Ryan J. Ellis

Ryan J. Ellis, Australian herpetologist.

• Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum, Welshpool, Western Australia, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 15 taxon names authored by Ryan J. Ellis

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2015

• Maddock, S.T., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Smith, L.A. & Wüster, W. 2015. A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia. Zootaxa 4007(3): 301–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.1. Preview (PDF). Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2016

• Ellis, R.J. 2016. A New Species of Blindsnake (Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae: Anilios) from the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Herpetologica 72(3): 271–278. DOI: 10.1655/Herpetologica-D-16-00007.1 Reference page. 
• Doughty, P., Ellis, R.J. & Oliver, P.M. 2016. Many things come in small packages: Revision of the clawless geckos (Crenadactylus: Diplodactylidae) of Australia. Zootaxa 4168(2): 239–278. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.2 Reference page. 

2017

• Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P. & Roberts, J.D. 2017. An annotated type catalogue of the frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Limnodynastidae, Myobatrachidae, Pelodryadidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 32(1): 1–28. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.32(1).2017.001-028 Reference page. 
• Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Donnellan, S.C., Marin, J. & Vidal, N. 2017. Worms in the sand: Systematic revision of the Australian blindsnake Anilios leptosoma (Robb, 1972) species complex (Squamata: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae) from the Geraldton Sandplain, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4323(1): 1–24. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.1.1 Reference page. 

2018

• Ellis, R.J. 2018. Clarification of the type series of Amphibolurus barbatus microlepidotus Glauert, 1952 (= Pogona microlepidota) (Reptilia: Squamata: Agamidae). Zootaxa 4457(1): 197–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.12 Reference page. 
• Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P. & Bauer, A.M. 2018. An annotated type catalogue of the geckos and pygopods (Squamata: Gekkota: Carphodactylidae, Diplodactylidae, Gekkonidae, Pygopodidae) in the collection of the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 33(1): 51–94. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.33(1).2018.051-094 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. 

2019

• Ellis, R.J. 2019. A typhlopid hotspot in the tropics: increased blindsnake diversity in the Kimberley region of Western Australia with the description of a new Anilios species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 34(1): 31–37. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.34(1).2019.031-037 Reference page. 
• Uetz, P., Cherikh, S., Shea, G., Ineich, I., Campbell, P.D., Doronin, I.V., Rosado, J., Wynn, A.H., Tighe, K.A., McDiarmid, R.W., Lee, J.L., Köhler, G., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Raxworthy, C.J., Scheinberg, L.A., Resetar, A., Sabaj Pérez, M.A., Schneider, G., Franzen, M., Glaw, F., Böhme, W., Schweiger, S., Gemel, R., Couper, P., Amey, A.P., Dondorp, E., Ofer, G., Meiri, S. & Wallach, V. 2019. A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens. Zootaxa 4695(5): 438–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.5.2 Reference page. 

2020

• Oliver, P.M., Prasetya, A.M., Tedeschi, L.G., Fenker, J., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P. & Moritz, C. 2020. Crypsis and convergence: integrative taxonomic revision of the Gehyra australis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Australia. PeerJ 8: e7971. DOI: 10.7717/PEERJ.7971 Reference page. 

2021

• Ellis, R.J., Kaiser, H., Maddock, S.T., Doughty, P. & Wüster, W. 2021. An evaluation of the nomina for death adders (Acanthophis Daudin, 1803) proposed by Wells & Wellington (1985), and confirmation of A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 as the valid name for the Kimberley death adder. Zootaxa 4995(1): 161–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4995.1.9 Reference page.