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Complete List of Kevin's Publications and Downloadable PDFs
International Society for Phylogenetic Nomenclature
List of North American Amphibian and Reptile Species
PhyloCode

Interviews and News Articles
Wired (2007)
National Public Radio (2007)
Discover (2005)
Scientific American (2004)
Folha de Saõ Paulo (2002)
Science (2001)
BioScience (2000)

Education

B.S. (Biology), University of California at Los Angeles, 1978.
M.S. (Zoology), San Diego State University, 1985.
Ph.D. (Zoology), University of California at Berkeley, 1989.

Research Interests

Theory and practice of systematic biology, phylogeny and evolution of amphibians and reptiles with emphasis on iguanian lizards.

Recent Publications

Torres-Carvajal, O., de Queiroz, K. and 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

de Queiroz, K. 2009. "[Letter from Kevin de Queiroz]". Pp. 199-203 in Letters to Linnaeus (Knapp, S. and Wheeler, Q.). The Linnean Society of London

Torres-Carvajal, O. and de Queiroz, K. 2009. Phylogeny of hoplocercine lizards (Squamata: Iguania) with estimates of relative divergence times, Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 50(1):31-43

Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, C., Shearer, A.E., Morris, M.R. and de Queiroz, K. 2008. Phylogeography and monophyly of the swordtail fish species Xiphophorus birchmanni (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae), Zoologica Scripta, 37(2):129-139

Dayrat, B., Cantino, P.D., Clarke, J.A. and de Queiroz, K. 2008. Species names in the PhyloCode: The approach adopted by the international society for phylogenetic nomenclature, Systematic Biology, 57(3):507-514

Kolbe, J.J., Larson, A., Losos, J.B. and de Queiroz, K. 2008. Admixture determines genetic diversity and population differentiation in the biological invasion of a lizard species, Biology Letters, 4(4):434-437

Espinoza, R.E. and de Queiroz, K. 2008. Richard Emmett Etheridge, Copeia, 2008(3):707-718

Schulte, J.A.,II and de Queiroz, K. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships and heterogeneous evolutionary processes among phrynosomatine sand lizards (Squamata, Iguanidae) revisited, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 47(2):700-716

de Queiroz, K. 2007. Toward and integrated system of clade names, Systematic Biology, 56(6):956-974

de Queiroz, K. 2007. Species concepts and species delimitation, Systematic Biology, 56(6):879-886

Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, C., Morris, M.R., Dubois, N.S. and de Queiroz, K. 2007. Genetic variation and phylogeography of the swordtail fish Xiphophorus cortezi (Cyprinodontiformes, Poeciliidae), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 40(1):111-123

de Queiroz, K. 2006. The PhyloCode and the distinction between taxonomy and nomenclature, Systematic Biology, 55(1):160-162

Laurin, M., de Queiroz, K. and Cantino, P. 2006. Sense and stability of taxon names, Zoologica Scripta, 35(1):113-114

Brandley, M.C., Wynn, A.H. and de Queiroz, K. 2006. Karyotype and relationships of Anolis desechensis, Journal of Herpetology, 40(1):136-139