Tsutomu Hikida

Tsutomu Hikida [疋田努] (1951–), Japanese herpetologist.

Department of Zoology, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-oiwakecho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

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Ota, H. & Hikida, T. 1988. A New Species of Lepidodactylus (Sauria: Gekkonidae) from Sabah, Malaysia. Copeia 1988(3): 616–621. DOI: 10.2307/1445379 Reference page.

Hikida, T. 1990. Bornean Gekkonid Lizards of the Genus Cyrtodactylus (Lacertilia: Gekkonidae): with Descriptions of Three New Species. Journal of Herpetology 13(3): 91–107. DOI: 10.5358/hsj1972.13.3_91 Reference page.

Ota, H. & Hikida, T., 1991. Taxonomic review of the lizards of the genus Calotes Cuvier 1817 (Agamidae Squamata) from Sabah, Malaysia. Tropical Zoology 4(2): 179–192. DOI: 10.1080/03946975.1991.10539488 Reference page.

Hikida, T. & Ota, H. 1994. Sphenomorphus aquaticus Malkmus, 1991, a junior synonym of Tropidophorus beccarii (Peters, 1871) (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae). Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 45(1): 57–60. Reference page.

Ota, H., Sengoku, S. & Hikida, T. 1996. Two New Species of Luperosaurus (Reptilia: Gekkonidae) from Borneo. Copeia 1996(2): 433–439. DOI: 10.2307/1446860 JSTOR Reference page.

Ota, H., Honda, M., Kobayashi, M., Sengoku, S. & Hikida, T. 1999. Phylogenetic Relationships of Eublepharid Geckos (Reptilia: Squamata): A Molecular Approach. Zoological Science 16(4): 659–666. DOI: 10.2108/zsj.16.659 Reference page.

Hikida, T., Orlov, N.L., Nabhitabhata, J. & Ota, H. 2002. Three New Depressed-bodied Water Skinks of the Genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Thailand and Vietnam. Current Herpetology 21(1): 9–23. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.21.9 Reference page.
Ota, H., Honda, M., Chen, S.L., Hikida, T., Panha, S., Oh, H.-S. & Matsui, M. 2002. Phylogenetic relationships, taxonomy, character evolution and biogeography of the lacertid lizards of the genus Takydromus (Reptilia: Squamata): a molecular perspective. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 76(4): 493–509. DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2002.00084.x Reference page.

Hikida, T., Riyanto, A. & Ota, H. 2003. A new water skink of the genus Tropidophorus (Lacertilia: Scincidae) from Sulawesi, Indonesia. Current Herpetology 22(1): 29–36. DOI: 10.5358/hsj.22.29 Reference page.
Sakata, S. & Hikida, T. 2003. A new fossorial scincine lizard of the genus Pseudoacontias (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae) from Nosy Be, Madagascar. Amphibia-Reptilia 24(1): 57–64. DOI: 10.1163/156853803763806948 Reference page.

Honda, M., Ota, H., Murphy, R.W. & Hikida, T. 2006. Phylogeny and biogeography of water skinks of the genus Tropidophorus (Reptilia: Scincidae): a molecular approach. Zoologica Scripta 35(1): 85–95. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2005.00215.x Reference page.

Brandley, M.C., Wang, Y.-Z., Guo, X.-G., Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Feria-Ortiz, M., Hikida, T. & Ota, H.. 2011. Accommodating Heterogenous Rates of Evolution in Molecular Divergence Dating Methods: An Example Using Intercontinental Dispersal of Plestiodon (Eumeces) Lizards. Systematic Biology 60(1): 3–15. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq045 Reference page.
Toda, M. and Hikida T. 2011. Possible Incursions of Gekko hokouensis (Reptilia: Squamata) into Non-Native Area: An Example from Yakushima Island of the Northern Ryukyus, Japan. Current Herpetology 30 (1): 33–39 DOI: 10.3105/018.030.0103

Brandley, M.C., Ota, H., Hikida, T., Nieto-Montes de Oca, A., Feria-Ortiz, M., Guo, X.-G. & Wang, Y.-Z. 2012. The phylogenetic systematics of blue-tailed skinks (Plestiodon) and the family Scincidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 165(1): 163–189. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00801.x Reference page.
Okamoto, T. & Hikida, T. 2012. A new cryptic species allied to Plestiodon japonicus (Peters, 1864) (Squamata: Scincidae) from eastern Japan, and diagnoses of the new species and two parapatric congeners based on morphology and DNA barcode. Zootaxa 3436(1): 1–23. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3436.1.1 Reference page.

Kurita, K., Nakamura, Y., Okamoto, T., Lin, S-M. & Hikida, T. 2017. Taxonomic reassessment of two subspecies of Chinese skink in Taiwan based on morphological and molecular investigations (Squamata, Scincidae). ZooKeys 687: 131–148. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.687.12742 Reference page.
Kurita, T., Nishikawa, K., Matsui, M. & Hikida, T. 2017. A new species of Rock Gecko genus Cnemaspis (Squamata: Gekkonidae) from Western Sarawak, Malaysia. Zootaxa 4258(5): 525–538. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4258.5.2 Reference page.
Kurita, K., Ota, H. & Hikida, T. 2017. A new species of Plestiodon (Squamata: Scincidae) from the Senkaku Group, Ryukyu Archipelago, Japan. Zootaxa 4254(5): 520–536. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.5.2 Reference page.

Fukuyama, I., Hikida, T., Hossman, M.Y. & Nishikawa, K. 2019. A new species of the genus Larutia (Squamata: Scincidae) from Gunung Penrissen, Sarawak, Borneo. Zootaxa 4661(3): 522–532. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4661.3.6 Reference page.

Makino, T., Okamoto, T., Kurita, K., Nakano, T. & Hikida, T. 2020. Origin and intraspecific diversification of the scincid lizard Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus with implications for historical island biogeography of the Central Ryukyus of Japan. Zoologischer Anzeiger 288: 1–10. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2020.06.008 Reference page.

Riyanto, A., Fauzi, M.A., Sidik, I., Mumpuni, Irham, M., Kurniawan, N., Ota, H., Okamoto, T., Hikida, T. & Grismer, L.L. 2021. Another new bent-toed gecko, genus Cyrtodactylus Gray 1837 (Squamata: Gekkonidae), from Borneo. Zootaxa 5026(2): 286–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5026.2.8 Reference page.

Koizumi, Y., Ota, H. & Hikida, T. 2022. A new species of the genus Scincella (Squamata: Scincidae) from Yonagunijima Island, Southern Ryukyus, Japan. Zootaxa 5128(1): 61–83. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5128.1.3 Reference page.

Makino, T., Nakano, T., Okamoto, T. & Hikida, T. 2023. Taxonomic revision and re-description of Ateuchosaurus pellopleurus (Hallowell, 1861) (Reptilia, Squamata, Scincidae) with resurrection of A. okinavensis (Thompson, 1912). Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(1): 77–91. DOI: 10.3897/zse.99.95923 Reference page.

Kurita, K. & Hikida, T. 2025. A Taxonomic Revision of the Barbour’s Blue-tailed Skink Plestiodon barbouri (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), With Descriptions of Three New Species. Species Diversity 30(2): 259–287. DOI: 10.12782/specdiv.30.259 Reference page.