Vivek Philip Cyriac

Vivek Philip Cyriac, Indian herpetologist.

School of Biology, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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Cyriac, V.P. & Umesh, P.K. 2014. Description of a New Ground-Dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Kerala, Allied to C. wynadensis (Beddome, 1870). Russian Journal of Herpetology 21(3): 187–194. DOI: 10.30906/1026-2296-2014-21-3-187-194 [nonfunctional] Reference page.

Abraham, R.K., Mathew, J.K., Cyriac, V.P., Zachariah, Ar., Raju, D. & Zachariah, A. 2015. A novel third species of the Western Ghats endemic genus Ghatixalus (Anura: Rhacophoridae), with description of its tadpole. Zootaxa 4048(1): 101–113. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.1.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Abraham, R.K., Zachariah, A. & Cyriac, V.P. 2015. A reappraisal of the rhacophorid bush frog Raorchestes flaviventris (Boulenger, 1882), with an evaluation of the taxonomic status of R. emeraldi Vijayakumar, Dinesh, Prabhu and Shankar, 2014. Zootaxa 4048(1): 90–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4048.1.5. Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Cyriac, V.P., Johny, A., Umesh, P.K. & Palot, M.J. 2018. Description of two new species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. Zootaxa 4459(1): 85–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.1.3 Reference page.

Cyriac, V.P., Johny, A., Umesh, P., Palot, M.J. & Campbell, P.D. 2019. Rediscovery of Cnemaspis nilagirica Manamendra-Arachchi, Batuwita and Pethiyagoda, 2007 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Kerala, India with notes on morphology and distribution. Zootaxa 4586(1): 98–108. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4586.1.4 Reference page.

Cyriac, V.P., Narayanan, S., Sampaio, F.L., Umesh, P. & Gower, D.J. 2020. A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Wayanad region of peninsular India. Zootaxa 4778(2): 329–342. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.5 Reference page.
Cyriac, V.P., Palot, M.J., Deuti, K. & Umesh, P.K. 2020. A preliminary 16S rRNA phylogeny of the Indian Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) with the description of two new cryptic species from the C. wynadensis clade. Vertebrate Zoology 70(2): 171–193. DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-2-2020-06 Reference page.
Sayyed, A., Cyriac, V.P. & Dileepkumar, R. 2020. A new cryptic species of Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), in the C. littoralis complex, from Anakkal, Palakkad, Kerala, India. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(3)[Taxonomy Section]: 31–45 (e251). Reference page.
Sampaio, F.L., Narayanan, S., Cyriac, V.P., Venu, G. & Gower, D.J. 2020. A new Indian species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 closely related to R. sanguineus Beddome, 1863 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Zootaxa 4881(1): 1–24. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4881.1.1 Reference page.

Sayyed, A., Cyriac, V.P., Pardeshi, A. & Sulakhe, S. 2021. Dwarfs of the fortress: A new cryptic species of dwarf gecko of the genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata, Gekkonidae) from Rajgad fort in the northern Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India. Evolutionary Systematics 5: 25–38. DOI: 10.3897/evolsyst.5.62929 Reference page.

Cyriac, V.P., Ganesh, S.R., Madani, Z., Ghosh, A., Kulkarni, V. & Shanker, K. 2024. Phylogenetic Systematics of the Shieldtail Snake Genus Teretrurus Beddome, 1886 (Squamata, Uropeltidae) Reveals Extensive Cryptic Diversity and Novel Geographic Spread in the Western Ghats of India. Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists 3(2): 1–25. DOI: 10.18061/bssb.v3i2.9630 Reference page.