David James Harris

David James Harris, Portuguese herpetologist and arachnologist.

• CIBIO Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Rua Padre Armando Quintas, Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal.
• Departamento de Biologia, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 11 taxon names authored by David James Harris

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1998

• Harris, D.J., Arnold, E.N. & Thomas, R.H. 1998. Relationships of lacertid lizards (Reptilia: Lacertidae) estimated from mitochondrial DNA sequences and morphology. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 265(1409): 1939–1948. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1998.0524 Reference page. 

2006

• Carranza, S., Harris, D.J., Arnold, E.N., Batista, V., González de la Vega, J.P. 2006. Phylogeography of the lacertid lizard, Psammodromus algirus, in Iberia and across the Strait of Gibraltar. Journal of Biogeography 33(7): 1279–1288. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01491.x Reference page. 

2012

• Crottini, A., Miralles, A., Glaw, F., Harris, D.J., Lima, A. & Vences, M. 2012. Description of a new pygmy chameleon (Chamaeleonidae: Brookesia) from central Madagascar. Zootaxa 3490(1): 63–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3490.1.5 Reference page. 

2013

• Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Carretero, M.A., Mozaffari, O., Böhme, W., Harris, D.J., Freitas, S. & Rödder, D. 2013. Cryptic speciation patterns in Iranian rock lizards uncovered by integrative taxonomy. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80563. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080563 Reference page. 
• Ahmadzadeh, F., Flecks, M., Rödder, D., Böhme, W., Ilgaz, Ç., Harris, D.J., Engler, J.O., Üzüm, N. & Carretero, M.A. 2013. Multiple dispersal out of Anatolia: biogeography and evolution of oriental green lizards. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 110(2): 398–408. DOI: 10.1111/bij.12129 Reference page. 

2014

• Crottini, A., Harris, D.J., Miralles, A., Glaw, F., Jenkins, R.K.B., Randrianantoandro, J.C., Bauer, A.M. & Vences, M. 2014. Morphology and molecules reveal two new species of the poorly studied gecko genus Paragehyra (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Madagascar. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 15: 175–198. DOI: 10.1007/s13127-014-0191-5 Reference page. 

2016

• Borges-Nojosa, D.M., Lima, D.C., Bezerra, C.H. & Harris, D.J. 2016. Two new species of Apostolepis Cope, 1862 (Serpentes: Elapomorphini) from brejos de altitude in Northeastern Brazil. Revista Nordestina de Zoologia 10(2): 74–94. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Gabriel, D., Draisma, S.G.A., Sauvage, T., Schmidt, W.E., Schils, T., Lim, P.-E., Harris, D.J. & Fredericq, S. 2016. Multilocus phylogeny reveals Gibsmithia hawaiiensis (Dumontiaceae, Rhodophyta) to be a species complex from the Indo-Pacific, with the proposal of G. eilatensis sp. nov. Phytotaxa 277(1): 1–20, 8 figs. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.277.1.1 Reference page. 
• Freitas, S., Vavakou, A., Arakelyan, M., Drovetski, S.V., Crnobrnja-Isailović, J., Kidov, A.A., Cogălniceanu, D., Corti, C., Lymberakis, P., Harris, D.J. & Carretero, M.A. 2016. Cryptic diversity and unexpected evolutionary patterns in the meadow lizard, Darevskia praticola (Eversmann, 1834). Systematics and Biodiversity 14(2): 184–197. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2015.1111267 Reference page. 

2017

• Sousa, P., Arnedo, M. & Harris, D.J. 2017. Updated catalogue and taxonomic notes on the Old-World scorpion genus Buthus Leach, 1815 (Scorpiones, Buthidae). ZooKeys 686: 15—84. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.686.12206 Reference page. 
• Arribas, O.J., Ananjeva, N.B., Carranza, S., Doronin, I.V., Harris, D.J., Orlov, N.L. & Orlova, V.F. 2017. The pernicious effect of retroactive changes in the Code: Darevskia and nomenclatorial stability, a reply to Busack et al. (2016). Basic and Applied Herpetology 31: 125-129. DOI: 10.11160/bah.75 Reference page. 
• Mendes, J., Harris, D.J., Carranza, S. & Salvi, D. 2017. Biogeographical crossroad across the Pillars of Hercules: Evolutionary history of Psammodromus lizards in space and time. Journal of Biogeography 44(12): 2877–2890. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13100 Reference page. 

2018

• Salvi, D., Mendes, J., Carranza, S. & Harris, D.J. 2018. Evolution, biogeography and systematics of the western Palaearctic Zamenis ratsnakes. Zoologica Scripta 47(4): 441–461. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12295 Reference page. 
• Soares, L.B., Ceríaco, L.M.P., Marques, M.P., Bastos-Silveira, C., Scheinberg, L.A., Harris, D.J., Brehm, A. & Jesus, J. 2018. Review of the leaf-litter skinks (Scincidae: Panaspis) from the Gulf of Guinea Oceanic Islands, with the description of a new species. African Journal of Herpetology 67(2): 132–159. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2017.1413015 Reference page. 

2020

• Faria, J.F. & Harris, D.J. 2020. Phylogeography of Psammodromus algirus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Morocco. Herpetology Notes 13: 1055–1061. PDF Reference page. 

2021

• 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. 
• Faria, J.F., Carretero, M.A. & Harris, D.J. 2021. Further molecular assessment of the distribution of Spanish sand racers (Lacertidae; Psammodromus). Basic and Applied Herpetology 35: 77–83. DOI: 10.11160/bah.205 . PDF. Reference page. 

2022

• 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.