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Thore Koppetsch

MSc

Herpetology

Mail: t.koppetsch [at] leibniz-lib.de

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Research interests

Evolution and biodiversity
Systematics and taxonomy, distribution and phylogeny of reptiles and amphibians
Patterns and processes of speciation
Characteristics and mechanisms of adaptation
Biogeography
Functional morphology and ecomorphology
Ecology and interaction of species and species communities
Ethology

Memberships

Societas Europaea Herpetologica (SEH), Deutsche Gesellschaft für Herpetologie und Terrarienkunde (DGHT)

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Field experience:

2019:

Participation in a three-month research expedition (Project: Biogeography, habitat use and coexistence of fish species in tropical streams) to Sulawesi, Indonesia (travel grant from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

August 2017 – September 2017:

Field trip to Kyrgyzstan (“Zoology, ecology and Fauna of Kyrgyzstan”) of the Institute of Ecology and Regional Studies from Bishkek (travel grant by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation)

August 2015 – September 2015:

Field trip to Ecuador (Cuyabeno Wildlife Reserve, Yasuni National Park, El Cajas National Park, Galápagos National Park)

Publications

Published in

2023

Koppetsch, T., Pabijan, M., Hutter, C. R., Köhler, J., Gehring, P.-S., Rakotoarison, A., Ratsoavina, F. M., et al. (2023): An initial molecular resolution of the mantellid frogs of the Guibemantis liber complex reveals three new species from northern Madagascar. - Vertebrate Zoology 73: 397–432; https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e94063

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koppetsch_et_al._2023_guibemantis_liber_complex.pdf

2022

Böhme, W., Koppetsch, T., Rduch, V. (2022): Melanism in monitor lizards (Squamata: Varanidae), with a first case in the Nile Monitor, Varanus (Polydaedalus) niloticus (Squamata: Varanidae). - Herpetology Notes 15: 257-262; https://www.biotaxa.org/hn/article/view/72870

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boehme_et_al._2022_melanism_in_monitor_lizards.pdf

Böhme, W., Schleich, H., Wipfler, B., Koppetsch, T. (2022): On the dentition of the Cape Verdean endemic lizard genus Chioninia Gray, 1845, with a discussion of ecological implications in the giant species C. coctei (Duméril & Bibron, 1839) (Squamata, Scincidae). – Spixiana 45 (1): 131-144.

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Ineich, I., Koppetsch, T., Böhme, W. (2022): Pinocchio lizards and other lizards bearing rostral appendages – the peculiar habitus of the draconine agamid Harpesaurus tricinctus with highlights on its ecological implications and convergence with its New World equivalent, the dactyloid Anolis proboscis. – Salamandra 58(2): 123-138.

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ineich_et_al-1523.pdf

Koppetsch, T. (2022): Solo Spawning, Egg Guarding by a Female and Remarks on Vocal Signalling and Colour Change for the Freshwater Puffer Pao suvattii in Captivity. - Tropical Natural History 22 (2022): 38-42.

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Koppetsch, T., Böhme, W. (2022): On the identity of west Saharan geckos of the Tarentola ephippiata complex (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae), with comments on an extreme case of syntopy with their close relative T. annularis. - African Journal of Herpetology; DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2022.2055652

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Koppetsch, T., Böhme, W. (2022): Photospot: Juvenile Rufous Fishing Owl Scotopelia ussheri in Guinea. – Bulletin of the African Bird Club 29 (1): 97 - 98.

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Koppetsch, T., Kaiser, H. (2022): Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on Nose-horned Vipers, Vipera ammodytes (Linnaeus, 1758), at the Danube’s Iron Gates, Serbia, with a brief review of tick infestations on European vipers. - Herpetology Notes 15: 781-784.

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2021

Böhme, W., Koppetsch, T. (2021): Snake names in the Greek-Roman antiquity: old characterizations, identity in current zoology, and change of their original meaning in post-Linnean herpetology. – Salamandra 57(4): 475-501.

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boehme_koppetsch_2021_schlangen_in_der_antike_-_salamandra.pdf

Böhme, W., Koppetsch, T. (2021): Riesen ihrer Art - maximal große Amphibien und Reptilien in der Sammlung des Zoologischen Forschungsmuseums Alexander Koenig (ZFMK) in Bonn. - Koenigiana 15(1): 25-44.

