David Burton Wake

David Burton Wake (June 8, 1936-April 29, 2021), U.S. herpetologist.

• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94708-3160 USA

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 38 taxon names authored by David Burton Wake

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1987

• Bolaños, F., Robinson, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 1987. A new species of salamander (genus Bolitoglossa) from Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical 35: 87–92. PDF Reference page. 

1999

• Hanken, J., Wake, D.B. & Freeman, H.L. 1999. Three new species of minute salamanders (Thorius: Plethodontidae) from Guerrero, Mexico, including the report of a novel dental polymorphism in urodeles. Copeia 1999(4): 917–931. JSTOR Reference page. 

2000

• Wake, D.B. & Campbell, J.A. 2000. A new species of diminutive salamander (Amphibia: Caudata: Plethodontidae: Nototriton) from the Montañas del Mico of Guatemala. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 113(3): 815–819. BHL Reference page. 

2005

• Min, M.S., Yang, S.Y., Bonett, R.M., Vieites, D.R., Brandon, R.A. & Wake, D.B. 2005. Discovery of the first Asian plethodontid salamander. Nature 435: 87–90. DOI: 10.1038/nature03474 Reference page. 

2007

• 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. 

2009

• Bolaños, F. & Wake, D. B. 2009. Two new species of montane web-footed salamanders (Plethodontidae: Bolitoglossa) from the Costa Rica-Panamá border region. Zootaxa 1981(1): 57–68. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.1981.1.5Reference page. 
• Vásquez-Almazán, C.R., Rovito, S.M., Good, D.A. & Wake, D.B. 2009. A New Species of Cryptotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from Eastern Guatemala. Copeia 2009(2): 313–319. DOI: 10.1643/CH-08-086 Reference page. 
• Camp, C.D., Peterman, W.E., Milanovich, J.R., Lamb, T., Maerz, J.C. & Wake, D.B. 2009. A new genus and species of lungless salamander (family Plethodontidae) from the Appalachian highlands of the south-eastern United States. Journal of Zoology 279(1): 86–94. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00593.x ; ResearchGate Reference page. 

2010

• Che, J., Zhou, W.-W., Hu, J.-S., Yan, F., Papenfuss, T.J., Wake, D.B. & Zhang, Y.-P. 2010. Spiny frogs (Paini) illuminate the history of the Himalayan region and Southeast Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(31): 13765–13770. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008415107 Reference page. 

2011

• Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 2011. Class Amphibia Gray, 1825. Pp 39–55 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  Reference page. 

2012

• Blackburn, D.C. & Wake, D.B. 2012. Additions and corrections. Zootaxa 3381: 45–46. Preview Reference page. 
• Boza-Oviedo, E., Rovito, S.M., Chaves, G., García-Rodríguez, A., Artavia, L.G., Bolaños, F. & Wake, D.B. 2012. Salamanders from the eastern Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica, with descriptions of five new species (Plethodontidae: Bolitoglossa, Nototriton, and Oedipina) and natural history notes from recent expeditions. Zootaxa 3309: 36–61. Preview Reference page. 
• Wake, D.B., Rovito, S.M., Maisano, J.A. & Hanken, J. 2012. Taxonomic status of the enigmatic salamander Cryptotriton adelos (Amphibia: Plethodontidae) from northern Oaxaca, Mexico, with observations on its skull and postcranial skeleton. Zootaxa 3579: 67–70. Preview Reference page. 

2017

• García-Castillo, M.G., Rovito, S.M., Wake, D.B., & Parra-Olea, G. 2017. A new terrestrial species of Chiropterotriton (Caudata: Plethodontidae) from central Mexico. Zootaxa 4363(4): 489–505. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.4.2 Reference page. 

2020

• Reyes-Puig, C., Wake, D.B., Kotharambath, R., Streicher, J.W., Koch, C., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Yánez-Muñoz, M.H., Ron, S.R. 2020. Two extremely rare new species of fossorial salamanders of the genus Oedipina (Plethodontidae) from northwestern Ecuador. PeerJ 8: e9934. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9934 Reference page.