Sven Mecke

Sven Mecke, German herpetologist

epartment of Zoology and Geology, Naturkundemuseum Paderborn, Im Schloßpark 9, 33104 Paderborn, Germany

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Mecke, S., Doughty, P. & Donnellan, S.C. 2009. A new species of Eremiascincus (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from the Great Sandy Desert and Pilbara Coast, Western Australia and reassignment of eight species from Glaphyromorphus to Eremiascincus. Zootaxa 2246: 1–20. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.

Mecke, S., Doughty, P. & Donnellan, S.C. 2013. Redescription of Eremiascincus fasciolatus (Günther, 1867) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) with clarification of its synonyms and the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3701(5): 473–517. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.5.1 Reference page.

Hartmann, L., Mecke, S., Kieckbusch, M., Mader, F. & Kaiser, H. 2016. A new species of bent-toed gecko, genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Jawa Timur Province, Java, Indonesia, with taxonomic remarks on C. fumosus (Müller, 1895). Zootaxa 4067(4): 552–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.4.2. Reference page.
Kieckbusch, M., Mecke, S., Hartmann, L., Ehrmentraut, L., O’Shea, M. & Kaiser, H. 2016. An inconspicuous, conspicuous new species of Asian pipesnake, genus Cylindrophis (Reptilia: Squamata: Cylindrophiidae), from the south coast of Jawa Tengah, Java, Indonesia, and an overview of the tangled taxonomic history of C. ruffus (Laurenti, 1768). Zootaxa 4093(1): 1–25. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.1.1. Reference page.
Mecke, S., Kieckbusch, M., Hartmann, L. & Kaiser, H. 2016. Historical considerations and comments on the type series of Cyrtodactylus marmoratus Gray, 1831, with an updated comparative table for the bent-toed geckos of the Sunda Islands and Sulawesi. Zootaxa 4175(4): 353–365. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4175.4.5. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Mecke, S. & Doughty, P. 2018. A new species of Eremiascincus (Squamata: Sauria: Scincidae) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Vertebrate Zoology 68(1): 27–37. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Kieckbusch, M., Mader, F., Kaiser, H. & Mecke, S. 2018. A new species of Cylindrophis Wagler, 1828 (Reptilia: Squamata: Cylindrophiidae) from Boano Island, northern Maluku Province, Indonesia. Zootaxa 4486(3): 236–250. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.3.2. Reference page.

Bernstein, J.M., Bauer, A.M., McGuire, J.A., Arida, E., Kaiser, H., Kieckbusch, M. & Mecke, S. 2020. Molecular phylogeny of Asian pipesnakes, genus Cylindrophis Wagler, 1828 (Squamata: Cylindrophiidae), with the description of a new species from Myanmar. Zootaxa 4851(3): 535–558. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4851.3.5 Reference page.

Kaiser, C., Kaiser, H., Mecke, S. & O’Shea, M. 2021. A new species of Stegonotus (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the remnant coastal forests of southern Timor-Leste. Zootaxa 5027(4): 489–514. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5027.4.2 Reference page.
Kaiser, H., Mecke, S., Kaiser, C. & O’Shea, M. 2021. Three’s Company: discovery of a third syntype of Stegonotus lividus, a species of colubrid snake from Pulau Semau, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, with comments on an unpublished 19th Century manuscript by the naturalist Salomon Müller. Zootaxa 5039(1): 56–70. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5039.1.2 Reference page.