PhD Valter Weijola - UTU Research Portal

Valter Weijola
PhD

- Postdoctoral Researcher,
Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku (Faculty of Science)

vsawei@utu.fi

Ecological, morphological, and molecular diversification in a clade of Melanesian Ethmostigmus centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha), with the description of 2 new species (2026)
- Insect Systematics and Diversity
Weijola, Valter; Edgecombe, Greg; Iova, Bulisa; Martínez-Muñoz, Carlos; Sjöqvist, Conny; Vahtera, Varpu
Glyphosate residues in soil alter herbivore‐induced plant volatiles and affect predatory insect behaviour (2025)
- Plant Biology
Fuchs, Benjamin; Blande, James; Weijola, Valter
A new insular species of Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Papua New Guinea closely related to Gehyra oceanica (2024)
- Systematics and Biodiversity
Kraus, Fred; Vahtera, Varpu; Weijola, Valter
A new species of Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Umboi Island, Papua New Guinea (2023)
- Zootaxa
Kraus Fred, Vahtera Varpu, Weijola Valter
Two new species of monitor lizards (Squamata: Varanus) endemic to the Louisiade and Tanimbar Archipelagos with a key to the subgenus Euprepiosaurus (2023)
- Journal of Natural History
Weijola Valter, Kraus Fred
Lepidodactylus browni (Squamata, Gekkonidae) Placed in the Synonymy of L. orientalis (2022)
- Journal of Herpetology
Kraus Fred, Vahtera Varpu, Weijola Valter
Observations and evolutionary considerations on trophic egg provisioning in snakeheads (Teleostei: Channidae) (2021)
- Journal of Natural History
Weijola Valter
Phylogenomics of monitor lizards and the role of competition in dictating body size disparity (2021)
- Systematic Biology
Brennan IG, Lemmon AR, Lemmon EM, Portik DM, Weijola V, Welton L, Donnellan SC, Keogh JS
Taxonomy of Micronesian monitors (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanus): endemic status of new species argues for caution in pursuing eradication plans (2020)
- Royal Society Open Science
Weijola V, Vahtera V, Koch A, Schmitz A, Kraus F
A molecular phylogeny for the Pacific monitor lizards (Varanus subgenus Euprepiosaurus) reveals a recent and rapid radiation with high levels of cryptic diversity (2019)
- Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Valter Weijola, Varpu Vahtera, Christer Lindqvist, Fred Kraus
New species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Karkar Island, Papua New Guinea (2019)
- Zootaxa
Fred Kraus, Valter Weijola
Puolikas maapalloa pian ilman kurnuttajia? (2019) Sääksjärvi IE, Vahtera V, Weijola V
Comment (Case 3676) — Response to a comment on the proposed conservation of Tupinambus indicus Daudin, 1802 by replacement of the neotype (2017)
- Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Samuel S. Sweet, Valter Weijola
Phylogeny and taxonomy of the Pacific monitor lizards (Squamata: Varanus: Euprepiosaurus) (2017) Weijola Valter
A new blue-tailed Monitor lizard (Reptilia, Squamata, Varanus) of the Varanus indicus group from Mussau Island, Papua New Guinea (2016)
- ZooKeys
Valter Weijola, Stephen C. Donnellan, Christer Lindqvist
A new species of Rattus (Rodentia: Muridae) from Manus Island, Papua New Guinea (2016)
- Journal of Mammalogy
Timm RM, Weijola V, Aplin KP, Donnellan SC, Flannery TF, Thomson V, Pine RH
Reinstatement of Varanus douarrha Lesson, 1830 as a valid species with comments on the zoogeography of monitor lizards (Squamata:Varanidae) in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea (2016)
- Australian Journal of Zoology
Weijola V, Kraus F, Vahtera V, Lindqvist C, Donnellan SC
A single species of mangrove monitor (Varanus) occupies Ambon, Seram, Buru and Saparua, Moluccas, Indonesia (2015)
- Amphibian & Reptile Conservation
Valter Weijola, Samuel S. Sweet
Case 3676 Tupinambis indicus Daudin, 1802 (currently Varanus indicus; Reptilia, Squamata): proposed conservation of usage of the specific name by replacement of the neotype (2015)
- Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature
Weijola V.
A new melanistic species of monitor lizard (Reptilia: Squamata: Varanidae) from Sanana Island, Indonesia (2010)
- Zootaxa
Weijola VSA, Sweet SS