Salvador Carranza

Salvador Carranza, Spanish herpetologist.

• Institute of Evolutionary Biology, CSIC-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta 37-49, Barcelona, Spain.

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• 49 taxon names authored by Salvador Carranza

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• Carranza, S., Littlewood, D.T.J., Clough, K.A., Ruiz-Trillo, I., Baguñà, J. & Riutort, M. 1998. A robust molecular phylogeny of the Tricladida (Platyhelminthes: Seriata) with a discussion on morphological synapomorphies. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 265 (1396): 631–640. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0341. PDF from ResearchGate. Reference page. 

• Carranza, S., Arnold, E.N., Thomas, R.H., Mateo, J.A. & López-Jurado, L.F. 1999. Status of the extinct giant lacertid lizard Gallotia simonyi simonyi (Reptilia: Lacertidae) assessed using mtDNA sequences from museum specimens. Herpetological Journal 9(2): 83–86. PDF Reference page. 

• Carranza, S., Arnold, E.N., Mateo, J.A., López-Jurado, L.F. 2000. Long-distance colonization and radiation in gekkonid lizards, Tarentola (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences 267(1444): 637–649. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1050 Reference page. 

• Carranza, S., Arnold, E.N., Mateo, J.A. & López-Jurado, L.F. 2001. Parallel gigantism and complex colonization patterns in the Cape Verde scincid lizards Mabuya and Macroscincus (Reptilia: Scincidae) revealed by mitochondrial DNA sequences. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 268(1476): 1595–1603. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1699 Reference page. 

• Carranza, S., Arnold, E.N., Mateo, J.A. & Geniez, P. 2002. Relationships and evolution of the north African geckos, Geckonia and Tarentola (Reptilia: Gekkonidae), based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 23(2): 244–256. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00024-6 Reference page. 

• Maca-Meyer, N., Carranza, S., Rando, J.C., Arnold, E.N. & Cabrera, V.M. 2003. Status and relationships of the extinct giant Canary Island lizard Gallotia goliath (Reptilia: Lacertidae), assessed using ancient mtDNA from its mummified remains. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 80(4): 659–670. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2003.00265.x Reference page. 

• Carranza, S. & Arnold, E.N. 2004. History of West Mediterranean newts, Pleurodeles (Amphibia: Salamandridae), inferred from old and recent DNA sequences. Systematics and Biodiversity 1(3): 327–337. DOI: 10.1017/S1477200003001221 Reference page. 
• Carranza, S. & Wade, E. 2004. Taxonomic revision of Algero-Tunisian Pleurodeles (Caudata: Salamandridae) using molecular and morphological data. Revalidation of the taxon Pleurodeles nebulosus (Guichenot, 1850). Zootaxa 488(1): 1–24. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.488.1.1 Reference page. 

• Carranza, S., Arnold, E.N. & Pleguezuelos, J.M. 2006. Phylogeny, biogeography, and evolution of two Mediterranean snakes, Malpolon monspessulanus and Hemorrhois hippocrepis (Squamata, Colubridae), using mtDNA sequences. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 40(2): 532–546. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.03.028 Reference page. 
• Carranza, S., Harris, D.J., Arnold, E.N., Batista, V., González de la Vega, J.P. 2006. Phylogeography of the lacertid lizard, Psammodromus algirus, in Iberia and across the Strait of Gibraltar. Journal of Biogeography 33(7): 1279–1288. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01491.x Reference page. 

• Arnold, E.N., Arribas, O. & Carranza, S. 2007. Systematics of the Palaearctic and Oriental lizard tribe Lacertini (Squamata: Lacertidae: Lacertinae), with descriptions of eight new genera. Zootaxa 1430: 1–86. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 
• Ljubisavljević, K., Arribas, O., Džukić, G. & Carranza, S. 2007. Genetic and morphological differentiation of Mosor rock lizards, Dinarolacerta mosorensis (Kolombatović, 1886), with the description of a new species from the Prokletije Mountain Massif (Montenegro) (Squamata: Lacertidae). Zootaxa 1613: 1–22. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 

• Cox, S.C., Carranza, S. & Brown, R.P. 2010. Divergence times and colonization of the Canary Islands by Gallotia lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(2): 747–757. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.020 Reference page. 
• Verdú-Ricoy, J., Carranza, S., Salvador, A., Busack, S.D. & Díaz, J.A. 2010. Phylogeography of Psammodromus algirus (Lacertidae) revisited: systematic implications. Amphibia-Reptilia 31(4): 576–582. DOI: 10.1163/017353710X521555 Reference page. 

