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Nikolay A Poyarkov

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I am a herpetologist working on diverse aspects of taxonomy, phylogeny and biodiversity of Asian herpetofauna. I have graduated from the Department of Vertebrate Zoology of Lomonosov Moscow State University and finished my PhD on taxonomy and evolution of Asian salamanders (Hynobiidae) in 2010. Presently I am working in this department as an associate professor. My study is focused on a set of topics on evolutionary biology and taxonomy of Asian amphibians and reptiles, including molecular systematics, phylogeography, DNA-barcoding, distribution and taxonomy of certain groups of Asian herps.

Biodiversity Biogeography Conservation Biology Evolutionary Studies Taxonomy Zoology

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PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

Moscow State University

Work details

Associate Professor

Moscow State University

May 2009

Faculty of Biology, Department of Vertebrate Zoology

I am leading a small group of students and researchers studying evolutionary biology, taxonomy and biology of amphibians and reptiles (laboratory of herpetology). Staff lecturer on courses of biology of amphibians and reptiles, taxonomy and evolution of amphibians and reptiles and phylogenetic and zoological systematics for graduate students. Also teach general vertebrate zoology and field courses on vertebrate zoology for undergraduate students.

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PeerJ Contributions

May 18, 2023

Kukri snakes Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 of the Western Palearctic with the resurrection of Contia transcaspica Nikolsky, 1902 (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae)

Justin L. Lee, Platon V. Yushchenko, Konstantin D. Milto, Mahdi Rajabizadeh, Eskandar Rastegar Pouyani, Daniel Jablonski, Rafaqat Masroor, Suranjan Karunarathna, Ashok Kumar Mallik, Princia Dsouza, Nikolai Orlov, Roman Nazarov, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15185 PubMed 37220522

March 22, 2022

The biogeography of bent-toed geckos, Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae)

L. Lee Grismer, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Evan S.H. Quah, Jesse L. Grismer, Perry L. Wood Jr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13153 PubMed 35341041

January 18, 2022

A new ancient lineage of ablepharine skinks (Sauria: Scincidae) from eastern Himalayas with notes on origin and systematics of the group

Zeeshan A. Mirza, Andrey M. Bragin, Harshal Bhosale, Gaurang G. Gowande, Harshil Patel, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12800 PubMed 35111410

January 10, 2022

An integrative taxonomic revision of slug-eating snakes (Squamata: Pareidae: Pareineae) reveals unprecedented diversity in Indochina

Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tan Van Nguyen, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Platon V. Yushchenko, Peter Brakels, Linh Hoang Nguyen, Hung Ngoc Nguyen, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Nikolai Orlov, Gernot Vogel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12713 PubMed 35047234

July 3, 2020

A little frog leaps a long way: compounded colonizations of the Indian Subcontinent discovered in the tiny Oriental frog genus Microhyla (Amphibia: Microhylidae)

Vladislav A. Gorin, Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, Mahmudul Hasan, Hisanori Okamiya, D.M.S. Suranjan Karunarathna, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Anslem de Silva, Watinee Juthong, Konstantin D. Milto, Luan Thanh Nguyen, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Alexander Haas, David P. Bickford, Indraneil Das, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9411 PubMed 32685285

April 21, 2020

Additions to the phylogeny of colubrine snakes in Southwestern Asia, with description of a new genus and species (Serpentes: Colubridae: Colubrinae)

Mahdi Rajabizadeh, R. Alexander Pyron, Roman Nazarov, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Dominique Adriaens, Anthony Herrel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9016 PubMed 32341904

January 6, 2020

A new species of Oligodon Fitzinger, 1826 from the Langbian Plateau, southern Vietnam, with additional information on Oligodon annamensis Leviton, 1953 (Squamata: Colubridae)

Hung Ngoc Nguyen, Bang Van Tran, Linh Hoang Nguyen, Thy Neang, Platon V. Yushchenko, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8332 PubMed 31934510

October 4, 2018

A new limestone-dwelling species of Micryletta (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from northern Vietnam

Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tan Van Nguyen, Tang Van Duong, Vladislav A. Gorin, Jian-Huan Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5771 PubMed 30310757

August 31, 2018

A new species of Leptobrachium (Anura, Megophryidae) from western Thailand

Parinya Pawangkhanant, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Tang Van Duong, Mali Naiduangchan, Chatmongkon Suwannapoom

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5584 PubMed 30186706

June 21, 2018

An integrative taxonomic analysis reveals a new species of lotic Hynobius salamander from Japan

Hisanori Okamiya, Hirotaka Sugawara, Masahiro Nagano, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5084 PubMed 29942708

March 19, 2018

Cenozoic aridization in Central Eurasia shaped diversification of toad-headed agamas (Phrynocephalus; Agamidae, Reptilia)

Evgeniya N. Solovyeva, Vladimir S. Lebedev, Evgeniy A. Dunayev, Roman A. Nazarov, Anna A. Bannikova, Jing Che, Robert W. Murphy, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4543 PubMed 29576991

February 23, 2018

A striking new genus and species of cave-dwelling frog (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae: Asterophryinae) from Thailand

