Walter E. Schargel

Walter E. Schargel, U.S. herpetologist.

Department of Biology, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Schargel, W.E. & García-Pérez, J.E. 2002. A new species and a new record of Atractus (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Andes of Venezuela. Journal of Herpetology 36(3): 398–402. DOI: 10.2307/1566183 Reference page.
Schargel, W.E., García-Pérez, J.E. & Smith, E.N. 2002. A new species of Bolitoglossa (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 115(3): 534–542. BHL Reference page.

Doan, T.M. & Schargel, W.E. 2003. Bridging the gap in Proctoporus distribution: a new species (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the Andes of Venezuela. Herpetologica 59(1): 68–75. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2003)059[0068:BTGIPD]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

Miralles, A., Rivas, G. & Schargel, W.E. 2005. A new species of Mabuya (Squamata, Scincidae) from the Venezuelan Andes. Zootaxa 895: 1–11. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Rivas, G.A., Schargel, W.E. & Meik, J.M. 2005. A new species of Riama (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae), endemic to the Península de Paria, Venezuela. Herpetologica 61(4): 461–468. DOI: 10.1655/04-96.1 Reference page.
Schargel, W.E., Rivas Fuenmayor, G. & Myers, C.W. 2005. An Enigmatic New Snake from Cloud Forest of the Península de Paria, Venezuela (Colubridae: Genus Taeniophallus?). American Museum Novitates 3484: 1–22. hdl: 2246/5675 Reference page.

Myers, C.W. & Schargel, W.E. 2006. Morphological Extremes—Two New Snakes of the Genus Atractus from Northwestern South America (Colubridae: Dipsadinae). American Museum Novitates 3532: 1–13. hdl: 2246/5810 Reference page.

Schargel, W.E., Rivas Fuenmayor, G., Barros, T.R., Péfaur, J.E. & Navarrete, L.F. 2007. A new aquatic snake (Colubridae: Pseudoeryx) from the Lake Maracaibo Basin, Northwestern Venezuela: a relic of the past course of the Orinoco River. Herpetologica 63(2): 236–244. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[236:ANASCP]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

Rivas, G.A. & Schargel, W.E. 2008. Gecko on the rocks: an enigmatic new species of Gonatodes (Sphaerodactylidae) from Inselbergs of the Venezuelan Guayana. Zootaxa 1925: 39–50. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.
Myers, C. W. & Schargel, W.E. 2008. Comment on the proposed conservation of Atractus, Wagler 1828 and Atractus trilineatus, Wagler 1828 (Reptilia, Serpentes). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(1): 63.
Lawing, A.M., Meik, J.M., Schargel, W.E. 2008. Coding meristic characters for phylogenetic analysis: a comparison of Step-matrix Gap-weighting and Generalized Frequency Coding. Systematic Biology 57(1): 167–173. DOI: 10.1080/10635150801898938

Schargel, W.E., Rivas, G.A., Makowsky, R., Señaris, J.C., Natera, M.A., Barros, T.R., Molina, C.R., Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2010. Phylogenetic systematics of the genus Gonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) in the Guayana Region, with description of a new species from Venezuela. Systematics and Biodiversity 8(3): 312–339. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2010.504757 Reference page.

Rivero-Blanco, C. & Schargel, W.E. 2012. A strikingly polychromatic new species of Gonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from northern Venezuela. Zootaxa 3518(1): 66–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3518.1.4 Reference page.
Rivas, G.A., Sales Nunes, P.M., Dixon, J.R., Schargel, W.E., Caicedo, J.R., Barros, T.R., Camargo, E.G. & Barrio-Amorós, C.L. 2012. Taxonomy, Hemipenial Morphology, and Natural History of Two Poorly Known Species of Anadia (Gymnophthalmidae) from Northern South America. Journal of Herpetology 46(1): 33–40. DOI: 10.1670/10-139
Passos, P., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Rivera, D.E., Aguilar, C. and Schargel, W.E. 2012. Rediscovery of Atractus microrhyncus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae), with a reappraisal of the taxonomic status of A. emersoni and A. natans. Herpetologica 68(3): 375–392. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-11-00078.1

Rivas, G.A., Ugueto, G.N., Schargel, W.E., Barros, T.R., Velozo, P. & Sánchez, L.E. 2013. A distinctive new species of Gonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from Isla La Blanquilla, Venezuela, with remarks on the distribution of some other Caribbean sphaerodactylid lizard. South American Journal of Herpetology 8(1): 5–18. DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-12-18212.1 Reference page.
Schargel, W.E., Lamar, W.W., Passos, P., Valencia, J.H., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. & Campbell, J.A. 2013. A new giant Atractus (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) from Ecuador, with notes on some other large Amazonian congeners. Zootaxa 3721(5): 455–474. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3721.5.2 Reference page.

Schmid, M., Steinlein, C., Feichtinger, W., Haaf, T., Mijares-Urrutia, A., Schargel, W.E. & Hedges, S.B. 2014. Cytogenetic studies on Gonatodes (Reptilia, Squamata, Sphaerodactylidae). Cytogenetic and Gemone Research 144(1): 47–61. DOI: 10.1159/000367929

Schargel, W.E., Rivas, G.A., García-Pérez, J.E., Rivero-Blanco, C., Chippindale, P.T. & Fujita, M.K. 2017. A new species of Gonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from the western versant of the Cordillera de Mérida, Venezuela. Zootaxa 4291(3): 549–562. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.7 Reference page.
García-Pérez, J.E. & Schargel, W.E. 2017. A new species of Gymnophthalmus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from sand dunes of the Llanos of Apure, Venezuela. Zootaxa 4318(3): 576–586. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.9. Reference page.

Rivero-Blanco, C. & Schargel, W.E.. 2020. A new diurnal gecko in the genus Gonatodes (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae) from Margarita Island, Venezuela. Zootaxa, 4729(3): 429–439. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.3.9