Jack W. Sites Jr

Jack Walter Sites Jr., U.S. herpetologist.

Maeser Professor of Biology and Curator of Herpetology. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, United States.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Pellegrino, K.C.M., Rodrigues, M.T., Yonenaga-Yassuda, Y. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2001. A molecular perspective on the evolution of South American microteiid lizards (Squamata, Gymnophthalmidae), and a new classification for the family. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 74(3): 315–338. DOI: 10.1006/bijl.2001.0580 Reference page.

Ávila, L.J., Morando, M. & Sites, J.W. Jr. 2008. New Species of the Iguanian Lizard Genus Liolaemus (Squamata, Iguania, Liolaemini) from Central Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Herpetology 42(1): 186–196. DOI: 10.1670/06-244R2.1 Reference page.
Pramuk, J.B., Robertson, T., Sites, J.W.Jr. & Noonan, B.P. 2008. Around the world in 10 million years: biogeography of the nearly cosmopolitan true toads (Anura: Bufonidae). Global Ecology and Biogeography 17: 72–83. DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00348.x Reference page.

Avila, L.J., Morando, M., Perez, D.R. & Sites, J.W., jr. 2009. A new species of Liolaemus from Añelo sand dunes, northern Patagonia, Neuquén, Argentina, and molecular phylogenetic relationships of the Liolaemus wiegmannii species group (Squamata, Iguania, Liolaemini). Zootaxa 2234: 39–55. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2234.1.3 ResearchGate Reference page.

Ávila, L.J., Morando, M., Pérez, D.R. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2010. A new species of the Liolaemus elongatus clade (Reptilia: Iguania: Liolaemini) from Cordillera del Viento, northwestern Patagonia, Neuquén, Argentina. Zootaxa 2667(1): 28–42. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2667.1.2 ; ResearchGate Reference page.

Breitman, M.F., Ávila, L.J., Sites Jr., J.W. & Morando, M. 2011. Lizards from the end of the world: phylogenetic relationships of the Liolaemus lineomaculatus section (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemini). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(2): 364–376. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.02.008 Reference page.
Breitman, M.F., Parra, M., Pérez, C.H.F. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2011. Two new species of lizards from the Liolaemus lineomaculatus section (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from southern Patagonia. Zootaxa 3120(1): 1–28. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3120.1.1 Reference page.
Breitman, M.F., Pérez, C.H.F., Parra, M., Morando, M., Sites Jr., J.W. & Ávila, L.J. 2011. New species of lizard from the magellanicus clade of the Liolaemus lineomaculatus section (Squamata: Iguania: Liolaemidae) from southern Patagonia. Zootaxa 3123(1): 32–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3123.1.2 Reference page.

Aguilar, C., Wood Jr., P.L., Cusi, J.C., Guzmán, A., Huari, F., Lundberg, M., Mortensen, E., Ramírez, C., Robles, D., Suárez, J., Ticona, A., Vargas, V.J., Venegas, P.J. & Sites Jr, J.W. 2013. Integrative taxonomy and preliminary assessment of species limits in the Liolaemus walkeri complex (Squamata, Liolaemidae) with descriptions of three new species from Peru. ZooKeys 364: 47–91. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.364.6109 Reference page.
Morando, M., Ávila, L.J., Pérez, C.H.F., Hawkins, M.A. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of the lizard genus Phymaturus (Squamata, Liolaemini): implications for species diversity and historical biogeography of southern South America. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66(3): 694–714. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.019 . ResearchGate . Reference page.

Ávila, L.J., Medina, C.D., Pérez, C.H.F., Sites, J.W. Jr & Morando, M. 2015. Molecular phylogenetic relationships of the lizard clade Liolaemus elongatus (Iguania: Liolaemini) with the description of a new species from an isolated volcanic peak in northern Patagonia. Zootaxa 3947(1): 67–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.1.4. Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Grismer, L.L., Wood Jr, P.L., Lee, C.H., Quah, E.S.H., Anuar, S., Ngadi, E. & Sites, J.W. 2015. An integrative taxonomic review of the agamid genus Bronchocela (Kuhl, 1820) from Peninsular Malaysia with descriptions of new montane and insular endemics. Zootaxa 3948(1): 1–23. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.1. Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Morando, M., Olave, M., Ávila, L.J., Baker, E. & Sites, Jr., J.W. 2015. Molecular Phylogeny of the Lizard Clade Leiosaurae Endemic to Southern South America. Herpetologica 71(4): 322–331. DOI: 10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-14-00067 Reference page.

