Stephen Blair Hedges

Stephen Blair Hedges, U.S. herpetologist.

• Professor of Biology, Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment, 619 Mueller Laboratory University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.

Taxon names authored

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• 120 taxon names authored by Stephen Blair Hedges

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1992

• Garrido, O.H. & Hedges, S.B. 1992. Three new grass anoles (Sauria: Iguanidae) from Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 28: 21–29. PDF. Reference page. 

1993

• Hass, C.A., Hedges, S.B. & Maxson, L.R. 1993. Molecular insights into the relationships and biogeography of West Indian anoline lizards. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 21: 97–114. DOI: 10.1016/0305-1978(93)90015-J Reference page. 

1995

• Estrada, A.R. & Hedges, S.B. 1995. A new species of Anolis (Sauria: Iguanidae) from eastern Cuba. Caribbean Journal of Science 31(1-2): 65–72. PDF. Reference page. 

1998

• Johnson, K. & Hedges, S.B. 1998. Three new species of Calisto from Southwestern Haiti (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Tropical Lepidoptera 9: 45-53. Reference page. 
• Stanhope, M.J., Waddell, V.G., Madsen, O., de Jong, W., Hedges, S.B., Cleven, G.C., Kao, D. & Springer, M.S. 1998. Molecular evidence for multiple origins of Insectivora and for a new order of endemic African insectivore mammals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95(17): 9967–9972. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.17.996 Reference page. 

2004

• Battistuzzi, F.U., Feijão, A. & Hedges, S.B. 2004. A genomic timescale of prokaryote evolution: insights into the origin of methanogenesis, phototrophy, and the colonization of land. BMC Evol. Biol 4: 44. DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-4-44 . Reference page. 

2007

• Heinicke, M.P., Duellman, W.E. & Hedges, S.B. 2007. Major Caribbean and Central American frog faunas originated by ancient oceanic dispersal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(24): 10092–10097. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611051104 Reference page. 

2008

• Hedges, S.B., Duellman, W.E. & Heinicke, M.P. 2008. New World direct-developing frogs (Anura: Terrarana): molecular phylogeny, classification, biogeography, and conservation. Zootaxa 1737(1): 1–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1737.1.1 Reference page. 

2009

• Adalsteinsson, S.A., Branch, W.R., Trape, S., Vitt, L.J. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. Molecular phylogeny, classification, and biogeography of snakes of the Family Leptotyphlopidae (Reptilia, Squamata). Zootaxa 2244(1): 1–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2244.1.1 Reference page. 
• Battistuzzi, F.U. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. A major clade of prokaryotes with ancient adaptations to life on land. Molecular biology and evolution 26(2): 335–43. DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msn247 Reference page. 
• Heinicke, M.P., Duellman, W.E., Trueb, L., Means, D.B., MacCulloch, R.D. & Hedges, S.B. 2009. A new frog family (Anura: Terrarana) from South America and an expanded direct-developing clade revealed by molecular phylogeny. Zootaxa 2211: 1–35. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2010

• Vidal N., Marin J., Morini M., Donnellan S., Branch W.R., Thomas R., Vences M., Wynn A., Cruaud C. & Hedges S.B. 2010. Blindsnake evolutionary tree reveals long history on Gondwana. Biology Letters 6: 558–561.
• Battistuzzi, F.U., Filipski, A., Hedges, S.B., & Kumar, S. 2010. Performance of relaxed clock methods in estimating evolutionary divergence times and their credibility intervals. Mol. Biol. Evol. 27: 1289–1300.
• Hedges, S.B. 2010. Molecular clocks, flotsam, and Caribbean islands. Pp. 353–354 in Cox, C. B. & P. D. Moore, Biogeography: an ecological and evolutionary Approach. 8th Edition (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey).
• Hedges, S.B. & Díaz, L.M. 2010. The conservation status of amphibians in the West Indies. In Hailey, A., Wilson, B.S. & Horrocks, J.A. (Eds.), Conservation of Caribbean Island Herpetofaunas. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. (In press).
• Hedges, S.B. 2010. Amphibian conservation in the West Indies. In H. H. Heatwole and J. W. Wilkenson (Eds.) Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians: Western Hemisphere. Surrey Beatty & Sons, Chipping Norton, Australia. (In press).
• Kingdon, J.A., Seiffert, E.R., Hedges, S.B. & Rathbun, G. 2010. Supercohort Afrotheria. In J. A. Kingdon, D. Happold, and T. Butynski (Eds.) Mammals of Africa, Volume 1. The University of California Press. (in press).

