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Education

B.S., University of Connecticut, 1972, Wildlife Biology
M.S., University of Connecticut, 1974, Wildlife Biology
Ph.D., University of New Mexico, 1978, Zoology

Research Interests

Taxonomy and distribution of amphibians and reptiles in North, Central, and South America; curation, care, and management of natural history collections; ecology of desert snakes; ecology of island reptiles.

Has senior responsibility for operation of the Biological Survey Unit; takes the lead in representing the Unit to the USGS and the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, maintaining relations with the Smithsonian Institution's Department of Vertebrate Zoology, supervising the Unit's technical staff, and coordinating and supporting the Unit's administrative, scientific, and curatorial operations of the Unit. Serves as leader of the Curation of North American Vertebrates Project for USGS collection management responsibilities at the National Museum of Natural History. Develops field studies of amphibians and reptiles to document distributions and biodiversity through the collection and permanent archiving of biological samples and associated data.

Recent Publications

Böhm, Monika, Collen, Ben, Baillie, Jonathan E. M., Bowles, Philip, Chanson, Janice, Cox, Neil, Hammerson, Geoffrey, Hoffmann, Michael, Livingstone, Suzanne R., Ram, Mala, Rhodin, Anders G. J., Stuart, Simon N., van Dijk, Peter Paul, Young, Bruce E., Afuang, Leticia E., Aghasyan, Aram, García, Andrés, Aguilar, Cé, Ajtic, Rastko, Akarsu, Ferdi, Alencar, Laura R. V., Allison, Allen, Ananjeva, Natalia, Anderson, Steve, Andrén, Claes, et al 2013. The conservation status of the world's reptiles. Biological Conservation, 157: 372-385. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2012.07.015

Cole, Charles J., Townsend, Carol R., Reynolds, Robert P., MacCulloch, Ross D. and Lathrop, Amy 2013. Amphibians and reptiles of Guyana, South America: illustrated keys, annotated species accounts, and a biogeographic synopsis. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 125(4): 317-578. doi:10.2988/0006-324X-125.4.317

Wynn, Addison H., Reynolds, Robert P., Buden, Donald W., Falanruw, Marjorie C. and Lynch, Brian 2012. The unexpected discovery of blind snakes (Serpentes: Typhlopidae) in Micronesia: two new species of Ramphotyphlops from the Caroline Islands. Zootaxa, 31: 39-54.

MacCulloch, Ross D. and Reynolds, Robert P. 2012. Amphibians and Reptiles from Paramakatoi and Kato, Guyana. Check List: Journal of Species Lists and Distributions, 8(2): 207-210.

Reynolds, Robert P. and MacCulloch, Ross D. 2012. Preliminary Checklist of Amphibians and Reptiles from Baramita, Guyana. Check List: Journal of Species Lists and Distributions, 8(2): 211-214.

Reynolds, Robert P. and McDiarmid, Roy W. 2012. Voucher Specimens. In: McDiarmid, Roy W., Foster, M. S., Guyer, C., Gibbons, J. W. and Chernoff, N., Reptile Biodiversity: Standard Methods for Inventory and Monitoring. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp.89-94.

Hoffmann, Michael, Hilton-Taylor, Craig, Angulo, Ariadne, Böhm, Monika, Brooks, Thomas M., Butchart, Stuart H. M., Carpenter, Kent E., Chanson, Janice, Collen, Ben, Cox, Neil A., Darwall, William R. T., Dulvy, Nicholas K., Harrison, Lucy R., Katariya, Vineet, Pollock, Caroline M., Quader, Suhel, Richman, Nadia I., Rodrigues, Ana S. L., Tognelli, Marcelo F., Vié, Jean-Christophe, Aguiar, John M., Allen, David J., Allen, Gerald R., Amori, Giovanni, Ananjeva, Natalia B., et al 2010. The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World's Vertebrates. Science, 330(6010): 1503-1509.

Reynolds, Robert P. 2009. Comments on the Proposed Conservation of Usage of Testudo gigantea Schweigger, 1812 (currently Geochelone (Aldabrachelys) gigantea) (Reptilia, Testudines) (Case 3463). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 66(2): 182