Breda M. Zimkus

Breda M. Zimkus, U.S. herpetologist.

Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Uyeda, J.C., Drewes, R.C. & Zimkus, B.M. 2007. The California Academy of Sciences Gulf of Guinea Expeditions (2001, 2006) IV. A new species of Phrynobatrachus from the Gulf of Guinea islands and a reanalysis of Phrynobatrachus dispar and P. feae (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series 58: 367–385. Reference page.

Hillers, A., Zimkus, B.M. & Rödel, M.-O. 2008. A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from north-western Guinea, West Africa. Zootaxa 1815(1): 43–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1815.1.4 Reference page.

Zimkus, B.M. 2009. Biogeographical analysis of Cameroonian puddle frogs and description of a new species of Phrynobatrachus (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) endemic to Mount Oku, Cameroon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 157(4): 795–813. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00579.x Reference page.
Zimkus B.M. & Larson, J.G. 2009. External morphology and osteology support the placement of Phrynobatrachus nlonakoensis Plath, Herrmann & Böhme, 2006 within the genus Arthroleptis. African Journal of Herpetology 58(1): 36–38. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2009.9635578 Reference page.

Zimkus, B.M. & Schick, S. 2010. Light at the end of the tunnel: insights into the molecular systematics of East African puddle frogs (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 8(1): 39–47. DOI: 10.1080/14772000903543004 Reference page.
Zimkus, B.M., Rödel, M.-O. & Hillers, A. 2010. Complex patterns of continental speciation: Molecular phylogenetics and biogeography of sub-Saharan puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachus). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55(3): 883–900. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.12.012 Reference page.

Zimkus B.M. & Larson, J.G. 2011. Examination of the molecular relationships of sand frogs (Anura: Pyxicephalidae: Tomopterna) and the resurrection of two species from the Horn of Africa. Zootaxa 2933(1): 27–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2933.1.2 Reference page.

Zimkus, B.M. & Gvoždík, V. 2013. Sky Islands of the Cameroon Volcanic Line: a diversification hot spot for puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus). Zoologica Scripta 42(6): 591–611. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12029 Reference page.

Pickersgill, M., Zimkus, B.M. & Raw, L.R.G. 2017. A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Zootaxa 4350(1): 151–163. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4350.1.9 Reference page.

Greenwood, L., Loader, S.P., Lawson, L.P., Greenbaum, E. & Zimkus, B.M. 2020. A new species of Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from the northern mountains of Tanzania. Journal of Natural History 54(1–4): 63–85. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2020.1757171 Reference page.
Gvoždík, V., Nečas, T., Dolinay, M., Zimkus, B.M., Schmitz, A. & Fokam, E.B. 2020. Evolutionary history of the Cameroon radiation of puddle frogs (Phrynobatrachidae: Phrynobatrachus), with descriptions of two critically endangered new species from the northern Cameroon Volcanic Line. PeerJ 8(e8393): 1–52. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8393 Reference page.

Dolinay, M., Nečas, T., Zimkus, B.M., Schmitz, A., Fokam, E.B., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R. & Gvoždík, V. 2021. Gene flow in phylogenomics: Sequence capture resolves species limits and biogeography of afromontane forest endemic frogs from the Cameroon Highlands. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 163: 107258. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107258 Reference page.