John C. Murphy

John C. Murphy, U.S. herpetologist.

Science & Education, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2005. A new Thai Enhydris (Serpentes: Colubridae: Homalopsinae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53(1): 143–147. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Murphy, J.C., Voris, H.K. & Auliya, M. 2005. A new species of Enhydris (Serpentes: Colubridae: Homalopsinae) from the Kapuas River System, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 53(2): 271–275. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Murphy, J.C. 2007. A review of Enhydris maculosa (Blanford, 1879) and the description of a related species (Serpentes, Homalopsidae). Hamadryad 31(2): 281–287. Reference page.

Murphy, J.C. 2011. The Nomenclature and Systematics of some Australasian Homalopsid Snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Homalopsidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 59(2): 229–236. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Murphy, J.C., Voris, H.K. & Karns, D.R. 2012. The dog-faced water snakes, a revision of the genus Cerberus Cuvier, (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae), with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3484(1): 1–34. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3484.1.1 Reference page.
Biju Kumar, A., Sanders, K.L., George, S. & Murphy, J.C. 2012. The status of Eurostus dussumierii and Hypsirhina chinensis (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes): with comments on the origin of salt tolerance in homalopsid snakes. Systematics and Biodiversity 10(4): 479–489. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2012.751940 Reference page.

Murphy, J.C. & Jowers, M.J. 2013. Treerunners, cryptic lizards of the Plica plica group (Squamata, Sauria, Tropiduridae) of northern South America. ZooKeys 355: 49–77. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.355.5868 Reference page.
Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2013. An Unusual, Fangless Short-tailed Snake (Squamata, Serpentes, Homalopsidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia. Asian Herpetological Research 4(2): 140–146. DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1245.2013.00140 Reference page.
Murphy, J.C., Charles, S.P., Lehtinen, R.M. & Koeller, K.L. 2013. A molecular and morphological characterization of Oliver’s parrot snake, Leptophis coeruleodorsus (Squamata: Serpentes: Colubridae) with the description of a new species from Tobago. Zootaxa 3718(6): 561–574. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3718.6.4 Reference page.

Murphy, J.C. & Voris, H.K. 2014. A Checklist and Key to the Homalopsid Snakes (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes), with the Description of New Genera. Fieldiana: Life and Earth Sciences 8: 1–43. Reference page.

Murphy, J.C., Jowers, M.J., Lehtinen, R.M., Charles, S.P., Colli, G.R., Péres Jr., A.K., Hendry, C.R. & Pyron, R.A. 2016. Cryptic, Sympatric Diversity in Tegu Lizards of the Tupinambis teguixin Group (Squamata, Sauria, Teiidae) and the Description of Three New Species. PLoS ONE 11(8): e0158542. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158542 Reference page.

Jadin, R.C., Blair, C., Jowers, M.J., Carmona, A. & Murphy, J.C. 2019. Hiding in the lianas of the tree of life: Molecular phylogenetics and species de-limitation reveal considerable cryptic diversity of New World Vine Snakes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 134: 61–65. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.01.022 Reference page.
Murphy, J.C., Braswell, A.L., Charles, S.P., Auguste, R.J., Rivas, G.A., Borzée, A., Lehtinen, R.M. & Jowers, M.J. 2019. A new species of Erythrolamprus from the oceanic island of Tobago (Squamata, Dipsadidae). Zookeys 817: 131–157. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.817.30811 Reference page.
Murphy, J.C., Salvi, D., Santos, J.L., Braswell, A.L., Charles, S.P., Borzeé, A. & Jowers, M.J. 2019. The reduced limbed lizards of the genus Bachia (Reptilia, Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae); biogeography, cryptic diversity, and morphological convergence in the eastern Caribbean. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19(2): 321–340. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-019-00393-4 Reference page.