Chatmongkon Suwannapoom, Montri Sumontha, Jitthep Tunprasert, Thiti Ruangsuwan, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Dmitriy V. Korost, Nikolay A. Poyarkov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4422 PubMed 29497587

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August 19, 2021

A new species of Phrynoglossus Peters, 1867; Dicroglossidae) from southeastern Bangladesh, with comments on the genera Occidozyga and Phrynoglossus

Scott Trageser, Hassan Al-Razi, Marjan Maria, Fahimuzzaman Nobel, Md. Asaduzzaman, Shahriar Caesar Rahman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11998 PubMed 34466290

March 4, 2021

A review of the diagnosis and geographical distribution of the recently described flea toad Brachycephalus sulfuratus in relation to B. hermogenesi (Anura: Brachycephalidae)

Marcos R. Bornschein, Luiz Fernando Ribeiro, Larissa Teixeira, Ricardo Belmonte-Lopes, Leonardo Amaral de Moraes, Leandro Corrêa, Giovanni Nachtigall Maurício, Júnior Nadaline, Marcio R. Pie

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10983 PubMed 33717704

February 1, 2021

Unexpected mitochondrial lineage diversity within the genus Alonella Sars, 1862 (Crustacea: Cladocera) across the Northern Hemisphere

Anna N. Neretina, Dmitry P. Karabanov, Veronika Sacherova, Alexey A. Kotov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10804 PubMed 33585083

November 25, 2020

A morphological and molecular study of Hydrodynastes gigas (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), a widespread species from South America

Priscila S. Carvalho, Hussam Zaher, Nelson J. da Silva Jr, Diego J. Santana

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10073 PubMed 33304646

November 25, 2020

Partial revision of the neustonic genus Scapholeberis Schoedler, 1858 (Crustacea: Cladocera): decoding of the barcoding results

Petr G. Garibian, Anna N. Neretina, Derek J. Taylor, Alexey A. Kotov

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10410 PubMed 33304655

November 18, 2020

Evidence of facultative parthenogenesis in three Neotropical pitviper species of the Bothrops atrox group

Sergio D. Cubides-Cubillos, José S.L. Patané, Karina Maria Pereira da Silva, Selma Maria Almeida-Santos, Denise S. Polydoro, Guilherme Guidolin Galassi, Silvia Regina Travaglia Cardoso, Maria José de J. Silva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10097 PubMed 33240594

November 18, 2020

Phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic position of genus Hyperacrius (Rodentia: Arvicolinae) from Kashmir based on evidences from analysis of mitochondrial genome and study of skull morphology

Natalia I. Abramson, Fedor N. Golenishchev, Semen Yu. Bodrov, Olga V. Bondareva, Evgeny A. Genelt-Yanovskiy, Tatyana V. Petrova

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10364 PubMed 33240667

November 5, 2020

Trait differences among discrete morphs of a color polymorphic lizard, Podarcis erhardii

Kinsey M. Brock, Simon Baeckens, Colin M. Donihue, José Martín, Panayiotis Pafilis, Danielle L. Edwards

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10284 PubMed 33194436

November 4, 2020

A new nurse frog (Anura: Allobates) from Brazilian Amazonia with a remarkably fast multi-noted advertisement call

Jesus R.D. Souza, Miquéias Ferrão, James Hanken, Albertina P. Lima

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9979 PubMed 33194373

October 6, 2020

Phylogeographic analysis and species distribution modelling of the wood frog Batrachyla leptopus (Batrachylidae) reveal interglacial diversification in south western Patagonia

José J. Nuñez, Elkin Y. Suárez-Villota, Camila A. Quercia, Angel P. Olivares, Jack W. Sites Jr

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9980 PubMed 33083116

September 24, 2020

Distribution, habitat suitability, conservation state and natural history of endangered salamander Bolitoglossa pandi

Teddy Angarita-Sierra, M. Argenis Bonilla-Gómez, David A. Sánchez, Andres R. Acosta-Galvis, Hefzi Medina-Ovalle, Anggi Solano-Moreno, Simon Ulloa-Rengifo, Daniela Guevara-Guevara, Juan J. Torres-Ramirez, Sebastián Curaca-Fierro, Diego M. Cabrera-Amaya, Jhon A. Infante-Betancour, Luisa F. Londoño-Montaño, Diana X. Albarán-Montoya, Lesly R. Peña-Baez

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9901 PubMed 33024630

September 22, 2020

Fungal infection, decline and persistence in the only obligate troglodytic Neotropical salamander

Mizraim Olivares-Miranda, Vance T. Vredenburg, Julio C. García-Sánchez, Allison Q. Byrne, Erica B. Rosenblum, Sean M. Rovito

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9763 PubMed 33024623

July 9, 2020

Molecular phylogenetics and evolutionary history of the endemic land snail genus Everettia in northern Borneo

Thor-Seng Liew, Mohammad Effendi Marzuki, Menno Schilthuizen, Yansen Chen, Jaap J. Vermeulen, Jayasilan Mohd-Azlan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9416 PubMed 32714659

June 5, 2020

Reconstruction of past distribution for the Mongolian toad, Strauchbufo raddei (Anura: Bufonidae) using environmental modeling

Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Natalya A. Schepina, Amaël Borzée