David J. Gower

David J. Gower, British herpetologist.

• Department of Zoology, The Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdon.

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• 44 taxon names authored by David J. Gower

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• Giri, V., Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D.J. 2003. A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from southern Maharashtra, India, with a key to the species of the genus. Zootaxa 351(1): 1–10. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.351.1.1 Reference page. 
• Ravichandran, M.S., Gower, D.J. & Wilkinson, M. 2003. A new species of Gegeneophis Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from Maharashtra, India. Zootaxa 350(1): 1–8. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.350.1.1 Reference page. 

• Giri, V., Wilkinson, M. & Gower, D.J. 2004. A new species of Indotyphlus Taylor (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 739(1): 1–9. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.739.1.1 Reference page. 

• Gower, D.J. & Wilkinson, M. 2007. Species groups in the Indian caecilian genus Uraeotyphlus Peters (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae), with the description of a new species. Herpetologica 63(3): 401–410. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[401:SGITIC]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Wilkinson, M., Gower, D.J., Govindappa, V. & Venkatachalaiah, G. 2007. A new species of Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Karnataka, India. Herpetologica 63(4): 511–518. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2007)63[511:ANSOIA]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 
• Müller, H., Loader, S. P., Ngalason, W., Howell, K. M. & Gower, D. J. (2007) Reproduction in brevicipitid frogs (Amphibia: Anura: Brevicipitidae) – evidence from Probreviceps m. macrodactylus Copeia 2007: 726–733.
• Newell, A. J., Gower, D. J., Benton, M. J. & Tverdokhlebov, V. P. (2007) Bedload abrasion and the in situ fragmentation of bivalve shells. Sedimentology 54: 835–845.
• Gower, D. J. & Winkler, J. D. (2007) Taxonomy of the Indian snake Xylophis Beddome (Serpentes: Caenophidia), with description of a new species. Hamadryad 31: 315–329.
• Loader, S. P., Pisani, D., Cotton, J. A., Gower, D. J., Day, J. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Relative timescales reveal multiple origins of parallel disjunct distributions of African caecilian amphibians. Biology Letters 3: 505–508.
• Gower, D. J., Dharne, M., Bhatta, G., Giri, V., Vyas, R., Govindappa, V., Oommen, O. V., George, J., Schouche, Y. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Remarkable genetic homogeneity in unstriped, long-tailed Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) along 1500 km of the Western Ghats, India. Journal of Zoology 272: 266–275.
• Harris, S. R., Pisani, D., Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Investigating stagnation in morphological phylogenetics using consensus data. Systematic Biology 56: 125–129.
• Gower, D. J., Giri, V. & Wilkinson, M. (2007) Rediscovery of Gegeneophis seshachari Ravichandran, Gower & Wilkinson (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Caeciliidae) at the type locality. Herpetozoa 19: 121–127.
• Roelants, K., Gower, D.J., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S.P., Biju, S.D., Guillaume, K., Moriau, L. & Bossuyt, F. 2007. Global patterns of diversification in the history of modern amphibians. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104(3): 887–892. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0608378104 Reference page. 

• Gower, D.J., Captain, A. & Thakur, S.S. 2008. On the taxonomic status of Uropeltis bicatenata (Günther) (Reptilia: Serpentes: Uropeltidae). Hamadryad 33(1): 64-82. Reference page. 
• Bain, R., Biju, S.D., Brown, R., Das, I., Diesmos, A., Dutta, S., Gower, D., Inger, R., Iskandar, D., Kaneko, Y., Lau, M.W.N., Meegaskumbura, M., Ohler, A., Papenfuss, T., Pethiyagoda, R., Stuart, B., Wilkinson, M. and Xie, F. (2008) Amphibians of the Indomalayan region. Pp. 74-79, In Stuart, S.N., Hoffmann, M., Chanson, J.S., Cox, N.A., Berridge, R, Ramani, P. and Young B.E. eds. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Ediciones, with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Conservation International, and NatureServe, Barcelona.
• Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2008) Caecilians (Gymnophiona). Pp. 19-20, In Stuart, S.N., Hoffmann, M., Chanson, J.S., Cox, N.A., Berridge, R, Ramani, P. and Young B.E. eds. Threatened Amphibians of the World. Lynx Ediciones, with IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Conservation International, and NatureServe, Barcelona.
• Kupfer, A., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D. J., Müller, H. & Jehle, R. (2008) Care and parentage in a skin-feeding caecilian amphibian. Journal of Experimental Zoology 309A: 460–467.
• Gower, D. J., Giri, V., Dharne, M. S. & Shouche, Y. (2008) Frequency of independent origins of viviparity among caecilians (Gymnophiona): evidence from the first 'live-bearing' Asian amphibian. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21: 1220–1226.
• Gower, D. J., Rajendran, A., Nussbaum, R. A. & Wilkinson, M. (2008) A new species of Uraeotyphlus (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Uraeotyphlidae) of the malabaricus group. Herpetologica 64: 235–245.

