Hymen Marx

Hymen Marx (* 27 June 1925, Chicago – † 25 January 2007, Sun City), U.S. herpetologist.

• Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Taxon names authored

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• 23 taxon names authored by Hymen Marx

Eponyms

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• 0 eponyms of Hymen Marx

Publications

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1952

• Marx, H. 1952. Atractaspis (Moleviper), a new record for Egypt. Copeia 1952(4): 278–279. DOI: 10.2307/1439290 JSTOR

1953

• Marx, H. 1953. The elapid genus of snakes Walterinnesia. Fieldiana: Zoology 34(16): 189–196. BHL
• Marx, H. 1953. A new worm snake from Colombia. Fieldiana: Zoology 34(17): 197–198. BHL Reference page. 

1955

• Marx, H. 1955. Notes on the behavior of some Madagascar chameleons (Reptilia, Chamaeleontidae). Natural History Miscellanea 149: 1–3.
• Marx, H. & Inger, R.F. 1955. Notes on the snakes of the genus Calamaria. Fieldiana: Zoology 37(7): 167–209. BHL Reference page. 
• Medem, F. & Marx, H. 1955. An artificial key to the New-World species of crocodilians. Copeia 1955(1): 1–2. DOI: 10.2307/1439443 JSTOR

1956

• Marx, H. 1956. A new lacertid lizard from Angola. Fieldiana: Zoology 39(2): 5–9. BHL Reference page. 
• Marx, H. 1956. Keys to the lizards and snakes of Egypt. United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, 8 pp.
• Schmidt, K P. & Marx, H. 1956. The herpetology of Sinai. Fieldiana: Zoology 39(4): 21–40. BHL Reference page. 

1957

• Schmidt, K P. & Marx, H. 1957. Results of the NAMRU-3 southeastern Egypt expedition, 1954. 2. Reptiles and amphibians. The Zoological Society of Egypt Bulletin 13: 16–28. Reference page. 

1958

• Marx, H. 1958. Catalogue of type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in Chicago Natural History Museum. Fieldiana: Zoology 36(4): 409–496. BHL Reference page. 
• Marx, H. 1958. Egyptian snakes of the genus Psammophis. Fieldiana: Zoology 39(18): 191–200. BHL Reference page. 
• Marx, H. 1958. Sexual dimorphism in coloration in the viper Cerastes vipera L. Natural History Miscellanea 164: 1–2.

1959

• Marx, H. & Hosmer, W. 1959. A new skink from Australia. Copeia 1959(3): 207–208. DOI: 10.2307/1440388 JSTOR Reference page. 
• Reed, C.A. & Marx, H. 1959. A herpetological collection from Northeastern Iraq. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 62(1): 91–122. DOI: 10.2307/3626514 Reference page. 
• Marx, H. 1959. Review of the colubrid snake genus Spalerosophis. Fieldiana: Zoology 39(30): 347–361. BHL

1960

• Marx, H. 1960. A new iguanid lizard of the genus Ctenoblepharis. Fieldiana: Zoology 39(37): 407–409. BHL Reference page. 
• Marx, H. 1960. A new colubrid snake of the genus Atractus. Fieldiana: Zoology 39(38): 411–413. BHL Reference page. 

1961

• Inger, R.F. & Marx, H. 1961. The food of amphibians. Institut des Pares Nationaux du Congo et du Ruanda-Urundi 64: 1–86.

1962

• Inger, R.F. & Marx, H. 1962. Variation of hemipenis and cloaca in the colubrid snake Calamaria lumbricoidea. Systematic Zoology 11(1): 32–38. DOI: 10.2307/2411447 JSTOR

1965

• Marx, H. & Rabb, G.B. 1965. Relationships and zoogeography of the viperine snakes (Family Viperidae). Fieldiana: Zoology 44(21): 161–206. BHL Reference page. 
• Inger, R.F. & Marx, H. 1965. The systematics and evolution of the Oriental colubrid snakes of the genus Calamaria. Fieldiana: Zoology 49: 1–304. BHL Reference page. 

1966

• Brongersma, L.D., Inger, R.F. & Marx, H. 1966. Proposed use of the plenary powers to conserve the generic name Calamaria Boie, 1827, and the specific name Calamaria linnaei Schlegel, 1837 (Reptilia, Serpentes). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 22: 303–313.

