Scott A. Thomson
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Australian taxonomist and turtle palaeontologist
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Scott A. Thomson's Degrees
- PhD Paleontology University of Melbourne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Scott A. Thomson is an Australian herpetologist, paleontologist, and taxonomist, specialising in turtles of the family Chelidae. Education Thomson attended the University of Canberra for both his bachelor's and master's degrees in applied sciences, studying zoology and mathematics.
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- Global Conservation Status of Turtles and Tortoises (Order Testudines) (2018) (145)
- Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation (2018) (144)
- Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status (2021) (83)
- Turtles and Tortoises of the World During the Rise and Global Spread of Humanity: First Checklist and Review of Extinct Pleistocene and Holocene Chelonians. (2015) (79)
- Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species (2010) (76)
- Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s species (2020) (47)
- Former distribution and apparent disappearance of the Litoria aurea complex from the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory (1996) (47)
- Systoles of hyperbolic manifolds (2010) (41)
- A New Species of Freshwater Turtle in the Genus Elseya (Testudines: Chelidae) from Central Coastal Queensland, Australia (2006) (40)
- Characterisation of sterol biosynthesis and validation of 14α-demethylase as a drug target in Acanthamoeba (2017) (36)
- Fossil turtles from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, with a description of a new species of Elseya (1999) (27)
- Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression (2019) (25)
- Tooth microwear texture in odontocete whales: variation with tooth characteristics and implications for dietary analysis (2017) (24)
- A New Species of Chelodina (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from Northern Australia (2002) (24)
- Distribution of Typhula spp. and Typhula ishikariensis Varieties in Wisconsin, Utah, Michigan, and Minnesota. (2006) (24)
- Myuchelys gen. nov. a new genus for Elseya latisternum and related forms of Australian freshwater turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) (2009) (23)
- Taxonomy of the Litoria aurea complex: A re-evaluation of the Southern Tableland populations of the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales (1996) (21)
- Validity of Taxonomic Changes for Turtles Proposed by Wells and Wellington (2001) (20)
- Towards a global list of accepted species I. Why taxonomists sometimes disagree, and why this matters (2021) (15)
- Confronting taxonomic vandalism in biology: conscientious community self-organization can preserve nomenclatural stability (2021) (13)
- Chelodina burrungandjii Thomson, Kenneth and Georges 2000-Sandstone Snake-Necked Turtle (2011) (13)
- A new species of long necked turtle (Chelidae: Chelodina) from the sandstone plateau of Arnhem Land, northern Australia (2000) (10)
- Towards a global list of accepted species III. Independence and stakeholder inclusion (2021) (9)
- Towards a global list of accepted species II. Consequences of inadequate taxonomic list governance (2021) (8)
- Towards a global list of accepted species IV: Overcoming fragmentation in the governance of taxonomic lists (2021) (8)
- Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE): request for confirmation of the availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published (Case 3601; BZN 70: 234–237; 71: 30–38) (2018) (8)
- A new species and subgenus of Elseya (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from New Guinea. (2015) (7)
- Quasi-arithmeticity of lattices in $${{\mathrm{PO}}}(n,1)$$PO(n,1) (2014) (7)
- Comment on Spracklandus Hoser, 2009 (Reptilia, Serpentes, ELAPIDAE): request for confirmation of availability of the generic name and for the nomenclatural validation of the journal in which it was published (Case 3601; BZN 70:234 237; 71:30 38; 133-135,181-182 ,252-253) (2015) (6)
- Towards a global list of accepted species V. The devil is in the detail (2021) (5)
- A new species of freshwater turtle of the genus Elseya (Testudinata: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from the Northern Territory of Australia. (2016) (5)
- Are the implications for conservation of a major taxonomic revision of the world’s birds’ simply serendipity? (2020) (5)
- Elseya lavarackorum (White and Archer 1994) – Gulf Snapping Turtle, Gulf Snapper, Riversleigh Snapping Turtle, Lavarack’s Turtle. (2014) (5)
- Short geodesics in hyperbolic manifolds (2012) (2)
- , BLUFF DOWNS LOCAL FAUNA, WITH A DESCRIPTION (1999) (1)
- The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed. (2020) (1)
- Commensurability and Arithmetic Equivalence for Orthogonal Hypergeometric Monodromy Groups (2016) (1)
- On the Nomenclatural Status of the Recently Described Snail-eating Turtle from Southeast Asia (Testudines, Geoemydidae): Malayemys khoratensis Ihlow et al. 2016 vs. Malayemys isan Sumontha et al. 2016 (2017) (1)
- Nawaran Esquerré, Donnellan, Brennan, Lemmon, Lemmon, Zaher, Grazziotin & Keogh, 2020 is an invalid junior synonym of Nyctophilopython Wells & Wellington, 1985 (Squamata, Pythonidae): simple priority without Zoobank pre-registration (2020) (1)
- Bibliography of Peter C.H. Pritchard (2020) (0)
- Comment on Terrapene putnami Hay, 1906 (Testudines, EMYDIDAE): replacement of the holotype by designation of a neotype [Case 3628] (2014) (0)
- The Australian gulf snapping turtle Elseya lavarackorum (Testudines: Chelidae) revisited—Is the late Pleistocene fossil species extant? (2023) (0)
- Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression (2019) (0)
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