Francisco Luís Franco

Francisco Luís Franco, Brazilian herpetologist.

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Dr. Vital Brazil, 1500, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Franco, F.L. & Ferreira, T.G. [2002] 2003. Descrição de uma nova espécie de Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae) do nordeste brasileiro, com comentários sobre o gênero. Phyllomedusa 1(2): 57–74. PDF Reference page.
Franco, F.L., Ferreira, T.G., Marques, O.A.V. & Sazima, I. 2003. A new species of hood-displaying Thamnodynastes (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Atlantic forest in southeast Brazil. Zootaxa 334: 1–7. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.334.1.1 Reference page.

Franco, F.L., Cintra, L.A. de C. & Lema, T. de 2006. A new species of Calamodontophis Amaral, 1963 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae) from southern Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1(3): 218–226. DOI: 10.2994/1808-9798(2006)1[218:ANSOCA]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

Silva-Haad, J.J., Franco, F.L. & Maldonado, J. 2008. Una nueva especie de Liotyphlops Peters, 1881 (Serpentes, Scolecophidia, Anomalepidae) del sur de la Amazonia Colombiana (In Spanish). Biota Colombiana 9(2): 295–300. DOI: 10.21068/bc.v9i2.205 Reference page.
Zaher, H., Oliveira, M.E. & Franco, F.L. 2008. A new, brightly colored species of Pseudoboa Schneider, 1801 from the Amazon Basin (Serpentes, Xenodontinae). Zootaxa 1674: 27–37. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.

Murta-Fonseca, R.A., Franco, F.L. & Fernandes, D.S. 2015. Taxonomic status and morphological variation of Hydrodynastes bicinctus (Hermann, 1804) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Zootaxa 4007(1): 63–81. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.4. Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Franco, F.L., Trevine, V.C., Montingelli, G.G. & Zaher, H. 2017. A new species of Thamnodynastes from the open areas of central and northeastern Brazil (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Tachymenini). Salamandra 53(3): 339–350. PDF Reference page.

Menezes, F. de A., Abegg, A.D., da Silva, B.R., Franco, F.L. & Feio, R.N. 2018. Composition and natural history of the snakes from the Parque Estadual da Serra do Papagaio, southern Minas Gerais, Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil. Zookeys 797: 117–160. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.797.24549 Reference page.