• Kamei, R.G., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D.J. & Biju, S.D. 2009. Three new species of striped Ichthyophis (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from the northeast Indian states of Manipur and Nagaland. Zootaxa 2267(1): 26–42. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2267.1.2 Reference page. 
• Butler, R. J., Barrett, P. M. & Gower, D. J. (2009) Postcranial pneumaticity and bird-like air sacs in the earliest pterosaurs. Biology Letters 5: 557–560.
• Davies, W. L., Cowing, J. A., Bowmaker, J. K., Carvalho, L. S., Gower, D. J. & Hunt, D. M. (2009) Shedding light on serpent sight: the visual pigment of henophidian snakes. Journal of Neuroscience 29: 7519–7525.
• Gower, D. J. & Wilkinson, M. (2009) Caecilians (Gymnophiona). Pp. 369-372. In S. B. Hedges & S. Kumar The Timetree of Life. Oxford University Press, New York.
• Müller, H., Wilkinson, M., Loader, S. P., Wirkner, C. S. & Gower, D. J. (2009) Morphology and function of the head in foetal and juvenile Scolecomorphus kirkii (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Scolecomorphidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 96: 491–504.
• Gower, D. J. & Schoch, R. S. (2009) Postcranial anatomy of the rauisuchian archosaur Batrachotomus kupferzellensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29: 103–122.
• San Mauro, D., Gower, D.J., Massingham, T., Wilkinson, M., Zardoya, R. & Cotton, J.A. 2009. Experimental Design in Caecilian Systematics: Phylogenetic Information of Mitochondrial Genomes and Nuclear rag1. Systematic Biology 58(4): 425–438. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syp043 Reference page. 

• Gower, D.J., Wilkinson, M., Sherratt, E. & Kok, P.J.R. 2010. A new species of Rhinatrema Duméril & Bibron (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Rhinatrematidae) from Guyana. Zootaxa 2391(1): 47–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2391.1.3 Reference page. 
• Sanders, K.L., Mumpuni, Hamidy, A., Head, J.J. & Gower, D.J. 2010. Phylogeny and divergence times of filesnakes (Acrochordus): Inferences from morphology, fossils and three molecular loci. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 56(3): 857–867. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.04.031 Reference page. 

• Maddock, S.T., Day, J.J., Nussbaum, R.A., Wilkinson, M., Gower, D.J. 2014. Evolutionary origins and genetic variation of the Seychelles treefrog, Tachycnemis seychellensis (Duméril and Bibron, 1841) (Amphibia: Anura: Hyperoliidae). Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution 75:194–201. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.02.004 Reference page. 
• Wilkinson, M., Presswell, B., Sherratt, E., Papadopoulou, A. & Gower, D.J. 2014. A new species of striped Ichthyophis Fitzinger, 1826 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Ichthyophiidae) from Myanmar. Zootaxa 3785(1): 45–58. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3785.1.4 Reference page. 

• Kotharambath, R., Wilkinson, M., Oommen, V. & Gower, D.J. 2015. A new species of Indian caecilian highlights challenges for species delimitation within Gegeneophis Peters, 1879 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae). Zootaxa 3948(1): 60–70. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.4 Reference page. 

• Gower, D.J., Giri, V., Captain, A. & Wilkinson, M. 2016. A reassessment of Melanophidium Günther, 1864 (Squamata: Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Western Ghats of peninsular India, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4085(4): 481–503. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.4.2 Reference page. 
• Gower, D.J., Wade, E., Spawls, S., Böhme, W., Buechley, E.R., Sykes, D. & Colston, T.J. 2016. A new large species of Bitis Gray, 1842 (Serpentes: Viperidae) from the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia. Zootaxa 4093(1): 41–63. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.1.3 Reference page. 
• Gower, D.J. & Wickramsinghe, L.J.M. 2016. Recharacterization of Rhinophis dorsimaculatus Deraniyagala, 1941 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), including description of new material. Zootaxa 4158(2): 203–212. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.2.3. Reference page. 

