Frank Tillack

Collection Management

Frank.Tillack@mfn.berlin+49 0 30 889 140 - 8539

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Department:
Infrastructure and Development

As collection manager, I am responsible for the collection, maintenance and further development of the collection of extant amphibians and reptiles. I answer inquiries about their history and holdings, coordinate loan transactions and use of the collection, and manage the collection care laboratories.

I work in the collections:
Herpetology

Publications

Schätti, B., Tillack, F., Stutz, A., Kucharzewski, C. (2024). Three new cliff racer species from the Sultanate of Oman (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubrinae) and zoogeographic traits of its herpetofauna. Revue suisse de Zoologie, 131(2), 451-486. DOI: https://doi.org/10.35929/RSZ.0132Open Access

Wüster, W., Tillack, F. (2023). On the importance of types and the perils of “en passant” taxonomy: a brief history of the typification of Coluber naja Linnaeus, 1758 (Serpentes: Elapidae) and its implications, with the designation of a lectotype. Zootaxa, 5346(4), 403-419. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5346.4.3

Kukushkin, O., Tillack, F., Doronin, I., Kluge, N., Jablonski, D. (2024). Johann Gottlieb Georgi or Peter Simon Pallas: review regarding the authorship and description of Lacerta taurica (Squamata, Lacertidae). Zootaxa, 5493(5), 542-560. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5493.5.4

Köhler, G., Charunrochana, P.T., Mogk, L., Than, N.L., Kurniawan, N., Kadafi, A.M., Das, A., Tillack, F., O’Shea, M. (2023). A taxonomic revision of Boiga multomaculata (Boie, 1827) and B. ochracea (Theobald, 1868), with the description of a new subspecies (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae). Zootaxa, 5270(2), 151-193. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5270.2.1

Bhattarai, S., Gautam, B., Neupane, B., Khandekar, A., Thackeray, T., Agarwal, I., Tillack, F., Olson, A., Hogan, F., Wright, W. (2025). A review of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1827 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of Nepal with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa, 5594(3), 401-451. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5594.3.1Open Access

Denzer, W., Tillack, F. (2024). The original description of Agama gutturosa Merrem, 1819 and its nomenclatural implication on the genus Bronchocela Kaup, 1827 (Squamata: Agamidae). Zootaxa, 5507(2), 337-355. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5507.2.6

Narayanan, S., Das, S., Anvar, Y.M., Tillack, F., Mohapatra, P.P., Gower, D.J., Rajkumar, K.P., Deepak, V. (2023). On the taxonomic validity of Boiga whitakeri Ganesh et al., 2021 with new insights on Boiga dightoni (Boulenger, 1894) (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae). Vertebrate Zoology, 73, 1-21. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.73.e97002Open Access