Simon T. Maddock

Simon T. Maddock, British herpetologist

• Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, UK.
• Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom
• Island Biodiversity and Conservation Centre, University of Seychelles, Mahé, Seychelles.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 5 taxon names authored by Simon T. Maddock

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2013

• Datta-Roy, A, Mohapatra, P.P., Dutta, S.K., Giri, V.B., Deepak, V., Maddock, S.T., Raj, P., Agarwal, I. & Karanth, K.P. 2013. A long-lost relic from the Eastern Ghats: Morphology, distribution and habitat of Sepsophis punctatus Beddome, 1870 (Squamata: Scincidae). Zootaxa 3670(1): 55–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3670.1.4 Reference page. 

2014

• Aguirre-Peñafiel, V., Torres-Carvajal, O., Nunes, P.M.S., Peck, M.R. & Maddock, S.T. 2014. A new species of Riama Gray, 1858 (Squamata: Gymnophthalmidae) from the tropical Andes. Zootaxa 3866(2): 246–260. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3866.2.4 Reference page. 
• Maddock, S.T., Day, J.J., Nussbaum, R.A., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D.J. 2014. Evolutionary origins and genetic variation of the Seychelles treefrog, Tachycnemis seychellensis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) (Amphibia: Anura: Hyperoliidae). Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution 75:194–201. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.004 Reference page. 

2015

• Maddock, S.T., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Smith, L.A. & Wüster, W. 2015. A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia. Zootaxa 4007(3): 301–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.1. Preview (PDF). Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2016

• Agarwal, I., Mirza, Z.A., Pal, S., Maddock, S.T., Mishra, A. & Bauer, A.M. 2016. A new species of the Cyrtodactylus (Geckoella) collegalensis (Beddome, 1870) complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Western India. Zootaxa 4170(2): 339–354. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4170.2.7. Reference page. 
• Maddock, S.T., Briscoe, A.G., Wilkinson, M., Waeschenbach, A., San Mauro, D., Day, J.J., Littlewood, D.T.J., Foster, P.G., Nussbaum, R.A. & Gower, D.J. 2016. Next-generation mitogenomics: a comparison of approaches applied to caecilian amphibian phylogeny. PLoS One 11(6): e0156757. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156757 Reference page. 

2017

• Maddock, S.T., Wilkinson, M., Nussbaum, R.A. & Gower, D.J. 2017. A new species of small and highly abbreviated caecilian (Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the Seychelles island of Praslin, and a recharacterization of Hypogeophis brevis Boulenger, 1911. Zootaxa 4329(4): 301–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.4.1 Reference page. 
• Maddock, S.T., Childerstone, A., Grieg-Fry, B., Williams, D.J., Barlow, A. & Wüster, W. 2017. Multi-locus phylogeny and species delimitation of Australo-Papuan blacksnakes (Pseudechis Wagler, 1830: Elapidae: Serpentes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107: 48–55. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.005 Reference page. 

2018

• Maddock, S.T., Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D.J. 2018. A new species of small, long-snouted Hypogeophis Peters, 1880 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the highest elevations of the Seychelles island of Mahé. Zootaxa 4450(3): 359–375. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.3.3 Reference page. 

2019

• Labisko, J., Griffiths, R.A., Chong-Seng, L., Bunbury, N., Maddock, S.T., Bradfield, K.S., Taylor, M.L. & Groombridge, J.J. 2019. Endemic, endangered and evolutionarily significant: cryptic lineages in Seychelles’ frogs (Anura: Sooglossidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 126(3): 417–435. DOI: 10.1093/biolinnean/bly183 Reference page. 
• Reyes-Puig, C., Bittencourt-Silva, G.B., Torres-Sánchez, M., Wilkinson, M., Streicher, J.W., Maddock, S.T., Kotharambath, R., Müller, H., Larrera, F.N.A., Amieda-Reinoso, D., Ron, S.R. & Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. 2019. Rediscovery of the Endangered Carchi Andean Toad, Rhaebo colomai (Hoogmoed, 1985), in Ecuador, with Comments on Its Conservation Status and Extinction Risk. Check List 15(3): 415–419. DOI: 10.15560/15.3.415 Reference page. 

2020

• Maddock, S.T., Nussbaum, R.A., Day, J.J., Latta, L., Miller, M., Fisk, D.L., Wilkinson, M., Rocha, S., Gower, D.J. & Pfrender, M.E. 2020. The roles of vicariance and isolation by distance in shaping biotic diversification across an ancient archipelago: evidence from a Seychelles caecilian amphibian. BMC Evolutionary Biology 20(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1186/s12862-020-01673-w Reference page. 
• Nijman, V., Robbins, T., Jackson, A., Maddock, S.T. & Ang, A. 2020. Molecular Phylogeny, Taxonomy and Conservation of Slender Lorises. Primate Conservation 34: 143–151.Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Williams, R., Gower, D.J., Labisko, J., Morel, C., Bristol, R.M., Wilkinson, M. & Maddock, S.T. 2020. Are the Mascarene frog (Ptychadena mascareniensis) and Brahminy blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus) really alien species in the Seychelles? Herpetological Bulletin 253: 17–21. DOI: 10.33256/hb153.1721 Reference page. 

2021

• Deepak, V., Maddock, S.T., Williams, R., Nagy, Z.T., Conradie, W., Rocha, S., Harris, S.J., Perera, A., Gvozdík, V., Doherty-Bone, T.M., Kamei, R.G., Menegon, M., Labisko, J., Morel, C., Cooper, N., Day, J.J. & Gower, D.J. 2021. Molecular phylogenetics of sub-Saharan African natricine snakes, and the biogeographic origins of the Seychelles endemic Lycognathophis seychellensis. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution 161: 107152. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107152 PDF Reference page. 
• Ellis, R.J., Kaiser, H., Maddock, S.T., Doughty, P. & Wüster, W. 2021. An evaluation of the nomina for death adders (Acanthophis Daudin, 1803) proposed by Wells & Wellington (1985), and confirmation of A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 as the valid name for the Kimberley death adder. Zootaxa 4995(1): 161–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4995.1.9 Reference page.