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.