Christopher C. Austin

Christopher C. Austin, U.S. herpetologist.

Department of Biological Sciences, Museum of Natural Science, 119 Foster Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

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.

Rittmeyer, E.N. & Austin, C.C. 2017. Two new species of Crocodile Skinks (Squamata: Scincidae: Tribolonotus) from the Solomon Archipelago. Zootaxa 4268(1): 71–87. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4268.1.4. Reference page.

Ruane, S., Richards, S.J., McVay, J.D., Tjaturadi, B., Krey, K. & Austin, C.C. 2018. 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 PDF ResearchGate Reference page.

Oliver, P.M., Hartman, R., Turner, C.D., Wilde, T.A., Austin, C.C. & Richards, S.J. 2020. A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray (Gekkonidae: Squamata) from Manus Island, and extended description and range extension for Cyrtodactylus sermowaiensis (De Rooij). Zootaxa 4728(3): 341–356. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.3.3 Reference page.
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.

Roberts, J.R., Iova, B. & Austin, C.C. 2022. A new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake (Serpentes, Elapidae, Toxicocalamus Boulenger, 1896) from Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(2): 399–409. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.90520 Reference page.