Johannes Els

Johannes Els, zoologist.

Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife, Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Sharjah, UAE.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Simó-Riudalbas, M., Metallinou, M.†, de Pous, P., Els, J., Jayasinghe, S., Péntek-Zakar, E., Wilms, T., Al-Saadi, S. & Carranza, S. 2017. Cryptic diversity in Ptyodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the northern Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates uncovered by an integrative taxonomic approach. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0180397. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180397 Reference page.
Šmíd, J., Moravec, J., Gvoždík, V., Štundl, J., Frynta, D., Lymberakis P., Kapli, P., Wilms, T., Schmitz, A., Shobrak, M., Yousefkhani, S.H., Rastegar-Pouyani, E., Castilla, A.M., Els, J. & Mayer, W. 2017. Cutting the Gordian Knot: Phylogenetic and ecological diversification of the Mesalina brevirostris species complex (Squamata, Lacertidae). Zoologica Scripta 46(6): 649–664. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12254 Reference page.

Burriel-Carranza, B., Koppetsch, T., Tabares, J., Talavera, A., Mochales-Riaño, G., Estarellas, M., Wipfler, B., Els, J., Simó-Riudalbas, M., Adams, D., Al Saadi, S., Garcia-Porta, J., Tamar, K., Šmíd, J. & Carranza, S. 2025. Cryptic speciation in arid mountains: An integrative revision of the Pristurus rupestris species complex (Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae) from Arabia based on morphological, genetic and genomic data, with the description of four new species. PLOS ONE 20(2): e0315000. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0315000 Reference page.
Carranza, S., Al-Amri, A.S., Al Busaidi, A., Els, J., Estarellas, M., Al-Buthari, R., Koppetsch, T., Tulloch, S., Al Saadi, S., Al-Rashdi, S.H.A., Al hashmi, S. & Burriel-Carranza, B. 2025. Unveiling the black desert cobras: first records of Walterinnesia aegyptia Lataste, 1887 (Serpentes: Elapidae) from Oman and taxonomic revision of the genus Walterinnesia Lataste, 1887. Zootaxa 5621(2): 291–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5621.2.9 Reference page.