Richard Thomas

John Paul Richard Thomas (1938– ), called Richard Thomas, U.S. herpetologist.

Professor of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

60 taxon names authored by Richard Thomas

plus:

Mitophis pyrites Thomas, 1965
Amphisbaena xera Thomas, 1966
Eleutherodactylus schwartzi Thomas, 1966
Typhlops monastus Thomas, 1966
Anolis rimarum Thomas & Schwartz 1967
Eleutherodactylus probolaeus Schwartz & Thomas, 1987
Sibynomorphus oneilli Rossman & Thomas, 1979
Bolitoglossa digitigrada Wake, Brame & Thomas, 1982
Mitophis asbolepisThomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985
Mitophis calypso Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985
Mitophis leptipileptus Thomas, McDiarmid & Thompson, 1985
Eleutherodactylus amadeus Hedges, Thomas & Franz, 1987
Eleutherodactylus parapelates Hedges & Thomas, 1987
Anolis placidus Hedges & Thomas, 1989
Typhlops catapontus Hedges & Thomas, 1991
Typhlops hypomethes Hedges & Thomas, 1991
Eleutherodactylus caribe Hedges & Thomas, 1992
Eleutherodactylus corona Hedges & Thomas, 1992
Eleutherodactylus dolomedes Hedges & Thomas, 1992
Eleutherodactylus guantanamera Hedges, Estrada & Thomas, 1992
Eleutherodactylus ionthus Hedges, Estrada & Thomas, 1992
Eleutherodactylus mariposa Hedges, Estrada & Thomas, 1992
Eleutherodactylus melacara Hedges, Estrada & Thomas, 1992
Amphisbaena carlgansi Thomas & Hedges, 1998
Amphisbaena cayemite Thomas & Hedges, 2006
Amphisbaena leali Thomas & Hedges, 2006
Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi Rios-Lopez & Thomas, 2007
Typhlops anchaurus Thomas & Hedges, 2007
Typhlops anousius Thomas & Hedges, 2007
Typhlops arator Thomas & Hedges, 2007
Typhlops contorhinus Thomas & Hedges, 2007
Typhlops notorachius Thomas & Hedges, 2007
Typhlops paradoxus Thomas & Hedges, 2007
Typhlops perimychus Thomas & Hedges, 2007
Typhlops satelles Thomas & Hedges, 2007

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

0 eponyms of Richard Thomas

plus:

Eleutherodactlus thomasi Schwartz, 1959
Sphaerodactylus microlepis thomasi Schwartz, 1965
Sturnira thomasi De la Torre & Schwartz, 1966
Sphaerodactylus richardi Hedges & Garrido, 1993
Amphelictogon thomasi Perez-Asso, 1996
Calisto thomasi Johnson & Hedges, 1998

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1965

Thomas, R. 1965: A new gecko from the Virgin Islands. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences, 28: 117–122.
Thomas, R 1965: A new species of Bachia (Sauria: Teiidae) from Brasil. Herpetologica, 21: 18–22
Thomas, R. 1965: A new species of Typhlops from the Barahona peninsula of Hispaniola. Copeia, 1965: 436–439.
Thomas, R. 1965: The genus Leptotyphlops in the West Indies with description of a new species from Hispaniola (Serpentes, Leptotyphlopidae). Breviora, 222: 1–12.
Thomas, R. 1965: Two new species of Amphisbaena (Amphisbaenia, Reptilia) from the Barahona Peninsula of Hispaniola. Breviora, 215: 1–14.
Williams, E.E., J.A. Rivero, and R. Thomas 1965: A new anole (Sauria, Iguanidae) from Puerto Rico. Breviora, 231: 1–18.

1966

Thomas, R. 1966: A new Hispaniolan gecko. Breviora, 253: 1–5.
Thomas, R. 1966: Additional notes on the amphisbaenids of Greater Puerto Rico. Breviora, 249: 1–23.
Thomas, R. 1966: Leeward islands Typhlops (Reptilia, Serpentes). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 79: 255–265.
Thomas, R. 1966: New species of Antillean Eleutherodactylus. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences, 28: 375–391.

1967

Thomas, R. and A. Schwartz 1967: The monticola group of the lizard genus Anolis in Hispaniola. Breviora, 261:1-27.

1968

Gorman, G.C., R. Thomas, and L. Atkins 1968: Intra- and interspecific chromosome variation in the lizard Anolis cristatellus and its closests relatives. Breviora, 293: 1–13.
Thomas, R. 1968: The Typhlops biminiensis group of Antillean blind snakes. Copeia, 1968: 713–722.

1971

Thomas, R 1971: A new species of Diploglossus (Sauria: Anguidae) from Hispaniola. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, 40: 1–9.

1974

Thomas, R. 1974: A new species of Typhlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Hispaniola. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 87: 11–18.

1975

Thomas, R. 1975: The argus group of West Indian Sphaerodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Herpetologica, 31: 177–195.
Schwartz, A. and R. Thomas 1975: A check-list of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Special Publication of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1: 1–216.

1977

Thomas, R. and A. Schwartz 1977: Three new species of Sphaerodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Hispaniola. Annals of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 46: 33–43.

