Donald James Colgan

Donald James Colgan, Australian herpetologist, malacologist, and mammalogist.

• Australian Museum Research Institute, Sydney, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 10 taxon names authored by Donald James Colgan

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1993

• Sadlier, R.A., Colgan, D.J. & Shea, G.M. 1993. Taxonomy and distribution of the scincid lizard Saproscincus challengeri and related species in southeastern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 34(1): 139–158. BHL Reference page. 

1999

• Sadlier, R.A., Bauer, A.M. & Colgan, D.J. 1999. The scincid lizard genus Caledoniscincus (Reptilia: Scincidae) from New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific: a review of Caledoniscincus austrocaledonicus (Bavay) and description of six new species from Province Nord. Records of the Australian Museum 51(1): 57–82. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.51.1999.1295 Reference page. 

2005

• Sadlier, R.A., Couper, P.J., Colgan, D.J., Vanderduys, E. & Rickard, E. 2005. A new species of scincid lizard, Saproscincus eungellensis, from mid-eastern Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 51(2): 559–571. BHL Reference page. 

2019

• Sadlier, R.A., Colgan, D.J., Beatson, C.A. & Cogger, H.G. 2019. Ctenophorus spinodomus sp. nov., a new species of dragon lizard (Squamata: Agamidae) from Triodia Mallee habitat of southeast Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 71(5): 199–215. DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1700 Reference page. 

2021

• Colgan, D.J., Ahyong, S.T., Mardon, K. & Brereton, I.M. 2021. Rare specimen identification in an un-integrated taxonomy: implications of DNA sequences from a Taiwanese Philine (Mollusca, Philinidae). ZooKeys 1060: 93–110. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1060.28809 Reference page.