List of works - Robert Alexander Pyron

A Taxonomic Revision of Boas (Serpentes: Boidae)

scientific article (publication date: August 2014)

A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae)

article published in 2016

A giant tyrannosaur from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of southern North America and the evolution of tyrannosaurid gigantism

scientific article published on 11 January 2024

A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians

scientific article (publication date: November 2011)

A likelihood method for assessing molecular divergence time estimates and the placement of fossil calibrations.

scientific article published on 17 December 2009

A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

article

A new, narrowly endemic species of swamp-dwelling dusky salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi and Alabama ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 May 2022

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

academic work

A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis

scientific article (publication date: 28 September 2016)

A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species

scientific article (publication date: 17 October 2014)

Advancing perspectives on parity-mode evolution

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

Allocation of Salamandra auriculata Holbrook, 1838, with a new species of swamp-dwelling dusky salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus) from the Atlantic Coastal Plain

scientific article published in 2022

Allometric escape from acoustic constraints is rare for frog calls

scientific article published on 07 March 2020

Biogeographic analysis reveals ancient continental vicariance and recent oceanic dispersal in amphibians.

scientific article

Biogeography of worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction

scientific article

Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara

article by Anat Feldman et al published 1 December 2015 in Global Ecology and Biogeography

Claims of potential expansion throughout the U.S. by invasive python species are contradicted by ecological niche models ⬇️

scientific article

Cnemaspis flaviventralis, a new species of gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India

scholarly article by Amit Sayyed et al published 26 December 2016 in Journal of threatened taxa

Coalescent species delimitation in milksnakes (genus Lampropeltis) and impacts on phylogenetic comparative analyses.

scientific article

Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador

scientific article (publication date: 2016)

Contextualizing enigmatic extinctions using genomic DNA from fluid-preserved museum specimens of Desmognathus salamanders

scientific article published in 2022

Contrasting models of parity-mode evolution in squamate reptiles.

scientific article published on 24 February 2015

Cryptic, Sympatric Diversity in Tegu Lizards of the Tupinambis teguixin Group (Squamata, Sauria, Teiidae) and the Description of Three New Species

scientific article

Discerning structure versus speciation in phylogeographic analysis of Seepage Salamanders (<i>Desmognathus aeneus</i>) using demography, environment, geography, and phenotype

scientific article published on 28 November 2023

Divergence time estimation using fossils as terminal taxa and the origins of Lissamphibia.

scientific article published on 3 May 2011

Diversification of the rainfrog Pristimantis ornatissimus in the lowlands and Andean foothills of Ecuador.

scientific article

Does dispersal across an aquatic geographic barrier obscure phylogeographic structure in the diamond-backed watersnake (Nerodia rhombifer)?

scientific article

Ecological divergence and sexual selection drive sexual size dimorphism in New World pitvipers (Serpentes: Viperidae).

scientific article published on 5 March 2014

Effectiveness of phylogenomic data and coalescent species-tree methods for resolving difficult nodes in the phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia).

scientific article

Evidence for determinism in species diversification and contingency in phenotypic evolution during adaptive radiation

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2012)

Fossil-based comparative analyses reveal ancient marine ancestry erased by extinction in ray-finned fishes.

scientific article published on 23 March 2015

Genomic timetree and historical biogeography of Caribbean island ameiva lizards (Pholidoscelis: Teiidae)

scientific article published on August 2017

Genus-level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in Sri Lanka.

scientific article

How does ecological opportunity influence rates of speciation, extinction, and morphological diversification in New World ratsnakes (tribe Lampropeltini)?

scientific article published on 6 November 2009

Island tameness: living on islands reduces flight initiation distance

scientific article (publication date: 22 February 2014)

Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2013)

Lycodon and Dinodon: one genus or two? Evidence from molecular phylogenetics and morphological comparisons.

scientific article

Microhabitat Variation Explains Local-scale Distribution of Terrestrial Amazonian Lizards in Rondônia, Western Brazil

article

Neogene diversification and taxonomic stability in the snake tribe Lampropeltini (Serpentes: Colubridae).

scientific article

New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians (Lissamphibia) ⬇️

Nomenclatural problems raised by the recent description of a new anaconda species (Squamata, Serpentes, Boidae), with a nomenclatural review of the genus Eunectes

scientific article published on 15 March 2024

Nomenclatural solutions for diagnosing ‘cryptic’ species using molecular and morphological data facilitate a taxonomic revision of the Black-bellied Salamanders (Urodela, Desmognathus ‘quadramaculatus’) from the southern Appalachian Mountains ⬇️

scientific article published on 19 July 2022

Novel Approaches for Phylogenetic Inference from Morphological Data and Total-Evidence Dating in Squamate Reptiles (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians).