1978

Thomas, K.R. and R. Thomas 1978: Locomotor activity responses to photoperiod in four West Indian fossorial squamates of the genera Amphisbaena and Typhlops (Reptilia, Lacertilia). Journal of Herpetology, 12: 35–41.

1979

Rossman, D.A. and R. Thomas 1979: A new dipsadine snake of the genus Sibynomorphus from Peru, Ocassional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, 54: 1–6.
Thomas, R. 1982: A new dwarf Sphaerodactylus from Haiti (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 95: 81–88.
Wake, D.B., A.H. Brame Jr., and R. Thomas 1982: A remarkable new species of salamander allied to Bolitoglossa altamazonica (Plethodontidae) from southern Peru. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Louisiana State University, 58: 1–21.
Thomas, R. and A. Schwartz 1983: Variation in Hispaniolan Sphaerodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae). In A.G.J Rhodin and K. Miyata (eds.), Advances in herpetology and evolutionary biology, p. 86-98. Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

1985

Thomas, R., R.W. McDiarmid, and F.G. Thompson 1985: Three new species of thread snakes (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae) from Hispaniola. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 98: 204–220.

1987

Hedges, S.B. & Thomas, R. 1987. A new burrowing frog from Hispaniola with comments on the inoptatus group of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Herpetologica 43(3): 269–279. JSTOR Reference page.
Hedges, S.B., Thomas, R. & Franz, R. 1987. A new species of Eleutherodactylus (Anura:Leptodactylidae) from the Massif de la Hotte, Haiti. Copeia 1987(4): 943–949. DOI: 10.2307/1445557 Reference page.

1988

Thomas, R. & Hedges, S.B. 1988. Two new geckos (Sphaerodactylus) from the southern Dominican Republic. Herpetologica 44(1): 96–104. JSTOR Reference page.

1989

Hedges, S.B. and R. Thomas 1989: A new species of Anolis (Sauria: Iguanidae) from the Sierra de Neiba, Hispaniola. Herpetologica, 45: 330–336.
Thomas, R. 1989: The relationships of Antillean Typhlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) and the description of three new Hispaniolan species. In C.A. Woods (ed.), Biogeography of the West indies: past, present, and future, p. 409-432. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
{aut|Thomas, R. and S.B. Hedges}| 1989: A new Celestus (Sauria: Anguidae) from the Chaine de la Selle of Haiti. Copeia, 1989: 886–891.

1991

Hedges S.B. and R. Thomas 1991: Cryptic species of snakes (Typhlopidae: Typhlops) from the Puerto Rico Bank detected by protein electrophoresis. Herpetologica, 47: 448–459.

1992

Hedges, S.B., A.R. Estrada, and R. Thomas 1992: Three new species of Eleutherodactylus from Eastern Cuba, with notes on vocalizations of other species (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Herpetological Monographs, 6: 68–83.
Hedges, S.B. and R. Thomas 1992: A new marsh-dwelling species of Eleutherodactylus from Haiti (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Journal of Herpetology, 26: 191–195.
Hedges, S.B. and R. Thomas 1992: Two new species of Eleutherodactylus from remnant cloud forest in Haiti (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Herpetologica, 48: 351–358.
Thomas, R. & Hedges, S.B. 1992. An unusual new Sphaerodactylus from Hispaniola (Squamata, Gekkonidae). Journal of Herpetology 26(3): 289–292. DOI: 10.2307/1564883 Reference page.
Thomas, R., Hedges, S.B. & Garrido, O.H. 1992. Two new species of Sphaerodactylus from eastern Cuba (Sauria, Gekkonidae). Herpetologica 48(3): 358–367. JSTOR Reference page.

1993

Thomas, R. and S.B. Hedges 1993: A new banded Sphaerodactylus from Eastern Hispaniola (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Herpetologica, 49: 350–354.

1998

Thomas, R. and S.B. Hedges 1998: A new amphisbaenian from Cuba. Journal of herpetology, 32: 92–96.
Thomas, R. and S.B. Hedges 1998: A new anguid lizard (Diploglossus) from Cuba. Copeia, 1998: 97–103.
Thomas, R. and S.B. Hedges 1998: A new gecko from the Sierra de Neiba of Hispaniola (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Sphaerodactylus). Herpetologica, 54: 333–336.
Thomas, R., S.B. Hedges, and O.H. Garrido 1998: A new gecko (Sphaerodactylus) from the Sierra Maestra of Cuba. Journal of Herpetology, 32: 66–69.

2001

Hedges, S.B. & Thomas, R. 2001. At the Lower Size Limit in Amniote Vertebrates: A New Diminutive Lizard from the West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Science 37(3-4): 168–173. Reference page.

2006

Thomas, R. and S.B. Hedges 2006: Two new species of Amphisbaena (Reptilia: Squamata: Amphisbaenidae) from the Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti. Caribbean Journal of Sciences, 42: 208–219.
Thomas, R. and R. Joglar 2006: The herpetology of Puerto Rico. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 776: 181–196.

2007

Rios-Lopez, N. and R. Thomas 2007: A new species of palustrine Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae) from Puerto Rico. Zootaxa, 1512: 51–64.
Thomas, R. and S.B. Hedges 2007: Eleven new species of snakes of the genus Typhlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Hispaniola and Cuba. Zootaxa, 1400: 1–126.