Adam D. Leaché

Adam D. Leaché, U.S. herpetologist.

Department of Biology & Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Leaché, A.D., Chong, R.A., Papenfuss, T.J., Wagner, P., Böhme, W., Schmitz, A., Rödel, M.O., LeBreton, M., Ineich, I., Chirio, L., Bauer, A.M., Eniang, E.A. & El Din, S.B. 2009. Phylogeny of the genus Agama based on mitochondrial DNA sequence data. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 56(4): 273–278. BHL Reference page.
Wagner, P., Ineich, I., Leaché, A.D., Wilms, T.M., Trape, S., Böhme, W. & Schmitz, A. 2009. Studies on African Agama VI. Taxonomic status of the West African Agama (Sauria: Agamidae) with prominent tail crests: Agama boulengeri Lataste, 1886, Agama insularis Chabanaud, 1918 and Agama cristata Mocquard, 1905. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 56(4): 239–253. PDF Reference page.

Leaché, A.D. & Fujita, M.K. 2010. Bayesian species delimitation in West African forest geckos (Hemidactylus fasciatus). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277(1697): 3071–3077. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0662 Reference page.
Blackburn, D.C., Gvoždík, V. & Leaché, A.D. 2010. A new squeaker frog (Arthroleptidae: Arthroleptis) from the mountains of Cameroon and Nigeria. Herpetologica 66(3): 335–348. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00015.1 Reference page.

Wagner, P., Leaché, A.D., Mazuch, T. & Böhme, W. 2013. Additions to the lizard diversity of the Horn of Africa: Two new species in the Agama spinosa group. Amphibia-Reptilia 34(3): 363–387. DOI: 10.1163/15685381-00002897 Reference page.

Leaché, A.D., Wagner, P., Linkem, C.W., Böhme, W., Papenfuss, T.J., Chong, R.A., Lavin, B.R., Bauer, A.M., Nielsen, S.V., Greenbaum, E., Rödel, M.O., Schmitz, A., LeBreton, M., Ineich, I., Chirio, L., Ofori-Boateng, C., Eniang, E.A., El Din, S.B., Lemmon, A.R. & Burbrink, F.T. 2014. A hybrid phylogenetic-phylogenomic approach for species tree estimation in African Agama lizards with applications to biogeography, character evolution, and diversification. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 215–230. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.013 Reference page.
Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Arenas-Moreno, D.M., Beltrán-Sanchez, E. & Leaché, A.D. 2014. A new species of horned lizard (Genus Phrynosoma) from Guerrero, México, with an updated multilocus phylogeny. Herpetologica 70(2): 241–257. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-13-00077 Reference page.
Wagner, P., Leaché, A.D. & Fukita, M.K. 2014. Description of four new West African forest geckos of the Hemidactylus fasciatus Gray, 1842 complex, revealed by coalescent species delimitation. Bonn zoological Bulletin 63(1): 1–14. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Leaché, A.D., Chavez, A.S., Jones, L.N., Grummer, J.A., Gottscho, A.D. & Linkem, C.W. 2015. Phylogenomics of Phrynosomatid Lizards: Conflicting Signals from Sequence Capture versus Restriction Site Associated DNA Sequencing. Genome Biology and Evolution 7(3): 706–719. DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evv026 Reference page.

Leaché, A.D., Grummer, J.A., Miller, M., Krishnan, S., Fujita, M.K., Böhme, W., Schmitz, A., LeBreton, M., Ineich, I., Chirio, L., Ofori-Boateng, C., Eniang, E.A., Greenbaum, E., Rödel, M.O. & Wagner, P. 2016. Bayesian inference of species diffusion in the West African Agama agama species group (Reptilia, Agamidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 15(3): 192–203. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2016.1238018 Reference page.
Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Barley, A.J., Meza-Lázaro, R.N., García-Vázquez, U.O., Zamora-Abrego, J.G., Thomson, R.C. & Leaché, A.D. 2017. Phylogenomics and species delimitation in the knob-scaled lizards of the genus Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) using ddRADseq data reveal a substantial underestimation of diversity. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 106: 241–253. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.09.001 Reference page.

Ofori-Boateng, C., Leaché, A.D., Obeng-Kankam, B., Kouamé, N.G., Hillers, A. & Rödel, M-O. 2018. A new species of Puddle Frog, genus Phrynobatrachus (Amphibia: Anura: Phrynobatrachidae) from Ghana. Zootaxa 4374(4): 565–578. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.4.6 Reference page.
Psonis, N., Antoniou, A., Karameta, E., Leaché, A.D., Kotsakiozi, P., Darriba, D., Kozlov, A., Stamatakis, A., Poursanidis, D., Kukushkin, O. Jablonski, D., Crnobrnja-Isailović, J., Gherghel, I., Lymberakis, P. & Poulakakis, N. 2018. Resolving complex phylogeographic patterns in the Balkan Peninsula using closely related wall-lizard species as a model system. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 100–115. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.021 Reference page.
Wagner, P., Greenbaum, E., Bauer, A.M., Kusamba, C. & Leaché, A.D. 2018. Lifting the blue-headed veil – integrative taxonomy of the Acanthocercus atricollis species complex (Squamata: Agamidae). Journal of Natural History 52(13–16): 771–817. DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2018.1435833 Reference page.

Esquerré, D., Ramírez-Álvarez, D., Pavón-Vázquez, C.J., Troncoso-Palacios, J., Garín, C.F., Keogh, J.S. & Leaché, A.D. 2019. Speciation across mountains: phylogenomics, species delimitation and taxonomy of the Liolaemus leopardinus clade (Squamata, Liolaemidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 139: 106524. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106524 Reference page.

Caviedes-Solí, I.W., Kim, N. & Leaché, A.D. 2020. Species IUCN threat status level increases with elevation: A phylogenetic approach for Neotropical tree frog conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 29: 2515–2537. DOI: 10.1007/s10531-020-01986-8 Reference page.
Kornilios, P., Thanou, E., Lymberakis, P., Ilgaz, Ç., Kumlutas, Y. & Leaché, A.D. 2020. A phylogenomic resolution for the taxonomy of Aegean green lizards. Zoologica Scripta 49(1): 14–27. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12385 Reference page.
Thanou, E., Kornilios, P., Lymberakis, P. & Leaché, A.D. 2020. Genomic and mitochondrial evidence of ancient isolations and extreme introgression in the four-lined snake. Current Zoology 66(1): 99–111. DOI: 10.1093/cz/zoz018 Reference page.

Davis, H.R., Das, I., Leaché, A.D., Karin, B.R., Brennan, I.G., Jackman, T.R., Nashriq, I., Chan, K.O. & Bauer, A.M. 2021. Genetically diverse yet morphologically conserved: Hidden diversity revealed among Bornean geckos (Gekkonidae: Cyrtodactylus). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 59(5): 1113–1135. DOI: 10.1111/jzs.12470 Reference page.
Neira-Salamea, K., Ofori-Boateng, C., Kouamé, N.G., Blackburn, D.C., Segniagbeto, G.H., Hillers, A., Barej, M.F., Leaché, A.D. & Rödel, M.-O. 2021. A new critically endangered slippery frog (Amphibia, Conrauidae, Conraua) from the Atewa Range, central Ghana. Zootaxa 4995(1): 71–95. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4995.1.4 Reference page.