Richard Thomas

John Paul Richard Thomas (1938- ), called Richard Thomas, is an U.S. herpetologist.

Richard Thomas is professor of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras (San Juan, Puerto Rico).

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 45 taxon names authored by Richard Thomas

plus:

• Bachia panoplia 1965
• Mitophis pyrites 1965
• Sphaerodactylus parthenopion 1965
• Typhlops syntherus 1965
• Amphisbaena xera 1966
• Eleutherodactylus coqui 1966
• Eleutherodactylus schwartzi 1966
• Sphaerodactylus elasmorhynchus 1966
• Typhlops monastus 1966
• Anolis rimarum and Schwartz 1967
• Celestus agasepsoides 1971
• Amerotyphlops tasymicris 1974
• Typhlops hectus 1974
• Eleutherodactylus probolaeus Schwartz and Thomas, 1987
• Sphaerodactylus semasiops 1975
• Sphaerodactylus cryphius and Schwartz, 1977
• Sphaerodactylus nycteropus and Schwartz, 1977
• Sphaerodactylus streptophorus and Schwartz, 1977
• Sibynomorphus oneilli Rossman and Thomas, 1979
• Bolitoglossa digitigrada Wake, Brame, and Thomas, 1982
• Sphaerodactylus omoglaux 1982
• Sphaerodactylus williamsi and Schwartz, 1983
• Mitophis asbolepis , McDiarmid, and Thompson, 1985
• Mitophis calypso , McDiarmid, and Thompson, 1985
• Mitophis leptipileptus , McDiarmid, and Thompson, 1985
• Eleutherodactylus amadeus Hedges, Thomas, and Franz, 1987
• Eleutherodactylus parapelates Hedges and Thomas, 1987
• Sphaerodactylus ladae and Hedges, 1988
• Sphaerodactylus perissodactylus and Hedges, 1988
• Anolis placidus Hedges and Thomas 1989
• Celestus macrotus and Hedges, 1989
• Typhlops schwartzi 1989
• Typhlops tetrathyreus 1989
• Typhlops titanops 1989
• Typhlops catapontus Hedges and Thomas, 1991
• Typhlops hypomethes Hedges and Thomas, 1991
• Eleutherodactylus caribe Hedges and Thomas, 1992
• Eleutherodactylus corona Hedges and Thomas, 1992
• Eleutherodactylus dolomedes Hedges and Thomas, 1992
• Eleutherodactylus guantanamera Hedges, Estrada, and Thomas, 1992
• Eleutherodactylus ionthus Hedges, Estrada, and Thomas, 1992
• Eleutherodactylus mariposa Hedges, Estrada, and Thomas, 1992
• Eleutherodactylus melacara Hedges, Estrada, and Thomas, 1992
• Sphaerodactylus cricoderus , Hedges, and Garrido, 1992
• Sphaerodactylus schwartzi , Hedges, and Garrido, 1992
• Sphaerodactylus plummeri and Hedges 1992
• Sphaerodactylus epiurus and Hedges 1993
• Amphisbaena carlgansi and Hedges, 1998
• Diploglossus garridoi and Hedges, 1998
• Sphaerodactylus pimienta , Hedges, and Garrido, 1998
• Sphaerodactylus schuberti and Hedges, 1998
• Sphaerodactylus ariasae Hedges and Thomas, 2001
• Amphisbaena cayemite and Hedges, 2006
• Amphisbaena leali and Hedges, 2006
• Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi Rios-Lopez and Thomas, 2007
• Typhlops agoralionis and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops anchaurus and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops anousius and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops arator and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops contorhinus and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops eperopeus and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops notorachius and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops paradoxus and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops perimychus and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops proancylops and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops satelles and Hedges, 2007
• Typhlops sylleptor and Hedges, 2007

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

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

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

• 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.
• 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.
• Thomas, R. and A. Schwartz 1967: The monticola group of the lizard genus Anolis in Hispaniola. Breviora, 261:1-27.
• 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.
• 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.
• Thomas, R. 1974: A new species of Typhlops (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) from Hispaniola. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 87: 11–18.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Hedges, S.B. and R. Thomas 1987: A new burrowing frog from Hispaniola with comments on the inoptatus group of the genus Eleutherodactylus (Anura: Leptodactylidae). Herpetologica, 43: 269–279.
• Hedges, S.B., R. Thomas, and R. Franz 1987: A new species of Eleutherodactylus (Anura, Leptodactylidae) from the Massif de la Hotte, Haiti. Copeia, 1987: 943–949.
• Thomas R. and S.B. Hedges 1988: Two new geckos (Sphaerodactylus) from the Sierra Martin Garcia of Hispaniola. Herpetologica, 44: 96–104.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. and S.B. Hedges 1992: An unusual new Sphaerodactylus from Hispaniola (Squamata, Gekkonidae). Journal of Herpetology, 26: 289–292.
• Thomas, R., S.B. Hedges, and O.H. Garrido 1992: Two new species of Sphaerodactylus from Eastern Cuba (Sauria: Gekkonidae). Herpetologica, 48: 358–367.
• Thomas, R. and S.B. Hedges 1993: A new banded Sphaerodactylus from Eastern Hispaniola (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Herpetologica, 49: 350–354.
• 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.
• Hedges S.B. and R. Thomas 2001: At the lower size limit in amniote vertebrates: A new diminutive lizard from the West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Sciences, 37: 168–173.
• 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.
• 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.