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List of works by Patrick Couper

A Framework for Resolving Cryptic Species: A Case Study from the Lizards of the Australian Wet Tropics

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens

scientific article published on 12 November 2019

A new genus to accommodate three skinks currently assigned to Menetia (Lacertilia: Scincidae)

scientific article (publication date: 19 November 2014)

A new genus to accommodate three skinks currently assigned to Proablepharus (Lacertilia: Scincidae).

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

A new skink (Scincidae: Liburnascincus) from rocky habitat on Cape York, northeast Australia

scientific article (publication date: 31 July 2015)

A new species of Glaphyromorphus (Reptilia : Scincidae) from Mt Elliot, north-eastern Queensland

scientific article published in 2004

A new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, belonging to the Lerista allanae clade but strongly disjunct from other members of the clade

scientific article published on 4 June 2019

A new species of gecko from arid inland regions of eastern Australia (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae)

scientific article

A reassessment of Saltuarius swaini (Lacertilia: Diplodactylidae) in southeastern Queensland and New South Wales; two new taxa, phylogeny, biogeography and conservation

scholarly article

A return-on-investment approach for prioritization of rigorous taxonomic research needed to inform responses to the biodiversity crisis

A spectacular new leaf-tailed gecko (Carphodactylidae: Saltuarius) from the Melville Range, north-east Australia

scientific article

A two-toed population of the critically endangered Retro Slider Skink, Lerista allanae (Longman, 1937) (Reptilia: Scincidae)

scientific article published in 2018

Carlia parrhasius, a new Queensland skink

scientific article published in 1994

Comment (Case 3601) — Some matters arising from the Case and the broader issues involved and the need to remove ambiguity in Chapter 3 of the Code

scientific article

Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk

scientific article published on 20 April 2021

Correction: Independent transitions between monsoonal and arid biomes revealed by systematic revison of a complex of Australian geckos (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae).

scientific article

Cryptic diversity within the narrowly endemic Lerista wilkinsi group of north Queensland—two new species (Reptilia: Scincidae)

scientific article (publication date: 8 September 2016)

Die on this hill? A new monotypic, microendemic and montane vertebrate genus from the Australian Wet Tropics

scientific article published in 2022

Distribution and population genetic structure of the critically endangered skink Nangura spinosa, and the implications for management

scientific article published in 2010

Diversity and Systematics of Limbless Skinks (Anomalopus) from Eastern Australia and the Skeletal Changes that Accompany the Substrate Swimming Body Form

scientific article published on 27 September 2021

Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates

Herpetological type specimens held at the Queensland Museum: a catalogue

scientific article published in 2022

Independent Transitions between Monsoonal and Arid Biomes Revealed by Systematic Revison of a Complex of Australian Geckos (Diplodactylus; Diplodactylidae)

scientific article

Litho-refugia: the importance of rock landscapes for the long-term persistence of Australian rainforest fauna

scientific article published in January 2008

Phylogeography of north-eastern Australia’s Cyrtodactylus radiation: a habitat switch highlights adaptive capacity at a generic level

scientific article published in 2015

Range extension and genetic structure of the narrowly-restricted slider skink, Lerista rochfordensis Amey and Couper, 2009 (Reptilia: Scincidae)

scientific article published in 2018

Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction

scientific article published in 2021

Skinks currently assigned to Carlia aerata (Scincidae:Lygosominae) of north-eastern Queensland: a preliminary study of cryptic diversity and two new species

scientific article published in 2005

The conservation status of the world’s reptiles

article

Two new skinks (Scincidae: Glaphyromorphus) from rainforest habitats in north-eastern Australia

scientific article (publication date: 29 September 2014)

Two new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from north Queensland populations formerly assigned to Lerista storri Greer, McDonald and Lawrie, 1983

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Two new subspecies of the leaf-tailed gecko Phyllurus ossa (Lacertilia: Carphodactylidae) from mid-eastern Queensland, Australia

scientific article (publication date: 28 May 2013)

Two snakes from eastern Australia (Serpentes: Elapidae); a revised concept of Antaioserpens warro (De Vis) and a redescription of A. albiceps (Boulenger)

scientific article

Vale Jeanette Adelaide Covacevich, AM, PSM (1945–2015)

scholarly article