Scott Thomson

Scott Thomson, also published as Scott A. Thomson (born 1966), Australian palaeontologist, taxonomist and herpetologist with an interest in turtles.

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(List may be incomplete)

• 10 taxon names authored by Scott Thomson

(List may be incomplete)

• , White, A. & Georges, A. 1997. Re-evaluation of Emydura lavarackorum: identification of a living fossil. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 42: 327–336. Online and PDF download. Reference page. 

• & Mackness, B. 1999. Fossil Turtles from the Early Pliocene Bluff Downs Local Fauna, with a description of a new species of Elseya. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 123(3):101-105. download Reference page. 

• , Kennett, R. & Georges, A. 2000. A new species of long-necked turtle (Testudines: Chelidae) from the Arnhem Land Plateau, Northern Territory, Australia. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3(4): 675–685. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• 2000. A Revision of the Fossil Chelid Turtles (Pleurodira) Described by C.W. De Vis, 1897. Memoires of the Queensland Museum 45(2): 593–598. Online (with link to PDF). Reference page. 
• 2000. The identification of the holotype of Chelodina oblonga (Testudines: Chelidae) with a discussion of taxonomic implications. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 3:745–749. download Reference page. 

• Iverson, J., Georges, A. & 2001. The validity of the taxonomic changes for turtles proposed by Wells and Wellington. Journal of Herpetology 35, 361–368. Online and PDF download. Reference page. 

• McCord, W. & 2002. A new species of Chelodina (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from northern Australia. Journal of Herpetology 36(2): 255–267. PDF Reference page. 

• 2006. Case 3351: Chelodina rugosa Ogilby, 1890 (currently Macrochelodina rugosa; Reptilia, Testudines): proposed precedence over Chelodina oblonga Gray, 1841. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 63:3:187-193 download Reference page. 
• , Georges, A. & Limpus, C. 2006. A New Species of Freshwater Turtle in the Genus Elseya (Testudines Chelidae) from Central Coastal Queensland, Australia. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 5(1): 74–86. Online and PDF download. Reference page. 

• 2007. Comment on the proposed precedence of Chelodina rugosa Ogilby, 1890 (currently Macrochelodina rugosa; Reptilia, Testudines) over Chelodina oblonga Gray, 1841 (Case 3351). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 64(2):127-128. download Reference page. 

• & Georges, A. 2009. Myuchelys gen. nov. —a new genus for Elseya latisternum and related forms of Australian freshwater turtle (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae). Zootaxa 2053: 32–42. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 

• Georges, A. & 2010. Diversity of Australasian freshwater turtles, with an annotated synonymy and keys to species. Zootaxa 2496: 1–37. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2496.1.1 Reference page. 

• Vogt, R.C., , Rhodin, A.G.J., Pritchard, P.C.H., Mittermeier, R.A. & Baggi, N. 2013. Case 3587 Podocnemis unifilis Troschel, 1848 (Reptilia,Testudines): proposed precedence over Emys cayennensis Schweigger, 1812. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 70(1): 33–39. Download Reference page. 

• 2014. 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). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 71(2):133-135. download Reference page. 
• & Baggi, N. 2014. Comment on Terrapene putnami Hay, 1906 (Testudines, EMYDIDAE): replacement of the holotype by designation of a neotype (Case 3628; see BZN 70: 193–198) Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 03/2014; 71(1):29. download Reference page. 

• Turtle Extinctions Working Group (Rhodin, A.G.J., , Georgalis, G.L., Karl, H.-V., Danilov, I.G., Takahashi, A., de la Fuente, M.S., Bourque, J.R., Delfino, M., Bour, R., Iverson, J.B., Shaffer, H.B. & van Dijk, P.P.) 2015. Turtles and tortoises of the world during the rise and global spread of humanity: first checklist and review of extinct Pleistocene and Holocene chelonians. Chelonian Research Monographs. 5(8):000e.1–66. PDF.
• Rhodin, A.G.J., Kaiser, H., van Dijk, P.P., Wüster, W., O’Shea, M., 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. & 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. 
• , Amepou, Y., Anamiato, J. & Georges, A. 2015. A new species and subgenus of Elseya (Testudines: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from New Guinea. Zootaxa 4006(1): 59–82. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.1.3. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

• & Georges, A. 2016. A new species of freshwater turtle of the genus Elseya (Testudinata: Pleurodira: Chelidae) from the Northern Territory of Australia. Zootaxa 4061(1): 018–028. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4061.1.2 PDF Reference page. 

• & Lambertz, M. 2017. 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. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. December 2017, 16(2):239-245. [1]PDF Reference page. 

• , Pyle, R.L., Ahyong, S.T., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Ammirati, J., Araya, J.F., et al. 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLOS Biology 16(3): e2005075. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075 Reference page. 

• Kehlmaier, C., Zhang, X., Georges, A., Campbell, P.D., , & Fritz, U. 2019. Mitogenomics of historical type specimens of Australasian turtles: clarification of taxonomic confusion and old mitochondrial introgression. Scientific Reports (2019) 9:5841 | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-42310-x Reference page. 

• Garnett, S.T., Chrisidis, L., Conix, S., Costello, M.J., Zachos, F.E., Bánki, O.S., Bao, Y., Barik, S.K., Buckeridge, J.S., Hobert, D., Lien, A., Montgomery, N., Nikolaeva, S., Pyle, R.L., , van Dijk, P.P., Whalen, A., Zhang, Z.-Q. & Thiele, K.R. 2020. Principles for creating a single authoritative list of the world’s species. PLoS Biology 18(7): e3000736. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000736 .Reference page. 
• Garnett, ST. & 2020. Are the implications for conservation of a major taxonomic revision of the world’s birds’ simply serendipity? Animal Conservation 23(4):355-356. DOI: 10.1111/acv.12628 Reference page. 
• Kaiser, H., & Shea, GM. 2020. 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. Bionomina 20(1):47-54. DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.20.1.4 Reference page. 
• Rhodin, A.G.J. & 2020. Bibliography of Peter C.H. Pritchard. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 19(1):5. DOI: 10.2744/1071-8443.19.1.5 Reference page. 
• Shea, G., & Georges, A. 2020. The identity of Chelodina oblonga Gray 1841 (Testudines: Chelidae) reassessed. Zootaxa 4779(3): 419–437. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4779.3.9. PDF Reference page. 

• Wüster, W., Thomson, S.A., O’Shea, M. & 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. 

• , Natália R. Friol, White, A.W., Dion Wedd, Arthur Georges. 2023. The Australian gulf snapping turtle Elseya lavarackorum (Testudines: Chelidae) revisited—Is the late Pleistocene fossil species extant? Vertebrate Zoology 73:237-256.

• Kehlmaier, C., Gerald Kuchling, Glenn Shea, Georges, A., Zhang, X., Fritz, U., & 2024. History and historical DNA: Identity of Chelodina intergularis Fry, 1915 and type localities of C. intergularis and C. rugosa Ogilby, 1890. Zootaxa 5448 (4): 531–555 | https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5448.4.6Reference page. 
• Wolfgang Wüster,*, , Hinrich Kaiser, Marinus S. Hoogmoed, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, ,Lutz Dirksen, Christophe Dufresnes, Frank Glaw, Axel Hille, Jörn Köhler, Thore Koppetsch, Konstantin D. Milto, Glenn M. Shea, David Tarkhnishvili, , Miguel Vences, and Wolfgang Böhme. 2024. How not to describe a species: lessons from a tangle ofanacondas (Boidae: Eunectes Wagler, 1830). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2024, 201, zlae099. Available from: [2] [accessed Sep 25 2024].