Michael F. Bates

Michael F. Bates, South African herpetologist.

• Department of Herpetology, National Museum, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 8 taxon names authored by Michael F. Bates

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2013

• Bates, M.F., Tolley, K.A., Edwards, S., Davids, Z., Silva, J.M. & Branch, W.R. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the African plated lizards, genus Gerrhosaurus Wiegmann, 1828 (Squamata: Gerrhosauridae), with the description of two new genera. Zootaxa 3750(5): 465–493. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3750.5.3 Reference page. 

2014

• Stanley, E.L. & Bates, M.F. 2014. Here be dragons: a phylogenetic and biogeographical study of the Smaug warreni species complex (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southern Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172(4): 892–909. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12187 Reference page. 

2016

• Stanley, E.L., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Bandeira, S., Valério, H., Bates, M.F. & Branch, W.R. 2016. A review of Cordylus machadoi (Squamata: Cordylidae) in southwestern Angola, with the description of a new species from the Pro-Namib desert. Zootaxa 4061(3): 201–226. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.3.1. Full article (PDF).  Reference page. 

2020

• Bates, M.F. & Stanley, E.L. 2020. A taxonomic revision of the south-eastern dragon lizards of the Smaug warreni (Boulenger) species complex in southern Africa, with the description of a new species (Squamata: Cordylidae). PeerJ 8: e8526. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8526 Reference page. 

2022

• Tolley, K.A., Telford, N.S., Taft, J.M., Bates, M.F., Conradie, W., Makhubo, B.G. & Alexander, G.J. 2022. Taxonomic inflation due to inadequate sampling: are girdled lizards (Cordylus minor species complex) from the Great Karoo one and the same? Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 135(1): 1–24. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blab119 Reference page.