Stephen Blair Hedges

Stephen Blair Hedges, U.S. herpetologist.

Professor of Biology, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, 619 Mueller Laboratory University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.

Taxon names authored

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120 taxon names authored by Stephen Blair Hedges

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1992

Garrido, O.H. & Hedges, S.B. 1992. Three new grass anoles (Sauria: Iguanidae) from Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 28: 21–29. PDF. Reference page.

1993

Hass, C.A., Hedges, S.B. & Maxson, L.R. 1993. Molecular insights into the relationships and biogeography of West Indian anoline lizards. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 21: 97–114. DOI: 10.1016/0305-1978(93)90015-J Reference page.

1995

Estrada, A.R. & Hedges, S.B. 1995. A new species of Anolis (Sauria: Iguanidae) from eastern Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 31(1-2): 65–72. PDF. Reference page.

1998

Johnson, K. & Hedges, S.B. 1998. Three new species of Calisto from Southwestern Haiti (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tropical Lepidoptera 9: 45-53. Reference page.
Stanhope, M.J., Waddell, V.G., Madsen, O., de Jong, W., Hedges, S.B., Cleven, G.C., Kao, D. & Springer, M.S. 1998. Molecular evidence for multiple origins of Insectivora and for a new order of endemic African insectivore mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95(17): 9967–9972. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.17.996 Reference page.

2004

Battistuzzi, F.U., Feijão, A. & Hedges, S.B. 2004. A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land. BMC Evol. Biol 4: 44. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-44 . Reference page.

2007

Heinicke, M.P., Duellman, W.E. & Hedges, S.B. 2007. Major Caribbean and Central American frog faunas originated by ancient oceanic dispersal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(24): 10092–10097. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611051104 Reference page.

2008

Hedges, S.B., Duellman, W.E. & Heinicke, M.P. 2008. New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa 1737(1): 1–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1737.1.1 Reference page.

2009

Adalsteinsson, S.A., Branch, W.R., Trape, S., Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244(1): 1–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2244.1.1 Reference page.
Battistuzzi, F.U. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. A major clade of prokaryotes with ancient adaptations to life on land. Molecular biology and evolution 26(2): 335–43. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn247 Reference page.
Heinicke, M.P., Duellman, W.E., Trueb, L., Means, D.B., MacCulloch, R.D. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. A new frog family (Anura: Terrarana) from South America and an expanded direct-developing clade revealed by molecular phylogeny. Zootaxa 2211: 1–35. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

2010

Vidal N., Marin J., Morini M., Donnellan S., Branch W.R., Thomas R., Vences M., Wynn A., Cruaud C. & Hedges S.B. 2010. Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana. Biology Letters 6: 558–561.
Battistuzzi, F.U., Filipski, A., Hedges, S.B., & Kumar, S. 2010. Performance of relaxed clock methods in estimating evolutionary divergence times and their credibility intervals. Mol. Biol. Evol. 27: 1289–1300.
Hedges, S.B. 2010. Molecular clocks, flotsam, and Caribbean islands. Pp. 353–354 in Cox, C. B. & P. D. Moore, Biogeography: an ecological and evolutionary Approach. 8th Edition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey).
Hedges, S.B. & Díaz, L.M. 2010. The conservation status of amphibians in the West Indies. In Hailey, A., Wilson, B.S. & Horrocks, J.A. (Eds.), Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. (In press).
Hedges, S.B. 2010. Amphibian conservation in the West Indies. In H. H. Heatwole and J. W. Wilkenson (Eds.) Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Western Hemisphere. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, Australia. (In press).
Kingdon, J.A., Seiffert, E.R., Hedges, S.B. & Rathbun, G. 2010. Supercohort Afrotheria. In J. A. Kingdon, D. Happold, and T. Butynski (Eds.) Mammals of Africa, Volume 1. The University of California Press. (in press).

2012

Hedges, S.B. & Conn, C.E. 2012. A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae). Zootaxa 3288(1): 1–244. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3288.1.1 ; PDF Reference page.
McCranie, J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2012. Two new species of geckos from Honduras and resurrection of Sphaerodactylus continentalis Werner from the synonymy of Sphaerodactylus millepunctatus Hallowell (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonoidea, Sphaerodactylidae). Zootaxa 3492: 65–76. Preview Reference page.

2013

Hedges, S.B. 2013. Revision shock in taxonomy. Zootaxa 3681(3): 297–298. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.11 Reference page.
Marin, J., Donnellan, S.C., Hedges, S.B., Puillandre. N., Aplin, K.P., Doughty, P., Hutchinson, M.N., Couloux, A., Vidal, N. 2013. Hidden species diversity of Australian burrowing snakes (Ramphotyphlops). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110(2): 427–441. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12132 Reference page.
Mccranie, J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2013. Two additional new species of Sphaerodactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonoidea, Sphaerodactylidae) from the Honduran Bay Islands. Zootaxa 3694(1): 40–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.2 Reference page.
Mccranie, J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2013. A new species of Phyllodactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonoidea, Phyllodactylidae) from Isla de Guanaja in the Honduran Bay Islands. Zootaxa 3694(1): 51–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.3 Reference page.
Mccranie, J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2013. A review of the Cnemidophorus lemniscatus group in Central America (Squamata: Teiidae), with comments on other species in the group. Zootaxa 3722(3): 301–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3722.3.1 Reference page.

2014

Hedges, S.B., Marion, A.B., Lipp, K.M., Marin, J. & Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

2015

Heinicke, M.P., Barrio Amorós, C.L. & Hedges, S.B. 2015. Molecular and morphological data support recognition of a new genus of New World direct-developing frog (Anura: Terrarana) from an under-sampled region of South America. Zootaxa 3986(2): 151–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.2.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Nagy, Z., Marion, A.B., Glaw, F., Miralles, A., Nopper, J., Vences, M. & Hedges, S.B. 2015. Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes). Zootaxa 4040(1): 31–47. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.1.3 Reference page.

2016

Duellman, W.E., Marion, A.B. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae). Zootaxa 4104(1): 1–109. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1 Reference page.
Köhler, G., Bobadilla, M.J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. A new dune-dwelling lizard of the genus Leiocephalus (Iguania, Leiocephalidae) from the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 4121(5): 517–532. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.5.2. Reference page.
Hedges, S.B., Lorvelec, O., Barré, N., Berchel, J., Combot, M.D., Vidal, N. & Pavis, C. 2016. A new species of skink from the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuya). Caribbean Herpetology 53: 1–14. DOI: 10.31611/ch.53 Reference page.
Köhler, G. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. A revision of the green anoles of Hispaniola with description of eight new species (Reptilia, Squamata, Dactyloidae). Novitates Caribaea 9: 1–135. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Tucker, D.B., Colli, G.R., Giugliano, L.G., Hedges, S.B., Hendry, C.R., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Sites Jr., J.W. & Pyron, R.A. 2016. Methodological congruence in phylogenomic analyses with morphological support for teiid lizards (Sauria: Teiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 75–84. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.002 . Reference page.

2018

Landestoy T., M.A., Turner, D.B., Marion, A.B. & Hedges, S.B. 2018. A new species of Caribbean toad (Bufonidae, Peltophryne) from southern Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4403(3): 523–539. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.6 Reference page.