Michael Franzen, German herpetologist.

• SNSB – Zoologische Staatssammlung München, München, Germany.

Authored taxa

• 6 taxon names authored by Michael Franzen (List may be incomplete)

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• Glaw, F., Franzen, M. & Vences, M. 2005. A new species of colubrid snake (Liopholidophis) from northern Madagascar. Salamandra 41(1/2): 83–90. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Glaw, F. & Franzen, M. 2006. Type catalogue of amphibians in the Zoologische Staatssammlung München. Spixiana 29(2): 153–192. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Glaw, F., Nagy, Z.T., Franzen, M. & Vences, M. 2007. Molecular phylogeny and systematics of the pseudoxyrhophiine snake genus Liopholidophis (Reptilia, Colubridae): evolution of its exceptional sexual dimorphism and descriptions of new taxa. Zoologica Scripta 36(4): 291–300. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2007.00278.x Reference page. 

• Franzen, M., Jones, J., Raselimanana, A.P., Nagy, Z.T., D'Cruze, N., Glaw, F. & Vences, M. 2009. A new black-bellied snake (Pseudoxyrhophiinae: Liophidium) from western Madagascar, with notes on the genus Pararhadinaea. Amphibia-Reptilia 30(2): 173–183. DOI: 10.1163/156853809788201171 Reference page. 

• Glaw, F., Nagy, Z.T., Köhler, J., Franzen, M. & vences, M. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of a new species of pseudoxyrhophiine snake (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae: Thamnosophis) suggest a biogeographical link between western and northern Madagascar. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 9(1): 13–22. DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2008.10.004 Reference page. 

• Glaw, F., Gehring, P.-S., Köhler, J., Franzen, M. & Vences, M. 2010. A new dwarf species of day gecko, genus Phelsuma, from the Ankarana pinnacle karst in northern Madagascar. Salamandra 46(2): 83–92. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

• Wegener, J.E., Swoboda, S., Hawlitschek, O., Franzen, M., Wallach, V., Vences, M., Nagy, Z.T., Hedges, S.B., Köhler, J. & Glaw, F. 2013. Morphological variation and taxonomic reassessment of the endemic Malagasy blind snake family Xenotyphlopidae (Serpentes, Scolecophidia). Spixiana 36(2): 269–282. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Rakotoarison, A., Scherz, M.A., Glaw, F., Köhler, J., Andreone, F., Franzen, M., Glos, J., Hawlitschek, O., Jono, T., Mori, A., Ndriantsoa, S.H., Raminosoa, N.R., Riemann, J.C., Rödel, M.-O., Rosa, G.M., Vieites, D.R., Crottini, A. & Vences, M. 2017. Describing the Smaller Majority: Integrative Taxonomy Reveals Twenty-Six New Species of Tiny Microhylid Frogs (Genus Stumpffia) from Madagascar. Vertebrate Zoology 67(3): 271–398. Full article (PDF) Reference page.