Francisco Luís Franco

Francisco Luís Franco, Brazilian herpetologist.

Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Dr. Vital Brazil, 1500, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Franco, F.L. & Ferreira, T.G. [2002] 2003. Descrição de uma nova espécie de Thamnodynastes Wagler, 1830 (Serpentes, Colubridae) do nordeste brasileiro, com comentários sobre o gênero. Phyllomedusa 1(2): 57–74. PDF Reference page.
Franco, F.L., Ferreira, T.G., Marques, O.A.V. & Sazima, I. 2003. A new species of hood-displaying Thamnodynastes (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the Atlantic forest in southeast Brazil. Zootaxa 334: 1–7. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.334.1.1 Reference page.
Morato, S.A.A, Franco, F.L. & Sanches, E.J. 2003. A new species of Clelia (Serpentes, Colubridae) from southern Brazil. Phyllomedusa 2(2): 93–100. PDF . Reference page.

Franco, F.L., Cintra, L.A. de C. & Lema, T. de 2006. A new species of Calamodontophis Amaral, 1963 (Serpentes, Colubridae, Xenodontinae) from southern Brazil. South American Journal of Herpetology 1(3): 218–226. DOI: 10.2994/1808-9798(2006)1[218:ANSOCA]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.

Silva-Haad, J.J., Franco, F.L. & Maldonado, J. 2008. Una nueva especie de Liotyphlops Peters, 1881 (Serpentes, Scolecophidia, Anomalepidae) del sur de la Amazonia Colombiana (In Spanish). Biota Colombiana 9(2): 295–300. DOI: 10.21068/bc.v9i2.205 Reference page.
Zaher, H., Oliveira, M.E. & Franco, F.L. 2008. A new, brightly colored species of Pseudoboa Schneider, 1801 from the Amazon Basin (Serpentes, Xenodontinae). Zootaxa 1674: 27–37. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page.

Murta-Fonseca, R.A., Franco, F.L. & Fernandes, D.S. 2015. Taxonomic status and morphological variation of Hydrodynastes bicinctus (Hermann, 1804) (Serpentes: Dipsadidae). Zootaxa 4007(1): 63–81. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.4 Reference page.

Franco, F.L., Trevine, V.C., Montingelli, G.G. & Zaher, H. 2017. A new species of Thamnodynastes from the open areas of central and northeastern Brazil (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Tachymenini). Salamandra 53(3): 339–350. PDF Reference page.

Bernarde, P.S., Turci, L.C.B., Abegg, A.D. & Franco, F.L. 2018. A remarkable new species of coralsnake of the Micrurus hemprichii species group from the Brazilian Amazon. Salamandra 54(4): 249–258. PDF Reference page.
Menezes, F. de A., Abegg, A.D., da Silva, B.R., Franco, F.L. & Feio, R.N. 2018. Composition and natural history of the snakes from the Parque Estadual da Serra do Papagaio, southern Minas Gerais, Serra da Mantiqueira, Brazil. Zookeys 797: 117–160. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.797.24549 Reference page.

Barbo, F.E., Booker, W.W., Duarte, M.R., Chaluppe, B., Portes Júnior, J.A., Franco, F.L. & Grazziotin, F.G. 2022. Speciation process on Brazilian continental islands, with the description of a new insular lancehead of the genus Bothrops (Serpentes, Viperidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 20(1): 1–25. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2021.2017059 Reference page.

Azevedo, W.S. dos, Franco, F.L., Menezes, L., Kunz, T.S. & Grazziotin, F. G. 2024. Integrated evidence sheds light on the taxonomy of the widespread Tantilla melanocephala species complex (Serpentes: Colubridae) and indicates the existence of a new species from southern South America. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 24: 119–147. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-023-00636-5 Reference page.