Projects
Provenance research at the Museum Koenig
Management: Dr. André Koch
Publications
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2024/09
Max Wilhelm Carl Weber (1852 – 1937)
2024/01
Felix Kopstein (1893 – 1939)
2024/09
Paul Benedict Sarasin (1856 – 1929) und Karl Friedrich (Fritz) Sarasin (1859 – 1942)
2024/09
Kaspar Georg Karl Reinwardt (1773 – 1854)
2024/09
Der Einfluss der Hamburger Handelshäuser Hagenbeck und Umlauff auf die Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde im deutschsprachigen Raum
2024/11
Conservation perceptions and attitudes regarding monitor lizards in West Bengal, India
Nature Conservation, 56
2023/00
On the Provenance of the two large Gharials in the Display Collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna
2023/04
Zur Provenienz der beiden großen Gangesgaviale in der Schausammlung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien
Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie B für Botanik und Zoologie, 125
2022/01
Die turbulente Geschichte des China-Alligators Mao und drei seiner Artgenossen: ein ungewöhnliches Weihnachtsgeschenk des Entomologen Hermann Höne an das Aquarium des Berliner …
Sekretär, 22
2021/05
Statement of the SAB on taxonomic vandalism for the Reptile Database
2021/00
Varanus salvator
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2021
2021/00
On the discovery and scientific description of the Emerald Tree Monitor, Varanus prasinus (Schlegel, 1839)
Bibliotheca Herpetologica, 7, 15
2021/00
Varanus salvator. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e. T178214A113138439
2021/00
Varanus indicus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e. T200972722A1533318
2021/00
Varanus rainerguentheri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2021: e. T83778466A83778474
2021/00
Die Kobra aus Querum und die Schlangenweihe aus Formosa–Zwei zoologische Relikte der Hagenbeck’schen Völkerschauen
Völkerschau-Objekte.–Die Lübecker Museen, Völkerkundesammlung, Lübeck
2020/00
Visuelle Bestimmungshilfe für die Warnarten der Welt (Gattung Varanus)
2019/00
Report on the Awareness Workshops “Perceptions of Wildlife Conservation of Today’s Youth in West Bengal, India, with a Focus on Monitor Lizards”
Biawak, 2, 13
2018/10
Hatha Jodi: An illegal trade of misused scientific facts or blindfolded myths and beliefs
Biawak, 2, 12
2018/04
Vertebrates as prey of pitcher plants: A new case of a gecko (Lepidodactylus cf. lugubris) found in Nepenthes treubiana (Nepenthaceae) on New Guinea
Russian Journal of Herpetology, 2, 25
2018/03
Dietary notes and foraging ecology of south-east Asian water monitors (Varanus salvator) in Sabah, northern Borneo, Malaysia
Herpetological Bulletin, 143
2018/08
Effects of traditional beliefs leading to conservation of Water Monitor Lizards (Varanus Salvator) and threatened marshlands in West Bengal, India
Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 2, 13
2017/07
New findings on the relationships among New Guinea tree monitor lizards of the Varanus prasinus (Schlegel, 1839) complex
Herpetozoa, 1-2, 30
2017/00
A coconut-eating monitor lizard? On an unusual case of frugivory in the melanistic Sulawesi water monitor (Varanus togianus)
Herpetological Bulletin, 139
2017/00
Probably first reported case from Indonesia of a lizard (Scincidae: Lipinia sp.) being preyed upon by a spider (Sparassidae: Pandercetes sp.)