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Böhme, W., Koppetsch, T., Fischer, E. (2021): Die Moorspirke (Pinus rotundata) - ein übersehenes Nadelbaumvorkommen in Schleswig-Holstein. - Natur- und Landeskunde - Zeitschrift für Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg und Mecklenburg 128(4-6): 135-139.

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Denzer, W., Dondorp, E., Koppetsch, T., Lahaise, K., Manthey, U., Mostadius, M., Böhme, W. (2021): Nomenclatural and morphological notes on the rare agamid lizard Pseudocophotis sumatrana (Hubrecht, 1879) (Squamata: Agamidae: Draconinae). – Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69: 448–462; DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2021-0064

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Documents:

denzer_et_al_2021_pseudocophotis_sumatrana.pdf

Koppetsch, T. (2021): The Chinese Soft-shelled Turtle Pelodiscus sinensis (Testudines: Trionychidae) near the High and Upper Rhine in Germany and Switzerland. - Herpetology Notes 14: 1263-1267.

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koppetsch_2021_herpetology_notes.pdf

Koppetsch, T., Nečas, P., Wipfler, B. (2021): A new chameleon of the Trioceros affinis species complex (Squamata, Chamaeleonidae) from Ethiopia. - Zoosystematics and Evolution 97 (1) 2021, 161–179; DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.57297

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koppetsch_et_al._2021_trioceros_zse_article_57297_en_1.pdf

Koppetsch, T., Töpfer, T. (2021): Brief remarks on the phenotypic variability of White-shouldered Triller Lalage sueurii in comparison to White-winged Triller L. tricolor. - BirdingASIA 36: 61-64.

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2020

Böhme, W., Koppetsch, T. (2020): Wann wurde das Seitenwinden wüstenbewohnender Vipern erstmals beschrieben? Und war die Spinnenschwanz-Viper (Pseudocerastes urarachnoides Bostanchi et al., 2006) vielleicht schon fast 2000 Jahre vorher bekannt? – Sekretär 20: 81 – 89.

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Koppetsch, T. (2020): A new species of Trachylepis (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, and a key to the Ethiopian Trachylepis. - Zootaxa 4859 (1): 113–126; https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4859.1.4

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Koppetsch, T., Böhme, W., Büsse, S., Gorb, S. N. (2020). Comparative epidermal microstructure anatomy and limb and tail osteology of eyelid geckos (Squamata: Eublepharidae): Implications of ecomorphological adaptations. - Zoologischer Anzeiger 287: 45-60; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2020.05.005

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Koppetsch, T., Sánchez Romero, G., Fischer, E., Böhme, W. (2020): A new record of nectarivory for Tarentola delalandii (Duméril and Bibron, 1836) pollinating the introduced palm Dypsis lutescens (H. Wendl.) Beentje and J. Dransf. (Arecaceae) on Tenerife, Canary Islands. - Herpetology Notes 13: 415-419.

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Documents:

koppetsch_et_al._2020.pdf

Koppetsch, T., Wantania, L. L., Boneka, F. B., Böhme, W. (2020): Crossing the Weber Line: First record of the Giant Bluetongue Skink Tiliqua gigas (Schneider, 1801) (Squamata: Scincidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. - Bonn zoological Bulletin 69 (2): 185–189; https://doi.org/10.20363/BZB-2020.69.2.185

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Documents:

koppetsch_et_al_2020_tiliqua_gigas_from_sulawesi.pdf

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Academic Education:

November 2020 - ongoing:

Scientific assistant at the Herpetology Section and Morphology Laboratory at the ZFMK, Bonn

October 2018 – September 2020:

Graduate studies (Master of Science (M. Sc.) in Organismic Biology, Evolutionary Biology and Palaeobiology (OEP Biology) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (Master thesis: 'Taxonomy, Biogeography and Speciation of North-East African Reptiles – Evolutionary Patterns in Selected Species Complexes'); supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhme & Dr. Andreas Schmitz

October 2015 – September 2018:
Undergraduate studies (Bachelor of Science [B.Sc.] in Biology) at the University of Kiel (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel) (Bachelor thesis: 'Functional Ecomorphology of Limbs and Tail, and their Significance for Locomotion, in Three Species of Eublepharid Geckos (Squamata: Eublepharidae)'; supervisors: Prof. Dr. Stanislav N. Gorb & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Böhme

2015 - 2020:

Scholarship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)

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