) Zootaxa 3703(1): 012–014.
11. Fritz, Uwe, Alice Petzold, Christian Kehlmaier, Carolin Kindler, Patrick D. Campbell, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr & William R. Branch. 2014 Disentangling the Pelomedusa complex using type specimens and historical DNA (Testudines: Pelomedusidae) Zootaxa 3795(5): 501–522.
12. Fritz, Uwe, Christian Kehlmaier, Rodney J. Scott, Raúl Fournier, James R. McCranie & Natalia GalleGo-garcía. 2023 Central American Trachemys revisited: New sampling questions current understanding of taxonomy and distribution (Testudines: Emydidae) Vertebrate Zoology 73: 513-523.
13. Fritz, Uwe, Hans-Werner Herrmann, Philip C. Rosen, Markus Auer, Mario Vargas-Ramírez & Christian Kehlmaier. 2024 Trachemys in Mexico and beyond: Beautiful turtles, taxonomic nightmare, and a mitochondrial poltergeist (Testudines: Emydidae) Vertebrate Zoology 74: 435-452.
14. Fritz, Uwe, Krystal A. Tolley, Melita Vamberger & Flora Ihlow. 2022 Phylogeny and phylogeography of chelonians from sub-Saharan Africa—A review of current knowledge in tribute to Margaretha D. Hofmeyr Vertebrate Zoology 72: 951-969.
15. Fritz, Uwe, L. L. Grismer & Marika Asztalos. 2023 Hybrid zones of Natrix helvetica and N. natrix: Phenotype data from iNaturalist and genetics reveal concordant clines and the value of species-diagnostic morphological traits Vertebrate Zoo­logy 73: 383–395.
16. Fritz, Uwe. 2011 Order Testudines Batsch, 1788. Zootaxa 3148: 61-62.
17. Fritz, Uwe. 2014 On the reclassification of Box Turtles (Terrapene): A response to Martin et al. (2014) Zootaxa 3835(2): 295–298.
18. GalleGo-garcía, Natalia, Flora Ihlow, Stephan Ettmar, John B. Iverson & Uwe Fritz. 2023 Where to set the bar? Recent descriptions inflate species number in South American toad-headed turtles ( Mesoclemmys ) Zootaxa 5263(4): 566-574.
19. Gong, Shiping, Jian X. Li, Uwe Fritz & Balázs Farkas. 2025 When light casts long shadows: The increasingly dark truth about Pelodiscus axenaria (Zhou, Zhang & Fang, 1991) Zootaxa 5604(1): 094-100.
20. Gong, Shiping, Uwe Fritz, Melita Vamberger, Yangchun Gao & Balázs Farkas. 2022 Disentangling the Pelodiscus axenaria complex, with the description of a new Chinese species and neotype designation for P. axenaria (Zhou, Zhang & Fang, 1991) Zootaxa 5125(2): 131-143.
21. Hurtado-Gómez, Juan P., Juan M. Daza, Mario Vargas-Ramírez, V. Deepak & Uwe Fritz. 2024 Phylogeography of the Colombian water snake Helicops danieli Amaral, 1938 (Reptilia, Squamata, Dipsadidae) with comments on the systematics and evolution of the genus Helicops Wagler, 1828 ZooKeys 1215: 335-358.
22. Ihlow, Flora, Melita Vamberger, Morris Flecks, Timo Hartmann, Michael Cota, Sunchai Makchai, Pratheep Meewattana, Jeffrey E. Dawson, Long Kheng, Dennis Rödder & Uwe Fritz. 2016 Integrative Taxonomy of Southeast Asian Snail-eating Turtles (Geoemydidae: Malayemys) unravels a new species and mitochondrial introgression Public Library of Science, ONE 11(4): e0153108.
23. Jablonski, Daniel, Elias Tzoras, Alexios Panagiotopoulos, Marika Asztalos & Uwe Fritz. 2023 Genotyping the phenotypic diversity in Aegean Natrix natrix moreotica (Bedriaga, 1882) (Reptilia, Serpentes, Natricidae) ZooKeys 1169: 87-94.
24. Kehlmaier, Christian, Eva Graciá, Jason R. Ali, Patrick D. Campbell, Sandra D. Chapman, V. Deepak, Flora Ihlow, Nour-Eddine Jalil, Laure Pierre-Huyet, Karen E. Samonds, Miguel Vences & Uwe Fritz. 2023 Ancient DNA elucidates the lost world of Western Indian Ocean giant tortoises and reveals a new extinct species from Madagascar Science Advances 9(eabq2574): 1-13 plus Supplementary Materials.
25. Kehlmaier, Christian, Gerald Kuchling, Glenn M. Shea, Arthur Georges, Xiuwen Zhang, Uwe Fritz & Scott Thomson. 2024 History and historical DNA: Identity of Chelodina intergularis Fry, 1915 and type localities of C. intergularis and C. rugosa Ogilby, 1890 Zootaxa 5448(4): 531-555.
Kehlmaier, Christian, Uwe Fritz & Gerald Kuchling. 2025 The taxonomic quagmire of northern Australian snake-necked turtles (Testudines: Chelidae): Chelodina kuchlingi—Extinct or hiding in plain sight? Vertebrate Zoology 75: 127-145.
Kehlmaier, Christian, Xiuwen Zhang, Arthur Georges, Patrick D. Campbell, Scott A. Thomson & Uwe Fritz. 2019 Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression. Scientific Reports 9(5841): 1-12.