• Wickramasinghe, Mendis L.J., Vidanapathirana, D.R., Rajeev, M.D.G. & Gower, D.J. 2017. A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the central hills of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4263(1): 153–164. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4263.1.7. Reference page. 
• Maddock, S.T., Wilkinson, M., Nussbaum, R.A. & Gower, D.J. 2017. A new species of small and highly abbreviated caecilian (Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) from the Seychelles island of Praslin, and a recharacterization of Hypogeophis brevis Boulenger, 1911. Zootaxa 4329(4): 301–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.4.1 Reference page. 
• Giri, V.B., Deepak, V., Captain, A., Das, A., Das, S., Rajkumar, K.P., Rathish, R.L. & Gower, D.J. 2017. A new species of Rhabdops Boulenger, 1893 (Serpentes: Natricinae) from the northern Western Ghats region of India. Zootaxa 4319(1): 27–52. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.1.2. Reference page. 

• Jins, V.J., Sampaio, F.L. & Gower, D.J. 2018. A new species of Uropeltis Cuvier, 1829 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Anaikatty Hills of the Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 4415(3): 401–422. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.1. Reference page. 

• Giri, V.B., Gower, D.J., Das, A., Lalremsanga, H.T., Lalronunga, S., Captain, A. & Deepak, V. 2019. A new genus and species of natricine snake from northeast India. Zootaxa 4603(2): 241–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4603.2.2 Reference page. 

• Conradie, W., Deepak, V., Keates, C. & Gower, D.J. 2020. Kissing cousins: a review of the African genus Limnophis Günther, 1865 (Colubridae: Natricinae), with the description of a new species from north-eastern Angola. African Journal of Herpetology 69(1): 79–17. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2020.1782483 Reference page. 
• Das, A., Deepak, V., Wade, E.O.Z., Captain, A. & Gower, D.J. 2020. Description of a new species of Smithophis Giri et al. 2019 (Serpentes: Colubridae: Natricinae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Zootaxa 4860(2): 267–283. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4860.2.8 Reference page. 
• Deepak, V., Narayanan, S., Das, S., Rajkumar, K.P., Easa, P.S., Sreejith, K.A. & Gower, D.J. 2020. Description of a new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae Xylophiinae) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4755(2): 231–250. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.2.2 Reference page. 
• Cyriac, V.P., Narayanan, S., Sampaio, F.L., Umesh, P. & Gower, D.J. 2020. A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the Wayanad region of peninsular India. Zootaxa 4778(2): 329–342. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.5 Reference page. 
• Vogel, G., Chen, Z.-N., Deepak, V., Gower, D.J., Shi, J.-S., Ding, L. & Hou, M. 2020. A new species of the genus Smithophis (Squamata: Serpentes: Natricidae) from southwestern China and northeastern Myanmar. Zootaxa 4803(1): 51–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.1.3 Reference page. 
• Wickramasinghe, J.L.M., Vidanapathirana, D.R., Wickramasinghe, N. & Gower, D.J. 2020. A new species of Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Reptilia: Uropeltidae), from cloud forest of the Knuckles massif of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4810(1): 65–80. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4810.1.3 Reference page. 
• Williams, R., Gower, D.J., Labisko, J., Morel, C., Bristol, R.M., Wilkinson, M. & Maddock, S.T. 2020. Are the Mascarene frog (Ptychadena mascareniensis) and Brahminy blind snake (Indotyphlops braminus) really alien species in the Seychelles? Herpetological Bulletin 253: 17–21. DOI: 10.33256/hb153.1721 Reference page. 

