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List of works by Chris H.S. Watts

A Faunal Assessment of Australian Hydradephaga

A blind terrestrial water beetle from Australia

scholarly article

A highly modified stygobiont diving beetle of the genus Copelatus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae): taxonomy and cladistic analysis based on mitochondrial DNA sequences

article

A new genus and six new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in the Yilgarn palaeodrainage system of Western Australia

scholarly article

A new genus and species of Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)

scholarly article 1997

A new genus, Perplexacara , and new generic placements of species of Australian marsh beetles (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology and molecular genetic data

scientific article

A new interstitial species of diving beetle from tropical northern Australia provides a scenario for the transition of epigean to stygobitic life (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Copelatinae)

scientific article published on 29 July 2016

A revision of the Australian Dytiscidae (Coleoptera)

article (1978)

A stygobitic Carabhydrus Watts (Dytiscidae, Coleoptera) from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales, Australia

article

An endemic predaceous water beetle from the Murchison River in Western Australia—Antiporus kalbarriensis sp.n. (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydroporini)

scientific article published on 19 January 2010

An outlook on larval morphology of Copelatinae diving beetles with phylogenetic considerations (Coleoptera: Adephaga, Dytiscidae)

scientific article published in 2022

Arid zone island hopping: the impact of dispersal on endemism in hydraenid beetles (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) found in isolated desert springs

scholarly article

Australian Beetles Volume 2

scientific article published in January 2019

Breeding of a Captive Colony of Notomys fuscus Wood Jones (Rodentia : Muridae)

scientific article published in 1980

Chromosomal and Electrophorectic Studies of Australian Melomys (Rodentia:Muridae)

scientific article published in 1980

Dealing with a hairy beast–larval morphology and chaetotaxy of the Australian endemic diving beetle genus Spencerhydrus (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Cybistrini)

scholarly article

Description of a new Tiporus Watts, 1985 from northern Queensland, Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae)

scientific article (publication date: 9 November 2016)

Descriptions of the first-instar larva of the hypogaeic species Neobidessodes limestoneensis (Watts & Humphreys) and of the third-instar larva of Hydroglyphus balkei Hendrich (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini) with phylogenetic considerations

scientific article published on 27 October 2010

Evolution in New-Guinean Muridae (Rodentia) Assessed by Microcomplement Fixation of Albumin

scientific article published in 1994

Evolution of blind beetles in isolated aquifers: a test of alternative modes of speciation

scientific article

Evolution of subterranean diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporini, Bidessini) in the arid zone of Australia

scientific article published in December 2003

Evolutionary history of the Australasian Scirtinae (Scirtidae; Coleoptera) inferred from ultraconserved elements

Evolutionary transition from surface to subterranean living in Australian water beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) through adaptive and relaxed selection

scientific article published on 19 October 2023

Four new species of Antiporus Sharp (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae) from Australia, with notes on A. femoralis (Boh.) and A. interrogationis (Clark)

scientific article published in 1997

Fourteen New Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the Genera Limbodessus Guignot, Paroster Sharp, and Exocelina Broun from Underground Waters in Australia

scholarly article by C.H.S. Watts published in 2009

Genetical Relationships among Australian Rodents (Muridae)

scientific article published in 1981

Groundwater estuaries of salt lakes: buried pools of endemic biodiversity on the western plateau, Australia

scientific article published on 28 February 2009

Islands under the desert: molecular systematics and evolutionary origins of stygobitic water beetles (Coleoptera : Dytiscidae) from central Western Australia

LEGGADINA-LAKEDOWNENSIS NEW-SPECIES OF MURID RODENT FROM NORTH QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA

scholarly article

Larvae of the genus Antiporus (Coleoptera : Dytiscidae) and phylogenetic implications

scholarly article by Yves Alarie published in January 2004

Larval Description and Phylogenetic Placement of the Australian Endemic Genus Barretthydrus Lea, 1927 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae: Hydroporini: Sternopriscina)

Larval Morphology of Allomatus nannup Watts (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae)

scholarly article by Yves Alarie published in September 2003

Larval Morphology of Megaporus Brinck, 1943 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae): Descriptions of M. Hamatus (Clark, 1862) and M. Gardnerii (Clark, 1862) and Phylogenetic Considerations

Larval morphology of Paroster Sharp, 1882 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Hydroporinae): reinforcement of the hypothesis of monophyletic origin and discussion of phenotypic accommodation to a hypogaeic environment

scientific article published on 28 October 2009

Larval morphology of four genera of Laccophilinae (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae) with an analysis of their phylogenetic relationships

scholarly article by Yves Alarie et al published 1 January 2000 in Insect Systematics and Evolution

Larval morphology of genus Lancetes (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Dytiscidae): the hypothesis of sister-group relationship with the subfamily Dytiscinae revisited

Larval morphology of the Australian radiation Sternopriscina (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae): description and phylogenetic placement of the genus Chostonectes Sharp, 1882

