Christopher K. Taylor

Christopher Kenneth Taylor, Australian arachnologist.

• Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University. GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
• School of Animal Biology, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.
• Chris.Taylor[at]curtin.edu.au

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 36 taxon names authored by Christopher K. Taylor

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2004

• Taylor, C.K. 2004: New Zealand harvestmen of the subfamily Megalopsalidinae (Opiliones: Monoscutidae) - the genus Pantopsalis. Tuhinga 15: 53-76. abstract and pdf Reference page. 

2008

• Taylor, C.K. 2008. A new species of Monoscutinae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Monoscutidae) from New Zealand, with a redescription of Monoscutum titirangiense. Journal of Arachnology 36(1): 176–179. DOI: 10.1636/H07-10SC.1 . PDF. Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. 2008: A new species of Monoscutidae (Arachnida, Opiliones) from the wheatbelt of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 24(4): 375–380. abstract and pdf PDF Reference page. 

2009

• Taylor, C.K. 2009. Revision of the Australian Gagrellinae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae), with a description of a new species. Australian Journal of Entomology 48(3): 217–222. DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2009.00707.x Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. 2009. Australiscutum, a new genus of Monoscutidae (Arachnida: Opiliones) from eastern Australia, with the first record of asymmetrical chelicerae in Opiliones. Insect Systematics & Evolution 40(4): 319–332. DOI: 10.1163/187631209X458367 . Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. & Hunt, G.S. 2009. New genus of Megalopsalidinae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Monoscutidae) from north-eastern Australia. Zootaxa 2130: 41–59. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2011

• Taylor, C.K. 2011. Revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Arachnida: Opiliones: Phalangioidea) in Australia and New Zealand and implications for phalangioid classification. Zootaxa 2773: 1–65. Preview Reference page. 

2012

• Gunawardene, N.R. & Taylor, C.K. 2012. New records of Elasmus (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) species from Barrow Island, Western Australia. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 29: 21–35. DOI: 10.3897/JHR.29.3605 Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. 2012. Clarification of the type status of Macropsalis fabulosa Phillipps & Grimmett 1932. Zootaxa 3194: 49–50. Preview Reference page. 

2013

• Gunawardene, N.R., Majer, J.D., Taylor, C.K. & Harvey, M.S. (eds.) 2013. The terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83. Reference page. 
• Majer, J.D., Callan, S.K., Edwards, K., Gunawardene, N.R. & Taylor, C.K. 2013. Baseline survey of the terrestrial invertebrate fauna of Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 13–112. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.83.2013.013-112 . Reference page. 
• Majer, J.D., Gunawardene, N.R., Taylor, C.K. & Harvey, M.S. 2013. A last word. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 405–406. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.83.2013.405-406 . Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. 2013. Further notes on New Zealand Enantiobuninae (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of a new genus and two new species. ZooKeys 263: 59-73. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.263.4158 Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. 2013. Corrigenda: Taylor CK (2013) Further notes on New Zealand Enantiobuninae (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of a new genus and two new species. ZooKeys 263: 59-73. ZooKeys 273: 107. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.273.4857 Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. 2013. Further revision of the genus Megalopsalis (Opiliones, Neopilionidae), with the description of seven new species. ZooKeys 328: 59-117. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.328.5439 Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. 2013. The genus Lithoseopsis (Psocodea: Amphientomidae) in the Western Australian fauna, with description of the male of Lithoseopsis humphreysi from Barrow Island. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 245–252. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.83.2013.245-252 . Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K. 2013. Annotated bibliography for Barrow Island terrestrial invertebrates. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 135–144. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0313-122x.83.2013.135-144 . Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K., Gunawardene, N.R. & Kinnear, A. 2013. A new species of Neocaeculus (Acari: Prostigmata: Caeculidae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia, with a checklist of world Caeculidae. Acarologia 53(4): 439-452. DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20132105 Reference page. 

2014

• Taylor, C.K. 2014: Two further Neocaeculus species (Acari: Prostigmata: Caeculidae) from Barrow Island, Western Australia. Acarologia 54(3): 347-358. DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20142136 Reference page. 
• Taylor, C.K.; Probert, A. 2014: Two new species of harvestmen (Opiliones, Eupnoi, Neopilionidae) from Waitomo, New Zealand. ZooKeys 434: 37-45. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.434.7486 Reference page. 

2016

• Taylor, C.K. 2016. First record of a representative of Ballarrinae (Opiliones: Neopilionidae), Americovibone remota sp. nov., from New Zealand. Journal of arachnology 44(2): 194–198. DOI: 10.1636/H15-66 Reference page. 

2017

• Taylor, C.K. 2017. Notes on Phalangiidae (Arachnida: Opiliones) of southern Africa with description of new species and comments on within-species variation. Zootaxa 4272(2): 236–250. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.2.5 Reference page. 

2019

• Taylor, C.K., Murphy, M.V., Hitchen, Y. & Brothers, D.J. 2019. Four new species of Australian velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae, Aglaotilla) reared from bee and wasp nests, with a review of Australian mutillid host records. Zootaxa 4609(2): 201–224. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4609.2.1 Reference page. 

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