Fanomezana Mihaja Ratsoavina

Fanomezana Mihaja Ratsoavina, Madagascan herpetologist.

Département de Biologie Animale, Université d’Antananarivo, Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Gehring, P.-S., Pabijan, M., Ratsoavina, F.M., Köhler, J., Vences, M. & Glaw, F. 2010. A tarzan yell for conservation: a new chameleon, Calumma tarzan sp. n., proposed as a flagship species for the creation of new nature reserves in Madagascar. Salamandra 46(3): 167–179. PDF Reference page.
Ratsoavina, F.M., Gehring, P.-S., Ranaivoarisoa, J.F., Rafeliarisoa, T.H., Crottini, A., Louis Jr., E.E. & Vences, M. 2010. Molecular phylogeography of a widespread Malagasy leaf chameleon species, Brookesia superciliaris. Zootaxa 2554(1): 62–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2554.1.5 Reference page.

Ratsoavina, F.M., Louis Jr., E.E., Crottini, A., Randrianiaina, R.-D., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2011. A new leaf tailed gecko species from northern Madagascar with a preliminary assessment of molecular and morphological variability in the Uroplatus ebenaui group. Zootaxa 3022(1): 39–57. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3022.1.3 Reference page.

Ratsoavina, F.M., Raminosoa, N.R., Louis, Jr., E.E., Raselimanana, A.P., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2013. An overview of Madagascar’s leaf-tailed geckos (genus Uroplatus): species boundaries, candidate species and review of geographical distribution based on molecular data. Salamandra 49(3): 115–148. PDF Reference page.
Vences, M., Rakotoarison, A., Rakotondrazafy, A.M.A., Ratsoavina, F.M., Randrianiaina, R-D., Glaw, F., Lehtinen, R.M. & Raxworthy, C.J. 2013. Assessing the diversity of phytotelmic frogs along Madagascar’s east coast: Redefinition of Guibemantis bicalcaratus (Boettger, 1913) and revalidation of Guibemantis methueni (Angel, 1929). Vertebrate Zoology 63(2): 193–205. DOI: 10.3897/vz.63.e31427 Reference page.

Miralles, A., Glaw, F., Ratsoavina, F.M. & Vences, M. 2015. A likely microendemic new species of terrestrial iguana, genus Chalarodon, from Madagascar. Zootaxa 3946(2): 201–220. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3946.2.3 Reference page.
Ratsoavina, F.M., Ranjanaharisoa, F.A., Glaw, F., Raselimanana, A.P., Miralles, A. & Vences, M. 2015. A new leaf-tailed gecko of the Uroplatus ebenaui group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Madagascar's central eastern rainforests. Zootaxa 4006(1): 143–160. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.1.7 Reference page.

Vences, M., Köhler, J., Pabijian, M., Bletz, M.C., Gehring, P.-S., Hawlitschek, O., Rakotoarsion, A., Ratsoavina, F.M., Andreone, F., Crottini, A. & Glaw, F. 2017. Taxonomy and geographic distribution of Malagasy frogs of the Gephyromantis asper clade, with description of a new subgenus and revalidation of Gephyromantis ceratophrys. Salamandra 53(1): 77–98. PDF Reference page.
Ratsoavina, F.M., Gehring, P.-S., Scherz, M.D., Vieites, D.R., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2017. Two new species of leaf-tailed geckos (Uroplatus) from the Tsaratanana mountain massif in northern Madagascar. Zootaxa 4347(3): 446–464. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.2 Reference page.

Scherz, M.D., Hawlitschek, O., Razafindraibe, J.H., Megson, S., Ratsoavina, F.M., Rakotoarison, A., Bletz, M.C., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2018. A distinctive new frog species (Anura, Mantellidae) supports the biogeographic linkage of two montane rainforest massifs in northern Madagascar. Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(2): 247–261. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.21037 Reference page.
Prötzel, D., Vences, M., Hawlitschek, O., Scherz, M.D., Ratsoavina, F.M. & Glaw, F. 2018. Endangered beauties: micro-CT cranial osteology, molecular genetics and external morphology reveal three new species of chameleons in the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 471–498. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx112 Reference page.
Ratsoavina, F.M., Raselimanana, A.P., Scherz, M.D., Rakotoarison, A., Razafindraibe, J.H., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2019. Finaritra! A new leaf-tailed gecko (Uroplatus) species from Marojejy National Park in north-eastern Madagascar. Zootaxa 4545(4): 563–577. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.7 Reference page.

Rakotoarison, A., Scherz, M.D., Köhler, J., Ratsoavina, F.M., Hawlitschek, O., Megson, S., Vences, M. & Glaw, F. 2020. Frogs of the genus Platypelis from the Sorata massif in northern Madagascar: description of a new species and reports of range extensions. Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(1): 263–274. DOI: 10.3897/zse.96.47088 Reference page.

Glaw, F., Köhler, J., Hawlitschek, O., Ratsoavina, F.M., Rakotoarison, A., Scherz, M.D. & Vences, M. 2021. Extreme miniaturization of a new amniote vertebrate and insights into the evolution of genital size in chameleons. Scientific Reports 11(1): 2522. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80955-1 Reference page.
Miralles A., Bruy, T., Crottini, A., Rakotoarison, A., Ratsoavina, F.M., Scherz, M.D., Schmidt, R., Köhler, J., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2021. Completing a taxonomic puzzle: integrative review of geckos of the Paroedura bastardi species complex (Squamata, Gekkonidae). Vertebrate Zoology 71: 27–48. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e59495 Reference page.

Vences, M., Multzsch, M., Gippner, S., Miralles, A., Crottini, A., Gehring, P.-S., Rakotoarison, A., Ratsoavina, F.M., Glaw, F. & Scherz, M.D. 2022. Integrative revision of the Lygodactylus madagascariensis group reveals an unexpected diversity of little brown geckos in Madagascar’s rainforest. Zootaxa 5179(1): 1–61. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5179.1.1 Reference page.

Vences, M., Köhler, J., Hutter, C.R., Preick, M., Petzold, A., Rakotoarison, A., Ratsoavina, F.M., Glaw, F. & Scherz, M.D. 2024. Communicator whistles: A Trek through the taxonomy of the Boophis marojezensis complex reveals seven new, morphologically cryptic treefrogs from Madagascar (Amphibia: Anura: Mantellidae). Vertebrate Zoology 74: 643–681. DOI: 10.3897/vz.74.e121110 Reference page.