Josiah H. Townsend

Josiah H. Townsend , U.S. herpetologist.

School of Natural Resources and Environment and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States.
Regional de Biodiversidad (IRBio), Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, Depto. de Francisco Morazán, Honduras.

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Townsend, J.H., J.M. Butler, L.D. Wilson & J.D. Austin. 2009. A new species of salamander in the Bolitoglossa dunni group (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Bolitoglossinae) from Parque Nacional Montaña de Yoro, Honduras. Salamandra 45: 95–105. Full Article

Sunyer, J., Wake, D.B., Townsend, J.H., Travers, S.L., Rovito, S.M., Papenfuss, T.J., Obando, L.A. & Köhler,G. 2010. A new species of worm salamander (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Oedipina) in the subgenus Oeditriton from the highlands of northern Nicaragua. Zootaxa 2613(1): 29–39. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2613.1.3 Reference page.

Sunyer, J., Townsend, J.H., Wake, D.B., Travers, S.L., Gonzalez, S.C., Obando, L.A. & Quintana, A.Z. 2011. A new cryptic species of salamander, genus Oedipina (Caudata: Plethodontidae), from premontane elevations in northern Nicaragua, with comments on the systematic status of the Nicaraguan paratypes of O. pseudouniformis Brame, 1968. Breviora 526: 1–15. BHL Reference page.

Jadin, R.C., Townsend, J.H., Castoe, T.A. & Campbell, J.A. 2012. Cryptic diversity in disjunct populations of Middle American Montane Pitvipers: a systematic reassessment of Cerrophidion godmani. Zoologica scripta 41(5): 455–470. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00547.x Reference page.

Townsend, J.H., Medina-Flores, M., Wilson, L.D., Jadin, R.C. & Austin, J.D. 2013. A relict lineage and new species of green palm-pitviper (Squamata, Viperidae, Bothriechis) from the Chortís Highlands of Mesoamerica. ZooKeys 298: 77–106. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.298.4834 Reference page.
Townsend, J.H., Medina-Flores, M., Reyes-Calderón, O. & Austin, J.D. 2013. A new Nototriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from Parque Nacional Montaña de Botaderos in northeastern Honduras. Zootaxa 3666(3): 358–368. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3666.3.6 Reference page.
Townsend, J.H., Wilson, L.D., Medina-Flores, M., & Herrera, L.A. 2013. A New Species of Centipede Snake in the Tantilla taeniata Group (Squamata: Colubridae) from Premontane Rainforest in Refugio De Vida Silvestre Texíguat, Honduras. Journal of Herpetology 47(1): 191–200. DOI: 10.1670/11-172 Reference page.

Köhler, G., Townsend, J.H. & Petersen, C.B.P. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the Norops tropidonotus complex (Squamata, Dactyloidae), with the resurrection of N. spilorhipis (Alvarez del Toro and Smith, 1956) and the description of two new species. Mesoamerican herpetology 3(1): 8–41. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Solís, J.M., Espinal, M.R., Valle, R.E., O'Reilly, C.M., Itgen, M.W. & Townsend, J.H. 2016. On the taxonomy of Oedipina stuarti (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with description of a new species from suburban Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Salamandra 52(2): 125–133. PDF Reference page.
Townsend, J.H. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the moss salamander Nototriton barbouri (Schmidt) (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with description of two new species from the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras. Zootaxa 4196(4): 511–528. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.3. Reference page.

Hofmann, E.P. & Townsend, J.H. 2018. A Cryptic New Species of Anole (Squamata: Dactyloidae) from the Lenca Highlands of Honduras, Previously Referred to as Norops crassulus (Cope, 1864). Annals of Carnegie Museum 85(2): 91–111. DOI: 10.2992/007.085.0201 Reference page.

Antúnez-Fonseca, C.A., Castro, J.A., España, F.G., Townsend, J.H. & Wilson, L.D. 2020. A new species of Tantilla of the taeniata group (Squamata: Colubridae) from Refugio de Vida Silvestre Barras de Cuero y Salado in Caribbean coastal Honduras. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 14(3)[Taxonomy Section]: 86–102 (e258). Reference page.
Mendoza-Henao, A.M., Arias, E., Townsend, J.H. & Parra-Olea, G. 2020. Phylogeny-based species delimitation and integrative taxonomic revision of the Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni species complex, with resurrection of H. viridissimum (Taylor, 1942). Systematics and Biodiversity 18(5): 464–484. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1776781 Reference page.
Itgen, M. W., Sessions, S.K., Wilson, L.D. & Townsend, J.H. 2020. "2019". Integrative systematic revision of Bolitoglossa celaque (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with a new species from the Lenca Highlands of Honduras. Herpetological Monographs 33(1): 48–70. DOI: 10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-19-00001.1 Reference page.
Townsend, J.H., Herrera-B., L.A., Hofmann, E.P., Luque-Montes, I.R., Ross, A.N., Dudek, D., Krygeris, C., Duchamp, J.E. & Wilson, L.D. 2020. A critically endangered new species of polymorphic stream frog (Anura: Hylidae: Atlantihyla) from the montane rainforest of Refugio de Vida Silvestre Texiguat, Honduras. Vertebrate Zoology 70(4): 731–756. DOI: 10.26049/VZ70-4-2020-12 Reference page.