​Peer-Reviewed Publications (*mentored undergraduate students)
2025
  • Paluh, D.J., M. Brinkman*, K. Gilliam-Beale*, D. Salcedo-Recio*, J. Szafranski*, J. Hanken, and G.J. Fraser. 2025. The metamorphic transition of the frog mouth: from tadpole keratinized mouthparts to adult teeth. Royal Society Open Science 12: 251195. PDF
  • Griffing, A.H., D.J. Paluh, J.C. DeBoer, J.D. Daza, T. Gamble, A.P. Russell, and A.M. Bauer. 2025. Diversity and development of the hemibacula of croaking geckos (Sphaerodactylidae: Aristelliger). Journal of Anatomy 247: 1145–1156  PDF
  • Lötters, S., P. Böning, R. Boistel, J.C.C. Auza, L. Coen, L.A. Coloma, A. Chuchutalli, J. Culebras, A. Crawford, D.J. Ellwein, R. Ernst, V. Fernandez, J.M. Guayasamin, C.H. Heine, A. Jung, K.-H. Jungfer, N. Kaffenberger, H. Krehenwinkel, E. La Marca, M.Lampo, D. Medina, G.F.M. Rangel, C. Olivier, L. Orsen, D.J. Paluh, J. Perrin, A.B.Q. Riera, B.R.-R. Ross, J.P. Reyes-Puig, D.C. Rößler, L.A.R. Solano, M. Sowinski, A. Terán-Valdez, A.Tovar, M. Veith, P. Venegas, and A. Plewnia. 2025. A roadmap for harlequin frog systematics, with a partial revision of the Atelopus spumarius complex. Zootaxa. 5571: 01–76. PDF

2024
  • Plewnia, A., A. Terán-Valdez, J. Culebras, R. Boistel, D.J. Paluh, A.B. Quezada Riera, C.H. Heine, J.P. Reyes-Puig, D.Salazar-Valenzuela, J.M.Guayasamin, and S. Lötters. 2024. A new species of harlequin toad (Bufonidae: Atelopus) from Amazonian Ecuador. Salamandra 60: 237–253. PDF
  • Pierson, T.W., M.O. Hinds, S. Altobelli, T.L. Brock, C.M. Crookston, D.J. Paluh, J. Deitloff, A.R. Anjier, and N.L. Staub. 2024. Histological and osteological variation between alternative reproductive tactics in two-lined salamanders. Herpetologica 80: 177–188. PDF 
  • Griffing, A.H., E.L. Stanley, and D.J. Paluh. 2024. The first report of preovipositional embryonic development in the legless gecko, Lialis burtonis (Gekkota: Pygopodidae).The Anatomical Record 1–5. PDF
​
​2022
  • Hantak, M.M., R.P. Guralnick, A.C. Cameron, A.H. Griffing, S.M. Harrington, J.L. Weinell, and D.J. Paluh. 2022. Color scales with climate in North American ratsnakes. Biology Letters 18: 20220403. PDF
  • Echevarría, L.Y., D.J. Paluh, L.A. García-Ayachi, P.J. Venegas, A. Catenazzi, R. Pradel, and S. Castroviejo-Fisher. 2022. Two new species of marsupial frogs (Anura: Hemiphractidae) from the Central Andes in of northern Peru. Salamandra 58: 1–23. PDF
​
2021
  • Paluh, D.J., W.A. Dillard, E.L. Stanley, G.J. Fraser, and D.C. Blackburn. 2021. Re-evaluating the morphological evidence for the re-evolution of lost mandibular teeth in frogs. Evolution 75: 3203–3213. PDF
  • Paluh, D.J., K. Riddell*, C.M. Early, M.M. Hantak, G.F.M. Jongsma, R.M. Keeffe, F. Magalhães Silva, S.V. Nielsen, M.C. Vallejo-Pareja, E.L. Stanley, and D.C. Blackburn. 2021. Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution. eLife 10: e66926. PDF
  • Blackburn, D.C., C. Hernández Morales, D.J. Paluh, and E.L. Stanley. 2021. Predation on a gymnopthalmid lizard by the Brazilian Dumpy Frog, Stereocyclops incrassatus (Family Microhylidae). Herpetology Notes 14: 847–849. PDF
  • Venegas, P.J., L.A. García-Ayachi, L.Y. Echevarría, D.J. Paluh, J.C. Chávez–Arribasplata, A. Marchelie,  and A. Catenazzi. 2021. A new species of marsupial frog (Anura; Gastrotheca) from the Cordillera de Colán in northeastern Peru. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 201–218. PDF
​
2020
  • Barve, V.V., L. Brenskelle, D. Li, B.J. Stucky, N.V. Barve, M.M. Hantak, B.S. McLean, D.J. Paluh, J.A. Oswald, M.W. Belitz, R.A. Folk, and R.P. Guralnick. 2020. Methods for broad-scale plant phenology assessments using citizen scientists’ photographs. Applications in Plant Sciences 8: e11315. PDF​ 

