Richard Thomas (zoologist)

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John Paul Richard Thomas (born May 2, 1938 ) is an American herpetologist .

Thomas received his PhD from Louisiana State University in 1976 . In 1971 he collected amphibians and birds for the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas in Peru and again in 1974 for the Museum of Zoology at Louisiana State University. Thomas is a professor at the University of Puerto Rico .

He first described 64 species of reptiles. In 2001 he and a colleague first described the smallest known reptile, the gecko Sphaerodactylus ariasae.

literature

  • Beolens, Watkins, Grayson: Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles, Johns Hopkins University Press 2011

References and comments

  1. ↑ Peter Uetz: The original descriptions of reptiles, Zootaxa, No. 2335, 2010, 59–68, pdf .
  2. ↑ Hedges, Tomas: At the Lower Size Limit in Amniote Vertebrates: A New Diminutive Lizard from the West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Science, Volume 37, 2001, pp. 168-173.
personal data
SURNAME Thomas, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thomas, John Paul Richard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American herpetologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1938