Mark O’Shea

Mark O’Shea (b.1956), British herpetologist.

• Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, United Kingdom.
• Australian Venom Research Unit, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
• Affiliated to National Museum and Art Gallery of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, NCD, PNG.

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• 13 taxon names authored by Mark O’Shea

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• 1 eponym of Mark O’Shea

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• 1996. A Guide to the Snakes of Papua New Guinea. Independent Publishing, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 239 pp. Full book (PDF). Reference page. 

• , Sprackland, R.G. & Bigilale, I.H. 2004. First record of the genus Antaresia (Squamata: Pythonidae), from Papua New Guinea. Herpetological Review 35(3):225-227. PDF. Reference page. 

• Schleip, W.D. & 2010. Annotated checklist of the recent and extinct pythons (Serpentes, Pythonidae), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution. ZooKeys 66: 29–79. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.66.683 Reference page. 

• Kaiser, H., Crother, B.I., Kelly, C.M.R., Luiselli, L., , Ota, H., Passos, P., Schleip, W.D. & Wüster, W. 2013. Best practices: in the 21st Century, taxonomic decisions in herpetology are acceptable only when supported by a body of evidence and published via peer-review. Herpetological Review 44(1): 8–23. PDF Reference page. 

• Kathriner, A., & Kaiser, H. 2014. Re-examination of Hemidactylus tenkatei van Lidth de Jeude, 1895: Populations from Timor provide insight into the taxonomy of the H. brookii Gray, 1845 complex (Squamata: Gekkonidae). Zootaxa 3887(5): 583–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3887.5.5 Reference page. 
• Kathriner, A., Bauer, A.M., , Sanchez, C. & Kaiser, H. 2014. Hiding in plain sight: a new species of bent-toed gecko (Squamata: Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus) from West Timor, collected by Malcolm Smith in 1924. Zootaxa 3900(4): 555–568. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.6 Reference page. 

• Rhodin, A.G.J., Kaiser, H., van Dijk, P.P., Wüster, W., , Archer, M., Auliya, M., Boitani, L., Bour, R., Clausnitzer, V., Contreras-MacBeath, T., Crother, B.I., Daza, J.M., Driscoll, C.A., Flores-Villela, O., Frazier, J., Fritz, U., Gardner, A.L., Gascon, C., Georges, A., Glaw, F., Grazziotin, F.G., Groves, C.P., Haszprunar, G., Havaš, P., Hero, J-M., Hoffmann, M., Hoogmoed, M.S., Horne, B.D., Iverson, J.B., Jäch, M., Jenkins, C.L., Jenkins, R.K.B., Kiester, A.R., Keogh, J.S., Lacher, Jr., T.E., Lovich, J.E., Luiselli, L., Mahler, D.L., Mallon, D., Mast, R., McDiarmid, R.W., Measey, J., Mittermeier, R.A., Molur, S., Mosbrugger, V., Murphy, R.W., Naish, D., Niekisch, M., Ota, H., Parham, J.F., Parr, N.J., Pilcher, N.J., Pine, R.H., Rylands, A.B.., Sanderson, J.G., Savage, J.M., Schleip, W., Scrocchi, G.J., Shaffer, H.B., Smith, E.N., Sprackland, R., Stuart, S.N., Vetter, H., Vitt, L.J., Waller, T., Webb, G., Wilson, E.O., Zaher, H. & Thomson, S. 2015. 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 described. Case 3601. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(1): 61–78. PDF. Reference page. 
• , Parker, F. & Kaiser, H. 2015. A new species of New Guinea Worm-Eating Snake, genus Toxicocalamus (Serpentes: Elapidae), from the Star Mountains of Western Province, Papua New Guinea, with a revised dichotomous key to the genus. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161(6): 241–264. DOI: 10.3099/0027-4100-161.6.241 Reference page. 

• Kieckbusch, M., Mecke, S., Hartmann, L., Ehrmentraut, L., & Kaiser, H. 2016. An inconspicuous, conspicuous new species of Asian pipesnake, genus Cylindrophis (Reptilia: Squamata: Cylindrophiidae), from the south coast of Jawa Tengah, Java, Indonesia, and an overview of the tangled taxonomic history of C. ruffus (Laurenti, 1768). Zootaxa 4093(1): 1–25. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4093.1.1. Reference page. 
• Mecke, S., Kieckbusch, M., & Kaiser, H. 2016. First record of the poorly known skink Sphenomorphus oligolepis (Boulenger, 1914) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Seram Island, Maluku Province, Indonesia. Asian Herpetological Research 7(1): 64–68. DOI: 10.16373/j.cnki.ahr.150052 Reference page. 
• & Kaiser, H. 2016. The first female specimen of the poorly known Arfak Stout-tailed Snake, Calamophis sharonbrooksae Murphy, 2012 (Serpentes: Colubroidea: Homalopsidae), from the Vogelkop Peninsula of Indonesian West New Guinea, with comments on the taxonomic history of primitive homalopsid. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 10(1): 1–10. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• , Doria, G., Petri, M. & Kaiser, H. 2016. A 140 year-old specimen from the Southern Trans-Fly region of Papua New Guinea proves that the Eastern Brownsnake, Pseudonaja textilis, was not a wartime or post-war introduction (Serpentes, Elapidae, Hydrophiinae). Doriana: Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale "G. Doria" 108: 249–273. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Kaiser, C., Kaiser, H. & 2018. The taxonomic history of Indo-Papuan groundsnakes, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Colubridae), with some taxonomic revisions and the designation of a neotype for S. parvus (Meyer, 1874). Zootaxa 4512(1): 1–73. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4512.1.1 Reference page. 
• & Kaiser, H. 2018. Erroneous Environs or Aberrant Activities? Reconciling unexpected collection localities for three New Guinea worm-eating snakes (Toxicocalamus, Serpentes, Elapidae) using historical accounts Herpetological Review 49(2): 189–207. (Full article PDF) Reference page.  
• , Allison, A. & Kaiser, H. 2018. The taxonomic history of the enigmatic Papuan snake genus Toxicocalamus (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae), with the description of a new species from the Managalas Plateau of Oro Province, Papua New Guinea, and a revised dichotomous key. Amphibia-Reptilia 39(4): 403–433. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-20181052 Reference page. 
• , Kusuma, K.I. & Kaiser, H. 2018. First record of the Island Wolfsnake, Lycodon capucinus (H. Boie in F. Boie 1827), from New Guinea, with comments on its widespread distribution and confused taxonomy, and a new record for the Common Sun Skink, Eutropis multifasciata (Kuhl 1820). IRCF Reptiles & Amphibians 25(1): 70–84. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• , Herlihy, B., Paivu, B., Parker, F., Richards, S.J. & Kaiser, H. 2018. Rediscovery of the rare Star Mountains Worm-eating Snake, Toxicocalamus ernstmayri O’Shea et al., 2015 (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hydrophiinae) with the description of its coloration in life. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 12(1): 27–34. PDF Reference page. 

