Pedro Vaz Pinto

Pedro Vaz Pinto, Portuguese herpetologist.

CIBIO/InBio , Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal.
TwinLab CIBIO/ISCED – Instituto de Ciências da Educação da Huíla, Lubango, Angola.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Branch, W.R., Haacke, W., Pinto, P.V., Conradie, W., Baptista, N., Verburgt, L. & Verisimmo, L. 2017. Loveridge’s Angolan geckos, Afroedura karroica bogerti and Pachydactylus scutatus angolensis (Sauria, Gekkonidae): new distribution records, comments on type localities and taxonomic status. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(1): 157–166. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.10915 Reference page.

Vaz Pinto, P., Veríssimo, L. & Branch, W.R. 2019. Hiding in the bushes for 110 years: rediscovery of an iconic Angolan gecko (Afrogecko ansorgii Boulenger, 1907, Sauria: Gekkonidae). Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13(2) [Special Section]: 29–41 (e182). Reference page.

Baptista, N., Vaz Pinto, P., Keates, C., Edwards, S., Rödel, M.-O. & Conradie, W. 2021. A new species of red toad, Schismaderma Smith, 1849 (Anura: Bufonidae), from central Angola. Zootaxa 5031(3): 301–332. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5031.3.1 Reference page.

Conradie, W., Schmitz, A., Lobón-Rovira, J., Becker, F.S., Vaz Pinto, P. & Hauptfleisch, M.L. 2022. Rock island melody remastered: two new species in the Afroedura bogerti Loveridge, 1944 group from Angola and Namibia. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(2): 435–453. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.86299 Reference page.
Lobón-Rovira, J., Conradie, W., Baptista, N.L. & Pinto, P.V. 2022. A new species of feather-tailed leaf-toed gecko, Kolekanos Heinicke, Daza, Greenbaum, Jackman, Bauer, 2014 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the poorly explored savannah of western Angola. Zookeys 1127: 91–116. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1127.84942 Reference page.
Lobón-Rovira, J., Conradie, W., Vaz Pinto, P., Keates, C., Edwards, S., Plessis, A. & Branch, W.R. 2022. Systematic revision of Afrogecko ansorgii (Boulenger, 1907) (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from western Angola. Zootaxa 5124(4): 401–430. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5124.4.1 Reference page.

Chan, K.O., Grismer, L.L., Santana, F., Pinto, P., Loke, F.W. & Conaboy, N. 2023. Scratching the surface: a new species of Bent-toed gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cyrtodactylus) from Timor-Leste of the darmandvillei group marks the potential for future discoveries. Zookeys 1139: 107–126. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1139.96508 Reference page.
Baptista, N., Pinto, P.V., Keates, C., Lobón-Rovira, J., Edwards, S. & Rödel, M.-O. 2023. Two new Poyntonophrynus species (Anura: Bufonidae) highlight the importance of Angolan centers of endemism. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 991–1031. DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e103935 Reference page.

Röll, B., Pinto, P.V. & Lobón-Rovira, J. 2024. A new species of African diurnal dwarf geckos (Gekkonidae: Lygodactylus) from the Lower Guinea rainforest. Zootaxa 5538(6): 561–574. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.6.3 Reference page.

Lobón-Rovira, J., Heinicke, M.P., Bauer, A.M., Conradie, W. & Vaz Pinto, P. 2025. Three New Endemic Species of Namib Day Geckos (Gekkonidae: Rhoptropus) From the Namibe Province, Angola. Ecology and Evolution 15(7): e71609. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.71609 Reference page.