Richard Emmett Etheridge

Richard Emmett Etheridge (1929–2019), U.S. herpetologist.

Emeritus Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Etheridge, R. 1966. The systematic relationships of West Indian and South American lizards referred to the iguanid genus Leiocephalus. Copeia 1966(1): 79–91. DOI: 10.2307/1440764 Reference page.

Etheridge, R. 1968. A review of the iguanid lizard genera Uracentron and Strobilurus. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zolology 17(2): 45–64. BHL Reference page.

Etheridge, R. 1969. A review of the iguanid lizard genus Enyalius. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zolology 18(8): 233–260. BHL Reference page.

Etheridge, R. 1970. A review of the South American iguanid lizard genus Plica. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History). Zolology 19(7): 235–246. BHL Reference page.

Etheridge, R.E. & Williams, E.E. 1985. Notes of Pristidactylus (Squamata: Iguanidae). Breviora 483: 1–18. BHL Reference page.

Frost, D.R. & Etheridge, R.E. 1989. A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of iguanian lizards (Reptilia: Squamata). University of Kansas Museum of Natural History. Miscellaneous Publications 81: 1–65. BHL Reference page.

Etheridge, R.E. & Williams, E.E. 1991. A review of the South American lizard genera Urostrophus and Anisolepis (Squamata: Iguania: Polychridae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 152(5): 317–361. BHL Reference page.

Etheridge, R. 1992. A new psammophilus lizard of the genus Liolaemus (Squamata: Tropiduridae) from northwestern Argentina. Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino 10(1): 1–19. Reference page.

Etheridge, R. 1993. Lizards of the Liolaemus darwinii complex (Squamata: Tropiduridae) in northern Argentina. Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino 11(1): 137–199. Reference page.

Etheridge, R. 1995. Redescription of Ctenoblepharys adspersa Tschudi, 1845, and the taxonomy of Liolaeminae (Reptilia: Squamata: Tropiduridae). American Museum Novitates 3142: 1–34. hdl: 2246/3658 Reference page.

Etheridge, R. 1998. Redescription and status of Liolaemus hatcheri Stejneger, 1909 (Reptilia: Squamata: Tropduridae). Cuadernos de Herpetología 12(1): 31–36. Reference page.

Etheridge, R. & Espinoza, R.E. 2000. Taxonomy of the Liolaeminae (Squamata: Iguania: Tropiduridae) and a semi-annotated bibliography. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service 127: 64 pp. DOI: 10.5479/si.23317515.126.1 Reference page.

Etheridge, R. 2001. A new species of Liolaemus (Reptilia: Squamata: Tropiduridae) from Mendoza Province, Argentina. Cuadernos de Herpetología 15(1): 3–15. Reference page.
Frost, D., Etheridge, R., Janies, D. & Titus, T.A. 2001. Total evidence, sequence alignment, evolution of polychrotid lizards, and a reclassification of the Iguania (Squamata, Iguania). American Museum Novitates 3343: 38 pp. hdl: 2246/2896 Reference page.

Etheridge, R. & Christie, M.I. 2003. Two new species of the lizard genus Liolaemus (Squamata: Liolaemidae) from northern Patagonia, with comments on Liolaemus rothi. Journal of Herpetology 37(2): 325–341. DOI: 10.1670/0022-1511(2003)037[0325:TNSOTL]2.0.CO;2 Reference page.
Etheridge, R. & Savage, J.M. 2003. Phymaturus Gravenhorst, 1837 and Lacerta palluma Molina, 1782 (currently Phymaturus palluma: Repilia, Sauria): proposed conservtion of usage of the names by designation of a neotype for Lacerta palluma Molina, 1782. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 60(1): 38–41. BHL Reference page.
Wiens, J.J. & Etheridge, R. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships of hoplocercid lizards, coding and combining meristic, morphometric, and polymorphic data using step matices. Herpetologica 30(3): 375–398. DOI: 10.1655/02-25 Reference page.

Cabrera, M.R. & Etheridge, R. 2006. New records and type locality restriction for the endemic Argentinian lizard Cnemidophorus tergolaevigatus (Squamata: Teiidae). Herpetological Review 37(1): 110–111. Reference page.
Etheridge, R. & Savage, J.M. 2006. Stability restored to the name Phymaturus palluma: a response to Cei and Scolaro (2006). Herpetological Review 37(4): 406–407. PDF (385-418). Reference page.

Torres-Carvajal, O., de Queiroz, K. & Etheridge, R. 2009. A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides. ZooKeys 27: 59–71. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.27.273 Reference page.

Espinoza, R.E., Lobo, F. & Etheridge, R. 2011. Taxonomic history of the iguanian lizard Liolaemus pictus major Boulenger with a revalidation of Liolaemus capillitas Hulse. Journal of Herpetology 45(1): 129–133. JSTOR Reference page.
Torres-Carvajal, O., Etheridge, R. & de Queiroz, K. 2011. A systematic revision of Neotropical lizards in the clade Hoplocercinae (Squamata: Iguania). Zootaxa 2752(1): 1–44. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2752.1.1 Reference page.

Lobo, F. & Etheridge, R. 2013. The type locality of Phymaturus palluma (Molina, 1782) (Reptilia: Iguania: Liolaemidae) and the status of Phymaturus adrianae Pereyra, 1992 and other unnamed populations. South American Journal of Herpetology 8(2): 89–101. DOI: 10.2994/SAJH-D-12-00033.1 Reference page.
Troncoso-Palacios, J., Lobo, F., Etheridge, R., Acosta, J.C. & Laspiur, A. 2013. The rediscovery of Oplurus bibronii Guichenot, 1848 a valid species of the liolaemid genus Phymaturus (Iguania: Liolaemidae). Zootaxa 3652(5): 547–561. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.5.4 Reference page.