Frank T. Burbrink

Frank T. Burbrink, U.S. herpetologist.

Department of Herpetology, The American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street, New York, NY, United States.
Biology Department, College of Staten Island/City University of New York, 6S-143, 2800 Victory Blvd, Staten Island, New York, United States.

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Burbrink, F.T., Lawson, R. & Slowinski, J.B. 2000. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography of the polytypic North American rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta): A critique of the subspecies concept. Evolution 54(6): 2107–2118. DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2000.tb01253.x ; JSTOR Reference page.

Burbrink, F.T. 2001. Systematics of the Eastern Ratsnake Complex (Elaphe obsoleta). Herpetological Monographs 15: 1–53. DOI: 10.2307/1467037 Reference page.

Burbrink, F.T. 2002. Phylogeographic analysis of the cornsnake (Elaphe guttata) complex as inferred from maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 25(3): 465–476. DOI: 10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00306-8 Reference page.

Rossman, D.A. & Burbrink, F.T. 2005. Species limits within the Mexican garter snakes of the Thamnophis godmani complex. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural Science 79: 1–43. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Pyron, R.A., Burbrink, F.T., Colli, G.R., Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Vitt, L.J., Kuczynski, C.A. & Wiens, J.J. 2011. The phylogeny of advanced snakes (Colubroidea), with discovery of a new subfamily and comparison of support methods for likelihood trees. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58(2): 329–342. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.11.006 Reference page.

Pyron, R.A., Burbrink, F.T. & Wiens, J.J. 2013. A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes. BMC Evolutionary Biology 13(93): 1–53. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-13-93 . ResearchGate . Reference page.
Guo, P., Zhang, L., Liu, Q., Li, C., Pyron, R.A., Jiang, K. & Burbrink, F.T. 2013. Lycodon and Dinodon: one genus or two? Evidence from molecular phylogenetics and morphological comparisons. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68(1): 144–149. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.03.008 Reference page.

Chen, X., McKelvy, A.D., Grismer, L.L., Matsui, M., Nishikawa, K. & Burbrink, F.T. 2014. The phylogenetic position and taxonomic status of the Rainbow Tree Snake Gonyophis margaritatus (Peters, 1871) (Squamata: Colubridae). Zootaxa 3881(6): 532–548. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3881.6.3 Reference page.

Burbrink, F.T. & Guiher, T.J. 2015. Considering gene flow when using coalescent methods to delimit lineages of North American pitvipers of the genus Agkistrodon. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173(2): 505–526. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12211 Reference page.

Ruane, S., Burbrink, F.T., Randriamahatantsoa, B. & Raxworthy, C.J. 2016. The Cat-eyed Snakes of Madagascar: Phylogeny and Description of a New Species of Madagascarophis (Serpentes: Lamprophiidae) from the Tsingy of Ankarana. Copeia 104(3): 712–721. DOI: 10.1643/CH-15-346 Reference page.

Chen, X., Lemmon, A.R., Lemmon, E.M., Pyron, R.A. & Burbrink, F.T. 2017. Using phylogenomics to understand the link between biogeographic origins and regional diversification in ratsnakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 111: 206–218. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.03.017 Reference page.

Yang, D.-C., Huang, R.-Y., Jiang, K., Burbrink, F.T., Gong, Y.-A., Yu, J., Zhang, Y., Huang, T.-Q. & Huang, S. 2022. A new species of the genus Achalinus (Squamata: Xenodermidae) from Ningshan County, Shaanxi Province, China. Zootaxa 5190(1): 127–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5190.1.5 Reference page.

Xu, Y-H., Wang, S., Ma, S., Burbrink, F.T., Peng, L-F. & Huang, S. 2024. First report of albinism for Achalinus sheni (Serpentes, Xenodermidae), with extended diagnosis of the species. ZooKeys 1209: 1–17. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1209.128944 Reference page.