Michael Franzen

Michael Franzen, German herpetologist.

• SNSB – Zoologische Staatssammlung München, München, Germany.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 34 taxon names authored by Michael Franzen

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2005

• Glaw, F., Franzen, M. & Vences, M. 2005. A new species of colubrid snake (Liopholidophis) from northern Madagascar. Salamandra 41(1/2): 83–90. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2006

• Glaw, F. & Franzen, M. 2006. Type catalogue of amphibians in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Spixiana 29(2): 153–192. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2007

• Franzen, M. 2007. A new species of tiger beetle of the Cicindela campestris group from southern Turkey, with remarks on the identity of C. herbacea Klug, 1832 and other taxa related to C. desertorum Dejean, 1825. Spixiana 30(1): 13-24. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Glaw, F., Nagy, Z.T., Franzen, M. & Vences, M. 2007. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the pseudoxyrhophiine snake genus Liopholidophis (Reptilia, Colubridae): evolution of its exceptional sexual dimorphism and descriptions of new taxa. Zoologica Scripta 36(4): 291–300. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00278.x Reference page. 

2009

• Franzen, M., Jones, J., Raselimanana, A.P., Nagy, Z.T., D'Cruze, N., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2009. A new black-bellied snake (Pseudoxyrhophiinae: Liophidium) from western Madagascar, with notes on the genus Pararhadinaea. Amphibia-Reptilia 30(2): 173–183. DOI: 10.1163/156853809788201171 Reference page. 
• Glaw, F., Nagy, Z.T., Köhler, J., Franzen, M. & vences, M. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of a new species of pseudoxyrhophiine snake (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae: Thamnosophis) suggest a biogeographical link between western and northern Madagascar. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 9(1): 13–22. DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2008.10.004 Reference page. 

2010

• Glaw, F., Gehring, P.-S., Köhler, J., Franzen, M. & Vences, M. 2010. A new dwarf species of day gecko, genus Phelsuma, from the Ankarana pinnacle karst in northern Madagascar. Salamandra 46(2): 83–92. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2013

• Wegener, J.E., Swoboda, S., Hawlitschek, O., Franzen, M., Wallach, V., Vences, M., Nagy, Z.T., Hedges, S.B., Köhler, J. & Glaw, F. 2013. Morphological variation and taxonomic reassessment of the endemic Malagasy blind snake family Xenotyphlopidae (Serpentes, Scolecophidia). Spixiana 36(2): 269–282. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2017

• Rakotoarison, A., Scherz, M.A., Glaw, F., Köhler, J., Andreone, F., Franzen, M., Glos, J., Hawlitschek, O., Jono, T., Mori, A., Ndriantsoa, S.H., Raminosoa, N.R., Riemann, J.C., Rödel, M.-O., Rosa, G.M., Vieites, D.R., Crottini, A. & Vences, M. 2017. Describing the smaller majority: integrative taxonomy reveals twenty-six new species of tiny microhylid frogs (genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar. Vertebrate Zoology 67(3): 271–398. PDF Reference page.