Luís Miguel Pires Ceríaco

Luís Miguel Pires Ceríaco, Portuguese herpetologist and zoologist.

Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, San Francisco, California 94118, United States.
Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua da Escola Politécnica, 58, 1269-102 Lisbon, Portugal.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Ceríaco, L.M.P. 2015. Lost in the middle of the sea, found in the back of the shelf: A new giant species of Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) from Tinhosa Grande islet, Gulf of Guinea. Zootaxa 3973(3): 511–527. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3973.3.6. Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Jacquet, F., Nicolas, V., Colyn, M., Denys, C., Sardinha, P.C. & Bastos-Silveira, C. 2015. Description of a new endemic species of shrew (Mammalia, Soricomorpha) from Príncipe Island (Gulf of Guinea). Mammalia 79(3): 325–341. DOI: 10.1515/mammalia-2014-0056 Reference page.

Ceríaco, L.M.P., Gutiérrez, E.E. & Dubois, A. 2016. Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa 4196(3): 435–445. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.3.9. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P. & Bauer, A.M. 2016. A review of the genus Trachylepis (Sauria: Scincidae) from the Gulf of Guinea, with descriptions of two new species in the Trachylepis maculilabris (Gray, 1845) species complex. Zootaxa 4109(3): 284–314. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4109.3.2. Reference page.
Stanley, E.L., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Bandeira, S., Valerio, H., Bates, M.F. & Branch, W.R. 2016. A review of Cordylus machadoi (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southwestern Angola, with the description of a new species from the Pro-Namib desert. Zootaxa 4061(3): 201–226. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.3.1. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Schmitz, A. & Bauer, A.M.. 2017. The “Cobra-preta” of São Tomé Island, Gulf of Guinea, is A New Species of Naja Laurenti, 1768 (Squamata: Elapidae). Zootaxa 4324(1): 121–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.7. Reference page.

Ceríaco, L.M.P., Branch, W.R. & Bauer, A.M. 2018. A new species of African snake-eyed skink (Scincidae: Panaspis) from central and northern Namibia. Zootaxa 4527(1): 140–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.1.12 Reference page.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P. & Bauer, A.M. 2018. Miscellanea Herpetologica Sanctithomae, with a provisional checklist of the terrestrial herpetofauna of São Tomé, Príncipe and Annobon islands. Zootaxa 4387(1): 91–108. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4387.1.4 Reference page.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Bandeira, S., Agarwal, I., Stanley, E.L., Bauer, A.M., Heinicke, M.P. & Blackburn, D.C. 2018. A new earless species of Poyntonophrynus (Anura, Bufonidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, Angola. ZooKeys 780: 109–136. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.780.25859 Reference page.
Soares, L.B., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Bastos-Silveira, C., Scheinberg, L.A., Harris, D.J., Brehm, A. & Jesus, J. 2018. Review of the leaf-litter skinks (Scincidae: Panaspis) from the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands, with the description of a new species. African Journal of Herpetology 67(2): 132–159. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2017.1413015 Reference page.
Thomson, S.A., Pyle, R.L., Ahyong, S.T., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Ammirati, J., Araya, J.F., et al. 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLOS Biology 16(3): e2005075. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075 Reference page.

Marques, M.P., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Bandeira, S., Pauwels, O.S.G. & Bauer, A.M. 2019. Description of a new long-tailed skink (Scincidae: Trachylepis) from Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zootaxa 4568(1): 51–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4568.1.3 Reference page.
Marques, M.P., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Stanley, E.L., Bandeira, S.A., Agarwal, I. & Bauer, A.M. 2019. A new species of Girdled Lizard (Squamata: Cordylidae) from the Serra da Neve Inselberg, Namibe Province, southwestern Angola. Zootaxa 4668(4): 503–524. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.4.4 Reference page.

Ceríaco, L.M.P., Agarwal, I., Marques, M.P. & Bauer, A.M. 2020. A review of the genus Hemidactylus Goldfuss, 1820 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Angola, with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4746(1): 1–71. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4746.1.1 Reference page.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Heinicke, M.P., Parker, K.L., Marques, M.P. & Bauer, A.M. 2020. A review of the African snake-eyed skinks (Scincidae: Panaspis) from Angola, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4747(1): 77–112. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.3 Reference page.
Ceríaco L.M.P., Marques, M.P. & Bauer, A.M. 2020. The Bush Vipers, genus Atheris Cope, 1862 (Squamata: Viperidae) of Bioko Island, Gulf of Guinea, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4838(4): 581–593. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.4.9 Reference page.
Nielsen, S.V., Conradie, W., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Bauer, A.M., Heinicke, M.P., Stanley, E.L. & Blackburn, D.C. 2020. A new species of Rain Frog (Brevicipitidae, Breviceps) endemic to Angola. ZooKeys 979: 133–160. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.979.56863 Reference page.

Ceríaco, L.M.P., Parrinha, D. & Marques, M.P. 2021. Saving collections: taxonomic revision of the herpetological collection of the Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Lisbon (Portugal) with a protocol to rescue abandoned collections. Zookeys 1052: 85–156. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1052.64607 Reference page.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Bauer, A.M., Kusamba, C., Agarwal, I. & Greenbaum, E. 2021. A New Species of Ground-Dwelling Hemidactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Southwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Journal of Herpetology 55(2): 105–111. DOI: 10.1670/20-094 Reference page.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Santos, B.S., Marques, M.P., Bauer, A.M. & Tiutenko, A. 2021. Citizen Science meets specimens in old formalin filled jars: a new species of Banded Rubber Frog, genus Phrynomantis (Anura, Phrynomeridae) from Angola. Alytes 38(1–4): 18–48. ResearchGate Reference page.
Ceríaco, L.M.P., Arellano, A.L., Jadin, R.C., Marques, M.P., Parrinha, D. & Hallermann, J. 2021. Taxonomic revision of the Jita snakes (Lamprophiidae: Boaedon) from São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea), with the description of a new species. African Journal of Herpetology 70(1): 1–31. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2020.1832152 Reference page.

Marques, M.P., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Heinicke, M.P., Chehouri, R.M., Conradie, W., Tolley, K.A. & Bauer, A.M. 2022. The Angolan bushveld lizards, genus Heliobolus Fitzinger, 1843 (Squamata: Lacertidae): Integrative taxonomy and the description of two new species. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 745–769. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e85269 Reference page.

Marques, M.P., Parrhina, D., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Brennan, I.G., Heinicke, M.P. & Bauer, A.M. 2023. A new species of thick-toed gecko (Pachydactylus) from Serra da Neve and surrounding rocky areas of southwestern Angola. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 325–343. DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e101329 Reference page.