Mitzy Pepper

Mitzy Pepper, Australian herpetologist.

Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

Pepper, M., Doughty, P. & Keogh, J.S. 2006. Molecular phylogeny and phylogeography of the Australian Diplodactylus stenodactylus (Gekkota; Reptilia) species-group based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes reveals an ancient split between Pilbara and non-Pilbara D. stenodactylus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 41(3): 539–555. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2006.05.028 Reference page.

Doughty, P., Pepper, M. & Keogh, J.S. 2010. Morphological and molecular assessment of the Diplodactylus savagei species complex in the Pilbara region, Western Australia, with a description of a new species. Zootaxa 2393(1): 33–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2393.1.3 Reference page.

Pepper, M., Doughty, P., Hutchinson, M.N. & Keogh, J.S. 2011. Ancient drainages divide cryptic species in Australia’s arid zone: Morphological and multi-gene evidence for four new species of Beaked Geckos (Rhynchoedura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 61(3): 810–822. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.08.012 Reference page.

Pepper, M., Doughty, P., Fujita, M.K., Moritz, C. & Keogh, J.S. 2013. Speciation on the Rocks: Integrated Systematics of the Heteronotia spelea Species Complex (Gekkota; Reptilia) from Western and Central Australia. PLoS One 8(11): e78110. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078110 Reference page.

Oliver, P.M., Couper, P.J. & Pepper, M. 2014. Independent Transitions between Monsoonal and Arid Biomes Revealed by Systematic Revison of a Complex of Australian Geckos (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae). PLoS ONE 9(12): e111895. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111895 Reference page.

Whiting, M.J., Branch, W.R., Pepper, M. & Keogh, J.S. 2015. A new species of spectacularly coloured flat lizard Platysaurus (Squamata: Cordylidae: Platysaurinae) from southern Africa. Zootaxa 3986(2): 173–192. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.2.2. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

Doughty, P., Bauer, A.M., Pepper, M. & Keogh, J.S. 2018. Spots before the eyes: revision of the saxicoline geckos of the Gehyra punctata (Squamata: Gekkonidae) species complex in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 33(1): 1–50. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.33(1).2018.001-050 Reference page.
Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Bauer, A.M., Pepper, M. & Keogh, J.S. 2018. A replacement name for Gehyra punctulata Doughty, Bauer, Pepper & Keogh, 2018 (Reptilia: Squamata: Gekkonidae) and the nomenclatural status of Phyria punctulata Gray, 1842. Records of the Western Australian Museum 33(1): 133–134. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.33(1).2018.133-134 Reference page.
Kealley, L., Doughty, P., Pepper, M., Keogh, J.S., Hillyer, M. & Huey, J. 2018. Conspicuously concealed: revision of the arid clade of the Gehyra variegata (Gekkonidae) group in Western Australia using an integrative molecular and morphological approach, with the description of five cryptic species. PeerJ 6: e5334. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.5334 Reference page.

Eastwood, J.A., Doughty, P., Hutchinson, M.N. & Pepper, M. 2020. Revision of Lucasium stenodactylus (Boulenger, 1896; Squamata: Diplodactylidae), with the resurrection of L. woodwardi (Fry, 1914) and the description of a new species from south-central Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 35: 63–86. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.35.2020.063-086 Reference page.

Pepper, M., Doughty, P., Fletcher, J. & Keogh, J.S. 2025. Molecular and morphological assessment of the widely distributed legless gecko Delma tincta Kluge (Squamata: Pygopodidae), including a taxonomic revision. Records of the Western Australian Museum 40: 1–46. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.40.2025.001-046 Reference page.