• Bauer, A.M., Parham, J.F., Brown, R.M., Stuart, B.L., Grismer, L.L., Papenfuss, T.J., Böhme, W., Savage, J.M., Carranza, S., Grismer, J.L., Wagner, P., Schmitz, A., Ananjeva, N.B. & Inger, R.F. 2010. Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278(1705): 490–492. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1330 Reference page. 

• Garcia-Porta, J., Litvinchuk, S.N., Crochet, P.-A., Romano, A., Géniez, P., Lo-Valvo, M., Lymberakis, P. & Carranza, S. 2012. Molecular phylogenetics and historical biogeography of the West-Palearctic common toads (Bufo bufo species complex). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63(1): 113–130. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.019 Reference page. 

• Metallinou, M. & Carranza, S. 2013. New species of Stenodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Sharqiyah Sands in northeastern Oman. Zootaxa 3745(4): 449–468. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3745.4.3 Reference page. 
• Beukema, W., De Pous, P., Donaire-Barroso, D., Bogaerts, S., Garcia-Porta, J., Escoriza, D., Arribas, O.J., El Mouden, E.H. & Carranza, S. 2013. Review of the systematics, distribution, biogeography and natural history of Moroccan amphibians. Zootaxa 3661(1): 1–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3661.1.1 Reference page. 
• Šmíd, J., Carranza, S., Kratochvíl, L., Gvoždík, V., Nasher, A.K. & Moravec, J. 2013. Out of Arabia: A Complex Biogeographic History of Multiple Vicariance and Dispersal Events in the Gecko Genus Hemidactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae). PLoS ONE 8(5): e64018. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064018 Reference page. 
• Šmíd, J., Moravec, J., Kratochvíl, L., Gvoždík, V., Nasher, A.K., Busais, S.M., Wilms, T.M., Shobrak, M.Y. & Carranza, S. 2013. Two newly recognized species of Hemidactylus (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and Sinai, Egypt. ZooKeys 355: 79–107. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.355.6190 Reference page. 

• Vasconcelos, R. & Carranza, S. 2014. Systematics and biogeography of Hemidactylus homoeolepis Blanford, 1881 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), with the description of a new species from Arabia. Zootaxa 3835(4): 501–527. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3835.4.4 Reference page. 
• Metallinou, M., Vasconcelos, R., Šmíd, J., Sindaco, R. & Carranza, S. 2014. Filling in the gap: two new records and an updated distribution map for the Gulf Sand gecko Pseudoceramodactylus khobarensis Haas, 1957. Biodiversity Data Journal 2: e4011. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.2.e4011 Reference page. 

• Bellati, A., Carranza, S., Garcia-Porta, J., Fasola, M. & Sindaco, R. 2015. Cryptic diversity within the Anatololacerta species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) in the Anatolian Peninsula: Evidence from a multi-locus approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 82(A): 219–233. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.10.003 Reference page. 
• Šmíd, J., Martínez, G., Gebhart, J., Aznar, J., Gállego, J., Göçmen, B., de Pous, P., Tamar, K. & Carranza, S. 2015. Phylogeny of the genus Rhynchocalamus (Reptilia; Colubridae) with a first record from the Sultanate of Oman. Zootaxa 4033(3): 380–392. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4033.3.4 Reference page. 
• Šmíd, J., Moravec, J., Kratochvíl, L., Nasher, A.K., Mazuch, T., Gvoždík, V. & Carranza, S. 2015. Multilocus phylogeny and taxonomic revision of the Hemidactylus robustus species group (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) with descriptions of three new species from Yemen and Ethiopia. Systematics and Biodiversity 13(4): 346–368. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2014.996264 Reference page. 

• Carranza, S. & Bauer, A.M. 2016. Margarita Metallinou (1985–2015). Zootaxa 4132(4): 598–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.4.13. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Tamar, K., Šmíd, J., Göçmen, B., Meiri, S. & Carranza, S. 2016. An integrative systematic revision and biogeography of Rhynchocalamus snakes (Reptilia, Colubridae) with a description of a new species from Israel. PeerJ 4: e2769. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2769 Reference page. 
• Tamar, K., Carranza, S., Sindaco, R., Moravec, J., Trape, J.-F. & Meiri, S. 2016. Out of Africa: Phylogeny and biogeography of the widespread genus Acanthodactylus (Reptilia: Lacertidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 6–18. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.003 Reference page. 