The Herpetological Bulletin, 140
2016/08
The Scale Morphology and Micro-Structure of Monitor Lizards (Squamata: Varanidae: Varanus spp.) and their Allies: Implications for Systematics, Ecology, and Conservation
Zootaxa, 1, 4153
2016/03
Comment on the proposed conservation of Tupinambus indicus Daudin, 1832 (currentlyVaranus indicus; Reptilia, Squamata) by replacement of the neotype
The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 1, 73
2015/06
Integrative Taxonomic Revision of the Varanus timorensis (Gray, 1831) Group (Squamata: Varanidae)
2014/09
First Record of the Gekkonid Genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 from Gunung Mulu National Park, Northern Sarawak, East Malaysia may Represent an Undescribed Species
Asian Herpetological Research, 3, 5
2014/01
Correct voucher specimen data reduce'shelf life'of undescribed species
Herpetozoa, 3-4, 26
2014/04
New data on the rare Varanus bogerti Mertens, 1950 and V. telenesetes Sprackland, 1991 (Squamata: Varanidae), two endemic monitor lizard taxa from island groups off …
The Herpetological Journal, 2, 24
2014/12
First and Repeated Cases of Parthenogenesis in the Varanid Subgenus Euprepiosaurus (Varanus indicus Species Group) and the First Successful Breeding of V. rainerguentheri in …
Biawak - Journal for Varanid Biology and Husbandry, 2, 8
2014/12
IUCN Monitor Lizard Specialist Group Established
Biawak - Journal for Varanid Biology and Husbandry, 2, 8
2013/00
Vernachlässigte Vielfalt in einem Biodiversitätshotspot: die Amphibien und Reptilien von Sulawesi, Indonesien
Treffpunkt Biologische Vielfalt XIII
2012/00
Discovery, Diversity, and Distribution of the Amphibians and Reptiles of Sulawesi and its Offshore Islands
2012/00
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of monitor lizards’ scale ultrastructure: systematic implications
Biawak, 6
2012/12
New morphological and distributional data on Varanus rainerguentheri (Squamata: Varanidae), an endemic and little-known monitor lizard species of the Moluccas, Indonesia
Salamandra, 48
2012/12
Rediscovery and re-description of the holotype of Lygosoma vittigerum (= Lipinia vittigera) Boulenger, 1894
Acta Herpetologica, 2, 7
2012/12
The Young Systematists special issue—promoting the scientific work of early career scientists in taxonomy and systematics
Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 4, 12
2010/04
On the type selection and re-typification of two monitor lizard taxa (Squamata: Varanidae): Monitor bivittatus celebensis Schlegel, 1844 and Monitor kordensis Meyer, 1874; with …
Zootaxa, 1, 2440
2010/00
The Monitor Man: a story of stunning discoveries and charismatic creatures
Biawak, 4, 4
2010/00
Heading east: a new subspecies of Varanus salvator from Obi Island, Maluku Province, Indonesia, with a discussion about the easternmost natural occurrence of Southeast Asian …
Russian Journal of Herpetology, 4, 17
2010/05
Unravelling the underestimated diversity of Philippine water monitor lizards (Squamata: Varanus salvator complex), with the description of two new species and a …
Zootaxa, 1, 2446
2010/00
‘2009
A new species of reed snake, Calamaria Boie (Squamata: Colubridae), from Central Vietnam. Hamadryad, 34
2009/00
Zoo-ethnological observations in Southwest Sulawesi, Indonesia: a case study of Kembar Buaya ("monitor twins")
Biawak, 3, 3
2009/00
Islands between the realms: a revised checklist of the herpetofauna of the Talaud Archipelago, Indonesia, with a discussion about its biogeographic affinities
Bonner zoologische Beiträge, 1/2, 56
2009/05
Refining the polytypic species concept of mangrove monitors (Squamata: Varanus indicus group): a new cryptic species from the Talaud Islands, Indonesia, reveals the …
Australian Journal of Zoology, 1, 57
2009/00
A new species of Calamaria (Squamata: Colubridae) similar to C. ceramensis de Rooij, 1913, from the Banggai Islands, east of Sulawesi, Indonesia
Zootaxa, 2196
2008/00
On the type specimens of the recently described Sulawesi pitviper Tropidolaemus laticinctus Kuch, Gumprecht & Melaun 2007 (Squamata: Viperidae)
Zootaxa, 1721
2008/00
On the occurrence of the Asiatic softshell turtle, Amyda cartilaginea (Boddaert, 1770), on Sulawesi, Indonesia
Hamadryad, 33