2012

• Hedges, S.B. & Conn, C.E. 2012. A new skink fauna from Caribbean islands (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuyinae). Zootaxa 3288(1): 1–244. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3288.1.1 ; PDF Reference page. 
• McCranie, J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2012. Two new species of geckos from Honduras and resurrection of Sphaerodactylus continentalis Werner from the synonymy of Sphaerodactylus millepunctatus Hallowell (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonoidea, Sphaerodactylidae). Zootaxa 3492: 65–76. Preview Reference page. 

2013

• Hedges, S.B. 2013. Revision shock in taxonomy. Zootaxa 3681(3): 297–298. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.11 Reference page. 
• Marin, J., Donnellan, S.C., Hedges, S.B., Puillandre. N., Aplin, K.P., Doughty, P., Hutchinson, M.N., Couloux, A., Vidal, N. 2013. Hidden species diversity of Australian burrowing snakes (Ramphotyphlops). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110(2): 427–441. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12132 Reference page. 
• Mccranie, J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2013. Two additional new species of Sphaerodactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonoidea, Sphaerodactylidae) from the Honduran Bay Islands. Zootaxa 3694(1): 40–50. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.2 Reference page. 
• Mccranie, J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2013. A new species of Phyllodactylus (Reptilia, Squamata, Gekkonoidea, Phyllodactylidae) from Isla de Guanaja in the Honduran Bay Islands. Zootaxa 3694(1): 51–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.3 Reference page. 
• Mccranie, J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2013. A review of the Cnemidophorus lemniscatus group in Central America (Squamata: Teiidae), with comments on other species in the group. Zootaxa 3722(3): 301–316. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3722.3.1 Reference page. 

2014

• Hedges, S.B., Marion, A.B., Lipp, K.M., Marin, J. & Vidal, N. 2014. A taxonomic framework for typhlopid snakes from the Caribbean and other regions (Reptilia, Squamata). Caribbean Herpetology 49: 1–61. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2015

• Heinicke, M.P., Barrio Amorós, C.L. & Hedges, S.B. 2015. Molecular and morphological data support recognition of a new genus of New World direct-developing frog (Anura: Terrarana) from an under-sampled region of South America. Zootaxa 3986(2): 151–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3986.2.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Nagy, Z., Marion, A.B., Glaw, F., Miralles, A., Nopper, J., Vences, M. & Hedges, S.B. 2015. Molecular systematics and undescribed diversity of Madagascan scolecophidian snakes (Squamata: Serpentes). Zootaxa 4040(1): 31–47. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.1.3 Reference page. 

2016

• Duellman, W.E., Marion, A.B. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. Phylogenetics, classification, and biogeography of the treefrogs (Amphibia: Anura: Arboranae). Zootaxa 4104(1): 1–109. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4104.1.1 Reference page. 
• Köhler, G., Bobadilla, M.J.R. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. A new dune-dwelling lizard of the genus Leiocephalus (Iguania, Leiocephalidae) from the Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 4121(5): 517–532. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.5.2. Reference page. 
• Hedges, S.B., Lorvelec, O., Barré, N., Berchel, J., Combot, M.D., Vidal, N. & Pavis, C. 2016. A new species of skink from the Guadeloupe Archipelago (Squamata, Mabuyidae, Mabuya). Caribbean Herpetology 53: 1–14. DOI: 10.31611/ch.53 Reference page. 
• Köhler, G. & Hedges, S.B. 2016. A revision of the green anoles of Hispaniola with description of eight new species (Reptilia, Squamata, Dactyloidae). Novitates Caribaea 9: 1–135. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Tucker, D.B., Colli, G.R., Giugliano, L.G., Hedges, S.B., Hendry, C.R., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Sites Jr., J.W. & Pyron, R.A. 2016. Methodological congruence in phylogenomic analyses with morphological support for teiid lizards (Sauria: Teiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 75–84. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.002 . Reference page. 

2018

• Landestoy T., M.A., Turner, D.B., Marion, A.B. & Hedges, S.B. 2018. A new species of Caribbean toad (Bufonidae, Peltophryne) from southern Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4403(3): 523–539. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.3.6 Reference page.