1967

• Rand, A.S. & Marx, H. 1967. Running speed of the lizard Basiliscus basiliscus on water. Copeia 1967(1): 230–233. DOI: 10.2307/1442206 JSTOR

1968

• Marx, H. 1968. Checklist of the reptiles and amphibians of Egypt. Special Publication, United States Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, iii + 91 pp., 11 figs.

1970

• Marx, H. & Olechowski, T.S. 1970. Fea's viper and the common gray shrew: a distribution note on predator and prey. Journal of Mammalogy 51: 205.
• Marx, H. & Rabb, G.B. 1970. Character analysis: an empirical approach applied to advanced snakes. Journal of Zoology 161(2): 525–548. DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1970.tb02054.x

1971

• Liem, K.F., Marx, H. & Rabb, G.B. 1971. The viperid snake Azemiops: its comparative cephalic anatomy and phylogenetic position in relation to Viperinae and Crotalinae. Fieldiana: Zoology 59(2): 63–126. BHL Reference page. 

1972

• Marx, H. & Rabb, G.B. 1972. Phyletic analysis of fifty characters of advanced snakes. Fieldiana: Zoology 63: 1–321. BHL

1973

• Rabb, G.B. & Marx, H. 1973. Major ecological and geographic patterns in the evolution of colubroid snakes. Evolution 27(1): 69–83. DOI: 10.2307/2407120 JSTOR

1976

• Marx, H. 1976. Supplementary catalogue of type specimens of reptiles and amphibians in Field Museum of Natural History. Fieldiana: Zoology 69(2): 33–94. BHL

1977

• Marx, H., Rabb, G.B. & Voris, H.K. 1977. The differentiation of character state relationships by binary coding and the monothetic subset method. Fieldiana: Zoology 72(1): 1–20. BHL

1981

• Resetar, A.R. & Marx, H. 1981. A redescription and generic reallocation of the African colubrid snake Elapocalamus gracilis Boulenger with a discussion of the union of the brille and postocular shield. Journal of Herpetology 15(1): 83–89. DOI: 10.2307/1563650 JSTOR

1982

• Marx, H., Rabb, G.B. & Arnold, S.J. 1982. Pythonodipsas and Spalerosophis, colubrid snake genera convergent to the vipers. Copeia 1982(3): 553–561. DOI: 10.2307/1444655 JSTOR

1983

• Marx, H. & Reed, C.A. 1983. Lung disorder not necessarily responsible for the non-swimming behavior observed in aquatic turtles. Copeia 1983(2): 571–573. DOI: 10.2307/1444416 JSTOR

1984

• Inger, R.F., Marx, H. & Koshy, M. 1984. An undescribed species of gekkonid lizard (Cnemaspis) from India with comments on the status of C. tropidogaster. Herpetologica 40(2): 149–154. JSTOR Reference page. 

1986

• Lombard, R.E., Marx, H. & Rabb, G.B. 1986. Morphometries of the ectopterygoid in advanced snakes (Colubroidea): a concordance of shape and phylogeny. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 27(2): 133–164. DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1986.tb01730.x

1988

• Marx, H. 1988. The colubrid snake, Psammophis schokari, from the Arabian Peninsula. Fieldiana: Zoology new series 40: 1–14. BHL
• Marx, H., Ashe, J.S. & Watrous, L.E. 1988. Phylogeny of the viperine snakes (Viperinae): part I. Character analysis. Fieldiana: Zoology new series 51: 1–16. BHL
• Ashe, J.S. & Marx, H. 1988. Phylogeny of the viperine snakes (Viperinae): Part II. Cladistic analysis and major lineages. Fieldiana: Zoology new series 52: 1–23. BHL

References

• Voris, H.K. & Resetar, A. 2007. Hymen Marx, 1925-2007. Iguana: Conservation, Natural History, and Husbandry of Reptiles 14(2): 135–136. Reference page. 
• Voris, H.K. & Resetar, A. 2007. Hymen Marx, 1925-2007. Copeia 2007(4): 1046–1049. JSTOR Reference page.