Stephen John Richards

Stephen John Richards (Richards), Australian entomologist and herpetologist.

• Terrestrial Vertebrates, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000
• Department of Plant, Soil & Insect Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 5 taxon names authored by Stephen John Richards

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2007

• Rösler, H., Richards, S.J. & Günther, R. 2007. Remarks on morphology and taxonomy of geckos of the genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827, occurring east of Wallacea, with descriptions of two new species (Reptilia: Sauria: Gekkonidae). Salamandra 43(4): 193–230. Reference page. 

2008

• Oliver, P.M., Tjaturadi, B., Mumpuni, Krey & Richards, S.J. 2008. A new species of large Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Melanesia. Zootaxa 1894: 59–68. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 

2010

• Austin, C.C., Rittmeyer, R.N., Richards, S.J. & Zug, G.R. 2010. Phylogeny, historical biogeography and body size evolution in Pacific Island Crocodile skinks Tribolonotus (Squamata; Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 57(1): 227–236. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.06.005 ; hdl: 10088/16716 . Reference page. 

2012

• Günther, R. & Richards, S. 2012 "2011". Description of two new species of the microhylid frog genus Oreophryne (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from southern Papua New Guinea. Vertebrate Zoology 61(3): 343–372. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Günther, R., Richards, S.J., Bickford, D.P. & Johnston, G.R. 2012. A new egg-guarding species of Oreophryne (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from southern Papua New Guinea. Zoosystematics and Evolution 88(2): 223–230. DOI: 10.1002/zoos.201200019 Reference page. 

2014

• Günther, R., Richards, S.J. & Dahl, C.S. 2014. Nine new species of microhylid frogs from the Muller Range in western Papua New Guinea (Anura, Microhylidae). Vertebrate Zoology 64(1): 59–94. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Richards, S.J., Oliver, P. & Brown, R.B. 2014. A new scansorial species of Platymantis Günther 1858 (Anura: Ceratobatrachidae) from Manus Island, Admiralty Archipelago, Papua New Guinea. pp. 123–134 in Telnov, D. (ed.). Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Volume II. The Entomological Society of Latvia: Lettland, Latvia. ISBN 9789984976877 Reference page. 

2015

• Theischinger, G., Gassmann, D. & Richards, S.J. 2015. Microcnemis gracilis, a new genus and species of Idiocnemidinae (Zygoptera: Platycnemididae) from Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 3990(3): 429–436. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3990.3.7. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Brown, R.M., Siler, D.S., Richards, S.J., Diesmos, A.C. & Cannatella, D.C. 2015. Multilocus phylogeny and a new classification for Southeast Asian and Melanesian forest frogs (family Ceratobatrachidae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 174(1): 130–168. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12232 Reference page. 
• Xu, G., Tang, W., Skelley, P.E., Liu, N. & Richards, S.J. 2015. Cycadophila, a new genus (Coleoptera: Erotylidae: Pharaxonothinae) inhabiting Cycas debaoensis (Cycadaceae) in Asia. Zootaxa 3986(3): 251–278. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.3.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Iannella, A., Oliver, P.M. & Richards, S. 2015. Two new species of Choerophryne (Anura, Microhylidae) from the northern versant of Papua New Guinea’s central cordillera. Zootaxa 4058(3): 332–340. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.3.2. Preview (PDF). Reference page. 
• Günther, R., Richards, S.J., Tjaturadi, B., Krey, K. 2015. Two new species of the genus Cophixalus from the Raja Ampat Islands west of New Guinea (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 91(2): 199-213. DOI: 10.3897/zse.91.5411 . Reference page. 

2016

• Gassmann, D., Richards, S.J. & Polhemus, D.A. 2016. Idiocnemis schorri sp. nov., a new damselfly species from southern Papua New Guinea (Odonata: Platycnemididae). Zootaxa 4171(3): 491–504. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.3.5. Reference page. 
• McDonald, K.R., Rowley, J.J.L., Richards, S.J. & Frankham, G.J. 2016. A new species of treefrog (Litoria) from Cape York Peninsula, Australia. Zootaxa 4171(1): 153–169. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.6. Reference page. 
• Oliver, P.M., Richards, S., Mumpuni & Rösler, H. 2016. The Knight and the King: two new species of giant bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus, Gekkonidae, Squamata) from northern New Guinea, with comments on endemism in the North Papuan Mountains. ZooKeys 562: 105–130. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.562.6052.Reference page. 
• Oliver, P.M., Clegg, J.R., Fisher, R.N., Richards, S.J., Taylor, P.N. & Jocque, M.M.T. 2016. A new biogeographically disjunct giant gecko (Gehyra: Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from the East Melanesian Islands. Zootaxa 4208(1): 61–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.1.3. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Orr, A.G. & Richards, S.J. 2016. Three new species of Papuagrion Ris, 1913 (Odonata: Coenagrionidae) from the Hindenburg Wall region of western Papua New Guinea. Zootaxa 4072(3): 319–332. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.2. Reference page. 
• Günther, R. & Richards, S. 2016. Description of two new species of the microhylid frog genus Oreophryne (Amphibia: Anura: Microhylidae) from southern Papua New Guinea. Vertebrate Zoology 66(2): 157–168. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Günther, R., Richards, S.J. 2016. Description of a striking new Mantophryne species (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea. Zoosystematics and Evolution. 92(1): 111-118. DOI: 10.3897/zse.92.7629 Reference page. 

2017

• Günther, R. & Richards, S. 2017. Three new species of the microhylid frog genus Choerophryne (Amphibia, Anura, Microhylidae) from Papua New Guinea. Zoosystematics and Evolution 93(2): 265–279. DOI: 10.3897/zse.93.11576. Reference page. 

2018

• O’Shea, M., Herlihy, B., Paivu, B., Parker, F., Richards, S.J. & Kaiser, H. 2018. Rediscovery of the rare Star Mountains Worm-eating Snake, Toxicocalamus ernstmayri O’Shea et al., 2015 (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) with the description of its coloration in life. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 12(1): 27–34. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Travers, S.L., Richards, S.J., Broadhead, T.S. & Brown, R.M. 2018. A new miniature Melanesian Forest Frog (Ceratobatrachidae: Cornufer) from New Britain Island, constituting the first record of the subgenus Batrachylodes from outside of the Solomon Archipelago. Zootaxa 4370(1): 23–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.1.2. Reference page. 
• Ruane, S., Richards, S.J., McVay, J.D., Tjaturadi, B., Krey, K. & Austin, C.C. 2017. Cryptic and non-cryptic diversity in New Guinea ground snakes of the genus Stegonotus Duméril, Bibron and Duméril, 1854: a description of four new species (Squamata: Colubridae). Journal of Natural History 52(13-16): 917–944. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2017.1391959 Reference page. 

2019

• Richards, S. & Günther, R. 2019 Three new scansorial species of microhylid frogs (Anura: Cophixalus, Oreophryne) from Papua New Guinea. Salamandra 55(2): 55–72. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Phimmachak, S., Richards, S.J., Sivongxay, N., Seateun, S., Chuaynkern, Y., Makchai, S., Som, H.E. & Stuart, B.L. 2019. A new caruncle-bearing fanged frog (Limnonectes, Dicroglossidae) from Laos and Thailand. ZooKeys 846: 133–156. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.846.33200A Reference page. 

2020

• Tallowin, O.J.S., Meiri, S., Donnellan, S.C., Richards, S.J., Austin, C.C. & Oliver, P.M. 2020. The other side of the Sahulian coin: biogeography and evolution of Melanesian forest dragons (Agamidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129(1): 99–113. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz125 Reference page.