Wolfgang Wüster

Wolfgang Wüster, UK herpetologist.

• Molecular Ecology and Fisheries Genetics Laboratory, School of Natural Sciences, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 10 taxon names authored by Wolfgang Wüster

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2000

• Pook, C.E., Wüster, W. & Thorpe, R.S. 2000. Historical Biogeography of the Western Rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus viridis), Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequence Information. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15(2): 269–282. DOI: 10.1006/mpev.1999.0756 Reference page. 
• Slowinski, J.B. & Wüster, W. 2000. A new cobra (Elapidae: Naja) from Myanmar (Burma). Herpetologica 56(2): 257–270. JSTOR Reference page. 

2001

• Wüster, W., Yrausquin, J.L. & Mijares-Urrutia, A. 2001. A new species of indigo snake from northwestern Venezuela (Serpentes: Colubridae: Drymarchon). Herpetological Journal 11(4): 157–165. PDF Reference page. 

2002

• Daltry, J.C. & Wüster, W. 2002. A new species of Wolf Snake (Serpentes: Colubridae: Lycodon) from the Cardamom Mountains, Southwestern Cambodia. Herpetologica 58(4): 498–504. DOI: 10.1655/0018-0831(2002)058[0498:ANSOWS]2.0.CO;2 Reference page. 

2003

• Wüster, W. & Broadley, D.G. 2003. A new species of spitting cobra (Naja) from north-eastern Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae). Journal of Zoology 259(4): 345–359. DOI: 10.1017/S0952836902003333 Reference page. 

2004

• Broadley, D.G. & Wüster, W. 2004. A review of the southern African ‘non-spitting’ cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja). African Journal of Herpetology 53(2): 101–122. DOI: 10.1080/21564574.2004.9635504 Reference page. 
• Wüster, W., Allum, C.S.E., Bjargardóttir, I.B., Bailey, K.L., Dawson, K.J., Guenioui, J., Lewis, J., McGurk, J., Moore, A.G., Niskanen, M. & Pollard, C.P. 2004. Do aposematism and Batesian mimicry require bright colours? A test, using European viper markings. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 271: 2495–2499.

2005

• Wüster, W., Dumbrell, A.J., Hay, C., Pook, C.E., Williams, D.J. & Fry, B.G. 2005. Snakes across the Strait: trans-Torresian phylogeographic relationships in three genera of Australasian snakes (Serpentes: Elapidae: Acanthophis, Oxyuranus, and Pseudechis). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 34(1): 1–14. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2004.08.018 Reference page. 
• Wüster, W., Ferguson, J.E., Quijada-Mascareñas, J.A., Pook, C.E., Salomão, M.G. & Thorpe, R.S. 2005. Tracing an invasion: landbridges, refugia, and the phylogeography of the Neotropical rattlesnake (Serpentes: Viperidae: Crotalus durissus). Molecular Ecology 14(4): 1095–1108. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02471.x Reference page. 

2007

• Wüster, W. & Broadley, D.G. 2007. Get an eyeful of this: a new species of giant spitting cobra from eastern and north-eastern Africa (Squamata: Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja). Zootaxa 1532: 51–68. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 
• Wüster, W., Crookes, S., Ineich, I., Mané, Y., Pook, C.E., Trape, J.-F. & Broadley, D.G. 2007. The phylogeny of cobras inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences: evolution of venom spitting and the phylogeography of the African spitting cobras (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja nigricollis complex). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 45(2): 437–453. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2007.07.021 Reference page. 

2009

• Pook, C.E., Joger, U., Stümpel, N. & Wüster, W. 2009. When continents collide: phylogeny, historical biogeography and systematics of the medically important viper genus Echis (Squamata: Serpentes: Viperidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 53: 792–807. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2009.08.002 Reference page. 
• Trape, J.-F., Chirio, L., Broadley, D.G. & Wüster, W. 2009. Phylogeography and systematic revision of the Egyptian cobra (Serpentes: Elapidae: Naja haje) species complex, with the description of a new species from West Africa. Zootaxa, 2236: 1–25. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Wallach, V., Wüster, W. & Broadley, D.G. 2009. In praise of subgenera: taxonomic status of cobras of the genus Naja Laurenti (Serpentes: Elapidae). Zootaxa 2236: 26–36. Abstract & excerpt PDF Reference page. 

2011

• Wüster, W. & Bérnils, R.S. 2011. On the generic classification of the rattlesnakes, with special reference to the Neotropical Crotalus durissus complex (Squamata: Viperidae). Zoologia 28(4): 417–419. DOI: 10.1590/S1984-46702011000400001 Reference page. 

2013

• Kaiser, H., Crother, B.I., Kelly, C.M.R., Luiselli, L., O’Shea, M., 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. 

2015

• Maddock, S.T., Ellis, R.J., Doughty, P., Smith, L.A. & Wüster, W. 2015. A new species of death adder (Acanthophis: Serpentes: Elapidae) from north-western Australia. Zootaxa 4007(3): 301–326. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.3.1. Preview (PDF). Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2017

• Maddock, S.T., Childerstone, A., Grieg-Fry, B., Williams, D.J., Barlow, A. & Wüster, W. 2017. Multi-locus phylogeny and species delimitation of Australo-Papuan blacksnakes (Pseudechis Wagler, 1830: Elapidae: Serpentes). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 107: 48–55. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.005 Reference page. 

2018

• Wüster, W., Chirio, L., Trape, J.-F., Ineich, I., Jackson, K., Greenbaum, E., Barron, C., Kusamba, C., Nagy, Z.T., Storey, R., Hall, C., Wüster, C.E., Barlow, A. & Broadley, D.G.† 2018. Integration of nuclear and mitochondrial gene sequences and morphology reveals unexpected diversity in the forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca) species complex in Central and West Africa (Serpentes: Elapidae). Zootaxa 4455(1): 68–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4455.1.3 Reference page. 

2019

• Barlow, A., Wüster, W., Kelly, C.M.R., Branch, W.R., Phelps, T. & Tolley, K.A. 2019. Ancient habitat shifts and organismal diversification are decoupled in the African viper genus Bitis (Serpentes: Viperidae). Journal of Biogeography 46(6): 1234–1248. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13578 Reference page. 

2021

• Ellis, R.J., Kaiser, H., Maddock, S.T., Doughty, P. & Wüster, W. 2021. An evaluation of the nomina for death adders (Acanthophis Daudin, 1803) proposed by Wells & Wellington (1985), and confirmation of A. cryptamydros Maddock et al., 2015 as the valid name for the Kimberley death adder. Zootaxa 4995(1): 161–172. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4995.1.9 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. 

2023

• Major, T., Renk, P., Reissig, J., Paijmans, J.L.A., Morris, E., Hofreiter, M., Barlow, A., Broadley, D.G.† & Wüster, W. 2023. Museum DNA reveals a new, potentially extinct species of rinkhals (Serpentes: Elapidae: Hemachatus) from the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe. PLoS ONE 18(9): e0291432. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0291432 Reference page.