Davis, H.R., Grismer, L.L., Klabacka, R.L., Muin M.A., Quah, E.S.H., Anuar, S., Wood, P.L. Jr. & Sites, J.W. Jr 2016. The phylogenetic relationships of a new Stream Toad of the genus Ansonia Stoliczka, 1870 (Anura: Bufonidae) from a montane region in Peninsular Malaysia. Zootaxa 4103(2): 137–153. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.4 Reference page.
Grismer, L.L., Wood, P.L. Jr., Anuar, S., Grismer, M.S., Quah, E.S.H., Murdoch, M.L., Muin, M.A., Davis, H.R., Aguilar, C., Klabaca, R.L., Cobos, A.J., Aowphol, A. & Sites, J.W. Jr. 2016. Two new Bent-toed Geckos of the Cyrtodactylus pulchellus complex from Peninsular Malaysia and multiple instances of convergent adaptation to limestone forest ecosystems. Zootaxa 4105(5): 401–429. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4105.5.1 Reference page.
Tucker, D.B., Colli, G.R., Giugliano, L.G., Hedges, S.B., Hendry, C.R., Lemmon, E.M., Lemmon, A.R., Sites Jr., J.W. & Pyron, R.A. 2016. Methodological congruence in phylogenomic analyses with morphological support for teiid lizards (Sauria: Teiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 103: 75–84. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.07.002 . Reference page.

Wood Jr., P.L., Grismer, L.L., Aowphol, A., Aguilar, C.A., Cota, M., Grismer, M.S., Murdoch, M.L. & Sites Jr., J.W. 2017. Three new karst-dwelling Cnemaspis Strauch, 1887 (Squamata; Gekkoniade) from Peninsular Thailand and the phylogenetic placement of C. punctatonuchalis and C. vandeventeri. PeerJ 5: e2884. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2884 Reference page.
Ávila, L.J., Pérez, C.H.F., Minoli, I., Medina, C.D., Sites, Jr., J.W. & Morando, M. 2017. New Species of Liolaemus (Reptilia, Squamata, Liolaemini) of the Liolaemus donosobarrosi clade from northwestern Patagonia, Neuquén Province, Argentina. Zootaxa 4362(4): 535–563. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.4.4. Reference page.
Porter, C.A., Beasley, N.E., Ordóñez-Garza, N., Lindsey, L.L., Rogers, D.S., Lewis-Rogers, N., Sites Jr., J.W. & Bradley, R.D. 2017. A new species of big-eared climbing rat, genus Ototylomys (Cricetidae: Tylomyinae), from Chiapas, Mexico. Journal of Mammalogy 98(5): 1310–1329. DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyx096 Reference page.

Ávila, L.J., Vrdoljak, J.E., Medina, C.D., Massini, J.G., Pérez, C.H.F., Sites Jr., J.W. & Morando, M. 2021. A new species of Liolaemus (Reptilia: Squamata) of the Liolaemus capillitas clade (Squamata, Liolaemini, Liolaemus elongatus-kriegi group) from Sierra de Velasco, La Rioja Province, Argentina. Zootaxa 4903(2): 194–216. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4903.2.2 Reference page.

Lehr, E., Lundberg, M., Cusi, J.C., Sites, J.W., Jr., Torres, C. & Aguilar-Puntriano, C. 2025. A New Species of Tachymenoides (Serpentes: Dipsadidae: Tachymenini) from Peru with Comments on the Taxonomic Status of Galvarinus tarmensis (Walker, 1945). Taxonomy 5(2): 18. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy5020018 Reference page.
Morando, M., Sánchez, K.I., Vrdoljak, J.E., Pérez, C.H.F., Sites, Jr., J.W. & Ávila, L.J. 2025. A new gecko (Phyllodactylidae: Homonota whitii group) from the Diaguita highlands, Argentina, with an updated phylogeny for the genus. Zoologica Scripta 54(4): 454–472. DOI: 10.1111/zsc.12725 Reference page.