scientific article

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES REVEAL UNEXPECTED PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN FROGS

article

Phylogenetic estimates of speciation and extinction rates for testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses

scientific article published on 10 October 2013

Phylogenetic niche conservatism and the evolutionary basis of ecological speciation.

scientific article published on 26 November 2014

Phylogenetic origins of local-scale diversity patterns and the causes of Amazonian megadiversity.

scientific article published on 3 May 2011

Phylogenetic relationships of the Cretaceous frog Beelzebufo from Madagascar and the placement of fossil constraints based on temporal and phylogenetic evidence.

scientific article published on 2 November 2010

Post-molecular systematics and the future of phylogenetics.

scientific article published on 23 May 2015

Predicting community structure in snakes on Eastern Nearctic islands using ecological neutral theory and phylogenetic methods.

scientific article published in November 2015

Systematic revision of the Eyelash Palm-Pitviper Bothriechis schlegelii (Serpentes, Viperidae), with the description of five new species and revalidation of three

scientific article published in 2024

Systematic revision of the Spotted and Northern Dusky Salamanders (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus conanti and D. fuscus), with six new species from the eastern United States

scientific article published in 2023

Systematics of Nothopsini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), with a new species of Synophis from the Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador

scientific article

Systematics of South American snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Ecuador and Peru

scientific article

Systematics of the Ocoee Salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus ocoee), with description of two new species from the southern Blue Ridge Mountains ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 September 2022

Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence

scientific article (publication date: 8 July 2014)

The Taming of the Skew: Estimating Proper Confidence Intervals for Divergence Dates

scientific article published on 01 April 2008

The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography ⬇️

scientific article

The impact of gene-tree/species-tree discordance on diversification-rate estimation.

scientific article published on 19 March 2011

The interplay of past diversification and evolutionary isolation with present imperilment across the amphibian tree of life

scientific article published on 26 March 2018

The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes

scientific article published on 22 February 2024

The specimens of green anaconda, Boa murina Linnaeus, 1758 (Squamata, Serpentes, Boidae, Eunectes), from the collection of Albertus Seba, and recommendations for tracing historical specimens

scientific article published on 27 June 2024

Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 17 April 2013)

Understanding the formation of ancient intertropical disjunct distributions using Asian and Neotropical hinged-teeth snakes (Sibynophis and Scaphiodontophis: Serpentes: Colubridae).

scientific article published on 5 October 2012

Using phylogenomics to understand the link between biogeographic origins and regional diversification in ratsnakes

scientific article

When are adaptive radiations replicated in areas? Ecological opportunity and unexceptional diversification in West Indian dipsadine snakes (Colubridae: Alsophiini)

List of works by Robert Alexander Pyron

A Taxonomic Revision of Boas (Serpentes: Boidae)

A catalogue and systematic overview of the shield-tailed snakes (Serpentes: Uropeltidae)

A giant tyrannosaur from the Campanian–Maastrichtian of southern North America and the evolution of tyrannosaurid gigantism

A large-scale phylogeny of Amphibia including over 2800 species, and a revised classification of extant frogs, salamanders, and caecilians

A likelihood method for assessing molecular divergence time estimates and the placement of fossil calibrations.

A new ancient lineage of frog (Anura: Nyctibatrachidae: Astrobatrachinae subfam. nov.) endemic to the Western Ghats of Peninsular India

A new, narrowly endemic species of swamp-dwelling dusky salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Mississippi and Alabama ⬇️

A phylogeny and revised classification of Squamata, including 4161 species of lizards and snakes

A revision and key for the tribe Diaphorolepidini (Serpentes: Dipsadidae) and checklist for the genus Synophis

A taxonomic revision of the Asian keelback snakes, genus Amphiesma (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae), with description of a new species

Advancing perspectives on parity-mode evolution

Allocation of Salamandra auriculata Holbrook, 1838, with a new species of swamp-dwelling dusky salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus) from the Atlantic Coastal Plain

Allometric escape from acoustic constraints is rare for frog calls

Biogeographic analysis reveals ancient continental vicariance and recent oceanic dispersal in amphibians.

Biogeography of worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction

Body sizes and diversification rates of lizards, snakes, amphisbaenians and the tuatara

Claims of potential expansion throughout the U.S. by invasive python species are contradicted by ecological niche models ⬇️

Cnemaspis flaviventralis, a new species of gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, India

Coalescent species delimitation in milksnakes (genus Lampropeltis) and impacts on phylogenetic comparative analyses.

Comparative Phylogeography Reveals Cryptic Diversity and Repeated Patterns of Cladogenesis for Amphibians and Reptiles in Northwestern Ecuador

Contextualizing enigmatic extinctions using genomic DNA from fluid-preserved museum specimens of Desmognathus salamanders

Contrasting models of parity-mode evolution in squamate reptiles.

