Benjamin Tapley

Feb 29, 2024 | nature.com | Rikki Gumbs |Ryan Bates |Michael Hoffmann |Benjamin Tapley |Samuel T. Turvey |Walter Jetz | +1 more

AbstractHuman-driven extinction threatens entire lineages across the Tree of Life. Here we assess the conservation status of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history, using three policy-relevant approaches. First, we calculate an index of threat to overall evolutionary history, showing that we expect to lose 86–150 billion years (11–19%) of jawed vertebrate evolutionary history over the next 50–500 years.

Sep 7, 2023 | mapress.com | Daniel Kane |Benjamin Tapley |Luan Nguyen

We describe a new species of the Natricinae genus Rhabdophis Fitzinger, 1843 from the Hoang Lien range, northwest Vietnam. The new species is distinct from all congeneric species on the grounds of morphometric and molecular data. The new species is most similar to Rhabdophis leonardi in terms of morphology but can be distinguished from it based on differences in maxillary tooth count, scalation, and genetic data.