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Pereira, G.A.; Haddad, F.B.; Sturaro, M.J. (2023). Trophic ecology of the Atlantic Forest endemic tree frog Boana bischoffi (Boulenger, 1887) (Anura, Hylidae). Herpetozoa 36: 23-29.
Greenspan, S.E.; Peloso, P; Fuentes-González, J.A.; Bletz, M; Lyra, M.L.; Machado, I.F.; Martins, R.A.; Medina, D.; Moura-Campos, D.; Neely, W.J.; Preuss, J.; Sturaro, M.J.; Vaz, R.I.; Navas, C.A.; Toledo, L.F.; Tozetti, A.M.; Vences, M.; Woodhams, D.C.; Haddad, C.F.B. ; Pienaar, J.; Becker, C.G. (2022). Low microbiome diversity in threatened amphibians from two biodiversity hotspots. Animal Microbiome, 4: 69.
Santos, M.V.; Prudente, A.L.C.; Rodrigues, M..; Sturaro, M.J. (2022). The Role of Vicariance and Paleoclimatic Shifts in the Diversification of Uranoscodon superciliosus (Squamata, Tropiduridae) of the Amazonian Floodplains. Evolutionary Biology 49: 449-463.
Cassundé, G.F.; Sturaro, M.J.; Maciel, A.O.; Prudente, A.L.C.; Sarmento, J.F.M.; Peloso, P. (2022). The amphibians of Pará, Brazil. Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais 17(2): 445-473.
Maciel, A.O.; Araújo, I.S.; Lima-Filha, G.R.; Castro, F.M.R.; Nascimento, L.R.S.; Santos, M.V.; Prudente, A.L.C.; Sturaro, M.J. (2021). Identity of Gymnophthalmus (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from northeastern Amazonia
with evidence for G. underwoodi as invasive in Belém. Acta Amazônica 51(4): 291-297.
Peloso, P.L.V.; Sturaro, M.J.; Nunes, P.N.S.; Lotzkat, S.; Hernández-Morales, C. (2021). Conservatism as an unjustifiable justification for the recognition of paraphyletic taxa: the case of Alopoglossidae. Zootaxa 5016: 147-150.
​Orrico, V.G.D.; Grant, T.; Faivovich, J.; Rivera-Correa, M.; Rada, M.A.; Lyra, M.L.; Cassini, C.S. ; Valdujo, P.H.; Schargel, W.E.; Machado, D.J.; Wheeler, W.C.; Barrio-Amorós, C.; Loebmann, D.; Moravec, J.; Zina, J.; Solé, M.; Sturaro, M.J.; Peloso, P.L.V.; Suarez, P.; Haddad, C.F.B. (2021). The phylogeny of Dendropsophini (Anura: Hylidae: Hylinae). Cladistics 37: 73-105.
Sturaro, M.J.; Costa, J.C.L.; Maciel, A.O.; Lima-Filho, G.R.; Rojas-Runjaic, F.J.M.; Mejia, D.P.; Ron, S.R. ; Peloso, P.L.V. (2020). Resolving the taxonomic puzzle of Boana cinerascens (Spix, 1824), with resurrection of Hyla granosa gracilis Melin, 1941 (Anura: Hylidae). Zootaxa 4750 (1): 1-30.
Pirani, R.M.; Peloso, P.L.V.; Prado, J.R. ; Polo, E.; Knowles, L.L.; Rron, S.R.; Rodrigues, M.T.; Sturaro, M.J.; Werneck, F. P. (2020). Diversification history of clown tree frogs in Neotropical rainforests (Anura, Hylidae, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus group). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 150: 106877.
Almeida, J.P.F.A. ; Thomé, M.T.C.; Sturaro, M.J.; Pereira, R.J.; Mott, T. (2020). The relative role of glacial refugia and longstanding barriers in the diversification of a fossorial squamate. Systematics and Biodiversity 18(5): 447-463.
Neves, J.M.M.; Almeida, J.P.F.A.; Sturaro, M.J.; Fabré, N.N.; Pereira, R.J.; Mott, T. (2020). Deep genetic divergence and paraphyly in cryptic species of Mugil fishes (Actinopterygii: Mugilidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 18(2): 116-128.
