Zeeshan A. Mirza (@snakeszeeshan) 's Twitter Profile
Zeeshan A. Mirza

@snakeszeeshan

PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Biology @MPI_Bio with a keen interest in Eco-Evo-Devo

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Zeeshan A. Mirza (@snakeszeeshan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Glad to have been part of this amazing team to help resolve systematics of the Pope’s pit vipers complex doi.org/10.3897/vz.74.… #herpetology #NewSpecies

Sara Wighard (@sarawighard) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Rumour* has it Frank Herbert was inspired to create the Dune sandworms after seeing the mouths of Allodiplogaster sudhausi under a microscope. *This rumour can't be confirmed and may or may not have originated from this tweet.

Zeeshan A. Mirza (@snakeszeeshan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Check out our paper on a new species Smithophis from the Indo-Burma Region mdpi.com/2903710 #mdpidiversity via @DiversityMdpi Harshil Patel 🦎🐍🐸 Virender #herpetology #newspecies #northeastindia #snakes #biodiversity #conservation #biodiversityhotspot

Check out our paper on a new species Smithophis from the Indo-Burma Region mdpi.com/2903710 #mdpidiversity via @DiversityMdpi  <a href="/HarshilPatel89/">Harshil Patel 🦎🐍🐸</a> <a href="/Virenophio/">Virender</a> 
#herpetology #newspecies #northeastindia #snakes #biodiversity #conservation #biodiversityhotspot
Jahnavi Joshi (@jahnavijoshi2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are back in Hyderabad! This year, the Molecular Phylogeny Workshop is happening at the University of Hyderabad from Oct 10-14, 2024. If you want to learn the basics of molecular phylogenetics and its applications, please do apply!

We are back in Hyderabad! This year, the Molecular Phylogeny Workshop is happening at the University of Hyderabad from Oct 10-14, 2024. If you want to learn the basics of molecular phylogenetics and its applications, please do apply!
The Wire (@thewire_in) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It is important that the effort and energies of the forest dept are devoted more towards the pressing challenges and threats to India's biodiversity rather than to arbitrarily and illegally acting against #wildlife researchers. Ritwick Dutta, Tiasa Adhya✍️thewire.in/environment/of…

Zeeshan A. Mirza (@snakeszeeshan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Another new snake species! A new long-snouted vine snake from India sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Harshil Patel 🦎🐍🐸 #herpetology #newspecies #India #Bihar #Assam

Another new snake species!
A new long-snouted vine snake from India  sciencedirect.com/science/articl… <a href="/HarshilPatel89/">Harshil Patel 🦎🐍🐸</a> 
#herpetology #newspecies #India #Bihar #Assam
Daniel Kronauer (@danielkronauer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wow! A blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus I think) feeding on ant brood. These snakes are completely subterranean, so you can’t really observe them in the wild. They’re specialized predators of ants and termites and, evidently, they look really weird when they eat. Ant 🐜 🐍 🐜

Zeeshan A. Mirza (@snakeszeeshan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A new genus and species of snake from the Himalayas, Anguiculus dicaprioi named after Leonardo DiCaprio rdcu.be/dXDI7 #newspecies #herpetology #nhm #rewild #leonardo #dicaprio #HimachalPradesh #Himalayas #Liopeltis

A new genus and species of snake from the Himalayas, Anguiculus dicaprioi  named after <a href="/LeoDiCaprio/">Leonardo DiCaprio</a> 
rdcu.be/dXDI7

#newspecies #herpetology #nhm #rewild #leonardo #dicaprio #HimachalPradesh #Himalayas #Liopeltis
Harshil Patel 🦎🐍🐸 (@harshilpatel89) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Meet Ophisops venustus, a new species of snake eye lizard that we describe from hills of Gujarat and Maharashtra. The new species is named 'venustus', a Latin term for charming / elegant / beautiful. Link to the paper : taprobanica.org/Archives/Volum…

Meet Ophisops venustus, a new species of snake eye lizard that we describe from hills of Gujarat and Maharashtra. 
The new species is named 'venustus', a Latin term for charming / elegant / beautiful.

Link to the paper : taprobanica.org/Archives/Volum…
Mongabay India (@mongabayindia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A new snake discovered from Himachal Pradesh has been placed into a newly identified genus, Anguiculus (meaning small snake). This finding highlights the distinctiveness of the Western Himalaya. Zeeshan A. Mirza Justin Bernstein ✒️Neha Jain india.mongabay.com/2025/01/an-ins…

Mongabay India (@mongabayindia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Researcher Zeeshan A. Mirza @MPI_Bio has described four new tarantulas from the Western Ghats. Among them was an entirely new genus called "Cilantica", named after the Tamil word for spider. #NewSpecies ✒️Liz Kimbrough, Ph.D. 🌈 india.mongabay.com/2025/01/new-ta…

Harshil Patel 🦎🐍🐸 (@harshilpatel89) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy to share our recent study on Phylogeny and Systematics of Oligodon juglandifer with Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Oligodon lipipengi mdpi.com/3191916 #mdpidiversity via @DiversityMdpi Zeeshan A. Mirza Virender

The Nobel Prize (@nobelprize) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. Skłodowska Curie developed the term radioactivity,

The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the first individual to be awarded two Nobel Prizes and still today the only individual with two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific categories: Marie Skłodowska Curie. 

Skłodowska Curie developed the term radioactivity,
Aparna Lajmi (@aparnalajmi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🐜 If you are interested in studying ant systematics, diversification, and trait evolution, we are looking for a PhD student to join our lab in 2025. 🐜 For more details please check out our lab website: aparnalajmi.weebly.com Entrance exam: researchadmissions.gitam.edu 🙏 RT

🐜 If you are interested in studying ant systematics, diversification, and trait evolution, we are looking for a PhD student to join our lab in 2025. 🐜
For more details please check out our lab website: aparnalajmi.weebly.com
Entrance exam: researchadmissions.gitam.edu
🙏 RT
Madhura Agashe (@madhura_agashe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm thrilled to share the first publication of my PhD! In this work, we attempted to understand the biogeographic origins, dispersal routes, and major diversification centres of the speciose and widespread house geckos (Genus: Hemidactylus) Cont 1/4

I'm thrilled to share the first publication of my PhD! In this work, we attempted to understand the biogeographic origins, dispersal routes, and major diversification centres of the speciose and widespread house geckos (Genus: Hemidactylus) 

Cont 1/4
Zeeshan A. Mirza (@snakeszeeshan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Geckos serve as the best example of vocal reptiles. However, we, Virender et al. (2025), report vocalisation by an agamid lizard, Calotes emma. Read about the observation: hamadryad.org/index.php/jour… #herpetology #research #lizards #vocalization

Geckos serve as the best example of vocal reptiles. However, we, <a href="/Virenophio/">Virender</a> et al. (2025), report vocalisation by an agamid lizard, Calotes emma.
Read about the observation: hamadryad.org/index.php/jour… 
#herpetology #research #lizards #vocalization