Paul M. Oliver

Paul M. Oliver, Australian herpetologist.

• Research School of Biology, The Australian National University Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
• Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 20 taxon names authored by Paul M. Oliver

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

• Oliver, P.M., Tjaturadi, B., Mumpuni, Krey & Richards, S.J. 2008. A new species of large Cyrtodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Melanesia. Zootaxa 1894: 59–68. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 

2009

• Oliver, P.M., Edgar, P., Mumpuni, Iskandar, D.T. & Lilley, R. 2009. A new species of bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus: Gekkonidae) from Seram Island, Indonesia Zootaxa 2115: 47–55. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 

2014

• Skipwith, P.L. & Oliver, P.M. 2014. A new Gehyra (Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from New Guinea with unique caudal scalation. Zootaxa 3827(1): 57–66. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.1.5 Reference page. 

2015

• Iannella, A., Oliver, P.M. & Richards, S. 2015. Two new species of Choerophryne (Anura, Microhylidae) from the northern versant of Papua New Guinea’s central cordillera. Zootaxa 4058(3): 332–340. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.3.2. Preview (PDF). Reference page. 

2016

• Couper, P.J. & Oliver, P.M. 2016. A new species of gecko from arid inland regions of eastern Australia (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae). Zootaxa 4093(4): 525–538. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.4.4.Reference page. 
• Doughty, P., Ellis, R.J. & Oliver, P.M.. 2016. Many things come in small packages: Revision of the clawless geckos (Crenadactylus: Diplodactylidae) of Australia. Zootaxa 4168(2): 239–278. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.2.2. Reference page. 
• Oliver, P.M., Bourke, G., Pratt, R.C., Doughty, P. & Moritz, C. 2016. Systematics of small Gehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia: redescription of G. kimberleyi Börner & Schüttler, 1983 and description of a new restricted range species. Zootaxa 4107(1): 49–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4107.1.2. Reference page. 
• Oliver, P.M. & Doughty, P. 2016. Systematic revision of the marbled velvet geckos (Oedura marmorata species complex, Diplodactylidae) from the Australian arid and semi-arid zones. Zootaxa 4088(2): 151–176. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4088.2.1. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Oliver, P.M., Richards, S., Mumpuni & Rösler, H. 2016. The Knight and the King: two new species of giant bent-toed gecko (Cyrtodactylus, Gekkonidae, Squamata) from northern New Guinea, with comments on endemism in the North Papuan Mountains. ZooKeys 562: 105–130. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.562.6052.Reference page. 
• Oliver, P.M., Clegg, J.R., Fisher, R.N., Richards, S.J., Taylor, P.N. & Jocque, M.M.T. 2016. A new biogeographically disjunct giant gecko (Gehyra: Gekkonidae: Reptilia) from the East Melanesian Islands. Zootaxa 4208(1): 61–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4208.1.3. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2017

• Nielsen, S.V. & Oliver, P.M. 2017. Morphological and Genetic Evidence for A New Karst Specialist Lizard from New Guinea (Cyrtodactylus: Gekkonidae). Royal Society Open Science 4: 170781. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170781. Reference page. 

2018

• Doughty, P., Bourke, G., Tedeschi, L.G., Pratt, R.C., Oliver, P.M., Palmer, R.A. & Moritz, C. 2018. Species delimitation in the Gehyra nana (Squamata: Gekkonidae) complex: cryptic and divergent morphological evolution in the Australian Monsoonal Tropics, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4403(2): 201–244. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.2.1 Reference page. 

2020

• Tallowin, O.J.S., Meiri, S., Donnellan, S.C., Richards, S.J., Austin, C.C. & Oliver, P.M. 2020. The other side of the Sahulian coin: biogeography and evolution of Melanesian forest dragons (Agamidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129(1): 99–113. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/blz125 Reference page. 
• Oliver PM, Prasetya AM, Tedeschi LG, Fenker J, Ellis RJ, Doughty P, Moritz C (2020). Crypsis and convergence: integrative taxonomic revision of the Gehyra australis group (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from northern Australia. PeerJ 8: e7971. DOI: 10.7717/PEERJ.7971 Reference page.