Robert N. Fisher

Robert N. Fisher, U.S. herpetologist.

• U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego Field Station, 4165 Spruance Road, Suite 200, San Diego, California, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 4 taxon names authored by Robert N. Fisher

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1995

• Ota, H., Fisher, R.N., Ineich, I. & Case, T.J. 1995. Geckos of the Genus Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Reptilia) in Micronesia: Description of a New Species and Reevaluation of the Status of Gecko moestus Peters, 1867. Copeia 1995(1): 183–195. DOI: 10.2307/1446813 Reference page. 

2008

• Wood, D.A., Meik, J.M., Holycross, A.T., Fisher, R.N. & Vandergast, A.G. 2008. Molecular and phenotypic diversity in Chionactis occipitalis (Western Shovel-nosed Snake), with emphasis on the status of C. o. klauberi (Tucson Shovel-nosed Snake). Conservation Genetics 9: 1489–1507. DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9482-0 Reference page. 

2011

• Wood, D.A., Vandergast, A.G., Lemos-Espinal, J.A., Fisher, R.N. & Holycross, A.T. 2011. Refugial isolation and divergence in the Narrowheaded Gartersnake species complex (Thamnophis rufipunctatus) as revealed by multilocus DNA sequence data. Molecular Ecology 20(18): 3856–3878. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05211.x Reference page. 

2014

• Wood, D.A., Fisher, R.N. & Vandergast, A.G. 2014. Fuzzy Boundaries: Color and Gene Flow Patterns among Parapatric Lineages of the Western Shovel-Nosed Snake and Taxonomic Implication. PLoS One 9(5): e97494. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097494 Reference page. 

2016

• Ineich, I. & Fisher, R.N. 2016. Rediscovery of the 220-year-old holotype of the Banded Iguana, Brachylophus fasciatus (Brongniart, 1800) in the Paris Natural History Museum. Zootaxa 4138(2): 381–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.2.10. Reference page. 
• Oliver, P.M., Clegg, J.R., Fisher, R.N., Richards, S.J., Taylor, P.N. & Jocque, M.M.T. 2016. A new biogeographically disjunct giant gecko (Gehyra: Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from the East Melanesian Islands. Zootaxa 4208(1): 61–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.1.3. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2017

• Fisher, R.N., Niukula, J., Watling, D. & Harlow, P.S. 2017. A new species of iguana Brachylophus Cuvier 1829 (Sauria: Iguania: Iguanidae) from Gau Island, Fiji Islands. Zootaxa 4273(3): 407–422. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.3.5. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2020

• Jockusch, E.L., Hansen, R.W., Fisher, R.N. & Wake, D.B. 2020. Slender salamanders (genus Batrachoseps) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages. PeerJ 8: e9599. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9599 Reference page. 

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ZooBank: 4B81BCBF-D135-4526-A604-8B3243A70963