Books and Research Papers:

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PHD Thesis:
 

• Morphoanatomical specialization of the buccopharyngeal  region of the anuran larvae and its bearing on the mode of larval feeding. (New)

 

Atlases:
 

• Distribution Atlas of Amphibians of Pakistan. (New)
   

• Distribution Atlas of Snakes of Pakistan. (New)
   

• Distribution Atlas of Turtles and Crocodiles of Pakistan. (New)

 

Research Papers:

Amphibians

• ______,  and  Mufti, S. A. 1994a. Oral disc morphology  of  amphibian tadpole and its functional correlates. Pakistan J. Zool.,  26:25-30.
   

• Khan. M. S. 1990. The impact of human activities on the status and distribution of amphibians in Pakistan. Hamadryad, 15:21-24.
   

• ______, December 2003. The larval hyobranchial skeleton of five anuran species and its ecological correlates. HERPETOZOA 16 (3/4): 133-140.
   

• ______,  and Tasnim, Rashida, 1992. On a strange escape behavior shown by common Pakistani toad Bufo stomaticus to an ophidian predator. The Snake, 24:74-76.
   

• ______, 2002. Riparian tadpoles of Punjab, Pakistan: Bufo stomaticus Lutkin, 1862. Bulletin Chicago Herpetological Society,37(12):216-219.
   

• ______, 2001. Notes on Cranial-Ridged Toads of Pakistan and Description of a new subspecies (Amphibia:Bufonidae). Pakistan J. Zool., 33(4): 293-298.
   

• ______, 1997. A new subspecies of common skittering frog Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis (Schneider, 1799) from Balochistan, Pakistan. Pakistan J. Zool., 29(2):107-112.
   

• ______, 2004. Riparian tadpoles: Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin, 1902) with notes on breeding habits and feeding ecology. Bulletin of the Chicago Herpetological Society, 39(6):101-104.
   

• Dubois,  A.  and Khan, M. S. 1979. A new species of  frog  (genus Rana, subgenus Paa) from northern Pakistan (Amphibia, Anura).  J. Herpetol., 13:403-410
   

• ______, and Malik, S. A.1987 b. Reproductive strategies in a subtropical anuran population in arid Punjab, Pakistan. Biologia (Lahore), 33:279-303.
   

• ______, 2002. Riparian tadpoles of Punjab, Pakistan: Bufo stomaticus Lutkin, 1862. Bulletin Chicago Herpetological Society,37(12):216-219.
   

• Khan,  M.  S.  1965.  A normal table  of  Bufo  stomaticus  (Bufo melanostictus). Biologia (Lahore), 11:1-39.

Reptiles

• ______, 2002. Key and checklist to the lizards of Pakistan (Reptilia: Squamata: Sauria).   HERPETOZOA 15 (3/4):  99-119. Bulletin Chicago Herpetological Society.
   

• ______, 1993. A new angular-toed gecko from Pakistan, with remarks on the  taxonomy and a key to the species belonging to genus Cyrtodactylus   (Reptilia:Sauria:Geckkonidae). Pakistan J. Zool, 25:67-73.
   

• ______, and Khan, M.R.Z. Khan, 1997. A new skink from the Thal Desert of Pakistan. Asiatic. Herpetol. Research, 7:61-67.
   

• ______, 2001. Taxonomic notes on angular-toed gekkota of Pakistan, with description of a new species of genus Cyrtopodion. Pakistan J. Zool., 33(1):13-24.
   

• ______, 1992. Validity of the mountain  gecko  Gymnodactylus  walli Ingoldby, 1922. Herptol. J., 2:106-109.
   

• ______,1997. Taxonomic notes on Pakistani snakes of  Coluber-karelini-rhodorachis-ventromaculatus species complex: a new approach  to the problem. Asiatic Herpetol. Res. 7:51-60.
   

• ______,  and Tasnim, Rashida, 1986c. Notes on the Himalayan pit viper, Agkistrodon himalayanus (Gunther). Litteratura Serpentium. (Eng. Ed.)  6:46-55.
   

• ______, 1991.   Endangered  species  of  reptiles  of  Pakistan   and suggested   conservation  measures.:42-45.  In  Handbook published   to  mark second seminar on "Nature conservation and environmental protection", 12  March,  1991,  Islamabad.  Pakistan   Wildlife Conservation Foundation, Islamabad.
   

• 1998. Notes on Typhlops diardi Schlegel, 1839, with description of a new subspecies (squamata, Serpentes, Scolecophidia). Pakistan J. Zool., 30(3):213-221.
   

• 1999. Typhlops ductuliformes  a new species of  blind snakes from Pakistan, with notes on extralimital  T. porrectus Stoliczka, 1871 (Serpentes:Typhlopidae). Pakistan J. Zool.,31(4):385-390.
   

• 1999. Two new species and a subspecies of blind snakes of genus Typhlops from Azad Kashmir and Punjab, Pakistan (Sertentes:Typhlopidae). Russian J. Herpetol., 6(3):231-240.
   

• ______, Snakes in Pakistani Folklore. In: A Guide to the Snakes of Pakistan. Pages: 222-231. publisher Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt am Main, 2002.
   

• ___ 2003. Notes on circum Indus geckos of genus Cyrtopodion (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Gekkota, Quedlinburg, 4: 43-59.

General

• Scientific and Standard Common English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of Pakistan Transliterated in Urdu, Pakistan J. Zool. Suppl. Ser., No.11, pp. 1-12, 2012. (New)
   

• ______, 2004. Annotated Checklist of amphibians and reptiles of Pakistan. Asiatic Herpetological Research, 10: 191-201.
   

• ______, 1999. Herpetology of habitat types of Pakistan. Pakistan J. Zool.,31(3):275-289.
   

• Biology and Conservation of the Amphibians, Reptiles and their habitats in South Asia, Proceedings of the International Conference on the Biology and Conservation of the Amphibians and Reptiles of South Asia, held at the Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy and University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, August 1-5, 1996.

 

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