Jay Mathers Savage

Jay Mathers Savage (born 1928), U.S. herpetologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 27 taxon names authored by Jay Mathers Savage

Eponyms

(List may be incomplete)

• 10 eponyms of Jay Mathers Savage

plus

• Barycholos savagei Lynch, 1980
• Centrolenella savagei Harding, 1991
• Gigantactis savagei Bertelsen, Pietsch & Lavenberg, 1981
• Rhabdias savagei Bursey & Goldberg, 2005
• Rhamphocetichthys savagei Paxton, 1989

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1954

• Savage, J.M. & Cliff, F.S. 1954. A new snake, Phyllorhynchus arenicola, from the Gulf of California, Mexico. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 67: 69–76. BHL Reference page. 

1969

• Savage, J.M. & Heyer, W.R. 1969. The tree-frogs (Family Hylidae) of Costa Rica: Diagosis and distribution. Revista de Biología Tropical 16(1): 1–127. PDF Reference page. 

2002

• Savage, J.M. 2002. The Amphibians and Reptiles of Costa Rica: A Herpetofauna between Two Continents, between Two Seas. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 954 pp. ISBN 0-226-73537-0.

2005

• Savage, J.M., Campbell, J.A. & Lamar, W.W. 2005. On the names for Neotropical Rattlesnakes (Reptilia, Serpentes, Viperidae, Crotalus). Herpetological Review 36(4): 369–371. Reference page. 

2008

• Savage, J.M., Lips, K.R. & Ibáñez, R. 2008. A new species of Celestus from west-central Panama, with consideration of the status of the genera of the Anguidae: Diploglossinae (Squamata). Revista de Biología Tropical 56(2): 845–859. PDF Reference page. 

2011

• Bauer, A.M., Parham, J.F., Brown, R.M., Stuart, B.L., Grismer, L.L., Papenfuss, T.J., Böhme, W., Savage, J.M., Carranza, S., Grismer, J.L., Wagner, P., Schmitz, A., Ananjeva, N.B. & Inger, R.F. 2010. Availability of new Bayesian-delimited gecko names and the importance of character-based species descriptions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 278(1705): 490–492. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1330 Reference page. 

2015

• Savage, J.M. 2015. What are the correct family names for the taxa that include the snake genera Xenodermus, Pareas, and Calamaria?. Herpetological Review 46(4): 664–665. Reference page. 

Links

• Jay M. Savage – CV. 2016. Museo de Zoologia, Escuela de Biologia, Universidad de Costa Rica.