Donald Bruce Means

Donald Bruce Means, US herpetologist.

• Past Director of Tall Timbers Research Station (1976-1984)
• Executive Director of Coastal Plains Institute (since 1984)
• Courtesy Professor, Florida State University Department of Biological Science (since 1976).

Taxon names authored

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• 32 taxon names authored by Donald Bruce Means

Eponyms

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• 2 eponyms of Donald Bruce Means

Publications

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2009

• Heinicke, M.P., Duellman, W.E., Trueb, L., Means, D.B., MacCulloch, R.D. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. A new frog family (Anura: Terrarana) from South America and an expanded direct-developing clade revealed by molecular phylogeny. Zootaxa 2211: 1–35. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2011

• Kok P.J.R., Means D.B. & Bossuyt F.Y. 2011. A new highland species of Pristimantis Jiménez de la Espada, 1871 (Anura: Strabomantidae) from the Pantepui region, Northern South America Zootaxa 2934: 1–19. Preview. Reference page. 

2013

• Jungfer, K.-H., Faivovich, J., Padial, J.M., Castroviejo-Fisher, S., Lyra, M.L., Berneck, B.V.M., Iglesias, P.P., Kok, P.J.R., MacCulloch, R.D., Rodrigues, M.T., Verdade, V.K., Torres-Gastello, C.P., Chaparro, J.C., Valdujo, P.H., Reichle, S., Moravec, J., Gvoždík, V., Gagliardi-Urrutia, G., Ernst, R., De la Riva, I., Means, D.B., Lima, A.P., Señaris, J.C., Wheeler, W.C., & Haddad, C.F.B. 2013. Systematics of spiny-backed treefrogs (Hylidae: Osteocephalus): an Amazonian puzzle. Zoologica Scripta 42(4): 351–380. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12015 Reference page. 

2015

• Kok, P.J.R., Ratz, S., Tegelaar, M., Aubret, F. & Means, D.B. 2015. Out of taxonomic limbo: a name for the species of Tepuihyla (Anura: Hylidae) from the Chimantá Massif, Pantepui region, northern South America. Salamandra 51(4): 283–314. PDF Reference page. 

2017

• Means, D.B., Lamb, J.Y. & Bernardo, J. 2017. A new species of dusky salamander (Amphibia: Plethodontidae: Desmognathus) from the Eastern Gulf Coastal Plain of the United States and a redescription of D. auriculatus. Zootaxa 4263(3): 467–506. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.3. Reference page. 

2018

• Kok, P.J.R., Bittenbinder, M.A., van den Berg, J.K., Marques-Souza, S., Nunes, P.M.S., Laking, A.E., Teixeira Jr., M., Fouquet, A., Means, D.B., MacCulloch, R.D. & Rodrigues, M.T. 2018. Integrative taxonomy of the gymnophthalmid lizard Neusticurus rudis Boulenger, 1900 identifies a new species in the eastern Pantepui region, north-eastern South America. Journal of Natural History 52(13–16): 1029–1066. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1439541 Reference page. 

2019

• Pinheiro, P.D.P., Kok, P.J.R., Noonan, P.B., Means, D.B., Haddad, C.F.B. & Faivovich, J. 2019. A new genus of Cophomantini, with comments on the taxonomic status of Boana liliae (Anura: Hylidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(1): 226–245. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly030 Reference page. 

2024

• Kok, P.J.R. & Means, D.B. [2023] 2024. Hiding in the mists: molecular phylogenetic position and description of a new genus and species of snake (Dipsadidae: Xenodontinae) from the remote cloud forest of the Lost World. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 200(2): 505–531. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad082 Reference page. 

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