David Prötzel

David Prötzel, German herpetologist.

Zoologische Staatssammlung München (ZSM-SNSB), Münchhausenstr. 21, 81247 München, Germany.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Prötzel, D., Ruthensteiner, B., Scherz, M.D. & Glaw, F. 2015. Systematic revision of the Malagasy chameleons Calumma boettgeri and C. linotum (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Zootaxa 4048(2): 211–231. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.2.4 Reference page.

Prötzel, D., Ruthensteiner, B. & Glaw, F. 2016. No longer single! Description of female Calumma vatosoa (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae) including a review of the species and its systematic position. Zoosystematics and Evolution 92(1): 13–21. DOI: 10.3897/zse.92.6464 Reference page.

Prötzel, D., Vences, M., Scherz, M.D., Vieites, D. & Glaw, F. 2017. Splitting and Lumping: An Integrative Taxonomic Assessment of Malagasy Chameleons in the Calumma guibei complex results in the New Species C. gehringi sp. nov. Vertebrate Zoology 67(2): 231–249. PDF Reference page.

Glaw, F., Scherz, M.D., Prötzel, D. & Vences, M. 2018. Eye and webbing colouration as predictors of specific distinctness: A genetically isolated new treefrog species of the Boophis albilabris group from the Masoala peninsula, northeastern Madagascar. Salamandra 54(3): 163–177. PDF Reference page.
Prötzel, D., Lambert, S.M., Andrianasolo, G.T., Hutter, C.R., Cobb, K.A., Scherz, M.D. & Glaw, F. 2018. The smallest ‘true chameleon’ from Madagascar: a new, distinctly colored species of the Calumma boettgeri complex (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 94(2): 409–423. DOI: 10.3897/zse.94.27305 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.
Sentís, M., Chang, Y-Y., Schez, M.D., Prötzel, D. & Glaw, F. 2018. Rising from the ashes: resurrection of the Malagasy chameleons Furcifer monoceras and F. voeltzkowi (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae), based on micro-CT scans and external morphology. Zootaxa 4483(3): 549–566. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.3.7 Reference page.

Prötzel, D., Scherz, M.D., Ratsoavina, F.M., Vences, M. & Glaw, F. 2020. Untangling the trees: Revision of the Calumma nasutum complex (Squamata: Chamaeleonidae). Vertebrate Zoology 70(1): 23–59. DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-1-2020-3 Reference page.

Glaw, F., Köhler, J., Crottini, A., Gehring, P.-S., Prötzel, D., Randriamanana, L., Andreone, F. & Vences, M. 2021. An additional level of cryptic diversity: a new green-coloured Malagasy treefrog of the Boophis luteus species group. Salamandra 57(3): 295–308. PDF Reference page.