Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach

Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach (1947-), U.S. herpetologist

• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

Taxon names authored

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• 60 taxon names authored by Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach

Publications

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1994

• Smith, H.M., Dixon, J.R. & Wallach, V. 1994. Case 2875. Coluber poecilogyrus Wied-Neuwied, [1824] (currently Liophis poecilogyrus) (Reptilia, Serpentes): proposed conservation of the specific name. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 51(3): 250–252. BHL Reference page. 

1996

• Wallach, V. & Ineich, I. 1996. Redescription of a rare Malagasy blind snake, Typhlops grandidieri Mocquard, with placement in a new genus (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Journal of Herpetology 30(3): 367–376. DOI: 10.2307/1565174 Reference page. 

2002

• Bauer, A.M., Wallach, V. & Günther, R. 2002. An annotated type catalogue of the scolecophidian, alethinophidian, and macrostomatan snakes in the collection of the Museum für Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Zoosystematics and Evolution 78(1): 157–176. DOI: 10.1002/mmnz.20020780108 Reference page. 

2007

• Wallach, V., Mercurio, V. & Andreone, F. 2007. Rediscovery of the enigmatic blind snake genus Xenotyphlops in northern Madagascar, with description of a new species (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Zootaxa 1402: 59–68. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Wallach, V., Brown, R.M., Diesmos, A.C. & Gee, G.V.A. 2007 An enigmatic new species of blind snake from Luzon Island, northern Philippines (Serpentes: Typhlopidae). Journal of Herpetology 41(4): 690–702. DOI: 10.1670/206-5.1 Reference page. 

2009

• Broadley, D.G. & Wallach, V. 2009. A review of the eastern and southern African blind-snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae), excluding Letheobia Cope, with the description of two new genera and a new species. Zootaxa 2255: 1–100. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

2010

• Wallach, V., Lanza, B. & Nistri, A. 2010. Aprosdoketophis andreoni, a new genus and species of snake from Somalia (Serpentes: Colubridae: Boiginae). African Journal of Herpetology 59(2): 95–110. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2010.512962 Reference page. 

2013

• Wegener, J.E., Swoboda, S., Hawlitschek, O., Franzen, M., Wallach, V., Vences, M., Nagy, Z.T., Hedges, S.B., Köhler, J. & Glaw, F. 2013. Morphological variation and taxonomic reassessment of the endemic Malagasy blind snake family Xenotyphlopidae (Serpentes, Scolecophidia). Spixiana 36(2): 269–282. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2014

• Pyron, R.A. & Wallach, V. 2014. Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence. Zootaxa 3829(1): 1–81. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3829.1.1 Reference page. 
• Wallach, V., Williams, K.L. & Boundy, J. 2014. Snakes of the World: A Catalogue of Living and Extinct Species. CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group: Boca Raton, Florida. 1237 pp. ISBN 9781138034006 Reference page. 

2016

• Wallach, V. 2016. Morphological review and taxonomic status of the Epictia phenops species group of Mesoamerica, with description of six new species and discussion of South American Epictia albifrons, E. goudotii, and E. tenella (Serpentes: Leptotyphlopidae: Epictinae). Mesoamerican Herpetology 3(2): 215–374. PDF Reference page. 

2018

• Wallach, V. & Gemel, R. 2018. Typhlops weidholzi n. inedit., a new species of Letheobia from the republic of Cameroon, and a synopsis of the genus (Squamata: Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae). Herpetozoa 31(1/2): 27–46. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2019

• Uetz, P., Cherikh, S., Shea, G., Ineich, I., Campbell, P.D., Doronin, I.V., Rosado, J., Wynn, A.H., Tighe, K.A., McDiarmid, R.W., Lee, J.L., Köhler, G., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Raxworthy, C.J., Scheinberg, L.A., Resetar, A., Sabaj Pérez, M.A., Schneider, G., Franzen, M., Glaw, F., Böhme, W., Schweiger, S., Gemel, R., Couper, P., Amey, A.P., Dondorp, E., Ofer, G., Meiri, S. & Wallach, V. 2019. A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens. Zootaxa 4695(5): 438–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4695.5.2 Reference page. 

2023

• O’Shea, M., Wallach, V., Hsiao, E. & Kaiser, H. 2023. “Anteaters” under the airport: a slender new species of blindsnake, genus Indotyphlops, from Timor-Leste (Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae: Asiatyphlopinae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 101: 486–498. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2022-0097 Reference page.