Selected publications - see full list
Leite, Y.L.R., Kok, P.J.R. & M. Weksler, 2015 - Evolutionary affinities of the ‘Lost World’ mouse suggest a late Pliocene connection between the Guiana and Brazilian shields.
Journal of Biogeography doi:10.1111/jbi.12461.
Gehara, M., Crawford, A. J., Orrico, V. G. D., Rodríguez, A., Lötters, S., Fouquet, A., Baldo, D., Barrientos, L. S., Brusquetti, F., Castroviejo-fisher, S., De La Riva, I., Ernst, R., Faivovich, J. Gagliardi Urrutia, G., Glaw, F., Guayasamin, J., Hölting, M., Jansen, M., Kok, P. J. R., Kwet, A., Lingnau, R., Lyra, M., Moravec, J., Padial, J. M., Pombal Jr., J., Rojas-runjaic, F. J. M., Schulze, A. Señaris, J. C., Solé, M., Rodrigues, M. T., Twomey, E., Haddad, C. F. B., Vences, M. & Köhler, J., 2014. High levels of diversity uncovered in a widespread nominal taxon: continental phylogeography of the Neotropical tree frog Dendropsophus minutus.
PLoS ONE 9 (9): 1-12.
Kok, P. J. R., 2013. - Two new charismatic Pristimantis species (Anura: Craugastoridae) from the tepuis of “The Lost World” (Pantepui region, South America).
European Journal of Taxonomy 60: 1-24.
Kok, P. J. R. , MacCulloch, R. D., Means, D. B., Roelants, K., Van Bocxlaer, I. & F. Bossuyt, 2012 - Low genetic diversity in tepui summit vertebrates.
Current Biology, 22 (15): R589-590. - pdf
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Kok, P.J.R., 2009 - Lizard in the clouds: a new highland genus and species of Gymnophthalmidae (Reptilia: Squamata) from Maringma tepui, western Guyana.
Zootaxa 1992: 53-67.
Kok, P.J.R., 2009 - A new species of Oreophrynella (Anura: Bufonidae) from the Pantepui region of Guyana, with notes on O. macconnelli Boulenger, 1900.
Zootaxa 2071: 35-49
