Hussam Zaher

Research interests

• amphibian and reptile biology
• evolution and paleontology studies
• fish biology and ecology studies
• fish biology, ecology, and behavior
• venomous animal envenomation and studies

• Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna

  South American Journal of Herpetology · 2019 · DOI

  249 cites
• Interrogating Genomic-Scale Data for Squamata (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians) Shows no Support for Key Traditional Morphological Relationships

  Systematic Biology · 2019 · DOI

  333 cites
• Large-scale molecular phylogeny, morphology, divergence-time estimation, and the fossil record of advanced caenophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes)

  PLoS ONE · 2019 · DOI

  295 cites
• Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

  PLoS Biology · 2018 · DOI

  270 cites
• Diversification in vipers: Phylogenetic relationships, time of divergence and shifts in speciation rates

  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution · 2016 · DOI

  261 cites
• A New Notosuchian from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil and the Phylogeny of Advanced Notosuchians

  PLoS ONE · 2014 · DOI

  188 cites
• Molecular phylogeny of the New World Dipsadidae (Serpentes: Colubroidea): a reappraisal

  Cladistics · 2012 · DOI

  220 cites
• Molecular phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes, Caenophidia) with an emphasis on South American Xenodontines: a revised classification and descriptions of new taxa

  Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia · 2009 · DOI

  396 cites
• A Cretaceous terrestrial snake with robust hindlimbs and a sacrum

  Nature · 2006 · DOI

  188 cites
• A Fossil Snake with Limbs

  Science · 2000 · DOI

  263 cites