Sara Ruane

Sara Ruane, U.S. herpetologist.

• Department of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University-Newark, Newark, New Jersey, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 9 taxon names authored by Sara Ruane

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2011

• Burbrink, F.T., Yao, H., Ingrasci, M., Bryson, R.W., Jr., Guiher, T.J. & Ruane, S. 2011. Speciation at the Mogollon Rim in the Arizona Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis pyromelana). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60(3): 445–454. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.05.009 Reference page. 

2013

• Myers, E.A., Rodríguez-Robles, J.A., Denardo, D.F., Staub, R.E., Stropoli, A., Ruane, S. & Burbrink, F.T. 2013. Multilocus phylogeographic assessment of the California Mountain Kingsnake (Lampropeltis zonata) suggests alternative patterns of diversification for the California Floristic Province. Molecular Ecology 22(21): 5418–5429.DOI: 10.1111/mec.12478 Reference page. 

2014

• Ruane, S., Bryson, Jr., R.W., Pyron, R.A. & Burbrink, F.T. 2014. Coalescent Species Delimitation in Milksnakes (genus Lampropeltis) and Impacts on Phylogenetic Comparative Analyses. Systematic Biology 63(2): 231–250. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syt099 Reference page. 

2015

• Ruane, S. 2015. Using geometric morphometrics for integrative taxonomy: an examination of head shapes of milksnakes (genus Lampropeltis). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(2): 394–413. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12245 Reference page. 

2016

• Ruane, S., Burbrink, F.T., Randriamahatantsoa, B. & Raxworthy, C.J. 2016. The Cat-eyed Snakes of Madagascar: Phylogeny and Description of a New Species of Madagascarophis (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae) from the Tsingy of Ankarana. Copeia 104(3): 712–721. DOI: 10.1643/CH-15-346 Reference page. 

2018

• Deepak, V., Ruane, S. & Gower, D.J. 2018. A new subfamily of fossorial colubroid snakes from the Western Ghats of peninsular India. Journal of Natural History 52(45-46): 2919–2934. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1557756 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Ruane, S., Richards, S.J., McVay, J.D., Tjaturadi, B., Krey, K. & Austin, C.C. 2018. Cryptic and non-cryptic diversity in New Guinea ground snakes of the genus Stegonotus Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854: a description of four new species (Squamata: Colubridae). Journal of Natural History 52(13-16): 917–944. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1391959 PDF ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Ruane, S., Myers, E.A., Lo, K., Yuen, S., Welt, R.S., Juman, M., Futterman, I., Nussbaum, R.A., Schneider, G., Burbrink, F.T. & Raxworthy, C.J. [2017] 2018. Unrecognized species diversity and new insights into colour pattern polymorphism within the widespread Malagasy snake Mimophis (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 16(3): 229–244. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2017.1375046 Reference page. 

2020

• Burbrink, F.T., Grazziotin, F.G., Pyron, R.A., Cundall, D., Donnellan, S., Irish, F., Keogh, J.S., Kraus, F., Murphy, R.W., Noonan, B., Raxworthy, C.J., Ruane, S., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M. & Zaher, H. 2020. Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data for Squamata (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians) Shows no Support for Key Traditional Morphological Relationships. Systematic Biology 69(3): 502–520. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syz062 Reference page. 

2021

• Rittmeyer, E.N., Elmonier, A. & Ruane, S. 2021. Phylogeography of the Rough Greensnake, Opheodrys aestivus (Squamata: Colubridae), Using Multilocus Sanger Sequence and Genomic ddRADseq Data. Journal of Herpetology 55(4): 342–354. DOI: 10.1670/20-040 Reference page. 

2022

• Bernstein, J.M., Voris, H.K., Stuart, B.L., Phimmachak, S., Seateun, S., Sivongxay, N., Neang, T., Karns, D.R., Andrews, H.L., Osterhage, J., Phipps, E.A. & Ruane, S. 2022. Undescribed Diversity in a Widespread, Common Group of Asian Mud Snakes (Serpentes: Homalopsidae: Hypsiscopus). Ichthyology & Herpetology 110(3): 561–574. DOI: 10.1643/h2022015 Reference page. 

2024

• Das, S., Greenbaum, E., Brecko, J., Pauwels, O.S.G., Ruane, S., Pirro, S. & Merilä, J. 2024. Phylogenomics of Psammodynastes and Buhoma (Elapoidea: Serpentes), with the description of a new Asian snake family. Scientific Reports 14: 9489. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-60215-2 Reference page.