Hernández Morales, C.H.; Sturaro, M.J. ; Nunes, P.M.S.; Lotzkat, S.; Peloso, P.L.V. (2020). A species-level total evidence phylogeny of the microteiid lizard family Alopoglossidae (Squamata: Gymnophthalmoidea). Cladistics 36(3): 301-321.
Maciel, A.O.; De Castro, T.M.; Sturaro, M.J.; Costa Silva, I.E.; Ferreira, J.G.; Santos, R.; Risse-Quaioto, B.; Barboza, B.A.; Oliveira, J.C.F.; Sampaio, I.; Schneider, H. (2019). Phylogenetic systematics of the Neotropical caecilian amphibian Luetkenotyphlus (Gymnophiona: Siphonopidae) including the description of a new species from the vulnerable Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Zoologischer Anzeiger 281: 76-83.
Pirani, R.M.; Werneck, F.P.; Thomaz, A.T.; Kenney, M.L.; Sturaro, M.J. ; Ávila-Pires, T.C.S.; Peloso, P.L.V.; Rodrigues, M.T. ; Knowles, L.L. (2019). Testing main Amazonian rivers as barriers across time and space within widespread taxa. Journal of Biogeography 46(11): 2444–2456.
Sturaro, M.J.; Rodrigues, M.T.; Colli, G.R.; Knowles, L.L.; Avila-Pires, T.C.S. (2018). Integrative Taxonomy of the lizards of the Cercosaura ocellata complex (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 275: 37–65.
Avila-Pires, T.C.S.; Alves-Silva, K.R.; Barbosa, L.; Correa, F.S.; Cosenza, J.F.A.; Costa-Rodrigues, A.P.V.; Cronemberger, A.A.; Hoogmoed, M.S.; Lima-Filho, G.R.; Maciel, A. O.; Missassi, A.F.R.; Nascimento, L.R.S.; Nunes, A.L.S.; Oliveira, L.S.; Palheta, G.S.; Pereira, A.J.S.; Pinheiro, L.; Santos-Costa, M.C.; Pinho, S.R.C; Silva, F.M.; Silva, M.B.; Sturaro, M.J. (2018). Changes in amphibian and reptile diversity over time in Parque Estadual do Utinga, Pará State, Brazil, a protected area surrounded by urbanization. Herpetology Notes 11: 499–512.
Prudente, A.L.C.; Sarmento, J.F.M.; Avila-Pires, T.C.S.; Maschio, G.F.; Sturaro, M.J. (2018). How much do we know about the diversity of Squamata (Reptilia) in the most degraded region of the Amazon. South American Journal of Herpetology 13(2): 117–130.
Sturaro, M.J.; Avila-Pires, T.C.S.; Rodrigues, M.T. (2017). Molecular phylogenetic diversity in the widespread lizard Cercosaura ocellata (Reptilia: Gymnophthalmidae) in South America. Systematics and Biodiversity 15(6): 532-540.
Ferreira, G.C.; Sturaro, M.J.; Peloso, P.L.V. (2017). Amphibians and reptiles from Floresta Nacional de Pau-Rosa, Amazonas, Brazil: an important protected area at the heart of Amazonia. Acta Amazonica 47(3): 259–268.
Avila-Pires, T.C.S.; Palheta, G.S.; Silva, M.B.; Sturaro, M.J. (2017). Geographic Variation in Kentropyx striata (Reptilia: Teiidae): can we distinguish between isolated populations? South American Journal of Herpetology 12(3): 224–235.
Peloso, P.L.V.; Orrico, V.G.D.; Haddad, C.F.B.; Lima-Filho, G.R.; Sturaro, M.J. (2016). A new species of Clown Tree Frog, Dendropsophus leucophyllatus species group, from Amazonia (Anura, Hylidae). South American Journal of Herpetology 11(1): 66–80.
Sturaro, M.J. (2016). Taxonomic notes on the poorly known South American lizard Placosoma cordylinum (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae). Phyllomedusa 15(1): 85–89.
