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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 (2013)
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

Castañeda, Maria d. R. and de Queiroz, Kevin 2013. Phylogeny of the Dactyloa Clade of Anolis Lizards: New Insights from Combining Morphological and Molecular Data. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 160(7): 345-398. doi:10.3099/0027-4100-160.7.345

de Queiroz, Kevin 2013. Nodes, Branches, and Phylogenetic Definitions. Systematic Biology, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syt027

Venegas, Pablo, Torres-Carvajal, Omar, Duran, Vilma and de Queiroz, Kevin 2013. Two sympatric new species of woodlizards (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from Cordillera Azul National Park in northeastern Peru. Zookeys, 277(0): 69-90. doi:10.3897/zookeys.277.3594

de Queiroz, Kevin and Donoghue, Michael J. 2013. Phylogenetic Nomenclature, Hierarchical Information, and Testability. Systematic Biology, 62(1): 167-174. doi:10.1093/sysbio/sys054

de Queiroz, Kevin and Reeder, Tod W. 2012. Squamata — Lizards. In: Crother, Brian I., Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of Mexico, With Comments Regarding Confidence in Our Understanding.. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, pp.32-51.

de Queiroz, Kevin 2012. Biological nomenclature from Linnaeus to the PhyloCode. Bibliotheca Herpetologica, 9(1-2): 135-145.

de Queiroz, Kevin 2011. Plural versus Singular Common Names for Amphibian and Reptile Species. Herpetological Review, 42(3): 339-342.

de Queiroz, Kevin and Donoghue, Michael J. 2011. Phylogenetic Nomenclature, Three-Taxon Statements, and Unnecessary Name Changes. Systematic Biology, 60(6): 887-892. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syr070

Torres-Carvajal, Omar, Etheridge, Richard and de Queiroz, Kevin 2011. A systematic revision of Neotropical lizards in the clade Hoplocercinae (Squamata: Iguania). Zootaxa, 2752: 1-44.

Castañeda, Maria d. R. and de Queiroz, Kevin 2011. Phylogenetic relationships of the Dactyloa clade of Anolis lizards based on nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 61(3): 784-800.

Alföldi, Jessica, Di Palma, Frederica, Grabherr, Manfred, Williams, Christina, Kong, Lesheng, Mauceli, Evan, Russell, Pamela, Lowe, Craig B., Glor, Richard E., Jaffe, Jacob D., Ray, David A., Boissinot, Stephane, Shedlock, Andrew M., Botka, Christopher, Castoe, Todd A., Colbourne, John K., Fujita, Matthew K., Moreno, Ricardo Godinez, Boudewijn, F. Ten Hallers, Haussler, David, Heger, Andreas, Heiman, David, Janes, Daniel E., Johnson, Jeremy, de Jong, Pieter J., et al 2011. The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals. Nature, 477(7366): 587-591.

de Queiroz, Kevin 2011. Branches in the lines of descent: Charles Darwin and the evolution of the species concept. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 103(1): 19-35.

Castañeda, Maria d. R. and de Queiroz, Kevin 2010. Phylogenetic relationships of the Dactyloa clade, based on molecular and morphological data. Anolis Newsletter, 6: 11-13.

Rodríguez Schettino, Lourdes, Losos, Jonathan B., Hertz, Paul E., de Queiroz, Kevin, Chamizo, Ada R., Leal, Manuel and Rivalta González, Vilma 2010. The anoles of Soroa: Aspects of their ecological relationships. Breviora, 520: 1-22.

Torres-Carvajal, Omar, de Queiroz, Kevin and Etheridge, Richard 2009. A new species of iguanid lizard (Hoplocercinae, Enyalioides) from southern Ecuador with a key to eastern Ecuadorian Enyalioides. ZooKeys, 27: 59-71.

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

de Queiroz, Kevin 2009. [Letter from Kevin de Queiroz]. In: Knapp, Sandra and Wheeler, Quentin, Letters to Linnaeus. London: The Linnean Society of London, pp.199-203.