BIOGEOGRAPHIC HISTORIES, MOLECULAR SYSTEMATICS, TAXONOMY 

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• Poyarkov NA, Lee JL, Yushchenko PV, Milto KD, Radjabizadeh M, Pouyani ER, Jablonski D, Masroor R, Karunarathna S, AK Mallik, Dsouza P, Orlov NL, Nazarov RA. 2023. Kukri snakes Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 of the Western Palearctic with the resurrection of Contia transcaspica Nikolsky, 1902 (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae). PeerJ 11:e15185 DOI 10.7717/peerj.15185

• Achyuthan NS, Adhikari  OD, Mallik AK, Campbell PD, Bhatt BB, K Shanker, SR Ganesh. 2022. Taxonomic revaluation of the Ahaetulla prasina (H. Boie in F. Boie, 1827) complex from Northeast India: resurrection and redescription of Ahaetulla flavescens (Wall, 1910) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Colubridae). European Journal of Taxonomy 839: 20–148

• Vogel G, Mallik AK,  SR Chandramouli, Vivek Sharma, SR Ganesh. 2022. A review of records of the Trimeresurus albolabris Gray, 1842 group from the Indian subcontinent: expanded description and range extension of Trimeresurus salazar, redescription of Trimeresurus septentrionalis and rediscovery of historical specimens of Trimeresurus davidi (Reptilia: Viperidae). Zootaxa 5175 (3): 343-366. 

• Pyron RA, Vivek PC, Ganesh SR, Mallik AK, de Silva A, Achyuthan NS, Shanker K. 2022. First report of hemipenial variation among some genera and species of shieldtail snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Ichthyology & Herpetology. 110(2):299-314  

• Mallik AK, Achyuthan NS, SR Ganesh SR, Vijayakumar SP, Campbell PD, Malhotra A, Shanker K. 2021. Resolving pitfalls in pit viper systematics – A multi-criteria approach to species delimitation in pit vipers (Reptilia, Viperidae, Craspedocephalus) of Peninsular India reveals cryptic diversity. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 577–619. DOI 10.3897/vz.71.e66239

• Ganesh SR, Mallik AK, Achyuthan NS, Shanker K, Gernot Vogel. 2021. A new species of Boiga (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Southern Western Ghats of India with a molecular phylogeny and expanded characterisation of related species. Zootaxa 4981 (3): 449-468. 

• Mallik AK, Achyuthan NS, Pal SP, Princia Margaret D’souza, Shanker K, Ganesh SR.  2020. Disentangling vines: a study of morphological crypsis and genetic divergence in vine snakes (Squamata: Colubridae: Ahaetulla) with the description of five new species from Peninsular India. Zootaxa 4874 (1): 1-62. 

• Ganesh SR , Deuti K, Punith KG, Achyuthan NS, Mallik AK, Adhikari  O, Vogel G. 2020. A new species of Lycodon (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Deccan Plateau of India, with notes on the range of Lycodon travancoricus (Beddome, 1870) and a revised key to peninsular Indian forms. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(3) [Taxonomy Section]: 74–83 (e256). 

• Mallik AK, Achyuthan NS, Ganesh SR, Pal SP, Vijayakumar SP, Shanker K. 2019. Discovery of a deeply divergent new lineage of vine snake (Colubridae: Ahaetuliinae: Proahaetulla gen. nov.) from the southern Western Ghats of Peninsular India with a revised key for Ahaetuliinae. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0218851. Popular science coverage in Nature India and Research Matters.