• Deepak, V., Maddock, S.T., Williams, R., Nagy, Z.T., Conradie, W., Rocha, S., Harris, S.J., Perera, A., Gvozdík, V., Doherty-Bone, T.M., Kamei, R.G., Menegon, M., Labisko, J., Morel, C., Cooper, N., Day, J.J. & Gower, D.J. 2021. Molecular phylogenetics of sub-Saharan African natricine snakes, and the biogeographic origins of the Seychelles endemic Lycognathophis seychellensis. Molecular Phylogenetic and Evolution 161: 107152. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107152 PDF Reference page. 
• Deepak, V., Lalronunga, S., Lalhmingliani, E., Das, A., Narayanan, S., Das, I. & Gower, D.J. 2021. Phylogenetic relationships of xenodermid snakes (Squamata: Serpentes: Xenodermidae), with the description of a new genus. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 747–762. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e75967 Reference page. 
• Lalronunga, S., Lalhmangaiha, K., Zosangliana, I., Lalhmingliani, E., Gower, D.J., Das, D. & Deepak, V. 2021. A new species of Stoliczkia Jerdon, 1870 (Serpentes: Xenodermidae) from Mizoram, India. Zootaxa 4996(3): 555–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4996.3.9 Reference page. 
• Narayanan, S., Mohapatra, P.P., Balan, A., Das, S. & Gower, D.J. 2021. A new species of Xylophis Beddome, 1878 (Serpentes: Pareidae) from the southern Western Ghats of India. Vertebrate Zoology 71: 219–230. DOI: 10.3897/vz.71.e63986 Reference page. 

• Lobón-Rovira, J., Rocha, S., Gower, D.J., Perera, A. & Harris, D.J. 2022. The unexpected gecko: A new cryptic species within Urocotyledon inexpectata (Stejneger, 1893) from the northern granitic Seychelles. Zootaxa 5150(4): 556–578. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5150.4.5 Reference page. 
• Deepak V., Cooper, N., Poyarkov, N.A., Kraus, F., Burin, G., Das, A., Narayanan, S., Streicher, J.W., Smith, S.-J. & Gower, D.J. 2022. Multilocus phylogeny, natural-history traits, and classification of natricine snakes (Serpentes: Natricinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(1): 279–298. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab099 Reference page. 
• Das, A., Gower, D.J., Narayanan, S., Pal, S., Boruah, B., Magar, S., Das, S., Moulick, S. & Deepak, V., 2022. Rediscovery and systematics of the rarely encountered Blue-bellied kukri snake (Oligodon melaneus Wall, 1909) from Assam, India. Zootaxa 5138(4): 417–430. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5138.4.4 Reference page. 

• Gower, D.J., Narayanan, S., Deepak, V., Anvar, M. & Das, S. 2023. Rediscovery and systematics of Rhinophis fergusonianus Boulenger, 1896 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from India’s Western Ghats. Zootaxa 5374(1): 74–92. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5374.1.4 Reference page. 
• Narayanan, S., Das, S., Anvar, Y.M., Tillack, F., Mohapatra, P.P., Gower, D.J., Rajkumar, K.P. & Deepak, V. 2023. On the taxonomic validity of Boiga whitakeri Ganesh et al., 2021 with new insights on Boiga dightoni (Boulenger, 1894) (Reptilia: Squamata: Colubridae). Vertebrate Zoology 73: 1–21. DOI: 10.3897/vz.73.e97002 Reference page. 
• Yang, S.-J., Savitzky, A.H., Gower, D.J., Deepak, V., Mori, A., Khot, R., Shi, J.-S., Ding, L., Hou, M., Xu, H.-Y., Wang, Q. & Zhu, G.-X. 2023. Identity of the holotype and type locality of Rhabdophis leonardi (Wall, 1923) (Colubridae: Natricinae), with notes on the morphology and natural history of the species in southwestern China. Ecology and Evolution 13(5): e10032. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10032 Reference page. 

• Gower, D.J., Sampaio, F.L., Vidanapathirana, D.R. & Wickramasinghe, L.J.M. 2024. Two new species of the shieldtail snake genus Rhinophis Hemprich, 1820 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae), from the Rakwana and the Knuckles Massifs of Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 5458(3): 332–360. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.3.2 Reference page. 
• Gower, D.J., Das, S., Deepak, V., Gerard, J.D. & Narayanan, S. 2024. A new species of Uropeltis Cuvier, 1829 (Serpentes: Uropeltidae) from the eastern escarpment of the southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 5477(3): 333–357. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5477.3.4 Reference page. 

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VIAF: 174159716 ISNI: 0000 0001 3507 9642 ZooBank: F72DDF32-93F8-4AB9-956D-22BCD9E586F3 ORCID: 0000-0002-1725-8863 ResearchGate: David-Gower-3 Biodiversity Heritage Library author: 97581