Ya-Ping Zhang

Ya-Ping Zhang, Chinese herpetologist.

• State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, and Yunnan Laboratory of Molecular Biology of Domestic Animals, Kun- ming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 32 Jiaochang Donglu, Kunming, Yunnan, China.
• Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources, Yunnan University, 2 North Cuihu Road, Kunming, Yunnan, China.

Taxon names authored

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• 13 taxon names authored by Ya-Ping Zhang

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2005

• Chen, H.W., Watabe, H., Gao, J.J.. Takamori, H., Zhang, Y.P. & Aotsuka, T. 2005. Species diversity of the subgenus Amiota (s. str.) Loew, 1862 (Diptera, Drosophilidae) in southern China. Journal of Natural History 39(3): 265–310. Reference page. 

2006

• Guo, P., Pang, J.-F., Zhang, Y.-P. & Zhao, E.-M. 2006. A Re-analysis of the phylogeny of the genus Protobothrops (Reptilia: Viperidae), with particular reference to the systematic position of P. xiangchengensis. Amphibia-Reptilia 27(3): 433–439. DOI: 10.1163/156853806778189954 Reference page. 

2008

• Li, J.-T., Che, J., Bain, R.H., Zhao, E.-M. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2008. Molecular phylogeny of Rhacophoridae (Anura): a framework of taxonomic reassignment of species within the genera Aquixalus, Chiromantis, Rhacophorus and Philautus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(1): 302–312. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.03.023 Reference page. 
• Zghao, H.-T., Che, J., Zhou, W.-W., Chen, Y.-X., Zhao, H.-P. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2008. A new species of Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Guizhou Province, China. Zootaxa 1775(1): 51–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1775.1.4 Reference page. 

2009

• Che, J., Hu, J.-S., Zhou, W.-W., Murphy, R.W., Papenfuss, T.J., Chen, M.-Y., Rao, D.-Q., Li, P.-P. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2009. Phylogeny of the Asian spiny frog tribe Paini (Family Dicroglossidae) sensu Dubois. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 50(1): 59–73. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.10.007 Reference page. 
• Li, J.-T., Che, J., Murphy, R.W., Zhao, H., Zhao, E.-M., Rao, D.-Q. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2009. New insights to the molecular phylogenetics and generic assessment in the Rhacophoridae (Amphibia: Anura) based on five nuclear and three mitochondrial genes, with comments on the evolution of reproduction. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53(2): 509–522. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.06.023 Reference page. 

2010

• Che, J., Zhou, W.-W., Hu, J.-S., Yan, F., Papenfuss, T.J., Wake, D.B. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2010. Spiny frogs (Paini) illuminate the history of the Himalayan region and Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(31): 13765–13770. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008415107 Reference page. 

2012

• Grazziotin, F.G., Zaher, H., Murphy, R.W., Scrocchi, G., Altamirano-Benevides, M.A., Zhang, Y.-P. & Bonatto, S.L. 2012. Molecular phylogeny of the New World Dipsadidae (Serpentes: Colubroidea): a reappraisal. Cladistics 28(5): 437–459. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00393.x Reference page. 
• Zaher, H., Grazziotin, F.G., Graboski, R., Fuentes, R.G., Sánchez-Martinez, P., Montingelli, G.G., Zhang, Y.-P. & Murphy, R.W. 2012. Phylogenetic relationships of the genus Sibynophis (Serpentes: Colubroidea). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 52(12): 141–149. DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492012001200001 Reference page. 

2013

• Li, J.-T., Li, Y., Klaus, S., Rao, D.-Q., Hillis, D.M. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2013. Diversification of rhacophorid frogs provides evidence for accelerated faunal exchange between India and Eurasia during the Oligocene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(9): 3441–3446. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300881110 Reference page. 
• Nguyen, S.N., Le, T.N.T., Tran, T.A.D., Orlov, N.L., Lathrop, A., MacCulloch, R.D., Le, T.D.T., Jin, J.Q., Nguyen, L.T., Nguyen, T.T., Hoang, D.D., Che, J., Murphy, R.W. & Zhang, Y.P. 2013. Phylogeny of the Cyrtodactylus irregularis species complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Vietnam with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 3737(4): 399–414. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3737.4.4 Reference page. 

2014

• Nguyen, S.N., Yang, J.-X., Le, T.T., Nguyen, L.T., Orlov, N.L., Hoang, C.V., Nguyen, T.Q., Jin, J.-Q., Rao, D.-Q., Hoang, T.N., Che, J., Murphy, R.W. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2014. DNA barcoding of Vietnamese bent-toed geckos (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) and the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3784(1): 48–66. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3784.1.2 Reference page. 
• Peng, L.-F., Lu, C.-H., Huang, S., Guo, P. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2014. A New Species of the Genus Thermophis (Serpentes: Colubridae) from Shangri-La, Northern Yunnan, China, with a Proposal for an Eclectic Rule for Species Delimitation. Asian Herpetological Research 5(4): 228–239. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2014.00228 Reference page. 

2016

• Zhao, F., Toda, M.J., Li, N-N., Zhang, Y-P. & Gao, J-J. 2016. A new genus of anthophilous drosophilids, Impatiophila (Diptera, Drosophilidae): morphology, DNA barcoding and molecular phylogeny, with descriptions of thirty-nine new species. Zootaxa 4120(1): 1–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4120.1.1. Full article (PDF) ISBN 978-1-77557-959-5 (paperback); ISBN 978-1-77557-960-1 (Online edition). Reference page. 

2017

• Chen, J.-M., Zhou, W.-W., Poyarkov, Jr., N.A., Stuart, B.L., Brown, R.M., Lathrop, A., Wang, Y.-Y., Yuan, Z.-Y., Jiang, K., Hou, M., Chen, H.-M., Suwannapoom, C., Nguyen, S.N., Duong, T.V., Papenfuss, T.J., Murphy, R.W., Zhang, Y.-P. & Che, J. 2017. A novel multilocus phylogenetic estimation reveals unrecognized diversity in Asian horned toads, genus Megophrys sensu lato (Anura: Megophryidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 28–43. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.004 Reference page. 
• Nguyen, S.N., Nguyen, V.D.H., Nguyen, T.Q., Le, N.T.T., Nguyen, L.T., Vo, B.D., Vindum, J.V., Murphy, R.W., Che, J. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2017. A new color pattern of the Bungarus candidus complex (Squamata: Elapidae) from Vietnam based on morphological and molecular data. Zootaxa 4268(4): 563–572. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.4.7 Reference page. 

2019

• Nguyen, S.N., Jin, J.-Q., Vo, B.D., Nguyen, L.T., Zhou, W.-W., Che, J., Murphy, R.W. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2019. A new species of Acanthosaura Gray 1831 (Reptilia: Agamidae) from central Vietnam. Zootaxa 4612(4): 555–565. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4612.4.7 Reference page. 
• Zaher, H., Murphy, R.W., Arredondo, J.C., Graboski, R., Machado-Filho, P.R., Mahlow, K., Montingelli, G.G., Quadros, A.B., Orlov, N.L., Wilkinson, M., Zhang, Y.-P. & Grazziotin, F.G. 2019. Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes). PLoS ONE 14(5): e0216148. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216148 Reference page.