George Robert Zug

George Robert Zug (1938–), U.S. herpetologist.

Department of Vertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
One of the authors of Herpetology An Introductory Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles

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Zug, G.R., Brown, H.H.K., Schulte, J.A. & Vindum, J.V. 2006. Systematics of the garden lizards, Calotes versicolor group (Reptilia, Squamata, Agamidae), in Myanmar: Central dry zone populations. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series 57(2): 35–68. BHL Reference page.

Zug, G.R., Vindum, J.V. & Koo, M.S. 2007. Burmese Hemidactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonidae):Taxonomic Notes on Tropical Asian Hemidactylus. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. Fourth Series 58(19): 387–405. ResearchGate Reference page.

Austin, C.C., Rittmeyer, R.N., Richards, S.J. & Zug, G.R. 2010. Phylogeny, historical biogeography and body size evolution in Pacific Island Crocodile skinks Tribolonotus (Squamata; Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57(1): 227–236. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.005 ; hdl: 10088/16716 . Reference page.

Zug, George R.; Alison M. Hamilton & Christopher C. Austin, 2011. A new Emoia samoensis group lizard (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Cook Islands, South-central Pacific. Zootaxa 2765: 47–57. Full article.
Zug, G.R., Gotte, S.W. & Jacobs, J.F. 2011. Pythons in Burma: Short-tailed python (Reptilia: Squamata). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 124(2): 112–136. DOI: 10.2988/10-34.1 Reference page.

Zug, G.R. 2015. Morphology and systematics of Kalophrynus interlineatus–pleurostigma populations (Anura: Microhylidae: Kalphryninae) and a taxonomy of the genus Kalophrynus Tschudi, Asian Sticky Frogs. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series 62: 135–190. [1] Reference page.

Mulcahy, D.G., Lee, J.L., Miller, A.H. & Zug, G.R. 2017. Troublesome Trimes: Potential cryptic speciation of the Trimeresurus (Popeia) popeiorum complex (Serpentes: Crotalidae) around the Isthmus of Kra (Myanmar and Thailand). Zootaxa 4347(2): 301–315. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.2.6 Reference page.
Zug, G.R., Mulcahy, D.G. & Vindum, J.V. 2017. Resurrection of Bronchocela burmana Blanford, 1878 for the Green Crested Lizard (Squamata, Agamidae) of southern Myanmar. ZooKeys 657: 141–156. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11600 Reference page.
Connette, G.M., Oswald, P., Thura, M.K., Connette, K.J.L., Grindley, M.E., Songer, M., Zug, G.R. & Mulcahy, D.G. 2017. Rapid forest clearing in a Myanmar proposed national park threatens two newly discovered species of geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus). PLoS ONE 12(4): e0174432. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174432 Reference page.

Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Zug, G.R., Thura, M.K., Grismer, M.S., Murdoch, M.L., Quah, E.S.H. & Lin, A. 2018. Two more new species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Shan Hills of eastern Myanmar (Burma). Zootaxa 4483(2): 295–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.4. Reference page.

Lee, J.L., Miller, A.H., Zug, G.R. & Mulcahy, D.G. 2019. The discovery of Rock Geckos Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) in the Tanintharyi Region, Myanmar with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4661(1): 40–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4661.1.2 Reference page.

Zug, G.R. 2020. Diversity in Pacific Slender-Toed Geckos, Nactus pelagicus Complex (Reptilia: Squamata), of New Guinea and Adjacent Islands. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 651: x + 92. DOI: 10.5479/si.13091285 Reference page.