William Ronald Heyer

William Ronald Heyer (1941–2023), U.S. herpetologist.

• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 45 taxon names authored by William Ronald Heyer

Eponyms

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• 6 eponyms of William Ronald Heyer

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1968

• Heyer, W.R. 1968. The Proper Name for the Type-Species of the Genus Leptodactylus. Copeia 1968(1). doi:10.2307/1441563.  Reference page. 

1972

• Heyer, W.R. 1972. A new limbless skink (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Thailand with comments on the generic status of the limbless skinks of southeast Asia. Fieldiana: Zoology 58(10): 109–129. BHL Reference page. 
• Heyer, W.R. 1972. The status of Leptodactylus pumilio Boulenger (Amphibia, Leptodactylidae) and the description of a new species of Leptodactylus from Ecuador. Contributions in Science 231: 1–8. BHL Reference page. 

1989

• Heyer, W.R. & Wolf, A.J. 1989. Physalaemus crombiei (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae), a new frog species from Espírito Santo, Brazil, with comment on the P. signifer group. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 102(2): 500–506. BHL Reference page. 

1996

• Heyer, W.R., García-Lopez, J.M. & Cardoso, A.J. 1996. Advertisement call variation in the Leptodactylus mystaceus species complex (Amphibia: Leptodactylidae) with a description of a new sibling species. Amphibia-Reptilia 17: 7–31. Reference page.