Kin Onn Chan

Kin Onn Chan (K.O. Chan), Malaysian herpetologist.

• Biodiversity Institute and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 30 taxon names authored by Kin Onn Chan

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2009

• Wood Jr., P.L., Grismer, J.L., Grismer, L.L., Ahmad, N., Onn, C.K. & Bauer, A.M. 2009. Two new montane species of Acanthosaura Gray, 1831 (Squamata: Agamidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 2012(1): 28–46. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2012.1.2 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L. L., Norhayati, A., Chan, K.O., Daicus, B., Muin, M.A., Wood, P.L.Jr. & Grismer, J.L. 2009. Two new diminutive species of Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2019, 40-56.
• Chan, K. O., Grismer, L. L., Norhayati, A., & Daicus, B. 2009. A new species of Gastrophrynoides (Anura: Microhylidae): an addition to a previously monotypic genus and a new genus for Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2124: 63–68.

2010

• Grismer, L.L., Shahrul, A.M.S., Quah, E.S.L., Muin, M.A., Chan, K.O., Grismer, J.L. & Norhayati, A. 2010. A new spiny, prehensile-tailed species ofCyrtodactylus(Squamata: Gekkonidae)from Peninsular Malaysia with a preliminary hypothesis of relationships basedon morphology. Zootaxa, 2625, 40–52.
• Chan, K.O. & Norhayati, A. 2010. A new insular species of Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northeastern Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2389, 47–56.
• Grismer, L.L., Chan, K.O., Quah, E.S.L., Muin, M.A., Savage, A.E., Grismer, J,L, Norhayati, A., Greer, L.F. & Remigio, A-C. 2010. Another new, diminutive Rock Gecko (Cnemaspis Strauch) from Peninsular Malaysia and a discussion of resource partitioning in sympatric species pairs. Zootaxa, 2569, 55–66.
• Chan, K.O., Grismer, L.L., Shahrul, A.M.S., Quah, E.S.L., Muin, M.A., Savage, A.E., Grismer, J.L., Norhayati, A., Remigio, A-C. & Greer, L.F. 2010. A new endemic rock Gecko Cnemaspis Strauch 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Gunung Jerai, Kedah, northwestern Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2576: 59–68.
• Grismer, L.L. & Chan, K.O. 2010. Another new Rock Gecko (genus Cnemaspis Strauch 1887) from Pulau Langkawi, Kedah, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa, 2419: 51–62.
• Chan, K.O. & Grismer, L.L. 2010. Re-assessment of the Reinwardt’s Gliding Frog, Rhacophorus reinwardtii (Schlegel 1840) (Anura: Rhacophoridae) in Southern Thailand and Peninsular Malaysia and its re-description as a new species. Zootaxa, 2505: 40–50.
• Ngo, V.T. & Chan, K.O. 2010. A new species of Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1826 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Khanh Hoa province, Southern Vietnam. Zootaxa 2504: 47–60. Preview. . Reference page. 

2011

• Chan, K.O.; L.L. Grismer; S.M.S. Anuar; E.S.H. Quah; J.L. Grismer; P.L. Wood; Jr., M.A. Muin; N. Ahmad. 2011: A new species of Chiromantis Peters 1854 (Anura: Rhacophoridae) from Perlis State Park in extreme northern peninsular Malaysia with additional herpetofaunal records for the park. Russian journal of herpetology, 18: 253–259. Abstract
• Ngo, V. T. and K. O. Chan. 2011. A new karstic cave-dwelling Cyrtodactylus Gray (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Vietnam. Zootaxa 3125: 51–63.
• Chan, K. O., L. L. Grismer, and J. L. Grismer. 2011. A new insular, endemic frog of the genus Kalophrynus Tschudi, 1838 (Anura: Microhylidae) from Tioman Island, Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3123: 60–68.
• Grismer, L.L., Quah, E.S.H., Siler, C.D., Chan, K.O., Wood, Jr, P.L., Grismer, J.L., Anuar Mohd Sah, S. & Ahmad, N. 2011. Peninsular Malaysia’s first limbless lizard: a new species of skink of the genus Larutia (Böhme) from Pulau Pinang with a phylogeny of the genus. Zootaxa 2799(1): 29–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2799.1.3 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L. L., J. L. Grismer, P. L. Jr. Wood, V. T. Ngo, T. Neang, K. O. Chan. 2011. Herpetology on the fringes of the sunda shelf: A discussion of discovery, taxonomy, and biogeography. Bonner Zoologische Monographien 57: 57–97.
• van Rooijen, J., K. O. Chan, L. L. Grismer, and A. Norhayati. 2011. Estimating the herpetofaunal species richness of Pangkor Island, Peninsular Malaysia. Bonn Zoological Bulletin 60: 3–8.

2012

• Johnson, C.B., Quah, E.S.H., Anuar, S., Muin, M.A., Wood, P.W., Grismer, J.L., Greer, L.F., Onn, C.K., Ahmad, N., Bauer, A.M. & Grismer, L.L. 2012. Phylogeography, geographic variation, and taxonomy of the Bent-toed Gecko Cyrtodactylus quadrivirgatus Taylor, 1962 from Peninsular Malaysia with the description of a new swamp dwelling species. Zootaxa 3406(1): 39–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3406.1.3 Reference page. 