Ceríaco, L.M.P.; Gutié, E.E.; Dubois, A.; Sturaro, M.J.; et al. (2016). Photography-based taxonomy is inadequate, unnecessary, and potentially harmful for biological sciences. Zootaxa 4196: 435–445.
Sturaro, M.J.; Peloso, P.L.V. (2014). A new species of Scinax Wagler, 1830 (Anura: Hylidae) from the middle Amazon river basin, Brazil. Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 54(2): 9-23.
Peloso, P.L.V.; Sturaro, M.J.; Forlani, M.C.; Gaucher, P.; Motta, A.P.; Wheeler, W. (2014). Phylogeny, taxonomic revision, and character evolution of the genera Chiasmocleis and Syncope (Anura, Microhylidae) in Amazonia, with descriptions of three new species. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 386: 1–112.
Orrico, V.G.D.; Peloso, P.L.V.; Sturaro, M.J.; Silva-Filho, H.F.; Neckel-Oliveira, S.; Gordo, M.; Faivovich, J.; Haddad, C.F.B. (2014). A new “Bat-Voiced” species of Dendropsophus Fitzinger, 1843 (Anura, Hylidae) from the Amazon Basin, Brazil. Zootaxa 3881 (4): 341–361.
Simões, P.I.; Sturaro, M.J.; Peloso, P.L.V.; Lima, A.P. (2013). A new diminutive species of Allobates Zimmermann and Zimmermann, 1988 (Anura, Aromobatidae) from the northwestern Rio Madeira Rio Tapajós interfluve, Amazonas, Brazil. Zootaxa 3609: 251–273.
Prudente, A.L.C., Sturaro, M.J., Travassos, A.E.M., Maschio, G.F.; Santos-Costa, M.C. (2012). Anurans of the Urucu Petrol Basin, municipality of Coari, State of Amazonas, northern Brazil. Check List 9: 601–606.
Sturaro, M.J.; Avila-Pires, T.C.S. (2013). Redescription of the gecko Gonatodes caudiscutatus (Günther, 1859) (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae). South American Journal of Herpetology 8(2): 132–145.
Sturaro, M.J.; Avila-Pires, T.C.S. (2011). Taxonomic revision of the geckos of the Gonatodes concinnatus complex (Squamata: Sphaerodactylidae), with description of two new species. Zootaxa 2869: 1–36.
Sturaro, M.J.; Silva, V.X. (2010). Natural history of the lizard Enyalius perditus (Squamata: Leiosauridae) from an Atlantic forest remnant in southeastern Brazil. Journal of Natural History 44: 1225–1238.
Sturaro, M.J.; Sacramento, J.F.M.; Lima, A.A.; Chalkidis, H.M.; Rocha, R.A.T. (2010). New records and distribution of the treefrog Scinax rostratus (Peters, 1863) (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae). Herpetology Notes 3: 161–166.
Barros, F.B.; Peloso, P.L.V., Vicente, L.; Pereira, H.M.; Sturaro, M.J. (2010). The advertisement call of the Narrow-mouthed frog Chiasmocleis avilapiresae Peloso & Sturaro, 2008 (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae). Zootaxa 2657: 66–68.
Carvalho-Filho, F.S.; Gomes, J.O.; Maciel, A.O.; Sturaro, M.J..; Silva, K.R.A. 2010. Rhinella margaritifera (NCN). Parasites. Herpetological Review 41:479–480.
Pedro, P.L.V.; Sturaro, M.J.; Maschio, G.F.; Rodrigues; F.S.; Prudente, A.L.C. (2009). New records and distribution of the Toady leaf frog Phyllomedusa atelopoides (Anura, Hylidae). Herpetology Notes 2: 59–62.
Peloso; P.L.V.; Sturaro, M.J. 2008. A new species of narrow-mouthed frog of the genus Chiasmocleis Méhelÿ 1904 (Anura, Microhylidae) from the Amazonian rainforest of Brazil. Zootaxa 1947: 39–52.
Sturaro, M.J.; Gomes, J.O. 2008. Feeding behavior of the Amazonian Water Snake Helicops hagmanni Roux, 1910 (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae: Hydropsini). Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Naturais 3: 225–228.
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