Craig Moritz

Craig Moritz, Australian herpetologist.

Division of Evolution, Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, and Centre for Biodiversity Analysis, The Australian National University, Building 116, Daley Road, Acton, ACT, 2601, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Couper, P.J., Covacevich, J.A. & Moritz, C. 1993. A review of the leaf-tailed geckos endemic to eastern Australia: a new genus, four new species, and other new data. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34(1): 95–124. BHL Reference page.

Couper, P.J., Covacevich, J.A. & Moritz, C. 1994. Designation of the type species of Saltuarius, and other data on the genus. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 35(1): 26. BHL Reference page.

Vredenburg, V.T., Bingham, R.E., Knapp, R., Morgan, J.A.T., Moritz, C. & Wake, D.B. 2007. Concordant molecular and phenotypic data delineate new taxonomy and conservation priorities for the endangered mountain yellow-legged frog. Journal of Zoology 271(4): 361–374. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2006.00258.x Reference page.

Fouquet, A., Recoder, R., Teixeira Jr., M., Cassimiro, J., Amaro, R.C., Camacho, A., Damasceno, R., Carnaval, A.C., Moritz, C. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2012. Molecular phylogeny and morphometric analyses reveal deep divergence between Amazonia and Atlantic Forest species of Dendrophryniscus. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 62(3): 826–838. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.11.023 Reference page.
Fouquet, A., Recoder, R., Teixeira Jr., M., Cassimiro, J., Amaro, R.C., Camacho, A., Damasceno, R., Carnaval, A.C., Moritz, C. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2012. Amazonella Fouquet et al., 2012 (Anura: Bufonidae) junior homonym of Amazonella Lundblad, 1931 (Acari: Unionicolidae): proposed replacement by Amazophrynella nom. nov. Zootaxa 3244: 68–68. Preview PDF. Reference page.

Pepper, M., Doughty, P., Fujita, M.K., Moritz, C. & Keogh, J.S. 2013. Speciation on the Rocks: Integrated Systematics of the Heteronotia spelea Species Complex (Gekkota; Reptilia) from Western and Central Australia. PLoS One 8(11): e78110. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0078110 Reference page.

Oliver, P.M., Bourke, G., Pratt, R.C., Doughty, P. & Moritz, C. 2016. Systematics of small Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia: redescription of G. kimberleyi Börner & Schüttler, 1983 and description of a new restricted range species. Zootaxa 4107(1): 49–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.1.2. Reference page.

Bourke, G., Pratt, R.C., Vanderduys, E.P. & Moritz, C. 2017. Systematics of a small Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Einasleigh Uplands, Queensland: description of a new range restricted species. Zootaxa 4231(1): 85–99. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.1.5. Reference page.
Afonso Silva, A.C., Santos, N., Ogilvie, H.A. & Moritz, C. 2017. Validation and description of two new north-western Australian Rainbow skinks with multispecies coalescent methods and morphology. PeerJ 5: e3724. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3724 Reference page.

Doughty, P., Bourke, G., Tedeschi, L.G., Pratt, R.C., Oliver, P.M., Palmer, R.A. & Moritz, C. 2018. Species delimitation in the Gehyra nana (Squamata: Gekkonidae) complex: cryptic and divergent morphological evolution in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4403(2): 201–244. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.2.1 Reference page.
Singhal, S., Hoskin, C.J., Couper, P., Potter, S. & Moritz, C. 2018. A framework for resolving cryptic species: a case study from the lizards of the Australian Wet Tropics. Systematic Biology 67(6): 1061–1075. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syy026 Reference page.

Oliver, P.M., Prasetya, A.M., Tedeschi, L.G., Fenker, J., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P. & Moritz, C. 2020. Crypsis and convergence: integrative taxonomic revision of the Gehyra australis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Australia. PeerJ 8: e7971. DOI: 10.7717/PEERJ.7971 Reference page.

Roycroft, E., Ford, F., Ramm, T., Schembri, R., Breed, W.G., Burns, P.A., Rowe, K.C. & Moritz, C. 2024. Speciation across biomes: Rapid diversification with reproductive isolation in the Australian delicate mice. Molecular Ecology 33(7): e17301. DOI: 10.1111/mec.17301 Reference page.