• Kaiser, C., & Kaiser, H. 2019. A new species of Indo-Papuan groundsnake, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Serpentes, Colubridae), from the Bird’s Head Peninsula of West Papua, Indonesia, with comments on differentiating morphological characters. Zootaxa 4590(2): 201–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.2.1 Reference page. 
• Kaiser, C., & Kaiser, H. 2019. Corrigenda and Addenda to the Article “The taxonomic history of Indo-Papuan groundsnakes, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Colubridae), with some taxonomic revisions and the designation of a neotype for S. parvus (Meyer, 1874)” by Kaiser et al. (2018). Zootaxa 4615(2): 392–394. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4615.2.10 Reference page. 

• Kaiser, C., Lapin, J., & Kaiser, H. 2020. Carefully examining Bornean Stegonotus (Serpentes, Colubridae): the montane groundsnake population in Sabah is a new and distinct species. Zootaxa 4894(1): 53–68. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.1.2 Reference page. 
• , Blum, P. & Kaiser, H. 2020. Discovery of the second specimen of Toxicocalamus ernstmayri O’Shea et al., 2015 (Squamata: Elapidae), the first from Papua Province, Indonesia, with comments on the type locality of T. grandis (Boulenger, 1914). Bonn zoological Bulletin 69(2): 395–411. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

• Kaiser, C., Kaiser, H., Mecke, S. & 2021. A new species of Stegonotus (Serpentes: Colubridae) from the remnant coastal forests of southern Timor-Leste. Zootaxa 5027(4): 489–514. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5027.4.2 Reference page. 
• Kaiser, H., Mecke, S., Kaiser, C. & 2021. Three’s Company: discovery of a third syntype of Stegonotus lividus, a species of colubrid snake from Pulau Semau, Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, with comments on an unpublished 19th Century manuscript by the naturalist Salomon Müller. Zootaxa 5039(1): 56–70. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5039.1.2 Reference page. 
• 2021. Foreword: Wallacea - A Hotspot of Snake Diversity : 7–17 In Telnov, D., Barlcay, M.V.L. & Pauwels, O.S.G. (eds.) Biodiversity, Biogeography and Nature Conservation in Wallacea and New Guinea. Volume IV. The Entomological Society of Latvia. 443 pp. Reference page. 
• & Richards, S.J. 2021. A striking new species of Papuan groundsnake (Stegonotus: Colubridae) from southern Papua New Guinea, with a dichotomous key to the genus in New Guinea. Zootaxa 4926(1): 26–42. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4926.1.2 Reference page. 
• Wüster, W., Thomson, S.A., & Kaiser, H., 2021 Confronting taxonomic vandalism in biology: conscientious community self-organization can preserve nomenclatural stability. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 133(3): 645–670. PDF Reference page. 

• Kraus, F., Kaiser, H. & 2022. Hidden diversity in semi-fossorial Melanesian forest snakes: A revision of the Toxicocalamus loriae complex (Squamata, Elapidae) from New Guinea. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 997–1034. DOI: 10.3897/vz.72.e89647 Reference page. 

• Köhler, G., Charunrochana, P.T., Mogk, L., Than, N.L., Kurniawan, N., Kadafi, A.M., Das, A., Tillack, F. & 2023. A taxonomic revision of Boiga multomaculata (Boie, 1827) and B. ochracea (Theobald, 1868), with the description of a new subspecies (Squamata, Serpentes, Colubridae). Zootaxa 5270(2): 151–193. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.2.1 Reference page. 
• , Wallach, V., Hsiao, E. & Kaiser, H. 2023. “Anteaters” under the airport: a slender new species of blindsnake, genus Indotyphlops, from Timor-Leste (Scolecophidia: Typhlopidae: Asiatyphlopinae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 101: 486–498. DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2022-0097 Reference page. 

• School of Science, Faculty of Sciences and Engineering, University of Wolverhampton
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