2013

• Grismer, L.L., Wood, Jr., P.L., Mohamed, M., Chan, K.O., Heinz, H.M., Sumarli, A.S.-I., Chan, J.A. & Loredo, A.I. 2013. A new species of karst-adapted Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from a threatened karst region in Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3746(3): 463–472. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3746.3.5 Reference page. 

2014

• Chan, K.O., Brown, R.M., Lim, K.K.P., Ahmad, N. & Grismer, L. 2014. A new species of frog (Amphibia: Anura: Ranidae) of the Hylarana signata complex from peninsular Malaysia. Herpetologica 70(2): 228–240. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-13-00057 Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Belabut, D.M., Quah, E.S.H., Chan, K.O. & Wood Jr, P.L. 2014: A new species of karst forest-adapted Bent-toed Gecko (genus Cyrtodactylus Gray, 1827) belonging to the C. sworderi complex from a threatened karst forest in Perak, Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3755(5): 434–446. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3755.5.3. Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood Jr, P.L., Anuar, S., Quah, E.S.H., Muin, M.A., Mohamed, M., Chan, K.O., Sumarli, A.X., Loredo, A.I. & Heinz, H.M. 2014: The phylogenetic relationships of three new species of the Cyrtodactylus pulchellus complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from poorly explored regions in northeastern Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 3786(3): 359–381. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3786.3.6. Reference page. 
• Grismer, L.L., Wood Jr, P.L., Anuar, S., Riyanto, A., Ahmad, N., Muin, M.A., Sumontha, M., Grismer, J.L., Chan, K.O., Quah, E.S.H. & Pauwels, O.S.G. 2014. Systematics and natural history of Southeast Asian rock geckos (genus Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887) with descriptions of eight new species from Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia. Zootaxa 3880(1): 1–147. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3880.1.1 ; ResearchGate Reference page. 

2015

• Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L. Jr, Anuar, S., Quah, E.S.H., Muin, M.A., Onn, C.K., Sumarli, A.X. & Loredo, A.I. 2015. Repeated evolution of sympatric, palaeoendemic species in closely related, co-distributed lineages of Hemiphyllodactylus Bleeker, 1860 (Squamata: Gekkonidae) across a sky-island archipelago in Peninsular Malaysia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174(4): 859–876. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12254 Reference page. 

2016

• Chan, K.O., Grismer, L.L, Zachariah, A., Brown, R.M. & Abraham, R.K. 2016. Polyphyly of Asian Tree Toads, Genus Pedostibes Günther, 1876 (Anura: Bufonidae), and the Description of a New Genus from Southeast Asia. PLoS ONE 11(1): e0145903 (1–13). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145903 Reference page. 

2017

• Brown, R.M., Prue, A., Chan, K.O., Gaulke, M., Sanguila, M.B. & Siler, C.D. 2017. Taxonomic reappraisal of the Northeast Mindanao Stream Frog, Sanguirana albotuberculata (Inger 1954), validation of Rana mearnsi, Stejneger 1905, and description of a new species from the central Philippines. Herpetological Monographs 31(1): 210–231. DOI: 10.1655/HERPMONOGRAPHS-D-16-00009.1 Reference page. 

2018

• Chan, K.O., Abraham, R.K., Grismer, J.L. & Grismer, L.L. 2018. Elevational size variation and two new species of torrent frogs from Peninsular Malaysia (Anura: Ranidae: Amolops Cope). Zootaxa 4434(2): 250–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4434.2.2 Reference page. 

2020

• Quah, E.S.H., Grismer, L.L., Lim, K.K.P., Shahrul Anuar, M.S. & Chan, K.O. 2020. A taxonomic revision of Asthenodipsas malaccana Peters, 1864 (Squamata: Pareidae) with a description of a new species from Borneo. Zootaxa 4729(1): 1–24. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.1.1 Reference page. 

2023

• Chan, K.O., Grismer, L.L., Santana, F., Pinto, P., Loke, F.W. & Conaboy, N. 2023. Scratching the surface: a new species of Bent-toed gecko (Squamata, Gekkonidae, Cyrtodactylus) from Timor-Leste of the darmandvillei group marks the potential for future discoveries. Zookeys 1139: 107–126. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1139.96508 Reference page. 
• Chan, K.O., Anuar, S., Sankar, A., Law, I.T., Law, I.S., Shivaram, R., Christian, C., Mulcahy, D.G. & Malhotra, A. 2023. A new species of pit-viper from the Ayeyarwady and Yangon regions in Myanmar (Viperidae, Trimeresurus). ZooKeys 1186: 221–234. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1186.110422 Reference page. 
• Shakya, S.B., Alexander, A., Lim, H.C., Manthey, J.D., Prawiradilaga, D.M., Chan, K.O., Sheldon, F.H. & Moyle, R.G. 2023. Demographic history of a complex polymorphism in populations of the Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher (Ceyx erithaca/rufidorsa) of Southeast Asia. Ibis 165(4): 1267-1279. DOI: doi.org/10.1111/ibi.13207 Reference page.