James Hanken

James Hanken, U.S. herpetologist.

Curator of Herpetology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

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.

Wu, Y.-K., Rovito, S.M., Papenfuss, J.T. & Hanken, J. 2009. A new species of the genus Paramesotriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, southern China. Zootaxa 2060: 59–68. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.

Wu, Y-K., Jiang, K. & Hanken, J. 2010. A new species of newt of the genus Paramesotriton (Salamandridae) from southwestern Guangdong, China, with a new northern record of P. longliensis from western Hubei. Zootaxa 2494: 45–58. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2494.1.3 ResearchGate 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.
Wu, Y., Wang, Y. & Hanken, J. 2012. New species of Pachytriton (Caudata: Salamandridae) from the Nanling Mountain Range, southeastern China. Zootaxa 3388: 1–16. Preview Reference page.

Ferrão, M., Moravec, J., Hanken, J. & Lima, A.P. 2020. A new species of Dendropsophus (Anura, Hylidae) from southwestern Amazonia with a green bilobate vocal sac. ZooKeys 942: 77–104. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.942.51864 Reference page.
Souza, J.R.D., Ferrão, M., Hanken, J. & Lima, A.P. 2020. A new nurse frog (Anura: Allobates) from Brazilian Amazonia with a remarkably fast multi-noted advertisement call. PeerJ 8: e9979. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.9979 Reference page.

Ferrão, M., Hanken, J. & Lima, A.P. 2022. A new nurse frog of the Allobates tapajos species complex (Anura: Aromobatidae) from the upper Madeira River, Brazilian Amazonia. PeerJ 10: e13751. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.13751 Reference page.
Ferrão, M., Moravec, J., Ferreira, A.S., Moraes, L.J.C.L. & Hanken, J. 2022. A new snouted treefrog of the genus Scinax (Anura, Hylidae) from the white-sand forests of central Amazonia. Breviora 573(1): 1–36. DOI: 10.3099/0006-9698-573.1.1 Reference page.

Ferrão, M., Hanken, J., Oda, F.H., Campião, K.M., Penhacek, M., Anjos, S. & Rodrigues, D.J. 2024. A new snouted treefrog (Anura, Hylidae, Scinax) from fluvial islands of the Juruena River, southern Brazilian Amazonia. PLoS One 19(1): e0292441. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292441 Reference page.
Martins, B.C., Tamanini Mônico, A., Mendonça, C., Dantas, S.P., Souza, J.R.D., Hanken, J., Lima, A.P. & Ferrão, M. 2024. A new species of terrestrial foam-nesting frog of the Adenomera simonstuarti complex (Anura, Leptodactylidae) from white-sand forests of central Amazonia, Brazil. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(1): 233–253. DOI: 10.3897/zse.100.110133 Reference page.