Patrick Couper

Queensland Museum — Australia

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Amphibian and Reptile Biology(61), Species Distribution and Climate Change(34), Wildlife Ecology and Conservation(22), Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy(8), Genetic diversity and population structure(7)

Publications84 total

Revision of zigzag geckos (Diplodactylidae: Amalosia) in eastern Australia, with description of five new species
The Catalogue of Life·2026Open Access
Revision of zigzag geckos (Diplodactylidae: Amalosia) in eastern Australia, with description of five new species
Zootaxa·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Morphology of hybrid marine turtles Caretta caretta x Chelonia mydas
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature·2023Open Access
Herpetological type specimens held at the Queensland Museum: a catalogue
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature·2022· 2 citedOpen Access
Die on this hill? A new monotypic, microendemic and montane vertebrate genus from the Australian Wet Tropics
Zoologica Scripta·2022· 5 cited
Further evidence in support of the recognition of the Freshwater Turtle Elseya oneiros (Testudines: Chelidae) from the Nicholson and Gregory Rivers of Northern Queensland
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Diversity and Systematics of Limbless Skinks (Anomalopus) from Eastern Australia and the Skeletal Changes that Accompany the Substrate Swimming Body Form
Journal of Herpetology·2021· 6 cited
A return-on-investment approach for prioritization of rigorous taxonomic research needed to inform responses to the biodiversity crisis
PLoS Biology·2021· 25 citedOpen Access
Conservation status of the world's skinks (Scincidae): Taxonomic and geographic patterns in extinction risk
Biological Conservation·2021· 42 citedOpen Access
Reptiles on the brink: identifying the Australian terrestrial snake and lizard species most at risk of extinction
Pacific Conservation Biology·2020· 58 citedOpen Access
A global catalog of primary reptile type specimens
Zootaxa·2019· 69 citedOpen Access
The World Science Festival Brisbane's Loggerhead Turtle Hatchery: A Case Study.
Teaching science (Deakin West, A.C.T. : Online)/Teaching science·2019
Geographic and taxonomic patterns of extinction risk in Australian squamates
Biological Conservation·2019· 77 citedOpen Access
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
Zootaxa·2019· 4 cited
Two new species of Lerista Bell, 1833 (Reptilia: Scincidae) from north Queensland populations formerly assigned to Lerista storri Greer, McDonald and Lawrie, 1983
Zootaxa·2019· 6 cited
A Framework for Resolving Cryptic Species: A Case Study from the Lizards of the Australian Wet Tropics
Systematic Biology·2018· 110 citedOpen Access
A new genus to accommodate three skinks currently assigned to Proablepharus (Lacertilia: Scincidae).
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature·2018· 2 citedOpen Access
Range extension and genetic structure of the narrowly-restricted slider skink, Lerista rochfordensis Amey and Couper, 2009 (Reptilia: Scincidae)
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature·2018Open Access
A two-toed population of the critically endangered Retro Slider Skink, Lerista allanae (Longman, 1937) (Reptilia: Scincidae)
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature·2018· 4 citedOpen Access
<b>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</b>
The Bulletin of zoological nomenclature·2017· 5 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Andrew P. Amey(19), Conrad J. Hoskin(17), Jessica Worthington Wilmer(11), Glenn M. Shea(8), J Covacevich(7), David G. Chapple(5), Ryan J. Ellis(5), Mark N. Hutchinson(5), Jane Melville(5), Paul M. Oliver(5), Hal Cogger(4), Craig Moritz(4), Reid Tingley(4), Paul Doughty(4), Christopher J. Schneider(4), Monika Böhm(3), Nicola J. Mitchell(3), Shai Meiri(3), Phil Bowles(3), Mark A. Cowan(3)