Rafaqat Masroor

Pakistan Health Research Council — Pakistan

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Amphibian and Reptile Biology(58), Species Distribution and Climate Change(28), Fish Biology and Ecology Studies(13), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(11), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(10)

Publications82 total

The herpetofaunal diversity of Takhar Province, Afghanistan
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
Evolutionary History of <scp> <i>Platyceps</i> </scp> Racers Reveals South Asian Origin and Recurrent Westward Dispersals
Journal of Biogeography·2026Open Access
Contrasting genetic diversity in the genus Acanthodactylus (Squamata: Lacertidae) at its eastern distribution edge
Amphibia-Reptilia·2025
Untangling the Wallacean Shortfall: The herpetofauna of central-eastern Afghanistan including two snake species new for the reptiles list of the country
Zootaxa·2025· 1 cited
Speciation and historical invasions of the Asian black-spined toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)
Nature Communications·2025· 7 citedOpen Access
Hidden on the Roof of the World: Mitochondrial Data Reveals Exceptional Genetic Diversity of Himalayan Ablepharine Skinks (Reptilia: Scincidae)
Russian Journal of Herpetology·2024· 1 cited
The last of their kind: Is the genus Scutiger (Anura: Megophryidae) a relict element of the paleo-Transhimalaya biota?
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution·2024· 4 cited
Exploring Paleogene Tibet's warm temperate environments through target enrichment and phylogenetic niche modelling of Himalayan spiny frogs (Paini, Dicroglossidae)
Molecular Ecology·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Review of the Pupilloidea of Pakistan (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata: Cochlicopidae, Chondrinidae, Orculidae, Pyramidulidae)
Folia Malacologica·2024Open Access
A checklist of the dung beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae, Scarabaeinae) deposited at Pakistan Museum of Natural History
Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Some like it hot: Past and present phylogeography of a desert dwelling gecko across the Arabian Peninsula
Journal of Biogeography·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
First Comprehensive Tadpole Description of the Relict and Endemic Mountain Frog Chrysopaa sternosignata (Murray 1885) from Afghanistan
Herpetologica·2023· 1 cited
Taxonomic study of the tribe Onitini Laporte, 1840 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) from Northern Pakistan
Journal of the Entomological Research Society·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Kukri snakes <i>Oligodon</i> Fitzinger, 1826 of the Western Palearctic with the resurrection of <i>Contia transcaspica</i> Nikolsky, 1902 (Reptilia, Squamata, Colubridae)
PeerJ·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Endemic lineages of spiny frogs demonstrate the biogeographic importance and conservational needs of the Hindu Kush–Himalaya region
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
The Silk roads: phylogeography of Central Asian dice snakes (Serpentes: Natricidae) shaped by rivers in deserts and mountain valleys
Current Zoology·2023· 13 citedOpen Access
Global Protected Areas as refuges for amphibians and reptiles under climate change
Nature Communications·2023· 163 citedOpen Access
Integrative approach resolves the systematics of barred wolf snakes in the <i>Lycodon striatus</i> complex (Reptilia, Colubridae)
Zoologica Scripta·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Rarely naturalized, but widespread and even invasive: the paradox of a popular pet terrapin expansion in Eurasia
NeoBiota·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Daniel Jablonski(27), Sylvia Hofmann(10), Spartak N. Litvinchuk(8), Muazzam Ali Khan(5), Joachim Schmidt(5), Aaron M. Bauer(4), Leo J. Borkin(4), Seyyed Saeed Hosseinian Yousefkhani(4), Pirzada Jamal Ahmed Siddiqui(4), Shabir Ali Amir(4), Abdul Basit(4), Javeed Farooqi(4), Jiři Šmı́d(3), Christophe Dufresnes(3), Dmitriy V. Skorinov(3), Eskandar Rastegar‐Pouyani(3), Uwe Fritz(3), Amaël Borzée(3), Konstantin D. Milto(3), Nikolay A. Poyarkov(3)