Petzold, Alice, Mario VaRgas-ramírez, Christian Kehlmaier, Melita Vamberger, William R. Branch, Louis H. Du Preez, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr, Leon Meyer, Alfred Schleicher, Pavel Široký & Uwe Fritz. 2014 A revision of African helmeted terrapins (Testudines: Pelomedusidae: Pelomedusa), with descriptions of six new species Zootaxa 3795(5): 523–548.
Schild, Andreas, Hannes Baur, Stefan T. Hertwig, Uwe Fritz & Sylvain Ursenbacher. 2024 Genetic identification, morphology and distribution of Natrix helvetica subspecies in southern and western Switzerland (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes) ZooKeys 1205: 223-238.
Schultze, Nadine, Hubert Laufer, Carolin Kindler & Uwe Fritz. 2019 Distribution and hybridisation of barred and common grass snakes (Natrix helvetica, N. natrix) in Baden-Württemberg, South-western Germany Herpetozoa 32: 229-236.
Stuckas, Heiko, Richard Gemel & Uwe Fritz. 2013 One Extinct Turtle Species Less: Pelusios seychellensis is Not Extinct, it Never Existed Public Library of Science, ONE 8(4): e57116.
Thomson, Scott A., Richard L. Pyle, Shane T. Ahyong, Miguel Alonso-Zarazaga, Joe Ammirati, Juan F. Araya, John S. Ascher, Tracy L. Audisio, Valter M. Azevedo-Santos, Nicolas Bailly, William J. Baker, Michael Balke, Maxwell V. L. Barclay, Russell L. Barrett, Ricardo C. Benine, James R. M. Bickerstaff, Patrice Bouchard, Roger Bour, Thierry Bourgoin, Christopher B. Boyko, Abraham S. H. Breure, Denis J. Brothers, James W. Byng, David Campbell, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, István Cernák, Pierfilippo Cerretti, Chih-Han Chang, Soowon Cho, Joshua M. Copus, Mark J. Costello, Andras Cseh, Csaba Csuzdi, Alastair Culham, Guillermo D’Elía, Cédric d’Udekem d’Acoz, Mikhail E. Daneliya, René Dekker, Edward C. Dickinson, Timothy A. Dickinson, Peter P. van Dijk, Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra, Bálint Dima, Dmitry A. Dmitriev, Leni Duistermaat, John P. Dumbacher, Wolf L. Eiserhardt, Torbjørn Ekrem, Neal L. Evenhuis, Arnaud Faille, José L. Fernández-Triana, Emile Fiesler, Mark Fishbein, Barry G. Fordham, André V. L. Freitas, Natália R. Friol, Uwe Fritz, Tobias Frøslev, Vicki A. Funk, Stephen D. Gaimari, Guilherme S. T. Garbino, André R. S. Garraffoni, József Geml, Anthony C. Gill, Alan Gray, Felipe G. Grazziotin, Penelope Greenslade, Eliécer E. Gutiérrez, Mark S. Harvey, Cornelis J. Hazevoet, Kai He, Xiaolan He, Stephan Helfer, Kristofer M. Helgen, Anneke H. van Heteren, Francisco Hita Garcia, Norbert Holstein, Margit K. Horváth, Peter H. Hovenkamp, Wei S. Hwang, Jaakko Hyvönen, Melissa B. Islam, John B. Iverson, Michael A. Ivie, Zeehan Jaafar, Morgan D. Jackson, J. P. Jayat, Norman Johnson, Hinrich Kaiser, Bente B. Klitgård, Dániel G. Knapp, Jun-Ichi Kojima, Urmas Kõljalg, Jenő Kontschán, Frank-Thorsten Krell, Irmgard Krisai-Greilhuber, Sven Kullander, Leonardo Latella, John E. Lattke, Valeria Lencioni, Gwilym P. Lewis, Marcos G. Lhano, Nathan K. Lujan, Jolanda A. Luksenburg, Jean Mariaux, Jader Marinho-Filho, Christopher J. Marshall, Jason F. Mate, Molly M. McDonough, Ellinor Michel, Vitor F. O. Mir. 2018 Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation Public Library of Science, Biology 16(3): e2005075.
Valenti, Pietro, Evangelos Vlachos, Christian Kehlmaier, Uwe Fritz, Georgios L. Georgalis, Àngel Hernández Luján, Roberto Miccichè, Luca Sineo & Massimo Delfino. 2022 The last of the large-sized tortoises of the Mediterranean islands Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196: 1704–1717.
Vamberger, Melita, Margaretha D. Hofmeyr, Courtney A. Cook, Edward C. Netherlands & Uwe Fritz. 2019 Phylogeography of the East African Serrated Hinged Terrapin Pelusios sinuatus (Smith, 1838) and resurrection of Sternothaerus bottegi Boulenger, 1895 as a subspecies of P. sinuatus Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(2 [Special Section]): 41-56.
VaRgas-ramírez, Mario, John L. Carr & Uwe Fritz. 2013 Complex phylogeography in Rhinoclemmys melanosterna: conflicting mitochondrial and nuclear evidence suggests past hybridization (Testudines: Geoemydidae) Zootaxa 3670(2): 238-254.
Vargas-Ramírez, Mario, Susana Caballero, Mónica A. Morales-Betancourt, Carlos A. Lasso, Laura Amaya, José G. Martínez, Maria das Neves Silva Viana, Richard C. Vogt, Izeni P. Farias, Tomas Hrbek, Patrick D. Campbell & Uwe Fritz. 2020 Genomic analyses reveal two species of the matamata (Testudines: Chelidae: Chelus spp.) and clarify their phylogeography Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 148: 1-17.
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