Larval morphology of the tribe Matini (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae, Colymbetinae): descriptions of Batrachomatus daemeli, Matus bicarinatus, and Allomatus nannup and phylogenetic relationships

scholarly article by Yves Alarie et al published April 2001 in The Canadian Entomologist

Larval morphology ofAllodessusGuignot (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scholarly article by Mariano C. Michat published in March 2011

Limbodessus bennetti sp. nov., the first stygobitic Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from the Pilbara region of Western Australia

scientific article published in 2013

New genera, species and combinations in the Pseudomicrocara Armstrong group (Coleoptera: Scirtidae) based on morphology supported by mitochondrial and nuclear gene sequence data

scientific article published on 17 August 2020

Notes on the Australian Anacaenini (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae): description of male of Phelea breviceps Hansen and unravelling the identity of Crenitis neogallica Gentili

scientific article (publication date: 30 June 2015)

Notes on the distribution of the dinosaur ant 'Nothomyrmecia macrops' Clark (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in South Australia

scientific article published in July 1998

Paroster extraordinariussp. nov., a new groundwater diving beetle from the Flinders Ranges, with notes on other diving beetles from gravels in South Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published in February 2010

Paroster peelensis sp. nov.: a new stygobitic water beetle from alluvial gravels in northern New South Wales (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scientific article published in August 2008

Phylogenetic Placement of the Genus Sternhydrus (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Cybistrini) Based on Larval Morphology, With Description of S. atratus

Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts & Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia

scientific article published in August 2023

Phylogenetic relationships and comparative larval morphology of epigean and stygobitic species of Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Bidessini), with a key of identification

scientific article published on 13 December 2012

Phylogenetic relationships of Australian Scirtidae (Coleoptera) based on mitochondrial and nuclear sequences

article

Phylogeny of the Australian Rodents (Muridae) - a Molecular Approach Using Microcomplement Fixation of Albumin

scientific article published in 1992

Review of Australian <i>Scirtes</i> Illiger, Ora Clark and <i>Exochomoscirtes</i> Pic Coleoptera: Scirtidae) including descriptions of new species, new groups and a multi-gene molecular phylogeny of Australian and non-Australian species

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Revision of Australian Amphiops Erichson, Allocotocerus Kraatz and Regimbartia Zaitzev (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

article

Revision of Australian Berosus Leach (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

scholarly article (1987)

Revision of Australian Scirtidae of the Genera Chameloscyphon GEN. NOV., Daploeuros GEN. NOV., Dasyscyphon GEN. NOV., Eurycyphon GEN. NOV., Macrodascillus Carter, Petrocyphon Gen. NOV. and Spaniosdascillus Gen. NOV. (Coleoptera)

scientific article published in January 2011

Revision of AustralianPrionocyphonRedtenbacher (Scirtidae: Coleoptera)

scientific article published in January 2010

Revision of the Genus Macrohelodes (Scirtidae: Coleoptera; Insecta)

scientific article published in January 2010

Systematics and evolution of the Australian subterranean hydroporine diving beetles (Dytiscidae), with notes on Carabhydrus

article

Taxonomic revision of the Australian predaceous water beetle genus Carabhydrus Watts, 1978 (Col. Dytiscidae, Hydroporinae, Hydroporini)

scientific article published on 23 March 2009

The Larvae of Some Australian Scirtidae (Coleoptera) with A Key to Known Genera

scientific article published in January 2014

The Regulation of Wood Mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) Numbers in Wytham Woods, Berkshire

scientific article published in 1969

The dietary ecology of Australian desert rodents

article published in 1999

The ecology of woodland voles and mice with special reference to movement and population structure

doctoral thesis by Christopher H. S. Watts

The identity of Haliplus (Coleoptera: Haliplidae) from the Pilbara region of Australia, including the description of four new species

scientific article published in 2010

The larvae of Australian Cybister spp. Curt., Homoeodytes spp. Reg. and Hyderodes shuckardi Hope (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

scholarly article

The “minute diving beetles” of southern Australia - taxonomic revision of Gibbidessus Watts, 1978, with description of six new species (Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Bidessini)

scientific article published on 12 October 2020

Thirteen new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Boongurrus Larson, Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys and Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, from underground waters in Australia

scholarly article

Three new genera and five new species of Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) from underground waters in Australia

scholarly article

Three new subterranean diving beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) from the Yeelirrie groundwater calcretes, Western Australia, and their distribution between several calcrete deposits including a potential mine site

scientific article published in 2016

Twenty-Six New Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the Genera Limbodessus Guignot and Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys, from Underground Waters in Australia.

scientific article published in January 2006

Twenty-five new Dytiscidae (Coleoptera) of the genera Tjirtudessus Watts & Humphreys, Nirripirti Watts & Humphreys and Bidessodes Regimbart, from underground waters in Australia

scholarly article

Two new species of Antiporus Sharp from Western Australia (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

Unveiling the diversification dynamics of Australasian predaceous diving beetles in the Cenozoic

scientific article

VERHOEVEN'S GIANT RAT OF FLORES, INDONESIA (Papagomys theodorverhoeveni Musser, 1981; Muridae) IS A MODERN SPECIES

scientific article