Robert N. Fisher

Robert N. Fisher, U.S. herpetologist.

U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, San Diego Field Station, 4165 Spruance Road, Suite 200, San Diego, California, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Ota, H., Fisher, R.N., Ineich, I. & Case, T.J. 1995. Geckos of the Genus Lepidodactylus (Squamata: Reptilia) in Micronesia: Description of a New Species and Reevaluation of the Status of Gecko moestus Peters, 1867. Copeia 1995(1): 183–195. DOI: 10.2307/1446813 Reference page.

Wood, D.A., Meik, J.M., Holycross, A.T., Fisher, R.N. & Vandergast, A.G. 2008. Molecular and phenotypic diversity in Chionactis occipitalis (Western Shovel-nosed Snake), with emphasis on the status of C. o. klauberi (Tucson Shovel-nosed Snake). Conservation Genetics 9: 1489–1507. DOI: 10.1007/s10592-007-9482-0 Reference page.

Wood, D.A., Vandergast, A.G., Lemos-Espinal, J.A., Fisher, R.N. & Holycross, A.T. 2011. Refugial isolation and divergence in the Narrowheaded Gartersnake species complex (Thamnophis rufipunctatus) as revealed by multilocus DNA sequence data. Molecular Ecology 20(18): 3856–3878. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05211.x Reference page.

Wood, D.A., Fisher, R.N. & Vandergast, A.G. 2014. Fuzzy Boundaries: Color and Gene Flow Patterns among Parapatric Lineages of the Western Shovel-Nosed Snake and Taxonomic Implication. PLoS One 9(5): e97494. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097494 Reference page.

Ineich, I. & Fisher, R.N. 2016. Rediscovery of the 220-year-old holotype of the Banded Iguana, Brachylophus fasciatus (Brongniart, 1800) in the Paris Natural History Museum. Zootaxa 4138(2): 381–391. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4138.2.10. 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.

Fisher, R.N., Niukula, J., Watling, D. & Harlow, P.S. 2017. A new species of iguana Brachylophus Cuvier 1829 (Sauria: Iguania: Iguanidae) from Gau Island, Fiji Islands. Zootaxa 4273(3): 407–422. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4273.3.5. Full article (PDF) Reference page.

Jockusch, E.L., Hansen, R.W., Fisher, R.N. & Wake, D.B. 2020. Slender salamanders (genus Batrachoseps) reveal Southern California to be a center for the diversification, persistence, and introduction of salamander lineages. PeerJ 8: e9599. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9599 Reference page.