Josiah H. Townsend

Josiah H. Townsend , U.S. herpetologist.

• School of Natural Resources and Environment and Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States.
• Regional de Biodiversidad (IRBio), Centro Zamorano de Biodiversidad, Escuela Agrícola Panamericana Zamorano, Depto. de Francisco Morazán, Honduras.

Taxon names authored

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• 13 taxon names authored by Josiah H. Townsend

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2009

• Townsend, J.H., J.M. Butler, L.D. Wilson & J.D. Austin. 2009. A new species of salamander in the Bolitoglossa dunni group (Caudata: Plethodontidae: Bolitoglossinae) from Parque Nacional Montaña de Yoro, Honduras. Salamandra 45: 95–105. Full Article

2012

• Jadin, R.C., Townsend, J.H., Castoe, T.A. & Campbell, J.A. 2012. Cryptic diversity in disjunct populations of Middle American Montane Pitvipers: a systematic reassessment of Cerrophidion godmani. Zoologica scripta 41(5): 455–470. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00547.x Reference page. 

2016

• Köhler, G., Townsend, J.H. & Petersen, C.B.P. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the Norops tropidonotus complex (Squamata, Dactyloidae), with the resurrection of N. spilorhipis (Alvarez del Toro and Smith, 1956) and the description of two new species. Mesoamerican herpetology 3(1): 8–41. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Townsend, J.H. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the moss salamander Nototriton barbouri (Schmidt) (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with description of two new species from the Cordillera Nombre de Dios, Honduras. Zootaxa 4196(4): 511–528. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.3. Reference page. 

2020

• Mendoza-Henao, A.M., Arias, E., Townsend, J.H. & Parra-Olea, G. 2020. Phylogeny-based species delimitation and integrative taxonomic revision of the Hyalinobatrachium fleischmanni species complex, with resurrection of H. viridissimum (Taylor, 1942). Systematics and Biodiversity 18(5): 464–484. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1776781 Reference page. 
• Itgen, M. W., Sessions, S.K., Wilson, L.D. & Townsend, J.H. 2020. "2019". Integrative systematic revision of Bolitoglossa celaque (Caudata: Plethodontidae), with a new species from the Lenca Highlands of Honduras. Herpetological Monographs 33(1): 48–70. DOI: 10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-19-00001.1 Reference page.