Herpetology has long navigated through tangled terrain in Papua New Guinea, where species mislabeling and sparse sampling have clouded scientific understanding. But a recent revision has brought ...

Trending News: University of Michigan biologist Fred Kraus identified four new tree snake species in Papua New Guinea, highlighting the region's rich but understudie ...

Fred Kraus, a biologist from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, travelled to this remote part of Papua New Guinea to study reptiles. Instead, he found a strange creature no one had ever heard ...

A Traccatichthys punctulatus, or spotted stone loach. Photo from Qin, Zhou, Du and Lin (2025) Spotted stone loaches have “elongated” bodies, reaching about 3 inches in length, the study said.

In April 2025, Fred Kraus of the University of Michigan published a study in Zootaxa identifying four new tree snakes in the genus Dendrelaphis, each endemic to a different island in the Louisiade ...

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Within the remote islands of Papua New Guinea, four new tree snake species have been discovered. Limited sampling had previously resulted in taxonomic confusion, but the new species were recently ...

Hemiancistrus punctulatus, H. fuliginosus, and H. chlorostictus, described by Cardoso and Malabarba (1999) from southern Brazil near the type-locality of H. votouro and H. meizospilos, can be easily ...

Traccatichthys punctulatus is here described from the Liu-Jiang flowing into the Xi-Jiang of the Pearl River basin at Jinxiu County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China. It is ...