2019
  • Blackburn, D.C., D.J. Paluh, I. Krone, E.M. Roberts, E.L. Stanley, and N.J. Stevens. 2019. The earliest fossil of the African Clawed Frog (genus Xenopus) from sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Herpetology 53: 125–130. PDF
  • Stocker, M.R., S.J. Nesbitt, B. Kligman, D.J. Paluh, A.D. Marsh, D.C. Blackburn, and W.G. Parker. 2019. The earliest equatorial record of anurans from the Late Triassic of Arizona. Biology Letters 15: 20180922. PDF
  • Paluh, D.J., E.L. Stanley, and D.C. Blackburn. 2019. First dietary record of Gastrotheca guentheri (Boulenger, 1882), the lone anuran with true mandibular teeth. Herpetology Notes 12: 699–700. PDF

2018
  • Paluh, D.J. and A.M. Bauer. 2018. Phylogenetic history, allometry and disparate functional pressures influence the morphological diversification of the gekkotan quadrate, a keystone cranial element. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 125: 693–708​. PDF ​
  • Paluh, D.J., K. Olgun, and A.M. Bauer. 2018. Ontogeny, but not sexual dimorphism, drives the intraspecific variation of quadrate bone morphology in Hemidactylus turcicus. Herpetologica 74: 22–28. PDF

2017​
  • Paluh, D.J. and A.M. Bauer. 2017. Comparative skull anatomy of full-bodied and crevice-dwelling Trachylepis skinks (Squamata: Scincidae) with a survey of resources in scincid cranial osteology. Plos One 12: e0184414. PDF ​
  • Paluh, D.J., A.G. Griffing, and A.M. Bauer. 2017. Sheddable armour: Identification of osteoderms in the integument of Geckolepis maculata (Gekkota). African Journal of Herpetology 66: 12–24. PDF

2016
  • Gignac, P.M., N.J. Kley, J.A. Clarke, M.W. Colbert, A.C. Morhardt, D. Cerio, I.N. Cost, P.G. Cox, J.D. Daza, C.M. Early, M.S. Echols, R.M. Henkelman, A.N. Herdina, C.M. Holliday, Z. Li, K. Mahlow, S. Merchant, J. Müller, C.P. Orsbon, D.J. Paluh, M.L. Thies, H.P. Tsai, and L.M. Witmer. 2016. Diffusible iodine-based contrast-enhanced computed tomography (diceCT): an emerging tool for rapid, high-resolution, 3-D imaging of metazoan soft tissues. Journal of Anatomy 228: 889–909. PDF
  • Hantak, M.M., D.J. Paluh, and C.M. Hickerson. 2016. Comparison of the diets of erythristic and striped morphs of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon cinereus. Northeastern Naturalist 23: 219–228. PDF 
  • Hantak, M.M., D.J. Paluh, and R.A. Saporito. 2016. Bufadienolide and alkaloid-based chemical defences in two different species of neotropical anurans are equally effective against the same arthropod predators. Journal of Tropical Ecology 32: 165–169. PDF

2015
  • ​Paluh, D.J., C. Eddy, K. Ivanov, C.M. Hickerson, and C.D. Anthony. 2015. Selective foraging on ants by a terrestrial polymorphic salamander. American Midland Naturalist 174: 265–277. PDF
  • Paluh, D.J., E.K. Kenison, and R.A. Saporito. 2015. Frog or Fruit? The importance of color and shape to bird predators in clay model experiments. Copeia 103: 58–63. PDF

2014
  • Paluh, D.J., M.M. Hantak, and R.A. Saporito. 2014. A test of aposematism in the dendrobatid poison frog Oophaga pumilio: The importance of movement in clay model experiments. Journal of Herpetology 48: 249–254. PDF​ ​ ​

2013
  • Paluh, D.J. and C.A. Sheil. 2013. Anatomy of the fully formed chondrocranium of Emydura subglobosa (Chelidae), a pleurodiran turtle. Journal of Morphology 274: 01–10. PDF​

Natural History Notes & Book Reviews
  • Weinell, J.L., D.J. Paluh, A.L. Singh, D.C. Blackburn, and R.M Brown. 2019. Myersophis alpestris. Reproduction. Herpetological Review 50: 164–165. PDF
  • Alfonso, Y.A., J. Torre, and D.J. Paluh. 2019. The bizarre false-chameleons (clade Chamaeleolis, Anolis) from Cuba. Anolis Newsletter VII, p. 04-07. Eds.  J.T. Stroud, A.J. Geneva, J.B. Losos. Washington University, St. Louis MO. PDF​
  • Paluh, D.J. 2018. Review of Diamonds in the Rough: Natural History of the Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake by D. Bruce Means (2017). Florida Field Naturalist 46: 76–77. PDF  
  • Blackburn, D.C., D.J. Paluh, and E.L. Stanley. 2017. Phrynobatrachus krefftii (Krefft’s Puddle Frog). Anurophagy. Herpetological Review 48: 413–414. PDF  
  • Paluh, D.J. and A.M. Bauer. 2016. Nephrurus sheai (Northern knob-tailed gecko). Diet. Herpetological Review 47: 466–467. PDF  
  • Paluh, D.J., C.D. Anthony, and C.M. 2013. Hickerson. Plethodon cinereus (Eastern Red-backed Salamander). Morphology. Herpetological Review 44: 652–653. PDF​​
Proudly powered by Weebly