Cryptic, Sympatric Diversity in Tegu Lizards of the Tupinambis teguixin Group (Squamata, Sauria, Teiidae) and the Description of Three New Species

Discerning structure versus speciation in phylogeographic analysis of Seepage Salamanders (<i>Desmognathus aeneus</i>) using demography, environment, geography, and phenotype

Divergence time estimation using fossils as terminal taxa and the origins of Lissamphibia.

Diversification of the rainfrog Pristimantis ornatissimus in the lowlands and Andean foothills of Ecuador.

Does dispersal across an aquatic geographic barrier obscure phylogeographic structure in the diamond-backed watersnake (Nerodia rhombifer)?

Ecological divergence and sexual selection drive sexual size dimorphism in New World pitvipers (Serpentes: Viperidae).

Effectiveness of phylogenomic data and coalescent species-tree methods for resolving difficult nodes in the phylogeny of advanced snakes (Serpentes: Caenophidia).

Evidence for determinism in species diversification and contingency in phenotypic evolution during adaptive radiation

Fossil-based comparative analyses reveal ancient marine ancestry erased by extinction in ray-finned fishes.

Genomic timetree and historical biogeography of Caribbean island ameiva lizards (Pholidoscelis: Teiidae)

Genus-level phylogeny of snakes reveals the origins of species richness in Sri Lanka.

How does ecological opportunity influence rates of speciation, extinction, and morphological diversification in New World ratsnakes (tribe Lampropeltini)?

Island tameness: living on islands reduces flight initiation distance

Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal the causes of high tropical amphibian diversity

Lycodon and Dinodon: one genus or two? Evidence from molecular phylogenetics and morphological comparisons.

Microhabitat Variation Explains Local-scale Distribution of Terrestrial Amazonian Lizards in Rondônia, Western Brazil

Neogene diversification and taxonomic stability in the snake tribe Lampropeltini (Serpentes: Colubridae).

New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians (Lissamphibia) ⬇️

Nomenclatural problems raised by the recent description of a new anaconda species (Squamata, Serpentes, Boidae), with a nomenclatural review of the genus Eunectes

Nomenclatural solutions for diagnosing ‘cryptic’ species using molecular and morphological data facilitate a taxonomic revision of the Black-bellied Salamanders (Urodela, Desmognathus ‘quadramaculatus’) from the southern Appalachian Mountains ⬇️

Novel Approaches for Phylogenetic Inference from Morphological Data and Total-Evidence Dating in Squamate Reptiles (Lizards, Snakes, and Amphisbaenians).

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES REVEAL UNEXPECTED PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN FROGS

Phylogenetic estimates of speciation and extinction rates for testing ecological and evolutionary hypotheses

Phylogenetic niche conservatism and the evolutionary basis of ecological speciation.

Phylogenetic origins of local-scale diversity patterns and the causes of Amazonian megadiversity.

Phylogenetic relationships of the Cretaceous frog Beelzebufo from Madagascar and the placement of fossil constraints based on temporal and phylogenetic evidence.

Post-molecular systematics and the future of phylogenetics.

Predicting community structure in snakes on Eastern Nearctic islands using ecological neutral theory and phylogenetic methods.

Systematic revision of the Eyelash Palm-Pitviper Bothriechis schlegelii (Serpentes, Viperidae), with the description of five new species and revalidation of three

Systematic revision of the Spotted and Northern Dusky Salamanders (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus conanti and D. fuscus), with six new species from the eastern United States

Systematics of Nothopsini (Serpentes, Dipsadidae), with a new species of Synophis from the Pacific Andean slopes of southwestern Ecuador

Systematics of South American snail-eating snakes (Serpentes, Dipsadini), with the description of five new species from Ecuador and Peru

Systematics of the Ocoee Salamander (Plethodontidae: Desmognathus ocoee), with description of two new species from the southern Blue Ridge Mountains ⬇️

Systematics of the blindsnakes (Serpentes: Scolecophidia: Typhlopoidea) based on molecular and morphological evidence

The Taming of the Skew: Estimating Proper Confidence Intervals for Divergence Dates

The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography ⬇️

The impact of gene-tree/species-tree discordance on diversification-rate estimation.

The interplay of past diversification and evolutionary isolation with present imperilment across the amphibian tree of life

The macroevolutionary singularity of snakes

The specimens of green anaconda, Boa murina Linnaeus, 1758 (Squamata, Serpentes, Boidae, Eunectes), from the collection of Albertus Seba, and recommendations for tracing historical specimens

Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India ⬇️

Understanding the formation of ancient intertropical disjunct distributions using Asian and Neotropical hinged-teeth snakes (Sibynophis and Scaphiodontophis: Serpentes: Colubridae).

Using phylogenomics to understand the link between biogeographic origins and regional diversification in ratsnakes

When are adaptive radiations replicated in areas? Ecological opportunity and unexceptional diversification in West Indian dipsadine snakes (Colubridae: Alsophiini)