Myint Kyaw Thura

Myint Kyaw Thura, Myanmar herpetologist

• Myanmar Environment Sustainable Conservation, Yangon, Myanmar.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 38 taxon names authored by Myint Kyaw Thura

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2017

• Connette, G.M., Oswald, P., Thura, M.K., Connette, K.J.L., Grindley, M.E., Songer, M., Zug, G.R. & Mulcahy, D.G. 2017. Rapid forest clearing in a Myanmar proposed national park threatens two newly discovered species of geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus). PLoS ONE 12(4): e0174432. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174432 Reference page. 
• Quah, E.S.H., Grismer, L.L., Wood Jr., P.L., Thura, M.K., Zin, T., Kyaw, H., Lwin, N., Grismer, M.S. & Murdoch, M.L. 2017. A new species of Mud Snake (Serpentes, Homalopsidae, Gyiophis Murphy & Voris, 2014) from Myanmar with a first molecular phylogenetic assessment of the genus. Zootaxa 4238(4): 571–582. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.4.5. Reference page. 

2018

• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Thura, M.K., Zin, T., Quah, E.S.H., Murdoch, M.L., Grismer, M.S., Lin, A., Kyaw, H. & Lwin, N. 2018. Twelve new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from isolated limestone habitats in eastcentral and southern Myanmar demonstrate high localized diversity and unprecedented microendemism. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182(4): 862–959. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx057 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Thura, M.K., Quah, E.S.H., Murdoch, M.L., Grismer, M.S., Herr, M.W., Lin, A. & Kyaw, H. 2018. Three more new species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Salween Basin of eastern Myanmar underscore the urgent need for the conservation of karst habitats. Journal of Natural History 52(19–20): 1243–1294. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1449911 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Thura, M.K., Quah, E.S.H., Grismer, M.S., Murdoch, M.L., Espinoza, R.E. & Lin, A. 2018. A new Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from the Shan Hills and the biogeography of Bent-toed Geckos from eastern Myanmar. Zootaxa 4446(4): 477–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4446.4.4. Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Zug, G.R., Thura, M.K., Grismer, M.S., Murdoch, M.L., Quah, E.S.H. & Lin, A. 2018. Two more new species of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Shan Hills of eastern Myanmar (Burma). Zootaxa 4483(2): 295–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.4. Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Quah, E.S.H., Thura, M.K., Espinoza, R.E., Grismer, M.S., Murdoch, M.L. & Lin, A. 2018. A new species of Crocodile Newt Tylototriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Shan State, Myanmar (Burma). Zootaxa 4500(4): 553–573. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.4.5 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Thura, M.K., Grismer, M.S., Brown, R.M. & Stuart, B.L. 2018. Geographically structured genetic variation in Ptychozoon lionotum (Squamata: Gekkonidae) and a new species from an isolated volcano in Myanmar. Zootaxa 4514(2): 202–214. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4514.2.4 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Thura, M.K., Win, N.M., Grismer, M.S., Trueblood, L.A. & Quah, E.S.H. 2018. A re-description of Cyrtodactylus chrysopylos Bauer (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with comments on the adaptive significance of orange coloration in hatchlings and descriptions of two new species from eastern Myanmar (Burma). Zootaxa 4527(2): 151–185. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4527.2.1. Reference page. 

2019

• Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L. Jr., Thura, M.K., Win, N.M. & Quah, E.S.H. 2019. Two more new species of the Cyrtodactylus peguensis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the fringes of the Ayeyarwady Basin, Myanmar. Zootaxa 4577(2): 274–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4577.2.3 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Quah, E.S.H., Thura, M.K., Herr, M.W. & Lin, A.K. 2019. A new species of forest-dwelling Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Indawgyi Wildlife Sanctuary, Kachin State, Myanmar. Zootaxa 4623(1): 1–25. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.1.1 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L., Quah, E.S.H., Thura, M.K. , Oaks, J.R. & Lin, A. 2019a. A new species of Bent-toed Gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cyrtodactylus) from the Shan Plateau in eastern Myanmar (Burma). Zootaxa 4624(3): 301–321. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.3.1. Reference page. 
• Quah, E.S.H., Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L. Jr., Thura, M.K., Oaks, J.R. & Lin, A. 2019. Discovery of the westernmost population of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka (Anura, Bufonidae) with the description of a new species from the Shan Plateau of eastern Myanmar. Zootaxa 4656(3): 545–571. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4656.3.11 Reference page. 

2020

• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Quah, E.S.H., Grismer, M.S., Thura, M.K., Oaks, J.R. & Lin, A. 2020. Two new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a karstic archipelago in the Salween Basin of southern Myanmar (Burma). Zootaxa 4718(2): 151–183. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4718.2.1 Reference page.