Roger S. Thorpe

Roger S. Thorpe, UK zoologist.

School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Gwynedd, United Kingdom.

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(List may be incomplete)

Pook, C.E., Wüster, W. & Thorpe, R.S. 2000. Historical Biogeography of the Western Rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus viridis), Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Information. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15(2): 269–282. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0756 Reference page.

Herrmann, H.-W., Ziegler, T., Malhotra, A., Thorpe, R.S. & Parkinson, C.L. 2004. Redescription and systematics of Trimeresurus cornutus (Serpentes: Viperidae) based on morphology and molecular data. Herpetologica 60(2): 211–221. DOI: 10.1655/03-37 Reference page.

Gübitz, T., Thorpe, R.S. & Malhotra, A. 2005. The dynamics of genetic and morphological variation on volcanic islands. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Biological Sciences 272(1564): 751–757. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.3018 Reference page.
Wüster, W., Ferguson, J.E., Quijada-Mascareñas, J.A., Pook, C.E., Salomão, M.G. & Thorpe, R.S. 2005. Tracing an invasion: landbridges, refugia, and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus). Molecular Ecology 14(4): 1095–1108. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02471.x Reference page.

Thorpe, R.S., Pook, C.E. & Malhotra, A. 2007. Phylogeography of the Russell’s viper (Daboia russelii) complex in relation to variation in the colour pattern and symptoms of envenoming. The Herpetological Journal 17(4): 209–218. PDF Reference page.

Malhotra, A., Thorpe, R.S., Mrinalini & Stuart, B.L. 2011. Two new species of pitviper of the genus Cryptelytrops Cope 1860 (Squamata: Viperidae: Crotalinae) from Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 2757(1): 1–23. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2757.1.1 Reference page.