Uwe Fritz

Uwe Fritz, German herpetologist

Museum of Zoology (Museum für Tierkunde), Senckenberg Dresden, A. B. Meyer Building, D-01109 Dresden, Germany

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Fritz, U. 2001. Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 3/IIIA: Schildkröten (Testudines) I. Aula-Verlag: Wiesbaden. 594 pp. ISBN 9783891040041 Reference page.

Fritz, U. 2005. Handbuch der Reptilien und Amphibien Europas. Band 3/IIIB: Schildkröten (Testudines) II. Aula-Verlag: Wiesbaden. 448 pp. ISBN 9783891046548 Reference page.
Fritz, U., Fattizzo, T., Guicking, D., Tripepi, S., Pennisi, M.G., Lenk, P., Joger, U. & Wink, M. 2005. A new cryptic species of pond turtle from southern Italy, the hottest spot in the range of the genus Emys (Reptilia, Testudines, Emydidae). Zoologica Scripta 34(4): 351–371. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00188.x Reference page.

Praschag, P., Schmidt, C., Fritzsch, G., Mueller, A., Gemel, R. & Fritz, U. 2006. Geoemyda silvatica, an enigmatic turtle of the Geoemydidae (Reptilia: Testudines), represents a distinct genus. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution 6: 151–162. DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2005.10.001 Reference page.

Fritz, U., Guicking, D., Auer, M., Sommer, R.S., Wink, M. & Hundsdoerfer, A.K. 2008. Diversity of the southeast Asian leaf turtle genus Cyclemys: how many leaves on its tree of life? Zoologica scripta 37(4): 367–390. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00332.x Reference page.

Praschag, P., Holloway, R., Georges, A., Päckert, M., Hundsdörfer, A.K. & Fritz, U. 2009. A new subspecies of Batagur affinis (Cantor, 1847), one of the world’s most critically endangered chelonians (Testudines: Geoemydidae). Zootaxa 2233: 57–68. Abstract & excerpt PDF Reference page.

Fritz, U. 2011. Order Testudines Batsch, 1788. Pp 61–62 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page. . Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Fritz, U., Corti, C. & Päckert, M. 2012. Mitochondrial DNA sequences suggest unexpected phylogenetic position of Corso-Sardinian grass snakes (Natrix cetti) and do not support their species status, with notes on phylogeography and subspecies delineation of grass snakes. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 12(1): 71–80. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-011-0069-8 Reference page.

Kindler, C., Böhme, W., Corti, C., Gvoždík, V., Jablonski, D., Jandzík, D., Metallinou, M., Široký, P. & Fritz, U. 2013. Mitochondrial phylogeography, contact zones and taxonomy of grass snakes (Natrix natrix, N. megalocephala). Zoologica Scripta 42(5): 458–472. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12018 Reference page.

Pokrant, F., Kindler, C., Ivanov, M., Cheylan, M., Geniez, P., Böhme, W. & Fritz, U. 2016. Integrative taxonomy provides evidence for the species status of the Ibero-Maghrebian grass snake Natrix astreptophora. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118(4): 873–888. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12782 Reference page.

Kindler, C. & Fritz, U. 2018. Phylogeography and taxonomy of the barred grass snake (Natrix helvetica), with a discussion of the subspecies category in zoology. Vertebrate Zoology 68(3): 269–281. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Farkas, B., Ziegler, T., Pham, C.T., Ong, A.V. & Fritz, U. 2019. A new species of Pelodiscus from northeastern Indochina (Testudines, Trionychidae). ZooKeys 824: 71–86. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.824.31376 Reference page.

Jablonski, D., Tzoras, E., Panagiotopoulos, A., Asztalos, M. & Fritz, U. 2023. Genotyping the phenotypic diversity in Aegean Natrix natrix moreotica (Bedriaga, 1882) (Reptilia, Serpentes, Natricidae). Zookeys 1169ː 87–94. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1169.104594 Reference page.
Kehlmaier, C., Graciá, E., Ali, J.R., Campbell, P.D., Chapman, S.D., Deepak, V., Ihlow, F., Jalil, N.E., Huyet, L.P., Samonds, K.E., Vences, M. & Fritz, U. 2023. Ancient DNA elucidates the lost world of western Indian Ocean giant tortoises and reveals a new extinct species from Madagascar. Science Advances 9(2): eabq2574. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abq2574 Reference page.

Hurtado-Gómez, J.P., Daza, J.M., Vargas-Ramírez, M., Deepak, V. & Fritz, U. 2024. Phylogeography of the Colombian water snake Helicops danieli Amaral, 1938 (Reptilia, Squamata, Dipsadidae) with comments on the systematics and evolution of the genus Helicops Wagler, 1828 ZooKeys 1215: 335–358. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.128795 Reference page.
Schild, A., Baur, H., Hertwig, S.F., Fritz, U. & Ursenbacher, S. 2024. Genetic identification, morphology and distribution of Natrix helvetica subspecies in southern and western Switzerland (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes). ZooKeys 1205: 233–238. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.123911 Reference page.