Simon P. Loader

Simon P. Loader, British herpetologist.

• Department of Environmental Science (Biogeography), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• Department of Life Sciences, University of Roehampton, London, United Kingdom.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 21 taxon names authored by Simon P. Loader

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2007

• Roelants, K., Gower, D.J., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S.P., Biju, S.D., Guillaume, K., Moriau, L. & Bossuyt, F. 2007. Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(3): 887–892. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608378104 Reference page. 

2014

• Gvoždík, V., Tillack, F., Menegon, M. & Loader, S.P. 2014. The status of Leptopelis barbouri Ahl, 1929 and eleven other nomina of the current tree-frog genus Leptopelis (Arthroleptidae) described from East Africa, with a redescription of Leptopelis grandiceps Ahl, 1929. Zootaxa 3793(1): 165–187. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3793.1.8 Reference page. 

2015

• Menegon, M., Loader, S.P., Davenport, T.R.B., Howell, K.M., Tilbury, C.R., Machaga, S. & Tolley, K.A. 2015. A new species of Chameleon (Sauria: Chamaeleonidae: Kinyongia) highlights the biological affinities between the Southern Highlands and Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania. Acta Herpetologica 10(2): 111–120. DOI: 10.13128/Acta_Herpetol-17171 Reference page. 

2016

• Poynton, J.C., Loader, S.P., Conradie, W., Rödel, M-C. & Liedtke, H.C. 2016. Designation and description of a neotype of Sclerophrys maculata (Hallowell, 1854), and reinstatement of S. pusilla (Mertens, 1937) (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae). Zootaxa 4098(1): 73–94. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.3 Reference page. 

2017

• Wilkinson, M., Malonza, P.K., Campbell, P.D. & Loader, S.P. 2017. A new species of Boulengerula Tornier, 1896 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Herpelidae) from Kenya and the “rediscovery” of Boulengerula denhardti. Zootaxa 4286(4): 525–534. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.5 Reference page. 
• Barratt, C.D., Lawson, L.P., Bittencourt-Silva, G.B., Doggart, N., Morgan-Brown, T., Nagel, P. & Loader, S.P. 2017. A new, narrowly distributed, and critically endangered species of spiny-throated reen frog (Anura: Hyperoliidae) from a highly threatened coastal forest reserve in Tanzania. The Herpetological Journal 17(1): 13–24. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2018

• Conradie, W., Bittencourt-Silva, G.B., Farooq, H.M., Loader, S.P., Menegon, M. & Tolley, K.A. 2018. New species of Mongrel Frogs (Pyxicephalidae: Nothophryne) from northern Mozambique inselbergs. African Journal of Herpetology 67(1): 61–85. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2017.1376714 Reference page. 

2019

• Branch, W.R., Bayliss, B.L., Bittencourt-Silva, G.B., Conradie, W., Engelbrecht, H.M., Loader, S.P., Menegon, M., Nanvonamuquitxo, C. & Tolley, K.A. 2019. A new species of tree snake (Dipsadoboa, Serpentes: Colubridae) from ‘sky island’ forests in northern Mozambique, with notes on other members of the Dipsadoboa werneri group. Zootaxa 4646(3): 541–563. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4646.3.6 Reference page.