• Arribas, O.J., Ananjeva, N.B., Carranza, S., Doronin, I.V., Harris, D.J., Orlov, N.L. & Orlova, V.F. 2017. The pernicious effect of retroactive changes in the Code: Darevskia and nomenclatorial stability, a reply to Busack et al. (2016). Basic and Applied Herpetology 31: 125-129. DOI: 10.11160/bah.75 Reference page. 
• Mendes, J., Harris, D.J., Carranza, S. & Salvi, D. 2017. Biogeographical crossroad across the Pillars of Hercules: Evolutionary history of Psammodromus lizards in space and time. Journal of Biogeography 44(12): 2877–2890. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13100 Reference page. 
• Simó-Riudalbas, M., Metallinou, M.†, de Pous, P., Els, J., Jayasinghe, S., Péntek-Zakar, E., Wilms, T., Al-Saadi, S. & Carranza, S. 2017. Cryptic diversity in Ptyodactylus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from the northern Hajar Mountains of Oman and the United Arab Emirates uncovered by an integrative taxonomic approach. PLoS ONE 12(8): e0180397. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0180397 Reference page. 

• Arribas, O.J., Ananjeva, N.B., Carranza, S., Doronin, I.V., Orlov, N.L. & Orlova, V.F. 2018. Case 3711 – Iberolacerta Arribas and Darevskia Arribas (Chordata, Squamata, Lacertidae): proposals to deem these names available either from Arribas (1997) or from Arribas (1999). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 75(1): 122–129. DOI: 10.21805/bzn.v75.a026 Reference page. 
• Salvi, D., Mendes, J., Carranza, S. & Harris, D.J. 2018. Evolution, biogeography and systematics of the western Palaearctic Zamenis ratsnakes. Zoologica Scripta 47(4): 441–461. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12295 Reference page. 
• Sindaco, R., Simó-Riudalbas, M., Sacchi, R. & Carranza, S. 2018. Systematics of the Mesalina guttulata species complex (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Arabia with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4429(3): 513–547. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4429.3.4 Reference page. 
• Tamar, K., Metallinou, M.†, Wilms, T., Schmitz, A., Crochet, P.-A., Geniez, P. & Carranza, S. 2018. Evolutionary history of spiny‐tailed lizards (Agamidae: Uromastyx) from the Saharo‐Arabian region. Zoologica Scripta 47(2): 159–173. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12266 Reference page. 

• Machado, L., Šmíd, J., Mazuch, T., Sindaco, R., Al Shukaili, A.S. & Carranza, S. 2019. Systematics of the Saharo-Arabian clade of the Palearctic naked-toed geckos with the description of a new species of Tropiocolotes endemic to Oman. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 57(1): 159–178. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12226 Reference page. 

• Cox, S.C., Carranza, S. & Brown, R.P. 2010. Divergence times and colonization of the Canary Islands by Gallotia lizards. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(2): 747–757. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.020 Reference page. 
• Molina, C., Tamar, K., de la Vega, J.P.G., Burriel-Carranza, B., Fernandez-Guiberteau, D. & Carranza, S. 2020. New records on the distribution of the Spanish sand racer species (Squamata, Psammodromus) in Spain, Iberian Peninsula. Basic and Applied Herpetology 34: 59–66. DOI: 10.11160/bah.180 Reference page. 

• Burriel-Carranza, B., Mazuch, T., estarellas, M., Talavera, A., Riaño, G., Koppetsch, T., Tamar, K., Tejero-Cicuéndez, H., Al Saadi, S., Busais, S., Kratochvíl, L., Shobrak, M., Šmíd, J. & Carranza, S. 2023. Pristurus guweirensis Haas, 1943 (Gekkota: Sphaerodactylidae): the most abundant and widely distributed species of Pristurus previously referred to as Pristurus sp. 1. Zootaxa 5297(4): 594–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.9 Reference page. 
• Tamar, K., Uvizl, M., Shobrak, M., Almutairi, M., Busais, S., Ali Salim, A.F., AlGethami, R.H.M., AlGethami, A.R., Alanazi, A.S.K., Alsubaie, S.D., Chirio, L., Carranza, S. & Šmíd, J. 2023. A new species of Pseudotrapelus (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae) from Central Arabia. Vertebrate Zoology 73: 1033–1045. DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e110626 Reference page.