Richard Highton

Richard Highton (1927– ), U.S. herpetologist.

• Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States.

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• 25 taxon names authored by Richard Highton

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• & Grobman, A.B. 1956. Two New Salamanders of the Genus Plethodon from the Southeastern United States. Herpetologica 12(3): 185–188. JSTOR Reference page. 

• & Worthington, R.D. 1967. A New Salamander of the Genus Plethodon from Virginia. Copeia 1967(3): 617–626. DOI: 10.2307/1442241 Reference page. 

• & MacGregor, J.R. 1983. Plethodon kentucki Mittleman: a valid species of Cumberland Plateau woodland salamander. Herpetologica 39(3): 189–200. JSTOR Reference page. 

• Wynn, A.H., & Jacobs, J.F. 1988. A New Species of Rock-Crevice Dwelling Plethodon from Pigeon Mountain, Georgia. Herpetologica 44(2): 135–143. JSTOR Reference page. 

• , Maha, G.C. & Maxson, L.R. 1989. Biochemical evolution in the Slimy Salamanders of the Plethodon glutinosus complex in the eastern United States. Illinois Biological Monographs 57: 1–153. BHL Reference page. 

• & Peabody, R. 2000. Geographic protein variation and speciation in salamanders of the Plethodon jordani and Plethodon glutinosus complexes in the southern Appalachian Mountains with the description of four new species. In: Bruce, R.C., Jaeger, R.G. & Houck, L.D. (eds.), The Biology of Plethodontid Salamanders: 31–93. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Reference page. 

• , Hastings, A.P., Palmer, C., Watts, R., Hass, C.A., Culver, M. & Arnold, S.J. 2012. Concurrent speciation in the eastern woodland salamanders (genus Plethodon): DNA sequences of the complete albumin nuclear and partial mitochondrial 12s genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 63(2): 278–290. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.12.018 Reference page.